When rewatching you’re essentially waiting for Brendanawicz to Brandenaquitz so the show can start getting good.

Shows that fit this bill for me:

Schitt’s Creek Breaking Bad

Schitt’s Creek in particular, from S02 onwards they really locked in to what we ended up loving about the Roses, which was there in S01 but not so clear. As a result, S02 on is damn near perfect.

Hmm, I’ll have to dig back into it, figure out where I went wrong.

I can’t afford shares on account of the aforementioned grossly inflated bills.

Besides, I shouldn’t have to be a shareholder to not be treated like shit.

As in you have a fully operational Windows installation that you can boot into, alongside another fully bootable OS?

Because that would be incredibly useful, but I was damned if could work it out.

Perhaps, but they can’t lock the bootloader on my Pixel 9 that’s not running Google’s version of Android.

chuckles in GrapheneOS

This is my problem with fining the companies: ultimately it’s us that pays the fines through grossly inflated bills, while the shareholders make out like bandits.

I discovered Ventoy a couple of months back, and spent far too long trying to work out how to use it to carry portable installations of both Kubuntu and Windows. But nope, can’t be done (so far as I can tell). Which is a shame, but hey ho.

But yeah, for carrying around installers it’s absolutely bang on.

He published his memoirs a couple of weeks back. It’s a good read.

Nerds were no longer beaten for knowing how tech works.

Looking at the nerds fucking things up right now, I’d say they could stand a few extra beatings.

I had an HTC Wizard that ran on Windows Phone 5.0. It really was a piece of shit, but I loved the slide out keyboard and the fact that I could stream internet radio with it (when I was on wifi).

But I remember having to explain to someone that no, just because it ran ‘Windows’ it couldn’t run Limewire. That said, it’s entirely possible that someone wrote a version of Limewire that it could run.

Surprised no one’s mentioned Thank Goodness You’re Here yet.

That game had me rolling from start to finish.

I didn’t actually ask you specifically to answer my question. If it was too difficult for you, then you needn’t have bothered. Instead you chose to be condescending.

You might not think that’s the case, but it is.

This isn’t a real world enterprise situation. I have never been in such a situation. It’s a forum on a website where enthusiastic amateurs and IT professionals alike discuss a shared common interest. I fall squarely into the former category, and I assume you the latter. But I don’t have to conform to your requirement for assistance. And if I don’t, then ignore me.

You tell me that I ignored the practical guides you linked, but in the comment you’ve just replied to, I specifically thanked you for the information you’ve imparted. I’m aware of the links, but life gets in the way and I’ve not yet had a chance to actually do anything with them.

You accuse me of lacking humility, yet if you look at my replies to others you’ll see that I’m grateful for their input. I am! What I don’t like is being criticised because I’m not conforming to a standard that you’ve imposed upon me. If I’m guilty of lacking humility, it’s purely in my responses to you.

I expect nothing of anyone here. I asked a question (that you considered insufficient) without any expectation of reply. I hoped for one of course, but ultimately it was just an attempt to pick the brains of those who know more about these things than I do. And evidently you do.

Your responses to me have irritated me enormously, which is a shame as I’m certain that wasn’t your intention.

I’ll draw a line under this here. Thank you for the information you’ve provided.

Auto-hiding on the seam between my two monitors for me.

I’m not massively into horror, because I don’t generally like feeling uncomfortable. But the horror flicks I do enjoy tend to be incredibly empathetic, and actually about something other than the horror.

For example, my favourite horror movie is Dark Water, a Japanese flick from 2002. It’s creepy as hell and genuinely unsettling, but at its heart it’s about heartbreak and trying to learn how to move on. It speaks to the human condition without having to rely on simple jumpscares.

In fact, I think the most successful horror movies (from an artistic perspective, rather than box office take) tend to be the ones that talk about what it is to be human.

Amazing reply.

“PEOPLE SHOULD JUST DO THIS, IT’S EASY”

“Do you have a resource to help me with the easy thing?”

“NO FUCK OFF”

No, people are queuing up to post the same comments about adblock.

Rupert Murdoch.

Yeah, it’s cool.

I’m ADHD as fuck, my partner is autistic as fuck (with probably a large sprinkle of ADHD too), so I get the communication thing. But also, being ADHD, I tend to either comment with all the context anyone could possibly ever need (and more), or with broad strokes because I want to achieve something but also want to go off and focus on something else. I can be very difficult to live with. My partner is a saint.

But yeah, I get that - as an IT professional - you come to support requests with a certain level of weariness. I work in engineering health and safety, so I know how thoughtless people can be.