Not a replicant

I tried co-pilot. Once.

I asked it “why does Windows Defender peg my HDD* at 100%”

The reply was “I don’t know, but here are some google searches that might help”

Microsoft’s own co-pilot doesn’t seem to have access to microsoft products, so now I uninstall/deactivate it every opportunity I can.

*yes, a HDD. Not ideal for performance these days, but it’s the last laptop I have with a HDD, and I use it for experiments.

Don’t the military swear loyalty to the constitution, and then superior officers, including the C-in-C?

So unless the constitution was legally changed, drumpf can’t be C-in-C for a third term?

That’s an approach I’d never considered - is there wiggle-room in the state constitutions to split into smaller states?

It’s not difficult to block the mining and telemetry. Pihole, a few registry tweaks, a few scheduled tasks disabled and life goes on.

Folk see nothing wrong with spending hours tuning a Linux distro, but they object to doing the same with Windows?

FWIW I use vanilla Debian for everything other than what I’m required to use Windows for.

One doesn’t need to pay for MS Office. Not home users, anyway.

I’ve been waiting for this break-free playback for a long time. Just play Dark Side of the Moon without breaks in between tracks. Surely a single thread could look ahead and see the next track doesn’t need any different codecs launched, it’s technically identical to the current track, there’s no need to have a break. /rant

Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?

“err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the, ,uhh, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress… burp”

That’s far too subtle to even register on Trump’s feeble brain cell.

I worked in local government that used Unix workstations for GIS (Graphic Information Systems) - mapping of the local government’s property boundaries and many other layers. The DB was held on a DEC Alpha, and it was all very pricey, albeit very good at its job. ESRI ARCGIS, etc

When the time came to replace, they moved it all to Windows. The workstations were beefed-up PCs running NT4.0 and the DB was on a server with NT 4.0 server. DEC was gone by then, absorbed into Compaq, Alphas were discontinued, and no-one wanted to migrate to SUN or HP.

It would certainly accelerate the development of language. How many new words will be invented, or existing words subverted, to serve clandestine communications and slip past the filters? Steganography, anyone?

Can I See Great Etchings Near Dubai Ending Roughly? <- That’s a bit weak, but you get the idea.

So, how many children does he have vs. how many times he had to try?

Sex once = pregnant is a gift given to very few. Most people have to try a few times, so it raises the question of “just how gay?”

Is there a ratio of gayness?

2 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “slightly gay”

4 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “somewhat gay”

8 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “in the closet”

16 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “gay”

32 attempts = 1 pregnancy means “flaming”

Can we have a decision on this from the gay high council?

And here I was, thinking it was sheer coincidence and good luck. I guess that’s why I’m not “an expert”.

You, too?

What does potassium iodide decay into? It’s not an organic compound.

Infosys is a mistake. It’s a poor choice for anyone.

“Wouldn’t make your initial targets an example of your poor judgement?”

We’ll see. I’ve set the Group policy to limit feature updates to Win 10 22H2. I will be unhappy if they over-ride or reset a GPO.

Pi-hole can block microsoft telemetry domains, just need to keep the blocklists up to date, and flush the Recall cache every day.

But you can feed a scrambled egg back to a chicken.

Last time I bought a Win 10 Pro DVD to install on a customer’s machine, it was AUD$195.00. And I still had to use powershell to de-provision some of the bullshit. Better than the Home version (AUD$165.00), at least I can use GPEDIT to disable some “features”.

Of course, a Windows licence on a pre-built Dell or HP would be a lot less.