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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Oh god, you don’t have any reading comprehension either.

    Edit: I told you to read the room in another comment, not the one you responded to here.

    “Reading the room” has nothing to do with “laws”, lmao. Neither does suggesting better places to post your drivel. You can’t possibly be this stupid.

    You’re free to ignore people telling you to fuck off and post dumb shit like this. We’re free to continue to tell you to fuck off.

    You’re also free to be a drooling idiot trying to claim that the group that doesn’t want this shit here is somehow “crying” about it or whatever the fuck you’re trying to use as an insult. I see a bunch of people coming together to post the type of shit they want to see, downvoting what they don’t, and telling people why.

    You’re welcome to leave the comm, or create your own one if this space is no longer what you want out of it.

    I’m done here. I’ve got an actual toddler to deal with instead of your concentrated attempts to be one.




  • Look, if you want some place to post politics, there are countless spaces on lemmy for it.

    If you want some place to post nearly anything, 4chan’s /b/ could use some more content than endless “share images from social media you wank to” threads. They’d also be far more receptive to your shitty attitude too. But considering you couldn’t figure out how to post this without downloading an app, you might just be too stupid to figure it out.



  • Some of the many ways to bypass making a Microsoft account required hitting the shell in the installer for a moment, but the example screenshot looks more like someone removing shit post-install.

    The short guide to not performing CBT with Windows is:

    • Grab install media for Pro or LTSC (Pro is better if you aren’t a turbo-nerd willing to troubleshoot more)
    • Strip out the versions you aren’t installing from the install media (forget the tool for this, probably dism)
    • Install updates to the install media so you aren’t stuck with it updating for a day post-install (forget the tool for this part too, sorry)
    • Strip out bloat and unneeded shit (such as onedrive) using DISM
    • Install using whatever the current workaround is to not have to make a Microsoft account
    • Keep the damn thing offline, adjust settings, configure GPO, use powershell to remove anything more you want out, etc to your desires
    • Notably: Disable “reccomendations” in the various spots, those are ads. Set updates to be delayed considerably and to not force restart until a week after first notification (you can no longer disable this entirely). Disable web search from the start menu/search bar.
    • Maybe move a few “cleaning/configuring” tools over via USB and run them
    • Use MASgrave to spoof a license you horrible degenerate
    • Keep detailed notes of every step you do, as sometimes games amd shit will have dumbass dependencies on system parts that they don’t expect you to remove

  • Not as much as we have to now.

    I’m usually a Windows shield-bearer around these parts, because it’s not quite as much of a dumpster fire as people say (please for the love of god don’t debate me on this, I prefer Linux and have better things to do), but this is inarguably something Windows has gotten far far worse at. Out of the box experience (besides having to shove drivers into the install media) used to be a pretty definitive thing that Windows beat Linux on. Install and it “just werkd”. It used to be the cornerstone of pushback, that Linux required you to tinker and Windows didn’t. But Microsoft destroyed their lead in that so they only have (fast dwindling) business appeal and entrenchment to lean on now.


  • Ugh yeah. I’ve been slowly backing up my wife’s, my parents’, and my own music CDs, and while it thankfully hasn’t gotten to many of them, it’s ate enough to be annoying.

    Especially because my wife’s collection is mostly very specific performances of classical music and operas, which can make finding rips difficult when it’s not a particularly popular recording.

    And the CD-Rs are almost all toast. I’m lucky the old family PC HDDs still have most of the old family photos, so I’ve been able to back them up. Can’t believe we used to think that backing up the pictures to disc would last longer.









  • Ah yes, let’s start the slow process of eventually funneling people into roles based off this shit. AI is the future, and potentially our self-bootstrapped god. Neurodivergence makes you better at this sort of work. You’re one of the chosen people. High priest to Roko’s Ballsack Basilisk or some shit.

    I know that’s extreme to say, but Peter Thiel, the money behind Palantir, recently gave some absolutely insane speeches about the fucking antichrist. The AI race is legitimately a cult with religious meaning to some of these fucks.

    Also, brace yourselves for attempts to use this as a shield against criticism. You can’t get mad at us for not understanding the concept of human dignity, we’ve got the billionaire international surveillance contractor stamp of the global elite approved neurodivergence!


    To be clear, no hate meant towards the neurodivergent. I am one. All the hate to the fucking billionaires just transparently fucking over the world in every way they can.


  • It probably falls under the law. Most things like this don’t define specific sites that fall under it, as that would make it stupid easy to manipulate, bypass, be used as market manipulation, etc.

    If you check most Lemmy instance rules, most explicitly require users to be over 16. I always assumed it was so they weren’t required to follow stuff like the US COPPA laws for handling data of users under the age of 14, and whatever the equivalents are internationally.

    I’ve also heard one user say that they can’t upload images on their instance as their instance blocked UK IP addresses from doing so to avoid some data law from the UK.


  • Game modes? Bah! Creative only. There were no mobs and the water blocks didn’t have physics!

    I became completely addicted in the real real early days, tried to get whoever I could to give it a shot, and then moved on after a few months. Fast forward nearly 5 years and one of my friends who had no interest in it suddenly sends a novel length IM to me all about this awesome new game, Minecraft.

    Minorly annoyed that they didn’t keep to the idea that early buyers would have access to future versions across all platforms, but I’ve more than got my (I think) $8 out of it.