It’s actually quite well written and not as clickbaity as one might think.

Huh? I don’t use a VPN unless I want to watch geoblocked content, and adblocking works just fine without.

Free access to “radical” ideas doesn’t bode well with conservative governments.

I’ve just switched from Windows 10 to Windows 10 IoT LTSC (long term support channel), designed for IoT means there’s no AI garbage, game bar and any other crap installed, and I get updates until 2032.

Quite happy with it, after a disastrous experience with Windows 11 that essentially killed my system.

And no, I can’t switch to Linux due to company requirements. I work in finance and some of the banks we use operate by hardware tokens that only have Windows drivers.

I thought it’s the original batmobile from the 90s.

Thief: The Dark Project

I still keep playing it with all the gfx patches, it’s a masterpiece. 2 and 3 are not bad either, but the original is unmatched. Love the user generated mods as well.

Nah their website got hijacked and instead of an ISO they spread malware. The system itself was never at risk, if you ran it.

I upgraded to Windows 11 last week after my laptop initially came with it 2 years ago, but was so bloated and slow I installed Windows 10 from USB.

With the EoL I reluctantly upgraded due to company policy, and it was running surprisingly smooth. Really thought they’d fixed it. Only that two days later when I booted the system, I had a blue screen - the first one I have seen since Windows XP.

Page fault in non-page area 0x50 - google suggests reboots, or if they don’t bring any progress, boot into safe mode and update all drivers. Only that I couldn’t boot into safe mode, the BSOD locked me out.

Second suggestion was faulty RAM. Did a memtest from boot stick, no fault.

Third suggestion was to run checkdisk and scm or whatever it was called (some system file integrity check). All good.

Fourth suggestion was to boot into recovery mode, roll back into the system image the Windows 11 installer created, and redo the upgrade. Only to find out that the system restore point had not been created, despite the info box during the installation that this was happening.

Last suggestion was to reinstall Windows 11 from the repair mode, and select the “keep files” option. The offline installer crashed at 25% repeatedly, the online installer moved to 92% and stopped there. Repeatedly, again (tried 3x, and it takes about 1h to get there).

After all that frustration I had enough of that shit and installed Windows 10 IoT LTSC with updates until 2032. When the time comes I’ll either have a new job where I can use Xubuntu, or Microsoft installed on a chip in my brain. Let’s see.

I really doubt the device really needs 2A, that sounds more like the definition of a generic phone charger than functional requirement. But yeah POE or simply a regular extension cord where you plug in a short cable at the end would be a safe bet.

I have a 15m long USB-C cable that’s just about sufficient to power a surveillance camera, but due to the length it only delivers 0.1-0.15A. Depending on the needs that might just be enough though.

Edit: Measured with Ampere (Android app), I simply plugged my phone in to test.

If you’re seeding more than one file to more than one concurrent user, chances are, your drive needs to switch around and buffer quite a bit left and right to get the material you’re seeding cached. That sounds like fairly formal behavior.

They enforced the verification, but discord was supposed to delete the images right after.

In which country is that? I’ve used my phone for navigation for the last 10 years or so without issues.

Yup. I’m on my second now because of an international relocation, but the first one is still going strong at my dad’s. Bought that thing 14 years ago, was the first series that came with network enabled printing instead of USB (though it has a port).

The Orange Overlord himself, most likely.

What? As long as I program the route before starting and don’t touch my phone until I arrive, nothing happens.

I’m using organic maps, and a simple phone holder does the trick in the car. No need for the on-screen navigation.

Thanks, maybe time to try again. I used it years ago but the results were not great.

What are you using now? I’ve been toying with kagi for a while, but the idea of having to use an account that ties all my searches to me doesn’t sit well with my sense of privacy, and none of the others get results remotely close to google.

China is prosperous, don’t let anybody fool you. But people are deeply, inherently selfish and love money more than everything (yay, communism!), so if they can save 30 cents by taking a roll of toilet paper home, they will.