Laurel Raven

You did say “I don’t use Windows” which sounded like you were saying you didn’t know if what they were saying was technically plausible or reasonable, and without knowing what you do or don’t know about Windows or DOS, figured I’d respond with the presumption that it’s possible you’re only really familiar with *NIX systems (which is not a judgement).

I find it kludgey and unnecessary to shut down that way, but it’s not exactly a bad idea, and it does not require admin rights.

And there’s no reason it wouldn’t be supported: when you run the file, it opens it in a terminal window, it’s exactly like if you manually opened it and typed it from a technical point of view.

And if someone malicious has the ability to edit a file on your desktop, they could do a lot more dangerous things, pretty much anything you could put in the batch file, more or less directly.

Really, the only issue here is that you’d always be force closing your programs when you shut down which increases the odds that eventually they might corrupt one of their files… Not a huge risk, but non-zero.

I can’t speak for them if they’re joking or not but it’s something you can absolutely do. *.bat files (short for “batch”, as in a batch of commands to execute in sequence) are the script files for the Windows command line, and can be executed by double clicking on them

Probably just habit on their part, it’s no different than just putting 0

Or isn’t deleted but either has no replies or replies that didn’t help them either

Okay, turned it off. If a site needs my location it can ask me and I can politely tell it to fuck off unless it has a warrant.

I’m sure he already calls his lawyers every day at 3 AM while half blitzed on K to pitch exactly that

We very, very much wish it were just a joke. Diseases that were basically eliminated in the US are making a comeback. And we just appointed an antivaxxer as our health secretary, who also has proposed sending people on antidepressants and ADHD drugs to work camps for years to “re-parent” them.

It’s fucking terrifying here right now, at least for anyone paying attention.

They throw out the spoons, the workers will have to turn to knives

Probably because of the logistical nightmare for both the Superbowl organizers and the secret service, just doesn’t seem remotely worth the sheer cost and risk involved

I think I’ll just shop elsewhere, thanks

Same, did a rebuild of my PC when I cannibalized my old one into a media server (really only kept the drives, so not really more like just built a new one…), bought two nvme drives for it with the intent to put Linux on the first and Windows on the second, but held off on putting Windows onto it to force myself to stick with it until I got a real sense for what I’d need it for…

A couple months later I decided I’d just use that second drive for more storage. Hasn’t run Windows once in over ten months of use and I’ve yet to miss it.

Only took me sixteen or eighteen years of saying I’m going to switch to actually do it…

Borked for Linux, or just broken in general?

I actually like that… Mostly I have categories for genres, publishers, and planning for playing (not like I actually follow it…) but I like some of yours and will probably adopt them

They used different colored ink based on who you voted for? That sounds scary and dangerous even in parts of the US

Funnily enough, I use PowerShell as my daily driver and I rarely ever use the Format verb cmdlets and think they need to stop teaching people to use them as much as they do… They’re only meant to modify how things are displayed, but in doing so, they trash the objects that were on the pipeline and replace them with formatting commands, and cause confusion when people try to do something with what they output

The worst is using them to select properties, they should not have included that ability at all, that’s what the Select-Object cmdlet is for, which outputs usable objects

Anyway, sorry for the rant… I just think those overall teach new users bad habits.

I mean, unless it’s defined elsewhere, it’s leaving an awful lot of space to interpret “obscenity”…

Even without serial number, a ghost gun will leave rifling marks on the bullets which can be compared by firing the gun into ballistic gel

Congrats! Made the switch finally early this year myself, after thinking about it for nearly twenty years. Hasn’t been nearly as hard as I was worried it would be.

I will say that the “Linux Basics for Hackers” is a pretty disappointing book that really should just be called “Linux Basics”, and spends too much time pandering with things like “cool” scripts that do nothing useful or wrap a simple command in a way that doesn’t actually make it more useful or easier. It’s also full of inaccuracies and just isn’t very well written, and if you’ve gotten through much at all of How Linux Works, you’re not likely to get anything out of it.

“You’re absolutely right, we wouldn’t want to take too long to break the network or open god rights vulnerabilities”

You can throw about 50 to 60 meters without servo assist, 75 to 80 with … That’s more that enough to be outside the blast radius

Used it multiple times and watched from where I chucked it without being too close to any of it, and I was using the flame resistant armor