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- Comment on We can dream right 6 days ago:
Not just experimental, but an afterthought made with leftovers of a partially made movie that production failed on.
The location, props, cgi, and even parts of the story were the scraps of the Halo movie that Peter Jackson started to make before abandoning it.
The result was an excellent movie, but the circumstances of slapping a new coat of paint onto a half produced film make for a very unique and hard to replicate product.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 week ago:
XP fucking sucked. It wasn’t good until service pack 3.
You skipped 8.1 which was the good version that fixed the stuff that sucked about 8. It’s existence is almost completely forgotten.
Then Windows 10 came out and it was bad.
They then had about a 10 different OS builds that all had the Windows 10 name instead of giving each build a new name or calling them service packs. The OS that exists now (22h2) has almost nothing in common with the OS that came out in 2015.
Windows 11 has also had several major leaps since that name started. What’s current (23h2) is much much different than the OS that came out in 2021.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 1 week ago:
The reality is that it broke "something* in certain lpt2/ipsec connections using certain authentication protocols, although they haven’t yet specified which particular connection technologies are affected.
However this does not mean that a blanket affect of ALL VPN connection not working is an issue.
So far we are unaffected on clients using ipsec and PAP protocol authentication, nor connections using Anyconnect (aka Cisco Secure Connect).
I have also not seen any affect on private VPN clients such as PIA or Nord on machines that have this update.
I suspect what broke was clients using MSChap, Microsoft’s own protocol for authentication for VPN clients.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
I tried hard to oversimplify. Thanks for spoiling it.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
No, they probably had to pop the live CD into each node individually and click “instal”. Then run a script on each one to join it to the cluster.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 weeks ago:
This particular robot is available $1500. (Without attachment) It’s not much more that a remote controlled toy, not an autonomous robot.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 weeks ago:
The Geneva Convention only applies to government/military bodies. It doesn’t regulate private individuals.
Others laws probably apply though regarding a fucking flamethrower.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 weeks ago:
Same company sells the flame thrower for $700, and it’s mounted on top of a robot that’s available for $1500. They just plugged the trigger of the flamethrower into the auxiliary port that the dog comes equipped with.
This thing is entirely a marketing ploy to draw attention fo their line of products (flame throwers).
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
Was your last experi nice with Windows with Vista or something? 7,8,10,11 have all been almost entirely work free for installing any hardware that isn’t exotic or boutique stuff.
I am not one of the people weighing in based on an arbitrary experience or a small sample set. I’ve installed Windows literally tens of thousands of computers. The only thing can think of in the last 10 years I needed to find a driver for is some USB barcode scanners that emulate serial devices, and the driver for an android phone to be able to flash the boot loader.
Every device that a computer actually needs to run just work.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
So they seriously not remember what thousands of people left Digg and moved to their platform for???
Reddit had a fraction of the users Digg had at one point. Then Digg changed to a new UI no one liked and started putting adds that looked like posts into the main feed.
- Comment on Sounds like a fart 1 month ago:
What you describe is known as a linear compensator and is fairly common. It doesn’t reduce enough to protect the shooter’s hearing, but it does direct the blast forward reducing concussive forces felt by the shooter and increasing the noise and concussive force to those in front of the muzzle.
- Comment on Sounds like a fart 1 month ago:
Oh I don’t need that one …yet.
- Comment on Russia’s Starlink use sparks probe into SpaceX compliance with US sanctions 1 month ago:
That’s how propaganda works.
Absolutely true facts can be published, but simply picking and choosing certain details to withhold completely changes the story.
So pretty much what the vast majority of main stream media news does every day.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
Purchase licence key
No, thanks.
- Comment on Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab? 2 months ago:
What is that controller distro you use?
I used to use a Linux based AD replacement years ago but they turned that one into a pay model and if I’m going to pay for something I’ll just use Windows Server
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes there was.
- Comment on Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows 2 months ago:
Nice.
- Comment on Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows 2 months ago:
Yep. It’s basically an alias for:
runas /user:administrator
If you want to open a new command line window with admin priva you can always do:
runas /user: administrator CMD.exe
Which is of course on Linux this would be like running:
sudo su
- Comment on Sasha kohen messing with white Americans 2 months ago:
…annddd …it’s gone
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 2 months ago:
Full of trash and your life is better off without it? Checks out.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 2 months ago:
Lie on your resume.
Wait… we weren’t supposed to be doing this for decades already? No one told me.
- Comment on Upon careful analysis of the top posts, I believe lemmy needs more unhinged text posts 2 months ago:
Bold of you to assume that they like you now.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
It’s called Russian botnet initiator 5.0
- Comment on It’s a mood and a lifestyle 2 months ago:
If you’re penis is shaped like that you may have gone a little far with sounding.
- Comment on More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices 2 months ago:
I have an nvme enclosure with USB on one end and USBC on the other end. It reads on my Pixel phones as well as on my Samsung tablet.
Now that you mention 3.1 compatibility with devices, I wonder if my enclosure is only 3.0 or if all my devices support 3.1. I’ve never done a speed test on it, but I guess I should.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 2 months ago:
No that’s still not the Outlook this is talking about.
They use the name Outlook and THREE things now…
Outlook - the application from the Office suit
Outlook - the email service
Outlook - the shitty free email client
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 2 months ago:
Well certainly no ads on the homepage like the comment I was directly replying to.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 2 months ago:
No one is paying for it. It’s a free app.
This isn’t Outlook from the paid Office suit. This is the shitty free “Mail” app that has been renamed to also be called Outlook because Microsoft sucks at naming things.
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 3 months ago:
Y’all had windows in yours? Fancy!