Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn’t.

I bought a pro license for win10 specifically because I learned that it gave better control over updates via group policy.

Now I use Fedora, which implemented updates in a way that doesn’t imply “ok, this is all I’m doing until it finishes”, and it never interrupts what I’m doing.

On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it’s been a while since I needed to.

But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.

It depends on the model.

I’ve had some interactions where you can make it flip flop by repeatedly asking “are you sure about that?”

Or another time, I was thinking about some math thing, figured it was probably already a theorem if it was true, asked one of the GPT5 models on duck duck go, and then argued with it for longer than I should have when it gave a response that was obviouly wrong. Asked another model, it gave the correct response plus told me the name of the theorem.

So I asked the first one about that theorem, and yes, it was familiar, but it didnt apply in my case for some bs reason (my specific case was trivially reduced to exactly what the theorem was about). I did eventually get it to admit the truth, but it just wouldn’t let it go for the longest time.

So it doesn’t hurt to ask, but a) it might be wrong when it corrects something that was right, and b) it might argue it is right when it is wrong.

Oh yeah, the bit where SSDs move sectors around for wear evening is important. Because of that, it’s possible to completely fill up an SSD after deleting files and still have those files recoverable from the flash chips themselves. Without that secure erase, as I understand it, if a sector gets marked “bad”, whatever data is there might stay there forever (or at least as long as the cells hold a charge).

So there’s no benefit to writing multiple passes over deleted data on SSDs as far as the flash is concerned, but multiple passes might make it more likely for the controler to actually direct those extra writes to a sector actually storing the data (though the odds might be low unless you’re overwriting all free space, though even that depends on how much space is free vs how many “spare” sectors there are, and even then it might be impossible to get it to write to a sector marked “bad”).

Is that still the case with SSDs? I understood it to be a property of magnetic disks, and only possible because the drives can be disassembled and then read with a more sensitive reading head. I can’t think of a way to do that with flash circuitry unless it’s already designed to do that.

Don’t forget the first response that always gives the steps to solve a simpler version of that issue, almost like the responses are being copy/pasted from a guide by people who barely understand anything about it themselves.

Plus these days the number of solutions that refer to some setting that no longer exists in the location it did at the time the solution was written.

Meanwhile on Linux, I haven’t even had to search as much for solutions. Yesterday I installed a new desktop that I’ve never used before (KDE-Plasma) and was quickly able to figure out the changes I wanted to make because it’s designed to be discoverable and obvious. Whereas I’d say that Windows seems designed to make people either feel tempted to pay for a solution or give up and just do it the way MS wants.

Some tabs are for ongoing things that I keep coming back to, though I don’t have as many of those these days. Like back in the day, I’d have a facebook tab, a few reddit tabs, etc.

Other tabs are for things that I’m not done with in general but was done with for that moment because something else came up or I just wanted to do something else and the task wasn’t urgent enough to stick with it.

Sometimes I get back to it, finish the task, and close the tab. Sometimes I’ll later see the tab and just close it because I decide I am done with it forever (or done enough that I can find it again if I want to go back to it).

I like it better than not keeping my tabs. Though I did disable the inactive tabs thing on mobile firefox because those were too out of sight and just piled up (along with the ambiguous behaviour where sometimes backing up closes newly opened tabs, sometimes it doesn’t, or I don’t back up all the way). Mobile tabs feel a bit more like bookmarks, which are more likely to just disappear entirely from my mind. Visual tabs serve as reminders of the thing.

Though I’d add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.

Alternatively, if you get those rings of iron right at the water line that refuse to wash away, pumice stones work great.

I only do it with 3 or 4 bars of signal. I wouldn’t want my livestream to cut out during such a high intensity moment.

It means it’s time to get serious.

In the readme: if you want this program to be usable, press the turbo button until the turbo light is OFF.

I gave him a dollar so he’d go away.

It would be wild if DB Cooper followed up by watching for who would come out as a suspect and then planted the evidence on their relative’s property after they died.

Now you are looking down from above at a pyramid and that same square is a flattened top.

I first heard the jokes as Vin Diesel jokes and always did think he was cooler than Chuck Norris. Like was I the only one completely not surprised that Walker, Texas Ranger turned out to be exactly what I expected him to be like?

Lol is it just me or are his eyes comically small in that video? Makes his wife look like an anime girl in comparison.

I remember it tasting kinda like metalic basement smell, and basement smell was actually mold.

It wasn’t deadly but probably wasn’t great either.

Yeah, who the hell associates macs with higher competence? Before the 00s, I associated mac users with stumbling on the worse option but not realizing it, after the 00s, wanting to follow trends and/or overpay for hardware to seem rich. They’ve always been form over function, and simplicity over power, which are things that novice uses look for, not more experienced ones.

Or maybe more experienced ones when most of those experiences went badly and little was learned.