NutinButNet

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I just set up a Windows 11 PC this week for testing (did it through a USB installer upgrading from Windows 10 Pro) and I was able to use the bypass OOBE/BYPASSNRO in command prompt and was able to create using a local account. I kept it offline without connecting to the internet during setup into getting to the desktop. This was using the latest Windows ISO on Microsoft’s website.

Safe to say, I think it still is doable even going the reset method in Windows. Just keep it offline during initial setup.

I knew a Pilipino family that seemed to pronounce it both ways.

I tend to think it’s due to those around them. Like this kid I knew from school who came from the UK; with us as his friends, he had an American accent like the rest of us. But as soon as he talked to his parents or his sister, he had this heavy English accent. He seemed to be aware of it but had no control over it.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It plays somewhat fun and like any other mobile title. I’m not thrilled about the auto-firing mechanism where it auto-fires when you aim at an enemy. I’m also looking for my controller to see if there is controller support as it’s not mentioned in the settings.

Plays just like a Borderlands game except it’s not “open world” but has you playing challenges that take you back to the main menu.

Edit: controller support is there and it is a vastly superior experience.

But motherfuck. The stupid obnoxious “tap here to upgrade” bullshit is all here like you see in other mobile games. It’s got the loot boxes which is why it’s “free”. They really hold the fuck out of your hand to encourage you to spend and upgrade.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many stories are heavily one sided. We only ever get one person’s side of the story and that person experienced it in one way and often doesn’t take the other person’s side into account. Not necessarily because they’re a bad person, but because that’s just how humans are. We don’t often put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and look at the situation differently or can always give someone else the benefit of the doubt.

“My boyfriend left last night without saying goodbye which he never does so obviously this means something is wrong.” When in reality, he did say goodbye, but we just couldn’t hear it over the sound of the TV in the other room. Everyone hearing the story agrees that is weird behavior and jumps to the worst conclusion along with the OP.

And then it just being the internet, people often go to the extreme on things and everyone has their own perspective from their own experiences and cultures around the world. One guy hears a story of a woman going out with her friends and he remembers how his girlfriend from years ago used to do that and she was actually cheating on him, so of course his trauma has him viewing that story through his own lens and going to the worst possible conclusion.

People forget details which can make things sound worse than they are, or they just forget to include some things that don’t always seem relevant which can greatly impact how a situation actually unfolded and give others the wrong idea. “We had an argument last night about something stupid that he’s jealous of me hanging out with my girlfriends”, neglecting to mention that he has a valid reason because you were doing some suspicious things years ago in this same way. Anyone hearing the story from your point of view is going to conclude you are the victim there without that additional context you neglected to include.

And then it just is how it is. What other advice can people realistically give? Stay with them is the only other alternative most people can muster up. Beyond that, go to therapy and that’s it. No one really has much else to offer in the way of sympathy and judgment. No one realistically knows how to navigate someone else’s relationship and all its unique dynamics, let alone their own relationships and all the variables life throws at them. We often only ever think a situation only has two options and nothing else, “break up or stay together”.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even Microsoft Edge has had this for at least a year if not more.

It portably wasn’t that hard to do. The ROI of something like this was probably worth it even if only a small amount of people will actually use it.

I tried as well and mine worked too.

Granted, I had the iPhone app open and then opened the Watch app right after and it worked.

Maybe try force closing the Watch app (double tap side button and then swipe it away) and then try reopening with the iPhone app open.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Why exactly does this need to run a full OS?

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’d like this. There’s always some obscure movies you can’t get that someone else may have that aren’t yet on torrent sites.

It took me over a decade to find Who Made the Potatoe Salad until it finally popped up on some torrent site a few years ago. Would have been nice to have this for that and to share some of my obscure movies too. I have a wide collection still just sitting on my shelf since it’s all digital now.

In case if the coop ever gets shut down or I lose my membership, it’d be nice to have a reliable database so I can get my movies back.

This is the start of some nasty privacy violating shit. But the average people are going to eat it because of convenience and then wonder why shit keeps getting worse for their privacy.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

She’s been outed as not being the nice person she appears to be on TV. There was a big controversy a few years ago that some of her crew had a lot of stories about her behaviors behind the camera that show that she wasn’t such a nice person to the people who helped make her show a reality.

