It makes me think of Enterprise, where they don’t have replicators but they do have protein resequencers, which can take waste matter and convert it into useful things, but they can’t do energy to matter conversion yet.

Same!

Windows updates don’t work correctly a lot of the time if you’ve bypassed the requirements. My predecessor at work installed 11 on some ancient systems and it’s been a hassle.

I am so lucky to live near a Microcenter.

Because the police exist to protect capital, not people. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmaoNLSHx_w

I have my own domain and pay for Zoho to host my email. It works well aside from the occasional site that refuses to accept my email as valid because it’s not a .com/org domain.

Often the glass bottles are marketed as “Mexican Coke” and use cane sugar with no corn syrup.

I had a rebranded clevo back in 2009. It worked great for a few years before the dedicated gpu died. It was a sleek design (especially for the time) too.

I’m dealing with a fair bit of this because my predecessor had the brilliant idea to put windows 11 on unsupported hardware (which I’m actively working on getting replaced). Every time I think I’ve found the last stupid thing they did, I find more janky shit like that.

You’re correct.

To Brother’s credit, this is also true for their windows drivers. As an IT admin, anytime I need a new printer they’re my preferred brand.

Well with RFK Jr in charge, we probably will have a new virus (or an old one coming back) on top of it all.

You could ask his son, they monitor each other’s porn.

With how the cabinet appointments have been going, he’ll probably get a position soon enough.

Well, the house I’m living in now was built in the 1960s, and is also still very solid.

My parents’ timber house is from the 1780s and is still solid. So, 240 years at least, give or take. I’m aware of plenty of timber houses from the 1600s that are still standing and functional as well.

My parents are using a 3rd gen i7 and it works fine. My brother has a few computers, one is a 2nd gen intel, but I think he put Linux on that one. My home server was running on my 4th gen i7 until I upgraded it to my second gen Ryzen earlier this year after I upgraded my gaming.

Scotty literally talks about under promising intentionally so he comes across as a miracle worker.

There’s a setting Teams, under “Files and Links” where you can change it from Edge to Default Browser. Scummy that it works that way, but you can work around it at least (for now anyway).

I do, mostly because it gives a different menu if you click that vs the start menu (it shows recently open programs). If I’m searching I generally just hit the windows key and type, but if I’m slouched and reaching for the mouse only it can be helpful. It’s not like it takes up a lot of space, I’ve got an ultrawide at work and dual 2560x1440 monitors at home.