taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

Got a USB WiFi adapter that first mounted as a fake CD ROM drive with some software that I had to install before it'd actually function as a WiFi adapter. That's a new one on me. How does that even work

I'm now thinking what if I Just Got A Laptop and docked it in with all my desktop shit (monitors, mouse & keyboard etc) when i want to go desktop-mode 🤔​

then i could just have one computer for everything & the high price of the laptop would be less of a stinger since it'd be replacing two things lol

since i got my work laptop last year it's been doing weird shit with audio that i could never figure out, adding reverb and weird boosting that made so many things sound awful, obviously some post-processing coming from somewhere but there was nothing enabled in either windows audio settings nor the realtek drivers

anyway today i found there's a THIRD thing called "Waves MaxxAudio" installed and THAT was the culprit. I turned it off and now everything sounds normal. Fucks sake

@fesshole You sound like a cunt

@mavica_again tbh i've never paid for it either, i got those keys free from uni, but since they were legit & i always had them i never had a reason to pirate it (at least not since XP) & had kinda just assumed that MS would have their shit locked down enough to stop people doing it by now
but i guess they do not lmao

@mavica_again well i'd want to use windows on it

i have a couple of old win 7 keys that i've been using with the free upgrade path for about 15 years but apparently that doesn't work anymore

i would probably like to build my own but i would have to buy a fucking windows license wouldn't i

even though i was considering getting a new laptop i've now started thinking "hey what if i got a new desktop instead" hmmmmm
i prefer using a desktop in many ways tbh & my current one is ancient

i would probably have to keep the old one around for now for certain purposes (e.g. rom dumping) but could at least re-case it in a more compact case and only hook it up when i need it