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Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.


winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox


On my site I have long since routed requests from Amazon associated IP blocks directly to the wood chipper, so it’s nice to see that I was vindicated in doing so. Their request patterns did indeed look pretty scrapey and I was wondering why.


I never used the one on the CD case, I just used all ones. Or 123451234512345, etc. for Windows 98.


Yes, edited. I usually use Alexandrite and copying links from it is weird.


Theoretically, but it would probably be slower than dogshit if you tried to do it over e.g. USB, and the administration would probably also not be pleased with you spending the entire exam with an external storage device conspicuously bunged into your computer.
You could grab a cheap (relatively, these days) low-ish capacity SSD in whatever flavor your machine takes and install Windows on that with your primary drive removed and safely stored away somewhere, though, and then just swap them back when you’re done.
If you want something to do with your secondary SSD afterwards there are enclosures you can get that’ll convert an NVME SSD into a super fast USB flash drive sort of arrangement, albeit typically dangling on the end of a short cable rather than sticking directly into the port, which makes a good modern day stand-in for those portable laptop hard drive enclosures nerds used to carry around in the early 2000s.


↑ This right here is the best answer in this thread.
For further nagware avoidance, remember that the Enterprise editions of Windows come bundled with the group policy editor (gpedit.msc, stick that in your run prompt) and will respect group policy settings with the intent of system administrators having control over various components and features.
In your case, a the system administrator is you.
For the purposes of decluttering your start menu specifically, for instance, I’ll link everyone to this comment I wrote the other day which lists off the policy settings you’ll want to mess with — including disabling Copilot completely.


Time to dredge this up again.


Nobody anymore, but even as of a few short years ago the Windows fanboys would crusade and do battle specifically against the Mac fanboys, for some reason.
I’m not exactly a fan of Apple, but I’m not going to go around automatically championing Microsoft because of it…


Condensing ones do exist, but I guarantee you one of those won’t work upside down so it’s probably a good job that’s not what you’ve got. They have a catch basin in them for the extracted water inside someplace, and the results would be predictable if gravity were inverted. A heat pump dryer also wouldn’t work upside down (to put it mildly) but one with a regular resistive element obviously will.
Was the manufacturer kind enough to give you a sticker with all of the control markings written upside down as well?


Likewise with Kiki’s Delivery Service for me, although probably because Disney felt the need to fuck with the music as well as the dialogue in their dub.
How this did not result in Miyazaki, Hisaishi, and Sugimura going on a rampage in Disney’s offices with their katana, Walther P-38, and magnum is beyond me.


It’ll work.
I just installed plain old boring Debian on three (3) random decommissioned office PCs the other day and every single piece of hardware in them worked out of the box including the Wi-Fi cards.


To each their own. I mean, some people collect spoons of all things.
Spoons. Not knives. Madness. (Next you’re telling me it’ll be forks.)


I’m adding a parallel comment addressing your edit.
Is this the part where I finally get to say, “Do you know who I am?” I’ve been waiting years for that one.


This line is uttered about three times a day in my household.


You can’t run it on a Mediatek or a Rokchip or whatever?


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Turn something this into a moderately off road capable adventure bike and I’m sold. The BMW and KTM guys will absolutely pay $20,000 for it, albeit maybe not $37,000.
My KLR has about 200 miles of range per fill, if you’re even the slightest bit careful with it, which is necessary for excursions out into the bush where there are neither gas stations nor charging points.