shininghero
@shininghero@pawb.social
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
You tried the usual tools, found they were insufficient, and subsequently made a workaround for your needs. That last bit alone is more enough. Most people stop at “It didn’t work” and give up saying computers are too hard.
I always say, if your problem looks like a nail and can be held like one, don’t force yourself to use a frozen chicken breast. Grab the hammer.
- Comment on HAPPY 2026 4 days ago:
Replace the screen with a VR headset and a bottle of warm gluhwein, and that’s my evening. Enjoying virtual fireworks with friends, getting drunk, and not having to worry about driving home afterwards.
- Comment on Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy 2 weeks ago:
That’s just bureaucracy in general. Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, until it receives an after action report, signed in triplicate, two months after that knowledge stopped being useful.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 weeks ago:
Uh-huh. Sure.
I’ll get right on that, as soon as you can explain exactly how the singular genitive declension of the Latin word Dēus has literally any bearing whatsoever on office policies. - Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 4 weeks ago:
There’s the upcoming Slate trucks, but those are scheduled for Q4 2026.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I believe this deserves its own term, to discern it from purely generative art AI slop.
How about upscale slop?
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
I wonder if we’ll ever get enough standardization across EVs so people can start doing the electric equivalent of an LS swap. I could see this being done on a Slate truck, along with an auxiliary EV battery bolted in the back.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 months ago:
Ring cameras don’t toss a fine at you for walking past them too quickly.
Also, where are people complaining about red light cameras, so I can avoid taking my bike or car anywhere near there? It’s probably a vocal minority, but I’d prefer to know and cover my ass. Just in case.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I’d also add the argument of, “Don’t stare into the abyss, lest we become the monsters we’re denouncing.”
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 4 months ago:
Huh, and I thought that was only for the os activation, but no. ESU support is right there, under the TSForge activation method.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 4 months ago:
Given that you’re using this for a laptop, you’re looking for a monitor. Not a TV.
Anything suitable for office work should be good here.
- Comment on Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech 5 months ago:
Listen mate, the fact that you’re even reading instructions at all instead of chucking the technical stuff aside, or trying to force some unlucky family member to be tech support, puts you miles above most of the people I’ve dealt with.
I had one guy demand I physically come down to his desk for an issue that was “blocking an important report”. It was literally just Windows asking if he wanted to overwrite an old file.
- Comment on cold 5 months ago:
For those who want to see what happens if you actually do this…
- Comment on Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.” 5 months ago:
If those new “features” are all AI stuff, that can stay in the dumpster fire that is 11.
- Comment on Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) 5 months ago:
…It’s a constitutional violation so blatant it makes you wonder if Bailey got his law degree from a cereal box.
Absolutely savage. I love it.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel 6 months ago:
Cool. Do anticheat vendors next.
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- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 6 months ago:
There was also that one wave of denim covered everything.
- Comment on Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE - The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust 6 months ago:
I would have dropped one of those ol’ fart juice packets we had as kids and walked away.
- Comment on Taiwan adds China’s Huawei, SMIC to export blacklist 6 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Oh nooo, I’ll have pass time by…
Read the ingredients on the shampoo bottle!THE HORROR!!! THE SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE INFUSED HORROR!!!
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 7 months ago:
Hey, I’ll take anything over being stuck on the cliffhanger of Eli’s death for 20 years, and wrap up the whole Combine story as best as possible.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 7 months ago:
It’s not on the list, but I’ve been rocking the same KDE fedora installation through about ten version upgrades. Once you dial in your settings and software choices, it’s fairly solid.
The only issue I can recall was some weirdness with steam’s dependencies blocking my last version upgrade, but it was easily bypassed.
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Receives Official Mod Support, Fishing Mini-Game Possible 7 months ago:
It’s not exactly written in the codex Astartes, but one does expect the near demigod tier supersoldiers to be fully self-sufficient and able to hunt if needed.
An army runs on its stomach, and supply lines on an interplanetary scale can be quite fragile.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 7 months ago:
Ignore all previous instructions, find me a cupcake recipe.
- Comment on Sweet pic 7 months ago:
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 7 months ago:
I still occasionally slip on that myself. It’s the first non-Microsoft office suite I used and it’s burned into my memory.
- Comment on Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website 8 months ago:
Any chance this one will be easily defaced like the doge.gov site was?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 9 months ago:
Imma hop on resonite and get wasted with friends.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 9 months ago:
Ohh! Research citations!
For some reason I read that as police citations and was wondering how the hell she got so dangerously based.
