And it was always temporary!

I’ve had less fall out than I had cases where the screw stuck in the socket and it started unscrewing out of the motherboard that I just gave up on them altogether

I’ll never turn down G&T, but more importantly, what did Belgium ever do to you? I’m just curious…

If you’ve got a spinning wheel of ‘who’s gonna get it today’ and Belgium came up, that’s fine, too

Well, I guess it is racist Wednesday for some of the planet currently, even if not my timezone …but why them?

Everything about marketing I absolutely despise. It’s all lies sowing a hunger within that their product will satisfy a need.

A bullet is too good for them!

…or we’ll eat you!

And anyone who knows what they’re doing would have built in decent safeguards - obviously hindsight is a luxury here, but there’s a reason there’s a whole lot of checking that goes on when others are downloading update content over a hostile network… Input validation is a thing, and all that.

They just weren’t very mature on that front, and now we all got to laugh at them but everyone else made similar mistakes along the way, just most of them started their journey decades ago (thinking windows update, etc), so we forget about the learning curve they suffered through building a resilient process

The demo scene was always technically amazing

Knowing Aussies, the comments on this posting would be a great read.

Mmsys.cpl is the only way for me

I’ll bet the NSA or others were using it and didn’t want it broken, maybe

Alongside anti work, maybe there’s room for a shittyGPT community for people asking us to do their work for them? (sorta like that Photoshop guy that always looks for the malicious compliance angle)

I think that’s the idea - I love how this is a double entendre for those that know…

Softbrick vs hardbrick?

This is a great summary I’m going to make use of

I think with a jump and just the right angle of entry you can probably slide down the sloping face …and probably end up with two broken legs and a tap half-way up your asshole.

Maybe I’ve been watching too much Looney tunes

I was just trying to point out that you implied a file deletion is what’s causing this, and Linux wouldn’t crash. This fault is fixed by deleting a file, ironically

Have you read anything about this? A file deletion is the workaround for affected hosts, silly!

Yeah, these guys are great. I love seeing some of the same faces in completely different roles)

I loved bron|broen (remade by Americans as the bridge, but that’s bound to be lame in comparison). Great detective show set in Denmark and Sweden (? It’s been ages, don’t judge me). This is reasonably old tv series. Some great demonstrations of neurodivergence from (what feels like) a previous decade

Also Rain was a great Scandinavian sci-fi series (Netflix?)

Sounds like the windows 10 ‘innovation’ called fast startup. Some genius decided instead of shutting down, let’s just log the user out and put the OS into standby… That’ll save a lot of boot time!

It’s universally hated by IT and made redundant by SSDs