Never shut down.I decided a few weeks ago to save even more electricity that we usually do at night, and actually turn my PC off at night, since I have an SSD and startup takes less than a minute. The first morning I had to boot twice to get to Windows. The second morning took three boots. The third took four. I no longer turn the computer off at night.
I read this in Tim Allen's voice.Never shut down.
Never reboot.
NEVER.
Huh.Welp. Cox took a dump about an hour or so ago. All three services are down and I have no ‘net other than going on Verizon.
If you can avoid it, never sign in with a microsoft account again.Well, that was a miserable 2 hours. Couldn't even fucking start it into safe mode or repair or roll anything back because....reasons? Windows 10 decided my Microsoft account password wasn't correct, despite the fact that I could sign in from my phone just fine with it. Refused to let me do fucking anything. EXTREMELY frustrating. I had to drive to a friend's house to use their laptop to make a USB installation key.
Get to stare at this now until I manage to get shit back to how I had it.
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All I have left is Steam because it was installed on my game drive.
Congrats on being my first bookmark HF.
Win10 no longer allows anything else. It's completely ridiculous from a security standpoint.If you can avoid it, never sign in with a microsoft account again.
Ain't no one putting that bad mojo on my machine.
I don't have a Microsoft account on my machine, just a user account. I'm on the latest version as well. It's really stupid that once you sign in with a Microsoft account you are forced to use it, and during installation it makes it appear like you need one, but you can choose not to create one and just use a local account instead.Win10 no longer allows anything else. It's completely ridiculous from a security standpoint.
One of the last updates forced me. And I do mean - forced. Local account was connected to MS account and he then refused to log me on with my local PW.I don't have a Microsoft account on my machine, just a user account. I'm on the latest version as well. It's really stupid that once you sign in with a Microsoft account you are forced to use it, and during installation it makes it appear like you need one, but you can choose not to create one and just use a local account instead.
Just want to remind everyone that this is a possible symptom of date/time being wrong, so before hulking out, duck into the BIOS real quick and make sure the date/time are correct (and that your LAN is enabled!), then try again.Windows 10 decided my Microsoft account password wasn't correct, despite the fact that I could sign in from my phone just fine with it.
I probably haven't done a clean install of WinX since 1803 or so, but I remember the option to create a local account was still there, you just had to click your way through a bunch of scary-looking security warnings to get there. And then during the setup you had to confirm you really didn't want to sign in about a frillion more times.Win10 no longer allows anything else. It's completely ridiculous from a security standpoint.
The bios time was fine. I was in there quite a bit trying to figure out a way to boot into safe mode.Just want to remind everyone that this is a possible symptom of date/time being wrong, so before hulking out, duck into the BIOS real quick and make sure the date/time are correct (and that your LAN is enabled!), then try again.
I probably haven't done a clean install of WinX since 1803 or so, but I remember the option to create a local account was still there, you just had to click your way through a bunch of scary-looking security warnings to get there. And then during the setup you had to confirm you really didn't want to sign in about a frillion more times.
Apple, as tied-together as they want you to be, also used to allow you to link your user and iCloud accounts/passwords, but since Spring of 2016 they walked it back and won't even let you try any more, ostensibly because allowing you to have the same password everywhere is a big fat security hole.
--Patrick
...I'm pretty sure 6 is just a regular old half dozen. A baker's half dozen would be 6.5I need 5 drives for my NAS project.
I bought 6 (a baker's half-dozen?).
One was OOB failure, so I sent it back to be replaced.
NAS project underway.
One of my 5 drives started failing about 23hours in (8 bad sectors, 1500 pending/weak).
Replacement is still not back yet.
NAS project back on hold. Again.
--Patrick
Half a hard drive is of no use to me, so INT(bakerdozen/2)=6....I'm pretty sure 6 is just a regular old half dozen. A baker's half dozen would be 6.5![]()
I'm not going to eat an extra drive. The magnets are bad for your intestines.A baker's X just means one more than customary, the extra being "to eat on the way home."
Debian lost me with the whole IceWeasel fiasco. Taking Free Software into Lawful Stupid territory. I'm an Arch/Gentoo/Ubuntu guy from now on.Debian
That part, I knew. But I didn't know it was solely due to the registered marks.@PatrThom Debeian declared Firefox non-free over their trademarked logos and replaced it with their own version they named IceWeasel.
Gentoo does something a bit less obnoxious. You have to set a flag to compile with the regular branding.That part, I knew. But I didn't know it was solely due to the registered marks.
--Patrick
Not an option with most laptops these days, and if you're gaming online with people, they will expect you to have a mic, if not a full blown gaming headset (to avoid far end echo)."Not having a microphone hooked up to your computer" does wonders in shutting Cortana up.
Is this a multiplayer issue I'm too antisocial to understand?Not an option with most laptops these days, and if you're gaming online with people, they will expect you to have a mic, if not a full blown gaming headset (to avoid far end echo).
Wasn't that Win 8.0? Never had that sort of issue with 10. 8.0 wit hthe big bold buttons for ease of use on tablets and smartphones, same look for desktops 'cause FU....Ah yes.Ha! Last time I installed Windows, it asked me to rotate my device 90 degrees to test the screen resolution in portrait mode... y'know, because I routinely rotate my computer monitor 90 degrees. Once upon a time their download service was supposed to check what type of device you had and serve you only the appropriate download for that device type - looks like they've gone one-size-fits-all instead.