I don’t remember specifics, but it’s not hard to find if you go looking for videos or articles on it. From what I remember, it was the typical diva sort of behaviors like don’t look her in the eye and being rude to others. Nothing too too serious like sexual assault but still not nice stuff and people view her as a phony since.

There were also some things she did to guests like when she “forced” Mariah Carey to reveal she was pregnant by offering her alcohol and Mariah basically had to admit she was pregnant as to why she wouldn’t drink alcohol. Kind of a shitty thing to do to someone.

Guaranteed that amount is a drop in the bucket to what they “saved” by denying all these claims made by their paying customers.

Fuck all insurance companies.

 

This is absolutely incredible being able to experience this in my lifetime. Never got to experience Apollo and always wanted to see us make our return back to the moon someday.

Congratulations to the teams involved and good luck to the crew!

 

Insurance companies make a killing off people like me that never go to the doctor or anything for years, but that’s still not good enough.

I spend more than $200 per paycheck, so more than $500 each month for the privilege of having health insurance. When I go to the ER, I am charged $450 for that visit on top of that monthly fee.

So the one time I actually use it because I had a bloody nose that wouldn’t stop, I get two different bills.

$450? No. That’s not enough. I have to pay $595 for that.

I know how insurance is and how they play games, so there’s nothing I can do here except pay this. I’m pissed but it’s one of those things you just get pissed about knowing there’s nothing you can do about it. They are effectively charging me for them looking at me, checking vitals, and giving me 3 nasal sprays in my nose. And I guess a prescription I never went and picked up. The visit was largely unneeded because my nose stopped bleeding in the 3 hours I waited in the “rush” lane of the ER.

But the charge that really got me? $145 for “out of network provider”. Why?

Because the facility I went to was in network. They didn’t send my blood anywhere, I didn’t go to another facility…so….how is there an out of network provider charge here?

I call them up and the lady talks like this is normal which it sounds like it is. Just a BS charge they top on top of everything.

She says that’s how facilities often do it. The physician helping me was probably a contractor that is out of network.

But the facility is in network, so what difference does this make? This sounds like a “you” issue. Tell the facility to not let this contractor touch your patients (you can’t because the law won’t allow that, but still not my problem) or to let them go and you won’t have them in network until they only have in network physicians.

This is like going to McDonald’s and the manager and bread supplier tell you that they can’t agree on a price, so you’re paying for the buns on a separate bill. Bullshit. Manager pays for it and I pay manager what quotes me. And not after all is said and done.

I might still end up paying the same fee at the end of the day, but in this moment, I am fighting the petty fight of how you are going about this because: fuck you, that’s why.

I asked the person on the phone how I can avoid this in the future. I checked and made sure this facility was in network before going (I didn’t, because that’s fucking stupid in an emergency like blood gushing out of your nose, but she doesn’t need to know that) so how can I be expected to pay for an out of network charge that wasn’t made clear to me beforehand going to a facility that is clearly labeled as “in network”?

She didn’t have an answer 🙃

She told me “we gave you a discount! It could have been $3k but we lowered it to $149 for you.”

No, I didn’t get a discount because you’re being nice because you could have. I got a “discount” because both state and federal law prevent you from charging that full amount in this situation.

I asked her “do I talk to you about contesting this or do you transfer me to another department?” Because fuck all that “can I file a complaint” BS, I phrased this exactly so you start the complaint on this because I’m not putting up with it.

She asked me why I what I was contesting. Oh okay…it’s clear we’re not getting anywhere here. Bye bye. I’ll file my complaint elsewhere but best believe that shit is getting filed and I’m fighting as long and hard as it takes.

If I go to an in network facility and nowhere else, then there is no such thing as an out of network fee. End of story. None of that makes any sense.

 

It seems like cancer is the biggest thing we all think of when it comes to medicine and what we’d most like to eradicate from our species. So my question is phrased this way out of curiosity what the second worst thing medicine is currently trying to eradicate.

 

When I was a kid, I went to some big family and friend get together with other kids and adults.

As was tradition, a lot of the older adult men would play dominoes and drink beer. This night had Budweiser beer cans.

I walked up to one of the guys and asked him what he was drinking. To keep my innocence intact, he replied, “it’s water”.

I’ve never forgotten that moment and so every time I see one of those cans with that classic Budweiser design, my mind immediately first thinks there’s water in there.

