ICE officer: Feared for my life.

Oh sorry. I meant to say: was being a terrorist.

I have immunity. What are you gonna do?

You need beans.

Hi, I wanted to follow up and let readers know that I solved the problem. The root cause was the SSD firmware needed to be upgraded. I never would’ve guessed that was the cause, but apparently over the past year there were a bunch of WD Black SSDs that have problems on Windows unless they receive a patch.

You really have to squint to see it. It looks similar because it’s merely a shift from one corruption brand to another.

My dad’s not a phone!

I prefer that news outlets simply do a periodic roundup of lies. And call them lies.

What a great photo!

Doesn’t mean we don’t use it as our main database

It depends on your needs. I’m in the same boat, and for now, I’m investing because I ran the numbers and decided my combination of factors (local real estate market, level of commitment to this location, job security) means I’m better off with market risk and renting.

I can totally be wrong. The future is uncertain. I decided that’s the risk I prefer over the risk of stagnant home values.

Still this is a very personal decision. I’d choose between a basic but solid flat vs. investing in other ways, but don’t buy real estate to invest IMHO you do it because it suits your lifestyle first, and only after that, as an investment.

As for your mental health struggles, I can only offer empathy. I’m not smart enough emotionally to help you there.

Julius Caesar died over 50 years ago don’t you know.

This is the actual login screen. Not the bit locker recovery screen. Thus, the drive has already been unlocked.

It relates to how they use the TPM and Windows hello. It appears to be known issue, but without great solutions online.

The best part is after my fifth or sixth attempt, it said I had to wait two hours before I could try to log into the PC again. In Safe Mode.

You know, the mode where you might be trying to debug something. Thus, restarting the machine more often than you normally would.

I couldn’t use Safe Mode to diagnose my driver problem on Windows 11 because it said I couldn’t sign in due to security reasons.

I’m not paraphrasing. It just told me because reasons. Because obviously I’m too dumb to understand. Right there at the login screen, as if they never even tested this feature once.

Don’t think it’ll be Windows that I’m going to reinstall this time.

Land of the fee*

They were good back then. They don’t make them like they used to.

Well hey, I appreciate the recommendation. Maybe it’s time to get back into Windows 98 gaming. Just like mom used to make.

Not a bad idea. How do you actually partake that hobby? Is it more the same building things or the challenge of getting old hardware/software working?

Computer electronics are like my main hobby. It was expensive on a good day. This makes it unaffordable.

Thanks to the invention of debt, we can continue taking from the poor what they don’t even have!

The backwards thing is, it probably actually is profitable, but we can’t see beyond the next quarter. We don’t understand that you can invest in your people.

I might have kids if I had the space for it. You know, future taxpayers.

Best I can do is fed interest rate cuts.