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Nougat ,

Depends. I know that Microsoft changed to non-case sensitive not terribly long ago (for things like testexchangeconnectivity).

Nougat ,

Here's what I think is going on.

ASUS made a deal with someone to send them data for money, so they snuck something in the EULA that said "Yeah, you're gonna give us your data, or you get to have a brick."

Somebody said, "Hey, what if it's a junior high student who can't legally agree to the EULA? That's gonna make it so we could get sued."

Dumb Execs said, "Make it so that you have to say you're 16 first. Kids will just lie and say they are ,so that still protects us from lawsuits."

Developers: face palm

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Caption was edited, shouldn't have been.

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What if I'm an email administrator who came from Timex/Sinclair?

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Judge books by their covers. That's literally what the cover is for.

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There's a reason we don't have hood ornaments anymore, but somehow a vehicle completely constructed of sharp corners and edges is just fine.

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Early hood ornaments, and hood "spurs" were most certainly dangerous to pedestrians. Regulations in the US eliminated traditional fixed hood ornaments, though some later models featured smaller spring-loaded ornaments.

Nougat ,

You're arguing against a point I never made.

We don't have hood ornaments anymore. Regulations in the US in 1968 eliminated traditional fixed hood ornaments - along with implementing all sorts of safety and economy standards - shortly after Johnson signed the Department of Transportation into existence. And that came shortly after Nader's overwhelmingly popular book, Unsafe At Any Speed.

Later spring-loaded and breakaway hood ornaments fell by the wayside for style and aerodynamic reasons, but they were mostly gone anyway.

That's what actually happened. Hood ornaments were, for all practical purposes, eliminated by safety regulations. Whether that specific, or other general, safety regulation is effective or the result of lobbying one way or another is not relevant to actual historical events.

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Gotta catch em all.

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XP

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Then I switched the motherboard and windows decided I no longer had a key for it

The reason for this is that Windows builds an identifier based on the hardware of the machine on which it is installed. When that identifier doesn't match, it throws a flag that says "Hey now ..." I think that you still get a couple of "honor system passes" before the installed OS enforces anything.

Once that gets enforced, you can call Microsoft Clearinghouse, "I upgraded my hardware," and they'll give you a new key to enter.

Nougat ,

Windows will do the exact same thing. It'll even boot and run just fine, only telling you that Windows isn't activated. And you can get vendor support if you need it. I had a Windows system that started as XP and got upgraded and passed around among newer and newer hardware up to Windows 11 with nary a problem.

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I think you're right that OEM licenses are more strict on certain hardware changes, as in they wouldn't give you a pass on a single mainboard change - but you would still get a key from clearinghouse. As far as I'm aware, all retail and OEM keys are hardware bound. KMS/MAK are not.

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Zerg rush.

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He set the path of humanity onto a road to nowhere.

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God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms

They're trying to co-opt the US Constitution as a religious text.

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The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, a deist, who also produced the Jefferson Bible, created by literally cutting out all the mystical woo from the New Testament and pasting the remainder onto pages.

I can say with some confidence that nobody considered either the Declaration or Constitution as "religious" at the time.

Nougat ,

How about Uber Feet, where you pay to walk somewhere?

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Uber Feet XL

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Then they will learn that Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore.

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None, because I don't use lemmy.

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Welp.

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"Open Letter to Jordan Klepper"

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And the Enormous Lower Case T.

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I once TPed the statue of former president Ronald Reagan at his boyhood home in Dixon, IL.

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That's a commute.

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Ha, I'm still alive. CHECKMATE

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I have done this multiple times on servers. It's beyond simple and doesn't take but a few minutes. Follow the instuctions and you're gold.

Edit: In short, you use diskpart to resize the boot partition down, then use diskpart again to resize the recovery partition up with the space you created in step one.

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Conflates capitalism with free markets.

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Lower part of the image is incorrect. All the data would pool in the trough, leaving free space at either end.

Nougat ,

Please remove this picture of me from the internet.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

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You know, I get if they want to do this to Home editions, but why in the world would they do this to all editions? At the very least, this should never apply to domain-joined computers.

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Seems short sighted to annoy the people who pay you the most money already.

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... "sysadmins" who only know Microsoft, ...

HEY

Nougat ,

There's a lot to be said for a good generalist, but at some point, specialization takes you farther. I ended up with Windows server and Active Directory, as well as Exchange (lots of other stuff, too, but those are the main things). Apart from mass workstation management, or when a help desk person asks for a hand, I haven't dealt with non-servers in a loooong time.

No reviewing logs, no digging in at all, just "welp, a reboot didn't fix it. Gonna submit a support ticket and make no further effort".

My last few experiences with Microsoft support (spread over many years) have been "If I can't figure it out, Microsoft probably can't, either." For a smaller company, with a limited IT staff, having someone who is able to efficiently interface with vendor support without necessarily having all the answers themselves can be a useful thing. But I totally get what you're saying.

Nougat ,

How hard does it have to be raining to require car wash mode?

How do I setup my own FOSS shopping website for my business?

Hello, I don't have much experience in self-hosting, I'm buying a ProtonVPN subscription and would like to port forward. I have like no experience in self-hosting but a good amount in Linux. I'm planning on using Proxmox VE with a YunoHost VM. I already have a domain name from Njalla. I'm setting up a website for my computer...

Nougat ,

If you are accepting payments, you absolutely want to offload that to a third party payment processor, so that you don't have to go through the hassle of doing PCI compliance.

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Desktop mode and move on.

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I have to admit that that is not at all what I imagined the bottom third of your face to look like.

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I seem to recall there was a kids' game with faces split in three, and you could spin to make different ones with different parts? Don't they have those on plastic barrels at some playgrounds?

You should find one of those playgrounds, print this picture out, and stick it on one of the plastic barrels.

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Protip: Your shareholder votes are not secret, so if you're voting based on your holdings from an employee stock program, you might experience retaliation if you vote the "wrong way."

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I am confused by the smiling on Friday and Monday.

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This is not a "Roku data breach."

This is a use of compromised user credentials, with Roku as the target.

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The only thing that would have prevented this in this context would be mandatory MFA. Did they have that? No, but there's a huge number of places that are way more sensitive than a streaming platform that don't have mandatory MFA (coughETradecough).

It is wholly misleading to characterize this as a "Roku data breach," and it's disingenuous to portray Roku in this instance as somehow glaringly worse than everyone else.

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No. Nobody has stolen hashes. They have usernames and passwords collected from elsewhere, that they tried against Roku, because people tend to reuse usernames and passwords.

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That doesn’t have anything to do with it, really. There’s plenty of ways that credentials get “leaked,” not the least of which is users who reuse passwords also falling for scam emails that have them “log in” to something. It could matter if some specific credentials were initially acquired because some other place was storing clear text passwords, and that place had a breach.

Still wouldn’t be an issue at all if users didn’t reuse passwords. That’s the lynchpin. This is users’ fault, not Roku’s.

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I remember listening to radio commercials in the early days where it was:

Aitch-tee-tee-pee colon, forward slash, forward slash, double-you, double-you, double-you, dot nameofthecompany dot com, forward slash, tilde - you know, that squiggly line on the key to the left of the number one on your keyboard, you have to press shift for it - and then the word 'customer'.

Nougat ,

I do what I can.

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