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Aleksander Majjam
03 Jan 2024, 5:42am
MeowersMmmm, trenches




I mean, you're not wrong MeowCat, but.. yeesh. Lol.
Meowers
03 Jan 2024, 6:08am
Aleksander MajjamI mean, you're not wrong MeowCat, but.. yeesh. Lol.
What? Am I continuing to surprise?
Vasil Vasilescu
03 Jan 2024, 1:33pm
Kasumi Goto
03 Jan 2024, 4:59pm
Well I’ve completed my work, but I refuse to take pictures of it being done without proper daylight(the amateur photographer within me), so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

Assuming you haven’t visited Google for it yet.
Vasil Vasilescu
04 Jan 2024, 12:39am
Dear Windows,

I know you get a lot of hate, but thanks for the updates. I particularly want to thank you for the one that caused Win11 Pro to arbitrarily stop recognizing my internal SATA HDDs where everything except the OS is stored. It's not like I was doing any work or anything.

Thanks for reminding me what it is like to troubleshoot hardware and software issues. Years of being one of those IT guys that now does mostly BS paperwork has dulled my once finely-honed sysadmin skills.

Thanks for providing no usable data in any event logs as to what may have happened other than generic "can't access the disk" errors. Those are really helpful in case I was unaware I no longer had any access to the data on the HDDs. You know, like if an application installed on one of them stops running for no apparent reason.

I suppose I should thank you for the easy solution being a quick system/registry restore from a restore point 18 hours before the problem occured. But I do not know if I should thank you that the reason there was a restore point is due to a Defender update, not the usual suspect, an OS update.

On second thought, maybe I should not be thanking you for any of this. It could be that the registry got jacked by a random hiccup having nothing to do with a windows product. After all, most people place the blame for OS failures on patches and updates because it is convenient to do so. Unfortunately, I am firmly entrenched in the world of IT paperwork and herding other IT cats, rather than being one of those IT cats who can say definitively what caused the problem. So, for the sake of convenience, thank you for the updates.

Last edit: 04 Jan 2024, 12:44am
madamepestilence (PS4 Red Light of Death)
04 Jan 2024, 12:40am
I feel that. A recent Windows 11 update made my laptop not be able to see its sound driver, its own hard drive, or even a USB. Lost everything that wasn't already backed up and couldn't port anything to a USB. Had to do a factory reset. Absolutely devastating.
Meowers
04 Jan 2024, 12:43am
Vasil VasilescuI know you get a lot of hate, but thanks for the updates.
Holy craps. Thank you for letting people know. Going to set up a recovery point manually now. What I really don't want to do is humping my system settings rather than using the computer for my entertainment. And humping the system settings isn't an entertainment for me.
Kasumi Goto
04 Jan 2024, 12:50am
Thanks for reminding me that I made a good choice in avoiding Win 11. Even though it likes to tell me I can “upgrade” for free.
madamepestilence (PS4 Red Light of Death)
04 Jan 2024, 12:53am
I honestly miss Linux Mint KDE but I don't trust myself to attempt to install it on the one and only computer I have (my laptop). I've already bricked three computers before and I'd rather attempt an OS install on a proper computer.
Aleksander Majjam
04 Jan 2024, 2:59am
Kasumi GotoWell I’ve completed my work, but I refuse to take pictures of it being done without proper daylight(the amateur photographer within me), so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

Assuming you haven’t visited Google for it yet.


Kasumi Goto
04 Jan 2024, 3:04am
It's 4 AM in Europe(CET) right now. Give it another ~10 hours(including me sleeping after getting distracted and staying up too long), then you'll get it.
Aleksander Majjam
04 Jan 2024, 7:50am
You Euro peeps and your weird time zones.
Kasumi Goto
04 Jan 2024, 10:31am
I could say the same about you Americans. And the East/West coast differential.

I think we can agree on it that time zones universally suck though. Even if they are as unavoidable as that stupid reality hammer itself.

Last edit: 04 Jan 2024, 10:51am
Vasil Vasilescu
04 Jan 2024, 2:23pm
I don't mind time zones. Being a Master of Time and Space, I find no time too distant and no distance too far.
Meowers
04 Jan 2024, 2:23pm
Vasil Vasilescuno distance too far.
Even if it's in miles, yards, feet and inches? :]

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