the one here was running the original firmware, probably factory original from asus. the board was on a ‘performance’ preset setting–and defaulted to that when i tried a bios reset to defaults. when i updated the firmware, that setting changed to a ‘normal’ one when i reset to defaults again.

i didn’t really dig into that too much because i knew it was already an rma case, but i think part of it had to do with boosted power draw. it still crashed on ‘normal’ and that’s what it was set on when i ran intel’s diagnostics (which took a few tries just to have it not crash before finishing with a result).

the last build i did for someone, we specifically went zen4 to avoid all the various ‘problems’ that both companies were still dealing with.

turn on the news for five seconds to know that’s absolutely true.

probably had an intern change their windows’ locale to prc and then construct the ‘proof’

while personally training the next generation, too.

when re-broadcast on television or cable, those older programs are often re-edited or literally sped-up (or a little of both) so they can have the current norm of 10-12 minutes of ad time per half-hour.

“considering”.

hah.

it’s your interview for a staff position. don’t mess it up.

they had been offering a no-cost equipment promo in some coverage areas for awhile, with only a year or something commitment. you paid $20 to ship the gear. your recurring bill was the monthly plan rate. that’s it.

they’re probably going back and now charging those sign-ups a ‘rental’ fee.

the feds don’t run states’ elections either, even for federal offices.

the last ide adapter i got (this would be at least 15 years ago) came with a separate power supply for the molex connection. i’ve used that power supply more often than the adapter itself.

lowering the price and doubling the storage.

meanwhile, new google/gmail accounts are getting 5gb instead of 15.

4-day work weeks are great, especially if you have a significant commute, because you’re cutting 20% of that right out. the adding 2 hours to every work day, not so much; but the longer hours can mean that traffic is a bit lighter. the guaranteed week day off is huge when you have ‘stuff’ to do.

probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.

is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation.
https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system

my ‘monitor’ (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that’s the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows ‘installer’.

the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked.

endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work–with some caveats: it’s slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that’s in development will change pretty much everything ‘under the hood’ that makes endless what it is, as they’re moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself.

hardly any ‘salutes’ to the screen, but definitely some uh… ‘verbal exchange’ happening. usually several times a day, and you wouldn’t want children nearby if i’m really on roll because windows fucked something up big time. aaaaand, occasionally to and at myself because every now-and-then it truly is my fault.

my boss (of 20+ years) abuses an old core2duo era desktop (8gb ram and sata ssd, both upgrades from original specs when 10 was put on) with 150+ tab firefox plus word and excel and voice software all going at once. never shuts down, never closes an application. sleeps, wakes, hibernates on weekends. it just keeps going. she’s never had any problems and it runs really well. she’d be bitching if it didn’t.

like the ‘other side’ would do better with gnolf

(actually, gnolf does exist but it’s not from them and it isn’t gtk, it’s windows but seems to run ok with bottles)

and one raging lunatic in particular.

one could argue that the ‘screwworm’ has been alive and well inside the u.s. for going on 80 years, spotted in various places over the last decade, including washington d.c. and south florida’s atlantic coast.