i wouldn’t mind being punished like that.

that is pretty lazy, especially on a pc where if you’d just have the energy to move a finger over to the right side of the keyboard to tap HOME once is all it would take.

slip-on shoes aren’t just for little kids, the elderly, or others that can’t tie shoes.

they. are. awesome.

i always loose-tie my sneakers anyway so they could be slipped-on and off easily, but stretchy ‘no tie’ laces are a huge upgrade from that.

we went to walmart awhile back to pick something up that was in stock in our store.

the asshole behind the electronics counter said “we don’t have that in stock”. didn’t even look. didn’t want to check his handheld after we showed him what the web site said.

we stood right there and ordered it online… for delivery from the store.

we finished up there, swung through arbys drive through, then filled-up the car.

and we barely beat the delivery guy from the store home.

one of the reasons i have captions on all the time. so i can keep the volume low enough during the program that the loud(er) advertisements don’t knock me out of my chair… or interrupt my nap.

by my grade 7, i had already learned all about dalkon shield and iuds, silicone breast implants and their risks, rely tampons and toxic shock syndrome, roe v wade, aids and homosexuality…

that was just the sex ed units from the regular nightly news.

the neo is still a relatively new product. the increase on it was probably planned from the beginning.

normally i’d be against ‘upgrades’, too, especially that different.

but this was a special case and i did have three decades of wading through this shit to pay the rent to work from. a fair bit of reading and a lot of prep ahead of time made the actual upgrade process itself almost completely uneventful. i did find one odd thing after it ran awhile, but it hasn’t resurfaced since.

P.S. I can be wrong, but IoT right now doesn’t shield oneself from installing copilot and other garbage, making this edition not better than others, you still need to debloat it.

a full year in here, with regular security updates. 11iot is still unmolested by microsoft shenanigans. nothing installed on it i didn’t put on myself, or didn’t come with the stripped-down windows, which isn’t much at all. there’s no store, so all the store-delivered shit is absent.

microsoft linux

British humor humour

he has windows, but i’ll mention the option to him next chance i get.

maximum memory speed is also often slower with 4 modules vs 2.

i happen to recall they do like to throw tea parties.

2000 was better, but that was an entirely different time.

that’s probably most the holdouts left. the absolute brutal persistence of ‘upgrade’ offers and win10 doomsday warnings on eligible hardware got most users to do it, even if they didn’t really want to.

no need to format to install LTSC

you can modify a text file on an ent/iot installer to allow system and data preserving upgrades on pretty much anything, even ‘home’ or ‘home premium’ editions. i have one here that went 8 pro to 11iot–runs great, and have tested 7hp to 11iot as well. that was the test done before i did the one that ‘mattered’… still using it the test system, too. haven’t bothered to redo it or reload anything else on it yet.

you guys might be interested in this, then:

Oasis is a Windows 11 driver for SteamVR for VR headsets of the Windows Mixed Reality family, such as the HP Reverb, Samsung Odyssey, Lenovo Explorer, or Dell Visor. This driver does not require the Mixed Reality Portal application and is therefore compatible with the latest versions of Windows 11 (24H2 and future).

https://github.com/mbucchia/Oasis-Driver-for-Windows-Mixed-Reality/wiki

i had to pronounce some ddr5 dead this morning. at least it was ‘only’ one 8gb stick, but it’s in an omen prebuilt, out of warranty.

user’s just a high school kid. gonna have to limp along with the remaining 8gb (not much for gaming then) or random crashes with 16gb until he or the parents can afford to replace it.

to add… (mainly for the benefit of others who may come across this)

most ram, purchased new at retail from a legit or ‘authorized’ merchant or store should be covered by a manufacturers warranty. those sellers on amazon marketplace with random ‘kdfguuugggu’ names probably not selling warranty-eligible products. you would more than likely need a proof of purchase receipt to show when and from where you purchased the ram.

if it was in a prebuilt or major oem (dell, hp, lenovo, etc) system you’re usually at the mercy of the builder and its system warranty. if purchased direct, the seller should have record of the system purchase. if purchased at retail, same deal as above–need the receipt.

if the ram was acquired as used product, you’re probably out’a luck.