SwizzleStick

There was a special time in the XP heyday before WiFi routers (hell, just routers even) were common for home users. Without some kind of AV, loads of folk were basically just rawdogging the Internet with ADSL modems.

Simply being connected this way long enough at the height of the MS Blaster worm would almost guarantee a drive-by infection.

Give Librewolf a try. It’s Firefox without the crap.

Just tune down (or don’t) the privacy settings to your level of acceptance. It’s very strict by default.

Years ago, I’d laugh at this.

Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.

On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.

I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)

Ahhh. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

Sounds like a politician that does their job the way it is supposed to be done.

Plenty do the job. Few do it properly.

More like her please, everywhere.

Related: https://mammon.typepad.com/root_of_all_evil/2007/06/goatse_london_o.html

Downsizing from an ex biz full fat tower server to a few Pis, a mini PC and a Synology NAS was the best decision ever here.

The new hardware was paid for quickly in the power savings alone. The setup is also much quieter.

You don’t think about power consumption a lot when working with someone else’s supply (unless it’s your actual job to), but it becomes very visible when you see a server gobbling up power on a meter at home.

You’re right about the impressiveness of working creatively within constraints. We got to the moon in '69 with a fraction of the computing power available to the average consumer today. Look at the history of the original Elite videogame for another great example of working creatively and efficiently within a rather small box.

• oobe bypass.
• A post install script.

Alternatively, Tiny10

Teams can go fuck itself with a rock. We’ve taken licensing now that doesn’t include it.

Still holding on to classic outlook as long as possible. The new version/skin/glow-up can go share the aforementioned rock with teams. Where’s my VBA, where’s my ribbon customisations, and why must it be dumbed down to Fisher-Price levels of ‘user friendliness’?

A lot of my answers to user questions these days are ‘Because Microsoft ™️’.

If you shit out a ring, you’d best hope you haven’t been skipping your kegels.

Not that you should have to, but web results can be disabled in start search.

Winkey+R will open the no-frills run menu. As long as you know the exact exe or component name, you’re good:

• notepad
• calc
• cmd
• control
• control userpasswords2
• mstsc
• ncpa.cpl
• diskmgmt.msc
• devmgmt.msc
• shutdown (with /s, /r or /h switches)

A few decent ones there.

Cheers, appreciate it!

New thing to try then.

I bought the premium version of Poweramp years ago - it has done very well but I’m always open to options.

Samesies. Ex 13-year account and a Digg refugee before that. Very new here.

Got along for a while by running a zombie 3rd party app and decided to bail before they ruined that too.

Much to learn.