Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

The shot:

Gadget Review, 2026-08-04, "Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night": https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night

The chaser:

Futurism, 2026-08-05, "Google’s AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper": https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-flock-alpr-surveillance-hallucination-gold-copper

Only about 7 days until Clacton is given the chance to make the funniest thing in politics anywhere happen. (Well, this USA American thinks it'd be funny.)

Farage losing to a bin (excuse me, "the establishment") would be the funniest outcome ever. Funnier even than that time Scotland's winds tested if Trump's comb-over was a toupee.

(I know Binface likely won't win, but really Farage lost 3 weeks ago.)

By the way, the no-Internet Local Account trick of pressing Shift+F10 and typing:

OOBE\BYPASSNRO

in the Command Prompt window still works in the 25H2 installation media.

I am finally rid of the easiest to access HP laptop yet to cross my desk, but HP charged me one last toll before letting me go.

The toll? Proof that Windows hardware support is still a sad joke, only barely hidden from users by hardware manufacturers.

Did you know that, as late as 3 years ago, HP sold wifi-only laptops whose wifi adapters are incompatible with every network driver on the Windows 11 installation media? That gets interesting when setup won't even start without the Internet.