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I think you should be able to unpack the Win11 WIM with the Win7 or 8 PE from the installer disc, even, though that's a more arcane and obscure process. I know that on one weird issue I had a long time ago where a machine supported 10 but wouldn't boot its installer image, I had to either...

I helped a few friends do this since the big killswitch moment. I feel like this is a cat and mouse game Microsoft will always lose.

Yeah, I'm supposed to be flying out to Dallas or somewhere in California for work here in the next few months and my first thought is "who's being paid to run ATC? yeah... no one". I think the playbook is to keep the government shut down permanently so there isn't anyone who can possibly tell...

That was what the ROG Ally Xbox or whatever it was called was supposed to be, no? A handheld Windows PC that could run Windows software and Xbox games? That didn't last -- it just runs Steam games and "Xbox" ports to, what, UWP? Or are you saying that there will be no further actual Xbox titles...

Found a demo unit SKU for a Surface Pro with some attractive pricing. 16GB RAM, 256GB storage, Snapdragon X Plus. Normally I try not to buy machines with less than 512GB of storage but for the use case I have in mind for this, 256 may well be overkill. I would have preferred a more traditional...

Pretty sure if Obama runs again he won't have to worry about any would-be assassins, his own wife will kill him. I get the distinct impression from his book that she is not a fan of presidential/first lady life.

I think we just resold a small fleet of some updated version of this for a similar use-case. I didn't have them out of the box as we were strictly acting as a reseller, but if a newer version of the same tablet from Samsung of all companies doesn't have a better, brighter screen I'd be shocked.

I might see about having my boss approve a PO for one of the nice ones to see how different the support experience is for them with regards to our stack, what the process of reloading/reimaging one looks like, if InTune gets closer-to-bare-metal management capabilities on them. It's not like...

Seems that page is not for discussing putting Linux on their Chromebook, it's a general support topic as their answers for machines running Linux and ChromeOS are generally the same. MrChromeBox, who has a firmware flashing and initial install guide at least for Intel-based Chromebooks, doesn't...

Huh. I think I may have just had the first twinge of optimism for us this year. I'd almost forgotten what that felt like.

I'm aware of this... Heck, I've had to compile things for XP in VS2019 with the 2017 toolchain. It's how I recompiled the special version of OpenVPN 2.5.4 some guys hacked together for XP into running on my PIII laptop, specifying /arch=SSE. I guess somewhere along the line I thought we'd...

This weekend is seriously looking like it's going to get ugly. Navy fire exercise my ass. If there are still history books in twenty years...

I find it rather humorous that according to StatCounter, in Asia Windows 7 usage is rising in the wake of 10 losing support, at the expense of both Windows 10 and 11 marketshare in that region, up to 18.67% there and up to 9.61% worldwide as a result. I guess people are deciding that if they're...

If they did it before they'll do it again. I don't trust it.

Apparently we're all terrorists now, too. So that's fun.

Making it visibly unchangable without location services to normal users has to be illegal in some jurisdiction, probably Europe where they actually kind of-sort of have to give a shit about privacy sometimes. But I bet being able to Powershell it probably would keep Microsoft from being fined...

Remember when Trump supposedly didn't know anything about that... and then proceeded to put pretty much everyone involved with it into positions of power within his government?

Given the flurry of activity in the nearly three months since the last post... Holy shit. Just holy shit. I thought things would get bad. This is fucking insane.

Yeah, I don't tend to use Jellyfin for library management per se, rather I use it for an easy playback interface that isn't just loading files into VLC or whatever through the network. I find I don't trust anything but myself to do the tagging/album art fetching.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that neither can I afford a pet (food/litter is one thing, insurance/vet visits are another) nor can I justify having one around because I live alone and I'm simply not home enough. It wouldn't be fair to them.

Turns out the LaserJet I have did some hours -- it's from a lawyer's home office, but really all it needs is a good can of air let out inside it and a fresh set of toner cartridges. Although it did seem to clear up the yellow dots in the printout after a few test pages printed. It's from 2016...

I got my DCP-L2640DW on sale from OfficeDepot a year or so back for what I felt was a very decent deal, around $150. The MFP model was twice as much and all it has over the DCP is a faxmodem, something that's hardly relevant to my needs. I scan (especially with the feeder) far, FAR more than I...

I've had the Outshine raspberry bars now and I have to say I'm disappointed. The flavor is top notch but the texture is much more akin to a normal popsicle, with very little in the way of fruit bits at all. The Great Value fruit bars are creamier and softer. If Great Value picked up a raspberry...

I'm already not a fan of every storefront needing a system service and Chrome container "app" as it is, I don't want yet another launcher robbing performance. I have a perfectly serviceable launcher and it's called the start menu. :p On my Retroid I use a combination of RetroArch and...

Better off looking at Myrient these days. Vimm bent the knee to DMCA. Most Nintendo titles aren't downloadable there anymore, and a fair few PSP/PS2 games were unobtainium there as well last I tried. Gamecube, PS2 and Wii are well within the reach of most iGPs 11th gen and up, but PS3/360 are...

UPS just found another package I'd considered permanently lost after it went radio silent for almost two weeks. If the tracking is right now, I should get it today.

Perhaps that's the case, but we're a 365/Azure shop first and foremost and are a bit out of our element when we have to support someone who's in Google Workspace. I can and have gotten the job done, but even I'm personally not fond of the way Google tends to do things. At least I can kind-of...

