the joy of not having any microsoft accounts.

although i still do have to deal with this shit every day for other people. the ‘best’ ones are those with only a voice number on their account for a verification, from back before they went sms-only for phone numbers.

‘decision anxiety’ is definitely real. there’s literally too many choices and different ways to deliver the same end result.

ubuntu studio is an excellent choice for your use case. you just gotta jump in with both feet

‘remove from package’.

i’d get that one correct.

‘upon arrival’.

that one too.

‘refrigerate’

well, only as necessary until it’s gone. i’d get half credit for that one.

so, overall, i’d still ‘pass’… but hey, “c’s get degrees”

they’re all gonna pick-up permanent surveillance courtesy of pissbaby abbott, as soon they set foot back in texas (if they don’t already have that, wherever they are). then another special session will be called, these rebellious democrats will be denied their constitutional right of free travel between the states, and the house gains 5+ more maga nutcases.

i’ve had more issues with forced updates from pc manufacturers–whether via their own update mechanism or through windows update, including bad bios updates that literally bricks a pc to the point a board swap is needed.

windows ones almost always ‘install’ correctly… it’s often more a question ‘why tf do i want this shit?’

the ‘automatic’ updates should strictly be security patches and critical non-security bug fixes. new and substantially-changed features should be optional or deferred to… ya know… the big updates each year called ‘feature updates’, and not rammed down users’ throats every month.

a limp leaf of lettuce would be in a ‘position of strength’ over the cheater-in-chief.

video chatting with a screen visible to the driver? fk no. also his setup and use of it violates cvc 27602.

to be fair, he’s been too busy fucking up everything else.

all the magats here are glued to fox ‘news’. many even pay the $100+ a month for cable or satellite and literally never change the channel from it.

it wasn’t the ohio river, it was the lake in caesar creek state park, which feeds into the nearby little miami ~ 50 miles north of cincy and the ohio.

well, there is transit in denver. rtd has a typical (for the u.s.) bus service, along with 10 rail lines (mix of heavy and light rail), serving over 60m passenger rides a year. however, many parts of the city have little or no service at all.

there’s probably a commission system built-in to pay the value of a month’s rent or something to the ‘agent’ when you sign a lease. which means, of course, they’re financially motivated to steer you to better paying properties (for them), not better units or locations for you.

being a stupid moron who bankrupts businesses, doesn’t pay his bills, abuses the trust blindly given by voters, habitually violates the law, rapes and assaults women and girls, and has a self-inflicted skin ‘condition’ is not a protected class.

because obama’s scotus didn’t crown him king.

dumping this one that specifically limited exposure to the trash bits of windows and instead launch a new variant for gaming handhelds that, while ‘optimized’ and limited in the crud that runs, will most definitely be focused on driving gamers to game pass subs and store sales.

If every state with a legislative trifecta (and a court who wouldn’t overturn it) suddenly did a partisan redistricting all at once , who would come out ahead?

it ain’t gonna be ‘the people’, that’s for sure.

–from ballotpedia

the intel alder lake-n and twin lake-n have some chips with very low tdp… basically just the “e cores” from a desktop cpu, drawing as little as 6w tdp. nice chips if you don’t need the raw compute power of the desktop’s performance cores. they make for nice little servers and laptops for ‘normal’ users. minipc form factor desktops with them are very affordable.

i like my laptop ‘server’. low power chip that never throttles up to its max 15w tdp, runs cool with display off and lid closed, needs no kb and mouse attached, and the battery is just a bonus ups. it sits out of the way on a shelf like a book.

iirc… 2003 or so, also a redistricting. first attempt at blocking the legislation was successful but a second one for a special session where only the numbers needed to deny a quorum left, was not–after a month or so one of them caved and went back to austin.

i only recently moved my main home pc from 8.1. there’s configs and software on it that would be difficult or impossible to recreate on a new install or pc. i even have a spare identical mb and cpu in case it’s needed. 1st gen. mechanical disks (several, sata ssd wasn’t that much of an improvement with the old controller for everyday use so i opted to keep the higher capacity) 32gb ram and pascal gpu. i skipped all the way to a rufus’d 11 and it’s actually running well (with all the crud ripped out, though). it dual boots with endless on a loop device. the upgrade didn’t even mess that up.