 

Got this really weird issue. I just binged through the Psych series and movies and now I’m watching the Scrubs series on my Plex server hosted in a docker container on my Linux server with a DAS.

I had zero issues except some minor buffering on start of each episode when watching Psych.

But on Scrubs, I don’t have any buffering issues. But I have a weird issue where if I pause the video, the video unpauses itself after a few moments. If I pause it again, it does the same thing. To truly pause, I have to exit out of the episode and click back in to continue watching again.

I’m watching on an Apple TV 4K mostly where this happens.

I’ve had this server for years and never had any issues like this. I was watching Scrubs years ago but don’t remember this happening then either. I’m not sure what happened for this to suddenly happen. I’ve googled and found other people experiencing this issue, but nothing seems to be a solution or matches what I’m dealing with here.

Any ideas?

 

In a group, it makes sense. You want to get someone’s attention in a sea of others all messaging back and forth and make sure they know you’re talking to them, in particular.

But when it’s just you and me…WHY ARE YOU TAGGING ME?! This is a chat with just you and me. There is zero reason to, in effect, yell to call out to me to get my attention.

Yeah and that was how my weekend went.

Hey @you! Yeah, you! What are your plans for this upcoming week?

And I blame companies like Microsoft for enabling this. Why is this even a feature in an individual chat? Who realistically would use this in a meaningful way?

On the help desk, it’s always this one team that does this. I am messaging you already from the help desk email. Why does my direct email need to be CC’d as well? I am clearly getting the emails from you as I am responding back to you, aren’t I? I remove my email from the list and these fucking morons add it back. It was removed for a reason. Leave it off! I don’t need your duplicate emails. This guy went above and beyond today by figuring out it was me because I intentionally left my name off knowing how he is. But these are the same people who think they need to CC every fucking person they’ve ever talked to on a ticket about them needing their password reset…I am not kidding. There are 15 people CC’d on this ticket he submitted.

And he’s supposed to be an engineer……….

 

This is law that goes into effect January 1, 2027.

Colorado has a similar bill that has yet to become a law https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

 

What started off as an egg sandwich turned into a veggie sandwich with a fried egg in.

I bought a ton of veggies last night for a weekly salad and figured I’d add this and that and this is what I ended up with.

Picture of the interior

Ingredients: potato bread, mayo, sweet and spicy pickle slices, 2 eggs fried, lettuce, Roma tomato slices, red onion slice, alfalfa sprouts, and avocado slices.

And now that I write this, I realize I forgot my damn pickled beet slices!! Would’ve added some extra flavor. But they’re in my weekly salad along with olives.

Very tasty sandwich and good way to start my day!

 

You both legally have to stop and talk and share information, or else it’s a felony for leaving the scene of an accident.

Also works on celebrities too. Who wouldn’t think it’s cool that you got George Clooney’s number??

Never mind that you’re now on the hook for the accident’s damages and they’ll probably be mad at you. But that’s glass half empty talk.

 

I have at least two devices I can’t use/update since ditching Windows and moving to Linux and macOS.

I have a water cooler on my Bazzite gaming PC that has an LCD. It was pretty cool because it displayed content on this screen like temps and cool graphics. I got the program running just fine using Proton and Wine, but it won’t properly discover the device in their proprietary software. The LCD screen is connected to one of my motherboard’s USB ports (not an actual USB port, but the one you plug front IOs into).

Same is true for a keyboard I have. It has a cool LCD for displaying gifs and this comes by software the keyboard uses. It can also update the firmware of the keyboard, when updates are available. I got the software running just fine on both Linux and macOS using Proton and Wine, but, same issue as before, the software once installed doesn’t find the USB keyboard.

Neither of these have software/drivers made or available for Linux or macOS.

I’ve played around with winecfg and device configurations in here and not found a way to get the devices to show up there.

Is there any way to get USB devices to work with software like this?

 

As I understand it for the public web we all use, public DNS servers serve to guide browsers to IP addresses associated with domain names. But of course IPs change for anonymity’s sake on the dark web yet “domain names” stay the same.

How does my Tor browser know the correct route to get to the site that I am trying to visit each time and know that it is always accurate and won’t take me to a different site (assuming that the owner hasn’t changed on that site)? How does this work to keep site owners anonymous without exposing their information to anyone?

 

Freaking balling my eyes out over here after watching it. It was pretty good, but felt kind of short?

Anyone else seen it yet? Thoughts?

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