I’m a Windows sysadmin, this is the exact explanation. The only other thing, and this is going way out on a limb, is that terminal was installed through the Windows Store and something related is busted. I’ve never even heard of a company utilizing the Store for installations.
You will love this:
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren’t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
Not an AI thing. I’ve seen it explained but I forget the exact cause.
Already is if you’re running a cloud server.
My dumbass was trying to click on a link a lemmy user posted and hit Putty instead.
“Oh what fresh hell is this?!”
I have a bad feeling they plugged it in with moisture still in the case and now it’s fried.
GenX dude who peaked around my late 40s, early 50s. At 54, on the downside now. :(
As to women, loads of the pretty/popular girls went downhill fast after high school and so many of the nerdy girls bloomed.
It’s rather amazing how fit and sexy older women can be now days. I was dating hot and heavy around 2019-2022 and was stunned at the women I was pulling at 49 to 51 years old. (Kinda cheating as I have factory original hair and teeth, non-fat, non-MAGA, rather rare in this age group.)
Dated one beautiful girl that was a diver and swam in the Gulf most days, yes, even in January. Another was a vegan marathon runner. One would turn heads wherever we went, had the personality to go with the looks, could hike until I dropped dead. Good heavens those women were ripped. I’m daily amazed by my 54-yo wife, but she got Asian genes, hardly moves, cheating!
I’ve had sex with women half my age, or less, but for a partner I’ve always loved women my own age, give or take a few years.
Of course it’s all on a sliding scale. 50 dating 40, meh, close enough. 18 dating 12, aw hell no.
And then you have Filipinas. Lord. Went to my wife’s friend’s birthday party last summer. She was turning 30. He was about to turn 70. :) We’re the only white/Asian couple of the same age, and my wife is really insecure about it.
Attractive doesn’t mean I want to fuck them. One time my niece pulled up and all her hot 18-20 friends piled out the car. Nice! After 15-minutes of listening to them talk I was internally screaming.
I’m GenX. Seems the elder Millennials and us are basically on the same page culturally.
Now that you mention it, I can’t think of any sort of proprietary tape. They were either standard or small.
Gran Torino.
Yeah, from my Debian VPN.
Ah! You’re moving goalposts! The meme is about choosing an OS at boot time, not up, down, up again.
I’m in the game less than 60-seconds from that point. And that’s on an old i5-1135G7 NUC, 32GB DDR4, god knows how old the SSD is, been through 3 PCs without a Windows reinstall.
Yes, Linux almost always smokes Windows on a reboot, but it’s not that big of a deal anymore.
CAVEAT: I should note my Windows install is from an official ISO, not some manufacturer’s crapware.
This is a fascinating company! How are they funded? Did I miss that in the article?
This is the kinda shit rich people could do. Put a million bucks in a fund, use the growth for payouts, never run out of money.
Managed a reprographics shop where our #1 vendor had a lock on repairmen. We had to pay $10,000 for the training fee, and I think we had to re-up on that occasionally. The tech’s laptop had to have a key to login to the machines for diagnostics. He couldn’t even manage most mechanical repairs because the software wouldn’t allow it.
Océ is the asshole manufacturer, so you all know what not to buy.
What do you get when your search “terminal”? My home rig defaults to PowerShell, but I likely changed something years ago.