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Cake day: January 14th, 2024

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  • Oh yeah, I didn’t mention it, but I 100% agree it’s bullshit. They want to be able to track you better, and make it easier to convince you to subscribe to 360. Their bullshit keeps me employed, but I’d rather my job wasn’t needed and do something different if it meant M$ was bullshit free. That’ll never happen though, it would be less profitable for them.



  • EpeeGnome@lemm.eetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldTHAT'S DIFFERENT!
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    Finally got a chance to watch this video. I don’t know enough about how Windows works to have found the exploits they did, but I do know it well enough to understand what they did and found it hilarious. It’s more practical to actually get out of S mode, but making everything run despite still being in S mode was a good laugh.


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    Yeah, it’s technically already home version, just in a special mode, and it’s trivial to switch out of if you don’t mind connecting your Microsoft account to the computer. Just log into the Microsoft Store and “install” the switch out of s mode “app”. It’s a bit of a pain to get rid of it without adding an account, so if you want to do that, it’s really easier to just do a fresh load that will automatically pick up the home edition license the laptop already has. Why not just use a disposable account just for switching laptops out of s mode? We tried doing that, but Microsoft locked the account after we’d logged it in and out of a dozen odd computers. Now we just use the customer’s own account if they have one (and actually know their password), or reload Windows if they don’t. You’d be amazed at the number of people buying cheapo S mode laptops and then being surprised when they can’t load some other software they really need. (Or maybe you wouldn’t be amazed if you’ve worked with the public before. Point is, a lot of people do this.)








  • It’s my understanding that the executive does not have the authority to unilaterally change official geographic names. As of my writing this, the name “change” has NOT been adopted by the United States government. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. Unless accepted by the US BoGN, it changes nothing. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it’s not official.

    Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn’t include “Gulf of America”.

    Google are saying here that they will only change it on maps if it’s made official by the US Government, which has not happened yet. That’s why they haven’t made any change yet, and won’t unless Trump gets the US BoGN to do his bidding.

    Edit: well that didn’t take long. They already made made the change.






  • I just checked there, and they have not renamed it, nor have they listed the new name as a recognized alternate name.

    Whether of not an executive order can override the government agency specifically granted that authority by congress is of no concern to them. By law, the Board of Geographic Names is the final authority on geographic names. If they don’t go along with this change, then the Trump admin would have to file an inter-government lawsuit about it.



  • When I was in highschool we edited that file in the programming lab. Wrote an auto running batch file to replace it when the floppy disk was inserted and managed to sneak the disk into every machine without the teacher noticing. The computers where arranged around three walls of the room, and we knew that his standard procedure at the end of the day was to go to each one and issue the shutdown command, then circle back around to power them down. That afternoon when he turned around he must have been greeted with his own employee ID photo grinning back at him around the room in 16 color bitmap glory.

    The next day he sternly waved us over the moment we walked in, then just laughed, said “put it back,” and waved us away. He never bothered to even ask how we got ahold of his employee photo from the school network.



  • EpeeGnome@lemm.eetoMemes@sopuli.xyzVibes based cooking
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    With a deep enough knowledge of how baking works, it can be done. My sister improvises baked goods very well. The sad thing is that when one turns out amazing instead of just good, she can’t replicate it because she doesn’t know the recipe. I’m particularly sad I’ll never again have the amazing butter rum pound cake she made for her daughter’s birthday last year. She tried to make it again later, but it just wasn’t the same. :(