One thing to note, if you are using UEFI this is very unlikely to happen. It was designed from the start to have multiple boot options and Windows itself often has multiple entries. It is very rare for a Windows update to mess with any other boot options in UEFI.
You can just use an activation script. Even though technically Windows won’t be activated using the OEM license in a VM, the license is still present on the machine. So legally Windows is still licensed. To get around the thing not automatically activating, an activation script is an easy fix.
This is a good activation script:
No, we need to stop using all AI systems as soon as possible. Show the companies behind them that there is no market, no interest, no future profits.
They’ve been dumping all this AI crap for free or way too cheap. The idea is to create a market which can be exploited in the future. However this isn’t sustainable, they have poured billions into this, there is no way they are ever going to make that money back. It’s just a matter of time before the bubble collapses and it will make the dotcom bubble popping look like a fish farted in the ocean. And for you people too young to remember what that bubble bursting was like, it was bad. The sooner the bubble bursts, the less bad it will be.
This all wouldn’t matter as much, fuck the companies right? Except the little side effect of this whole thing is us using up our precious resources, using up our planet, bringing about horrific scenarios at an alarming pace. We’ve barely seen what climate change can do, but at this pace we are going to find out.
And don’t get your hopes up on the technology improving and becoming more useful. More and more indicators have shown the diminishing returns are hitting hard. And it was a kind of one time thing, one opportunity to train models on all the data humans created and put on the internet. Now that more and more of the internet is being AI generated and people closing access to AI crawlers, the well has been poisoned. All that crappy data created worse performing models, not better. Sure with more raw power and clever tricks the performance can get somewhat better, but it needs to be much much better to do what companies tell you it can do, in order to sell it.
And I haven’t even mentioned the morality issues, copyright issues, propaganda/control and educational issues. Let alone accidentally hitting the singularly and wiping out humanity due to some paperclip problem.
Exceptions exist, like expert systems / machine learning in data processing and analysis. But we’ve had those for decades and just recently got the AI label to ride the hype.
AI needs to go away, sooner rather than later.
I think we have bigger problems than Tesla if when the U.S. goes to shit.
Says the company that puts ads on people’s TVs. The TVs they paid full price for and supposedly fully own.
Far Cry 5 is by far my favorite of the franchise. Interesting world, good gameplay, fun mechanics. It doesn’t take itself very seriously, but still has a more serious story. Everything meshes really well and it’s a ton of fun in coop.
Far Cry 6 was a huge letdown, I hated it. Lots of re-used assets, dumb game mechanics, story very predictable and not interesting. When it released performance was terrible with lots of crashes and bugs. And not the fun kind of jank like in most FC games, the this is annoying my mission is softlocked kind of bugs. Plus it felt like 3 games in 1 which didn’t really have anything to do with each other. Later I found out this was because multiple teams worked on the different parts which didn’t really communicate as much due to covid.
Chapter 1
Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.
Suddenly a new voice could be heard. ‘Hi, I’m Grady and this is Practical Engineering’, Grady said.
The name for the insect probably originated in the Caribbean. Then brought over by the Portuguese and transferred to Spanish. The English got it from the Spanish, where other languages like French and Dutch got it from the Portuguese.
In English it went from the Spanish cacarucha to the English cacarootch. Which later changed to cockroche and eventually became cockroach.
The original Caribbean word was most likely kakalaka. This went to cacalacca in early Portuguese and then into the Spanish cacarucha. Interesting enough the newer Portuguese word of caroucha was based on the Spanish word. So the word went from Portuguese to Spanish and back again.
People always forget languages are a living thing and words for a lot of things were very different hundreds of years ago.
Yeah I used to know Quentin, he’s a real… he’s a real jerk
Imagine gate keeping Linux, the irony…
Steam works absolutely perfectly on EndeavourOS. No tweaking or anything required, just install and run. It also runs just about any game I ever tried, with troubleshooting as easy as choosing a different version of Proton from the dropdown.
Mickey17 (2025) and I didn’t really like it.
I read the book recently and had no idea they were making a movie. When I heard about the movie, I was hyped as I really liked the book. However it turned out the movie had very little in common with the book. Some of the plot points were there and some of the changes I understood. But a lot of them I didn’t understand. The themes and characters were totally different and I didn’t really like the direction they took the story.
In my opinion the acting was good and the CGI was fine. Costume design was a bit uninspired, but that might be fitting for the story. The movie was also a bit long and at the same time didn’t cover everything from the book. Maybe there was just too much story for a movie.
I kind hate the old cliche of the book was better than the movie, but in this case I fully agree. The movie wasn’t very good and the book was very good. So not recommended by me.
Adding a comment in the main thread so OP gets a notification.
Looking at the picture, I think the testpoints with labels next to the connector are directly connected to the connector? If OP can confirm that?
In that case it’s a I2C conection, with some extra pins. You can connect that to USB using something like a GT911 converter, found for cheap on sites like Aliexpress and Ebay. However converting the connector can be a pain in the ass, so I would just solder a ribbon cable to the test points and do the same on the side of the converter.
When choosing a converter be sure it’s 3.3V and not 5V. So maybe add a level shifter, or choose a converter with a level shifter. The touch screen might be 5V tolerant, but it’s a risk to try it.
Could still be USB, those little traces can’t handle a lot of power so it’s good practice to double up on power and ground lines.
It can also be this connector also handles stuff like brightness and contrast controls, so the extra lines could be for that.
Figuring this out without also having the motherboard this connects to would be tricky. Unless the datasheet can be found, but I couldn’t find it.
Edit: Looking at the picture, I think the testpoints with labels next to the connector are directly connected to the connector?
In that case it’s a I2C connection, with some extra pins. You can connect that to USB using something like a GT911 converter, found for cheap on sites like Aliexpress and Ebay. However converting the connector can be a pain in the ass, so I would just solder a ribbon cable to the test points and do the same on the side of the converter.
When choosing a connector be sure it’s 3.3V and not 5V.
Back in the 90s there was this softcore porn show made by a bunch of music lovers. It was just topless chicks dancing suggestively, with a fresh mix of the latest chill trance songs. Children was always their first and last song, the entire mix was about 1 hour long. I don’t remember what it was called, but it aired on Friday night, late at night. I often had it on the TV as background music as the mix was always very good. Trance music wasn’t as mainstream back then and there wasn’t really an internet to speak off, so this was a good way to listen to new songs.
But that’s where the rocks are, he needs the rocks
Wass do you mean? Das ist perfect German if ich ever saw
Please send flowers, I just died from cringe
Yeah we’ve had snow in the end of April, spring just does their own thing. Today it’s 10 C outside, you most definitely need a jacket.