Nice, an analognowhere I missed!

I’m so thankful that I didn’t buy into the 3000 series hype and just bought a 2060 Super the moment one became available at MSRP after the 3000s launched. Everyone said it was a waste paying that price for less performance, but I had a card and they still didn’t 4 months later.

I’d say that the way around the shortages is to just not go for the latest and greatest new hardware, but that’s not really helpful for GPUs anymore anyway. Even the desirable last gen cards are still going for scalper prices.

But why is she smuggling a pumpkin in her dress?That one must be extra magic!

As someone who works as a sysadmin/systems engineer in a Windows environment, I find your analogy is a bit extreme. Not denying the issue, it’s a constant frustration and problem. It’s just that I find you can get a lot farther than most people think.

So less “hood’s welded shut” and more “Why the fuck are the headlights a single unit? I just need to fix the high beams! Why is the transmission welded shut? Who in the fuck wired the radio and power steering together? And why in the hell is none of this documented anywhere?” Maybe that’s worse, tbh. You can get very deep, but most of it is horrors.

Literally a plot point in Dresden Files. MC is a wizard who lives in Chicago doing private eye work. Regularly carries a blasting rod (wand) and a revolver. One big wizard gets taken out by a sniper rifle fired by a demon. He has semi-regular backup from non magical friends who are just well armed.

A regular human mafioso who is just so good at being a conniving and ruthless piece of shit that he can hold his own with the magic folk is a recurring character. Your spells don’t mean too much if four goons get the drop on you with a metal pipe when you weren’t prepared.

Don’t underestimate the tactical power of humping the air while dressed weird. So many modern leaders ignore the sheer stopping power of “being weird AF bro”

Once in college, armed with assorted mismatched costume equipment, a bunch of bananas hanging from the front of my belt, and socks with sandals, my sensual thrusts nearly caused the enemy supply chain to take out their own forces (a pizza delivery car saw me shakin what the manic episode gave me and almost swerved up onto the opposite busy sidewalk).

My bad, I’ll check again when I get home. Could have sworn it was available by default, but it might be a Pro/Enterprise version thing, or something I had to do through Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise unless there’s an underlying registry entry you can snag to apply to Home installs).

Either way, 100% agree that you should never have to jump through hoops for such a basic piece of functionality. It’s your machine, not Microsoft’s.

EDIT: Yeah, you’re right. Can pause updates for 35 days. You can keep resetting those 35 days indefinitely, but that’s some bullshit.

And it looks like all my fancy ways of disabling auto-restarts for updates are all Group Policy, so restricted to Pro and Enterprise versions. That’s some shit.

Protip: If you need Windows then go with the Pro version for the most config options against the bullshit, but don’t pay for it. Get a super discounted price from a licensed OEM license key seller, or just use MASGrave to spoof the license for free.

It comes from people being unwilling to learn how Windows works or how to configure it, but being 100% on board to tinker to hell and back with Linux. So you get a lot of innaccurate info from people who think their Linux skills confer some amount of knowledge with Windows when they never took the time to learn it as well, or when they haven’t used it outside of corporate controlled work machines (if they even encounter Windows that way) in half a decade.

There’s an argument (which I agree with to a point) that you shouldn’t have to learn how such a big paid product like Windows works in order to avoid frustrations, while it’s understandable in an open source thing like Linux distros. But it ultimately boils down to a combo of “Windows bad!” and learned helplessness when it comes to Windows that people are willing to push through for Linux.

What? You can easily turn updates off entirely during situations where that’s going on. It’s a single switch in the settings.

EDIT: Fucking hell, they changed it to just being able to turn off updates for 35 days. You can reset that countdown back to 35 days indefinitely, but that is some grade A bullshit.

Settings>Windows Update>Advanced Options, Then Pause Updates down at the bottom.

That’s also where you can find some settings for disabling auto-restart as well.

That would likely be the default settings trying to avoid times when you normally use the machine to install the update.

That reminds me that I have a stack of Vista era laptops (and one Win 7) gathering dust. I should find something to do with them.

This is quite possibly the worst thing I’ve seen in weeks. Thank you for creating disturbing content.

Blocking users is free.

Shame that it seems like people don’t realize you’re using a real issue someone opened on github as a copypasta.

I’m a huge fan of Shout Factory, and I’m at a place in my life where I can generally afford to pay for my media, so I do. I’ll have to look up Arrow.

Voting with your wallet works both ways, and while most of the payment will be eaten by corporate interests at least it signals “I want more of this sort of thing”.

My comment was mainly meant as a response to the statement regarding later seasons of Always Sunny simply not being available to purchase physically. In situations like that, I see no reasonable objection to raising the sails.

May I interest you in the [email protected] wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho…

I support creators as I can, but when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you I don’t feel there’s any strong argument against it.

That’s not photoshopped/edited btw. It’s from a song going through all the fingers on our hands. I believe it’s from the first year/season of the show.

Those are simple. SMH: System Managed Heraldry, SMDH: Shaving my dog here!

Any options for wired VR with the Quest 2?

Citation needed. So far there has been one instance, in Tenessee, where a horrendous law was passed recently to allow that.

That law is a state law. As in, only in Tenessee. Not the whole country.

Things are absolutely shit, amd headed for worse, but let’s not spread falsehoods please.