That’s wild! I thought you’d have to block all packets headed to MS or the WAN entirely.

Lots of windows apps behind Remote Desktop vms at my workplace too.

Do you have to maintain licenses for Windows XP and such? What a sorry state of affairs.

Thanks! I’ll check it out on my next hop.

I am still a chronic distro hopper.

Sir that’s a potato tree.

Uh oh that was the joke wasn’t it?

Had trouble reading the poem because I didn’t know if they were saying I or |

Where? He points to his meme as a whole.

The terminal feels like such a haven for me, for its responsiveness. Windows gets slower and slower with each update. Even my Linux DEs are slow now because I’m hardware poor. The terminal is the only app that stays ahead of my typing.

If there is something on your disk that a state actor is going to use magnetic microscopy to try to recover, it seems absurd to worry about still being able to use that hard drive and not just crush/melt it to be sure.

Who are you?

All that exhaust still has to go somewhere even with the door closed. I’m surprised at all the houses I see where a cheap reno means the hood fan exhausts directly into the cupboard above.

If I don’t turn my monitor on in time, my OS assumes I have two monitors when I do turn it on. Then all new windows open on the ghost second monitor.

(Yours is hilarious though)

Oh geez that’s really what that is. What’s this from?

LFS is the final boss. It comes even after you beat Gentoo.

So “on God” means like “on God’s authority” or “for reals”?

I would be bothered by having low clearance above the sink to do dishes, even if it was practically enough room.

Thank you for your reply!

It’s not your fault the video you linked uses that sensationalist title (unless you are Mr./Ms. Fireship themselves) but yeah, it’s click baity. Soft bricking is something just breaking. The term brick was meant as a harsher version of that. This title aims to grab you with a concept that is far worse than software errors when it was software errors.

I have spent my time wisely typing this internet comment.

Wait I’m intrigued that there’s a happy ending in the long run? I’m super ignorant in this area but like…have other countries we view as relatively socialist (Euro stuff?) gone through a similar process that the US is going through? Definitely looking for some optimism these days.