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windows install adventure 

Apparently you have to use a 3rd-party tool called Rufus that is Windows-only to create a 'Windows To Go' install on any non-MS approved external drive. The official windows install mediums themselves will all just refuse if they detect a drive attached over USB. Unfortunately this is a my passport drive so I can't just shuck it to get a SATA connection, so I had to setup a Windows VM just to use Rufus, to install Windows.

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I had no clue that Windows will whine and kick like an unhappy mule if you try putting it on an external drive.

programming 

I always forget the JVM is supposed to make things easier when the time comes to actually try building a project on it. It just makes way less sense than traditional compilation and project build management regardless of what tools you use. I love several JVM languages but they will always be held back by their ridiculous and bafflingly complex build systems. I would kill to just be dealing with regular old compiling and linking errors, this is torture.

Why do all the MIME associations reset every time I update my OS 😬

No I don't wanna use Wine Notepad to open a .txt file, this is the sixth time I set it to something else, please stop 😭

School that only teaches things that bees do: masonry, carpentry, leaf cutting, bumbling, etc.

my childhood was awful but nothing compares to the ecstasy of when i caught the king of the pond

“‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman”

theconversation.com/the-data-o

> Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.

I'm surprised. This is my surprised face.

fishing/tech pun 

Data Bass Pro Fishing!
Cast a query and enjoy the wait 🎣

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golf hazards should actually be hazardous to the golfers themselves

"One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable."

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0

#DigitalMedia #HardDrive #archive #MusicIndustry #musodon

There’s a cute little poodle outside with little dreads

And all I could think of is:

Finally someone white that looks good in dreads

😂😂😂😂😂

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