Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I should be even more worried about the number of breakages that need registry dives to fix.

Windows needs the registry to do most things. Registry changes are committed instantly. There's no undo in the registry. If you change or delete any of the wrong keys or values, you could make your PC unbootable. Registry dives are *NOT* to be done lightly.

I am endlessly amazed at the sheer variety of ways that Microsoft #Windows is able to spontaneously break itself to the frustration of its home users.

A customer's #Windows10 PC logged them in to a generic desktop, with all icons gone except for all-users icons, & unable to open the Start Menu or the notifications fly-out.

I talked them through Quick Assist, which needed an update, but the Microsoft Store button said they needed to install an app to open such links.

They opened CMD, & their home directory was "C:\Users\TEMP". Fun.

The fix:
TenForums, "Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10": https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/48012-fix-youve-been-signed-temporary-profile-windows-10-a.html

Reminder that while cute skirts and thigh-high socks are highly recommended, they are completely optional and not a hard requirement for good gaming or good coding.

Yes, 1992. I was in college & connected to IRC on its Unix network. It was my second online social experience, after isolated local BBS networks.

I've been away from IRC for too long, but I'm getting back in.

I'm arielmt on Furnet and Libera Chat.

I used to be on Freenode, but my reg expired long before its hostile takeover & subsequent implosion, & I'm not going back.

IRC is just as relevant in 2022 as it was in 2012, 2002, and 1992. Social media may have made IRC networks thinner, but IRC is still as lively as any walled garden social media network.

BTW, my search terms included neither "eye" nor "massager," so I have no idea how this dudebro turned Joker victim ended up in my results.

Folks, I have found the best shades ever. Just look at this guy. (Source: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QXK48V9/ )

Spooky time reminder: "The cloud" always means "someone else's computer."

Need a quick ruler to line up text columns or ASCII art in ed(1)?

!printf "....#....\%s" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

(GNU ed didn't properly strip the '\' from the '\%' escape until version 1.18. In GNU ed 1.17 & earlier, use only 3 dots after the # sign.)

YouTube recommended a video on that time when the Dutch ate their Prime Minister, & it ran two pre-watch ads. Both ads were for food. Good job, Internet Boob Tube.

#FreeBSD If #LazarusIDE stops with this debugger error, check that your system isn't *too* hardened: `sysctl security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug=1` should let gdb/lldb attach & debug-run your program.

LB: Incomplete progress is still progress.

A lot of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles linked to Hotfix programs downloadable from the Microsoft Download Center. The MSKB was culled, & the MSDC is gone. MSKB article archives exist, but they have only dead links, no files.

Does anyone have an archive of MSDC files?