Yeah, throw a copy of Outlook with a giant, uncleaned-for-years mailbox and a few instances of gen-u-ine Adobe-brand Acrobat and maybe a few spreadsheets in Real™ Micro-Soft® Excel©©®©™ and those figures can get pretty nuts, especially if literally anything is running in the background based on...

Walmart's house-brand makes generics of the Outshine bars for a couple bucks cheaper per box, and you get a couple more bars in each box -- I bought the coconut ones to directly compare against the Outshines, and while I could nitpick and say the Outshines have a bit more coconut shavings, they...

Thanks for the insight into the era, Merc. You'd be surprised to hear it but it's not an era a lot of people talk about -- the late 90s, sure, maybe the run up to 2000 in the non-Windows NT world as the various UNIX platforms are apparently more interesting than the one that'd come to dominate...

My headset jack still doesn't work right -- it registers something plugging in but never puts sound out to it. But that's relatively minor. My built-in mic is picked up on now in applications. I've acquired another PIII era laptop, this one is another nice little subnotebook -- a Compaq Evo...

It's definitely an interesting proposition for my desk for my next major upgrade in a few years. Do you know what kind of power it's drawing from the wall? It'd be interesting to see if it can outgun my desktop and Precision in even less power than the Precision takes, which is around 175-200W...

I'm a moron. I didn't give my user membership of the audio group. I'm shocked I had working audio at all.

Nothing too out of the ordinary policies wise. We do run a security stack -- including ThreatLocker, which did the Kaby-R i7 in my work laptop no favors speed-wise, but doesn't seem to do badly on for RAM, hovering around 50 megs -- and for some workstations a BCDR agent pulling backups, but...

Yeah, they've dropped the "new" branding from their beta baby and rebranded plain Outlook as "(classic)". I have quite a few users who are concerned about it disappearing entirely. I have a couple folks who like it, but most have no end of issues with it. Moreso than old Outlook, which they're...

Even after all that tomfoolery I still never got sound out of my headset jack and discord won't pick up my built-in mic. Thankfully generic USB-C dongles work and bluetooth works fine -- which is weird, usually bluetooth is the bit that likes to not work right for me under Linux.

If your trial service and permanent service are on the same carrier they should transition that for you. If they're not the permanent service ought to be able to port your temporary number.

I wouldn't buy anything meant for someone to actually use with less than 16GB of RAM in $currentYear. Really I don't even like 16 for Windows anymore -- they run uncomfortably close to the line with a few Chrome tabs open now. Throw Outlook and Teams or Zoom into that mix, along with a few...

And the Intel ones use funky sound hardware that needs special firmware and such, like this does. Would you believe that it took this long for the modules to get integrated in-tree? I used to have to use a script that'd strip the modules from a regular ChromeOS kernel or something. Insanity. My...

That's true. Not everyone religiously backs their dotfiles up to their NAS like I do, making restoration relatively quick and painless beyond the tedium of typing out a long mount command to pull up an NFS share. But I find segregating /home a little silly on a machine with a single physical...

well, my fstab is more NFS shares than actual physical volumes anyway, so... A separate /home volume makes a lot more sense when there are multiple internal drives. Back when I used to do a split-storage setup -- 512GB SSD root and a 2 or 4TB drive for /home -- it made a lot more sense. I...

I should probably qualify that statement: before, I've tried having /home on a microSD card or even a small USB drive. Bumping the sides of the machine would disconnect the drive briefly and make the entire X session crash. I can handle that for some games alone, but not the entire X session.

This probably seems obvious to you all, but it just occurred to me that I can move my steam/wine folder in my /home to a microSD card and hardlink the folders; hell, I could probably even get away with mere symbolic links. This would allow me to install a bunch more stuff on the chromebook and...

Something not super-ultra-high-end but with TLC NAND and a decent DRAM cache is what you're looking for. Last month the MSI Spatium M470 and M480 were pretty good buys, not sure if they still are, I think I paid $115 for a 2TB M470 on Newegg? Granted, the machine I put mine in doesn't have PCIe...

In other news I've learned the display on the Presario is actually one of those funky Hitachi High Performance Addressing things, a missing link between passive and active matrix that massively improved image quality, but didn't do much to prevent ghosting. The improved image quality is why I...

Right, I'm not saying there wasn't technical merit to either one: - MCA was kind of brilliant especially for its proto-PnP arrangement. It was just too expensive and not enough companies made peripherals for it because the licensing was onerous. The only relatively common cards you'll find were...

I've seen some ridiculous uptime figures and heard stories of Deskpro ENs in particular living through stuff they really had no business doing. Yeah, the torx screw thing is annoying, and is where you can see the Compaq DNA in HPe machines today easiest, but they're also slotted, and I like the...

I got friend pricing on a heavily modified original Xbox. It's been flashed with Cerbios, he left a header so I could easily reflash with whatever if I needed to, he added another 64 megs of RAM, and recapped the whole thing. It's been a blast to play with. Insignia is a more-or-less complete...

I wouldn't be so sure of safety in European ownership. Visa/MC are worldwide entities, and Collective Shout has been able to affect change outside the US before, I actually think they're Australian to begin with -- one of their crowning achievements was barring GTA5 for sale period in certain...