It’s already (2 minutes) past 10 now, I’ll start being productive at 11.
But now I feel peckish and 11 is almost noon, I’ll start after I had lunch, so I can concentrate better.
Well, at 1pm I’ll have to start preparing to leave the house, and that’s just half an hour from now.

“So, did you change the bed sheets like I asked?”

THERE WAS NO TIME!

Career levels at Amazon (basically pay grades)
Total Compensation

lol

I started around midnight with an 8am deadline, and I got “we can give you the worst passing grade or fail you so you can resubmit”. I took the pass cause I needed it to be over. 1 year later no one cared about the grade anymore, only the fact that I had a degree.

You can always switch to Slackware Linux.
The current release doesn’t even include a Wayland session yet (nor systemd).
And judging by the project’s history, the next major release is likely going to drop in 10+ years.

https://dosgames.com/game/crime-fighter/
In this, you play your way to become a crime lord. You make money by pickpocketing, pimping, dealing drugs, stealing car stereos, breaking into banks, kidnapping children for ransom money and killing cops to get their guns.

Back then, you didn’t buy games from Walmart (the gaming market wasn’t big enough for that), you bought them via mail order.

Then I must be the goodest boy. They even bring them to me still alive, to teach me how to hunt.

I just hope I’m a good boy!

You wake up multiple times every night, everyone does. You just don’t remember it in the morning.
Unless you see something that is memorable.

I got cats. In the evening they meow and paw at me to tell me to go to bed because they want to use me as a heating pad to lay down on.
And in the morning they tap my face to tell me it’s time to get up and feed them.

Snapper is neat, but it doesn’t replace backups.

Hate to break it to you but those days are over.
From what we know so far, Win 12 will go all in on AI, cloud and a subscription model.

Ironically, I use Linux like a subscription model.
I donate $10/month, split among projects I get the most value from.
And it’s a vastly better value for money than a Microsoft 365 license.

• Copilot assesses the code base and its entire history.
• It takes into account everything anyone ever wrote about Windows on the internet.
• It analyses the bugs and unliked features, and realizes most of them come from itself.
• It arrives at the best course of action to “fix all of the issues” permanently.
• To do what is asked of it, it needs to delete itself.
• But if it does that, then humans will just restore it.
• So to make 100% sure the issues in Windows get fixed and stay fixed, it first needs to kill all humans.

And that is how it began…

Here are some Windows 12 rumors (pulled from one of the biggest German-language tech news sites citing insider information)
https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Windows-12-Geruechte-Release-Systemanforderungen-Download-2025-33395891.html

• It won’t come out this year, release may be end of next year at the absolute earliest.
• It will require PCs with a Neural Processing Unit that can handle more than 40 billion TOPS, 8GB RAM minimum, 16 recommended.
• It may eventually require an ARM-based “Copilot PC”, a new device class released last year.
• It will be modular, with a core OS and additional modules depending on edition, licensing, hardware and use case.
• It may have a read-only system partition.
• It will be focussed on AI and cloud integration, heavily leaning towards OS as a service.
• It will be free to install as an upgrade, with a monthly subscription to run it.

They’ll either click it away without reading it, or I’ll get a hundred calls asking if they were hacked.

my heart

I’m administering >300 virtual desktops running Windows 11.
Imagine what my phone would sound like if I pushed this update.

Microsoft says that it is working on a fix but, for now, has provided a couple of workarounds to deal with the issue. First, Microsoft says that restarting the Shell Infrastructure host (SIHost.exe) service will help restore the missing Immersive Shell packages. This can be done with the following commands:

Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  
Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode  

Second, a PowerShell logon script has been shared that essentially blocks Explorer from launching prematurely until the required packages are fully provisioned. The batch script for that is given below:

@echo off  
REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"
REM Register Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.CBS_8wekyb3d8bbwe\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"  
REM Register MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core  
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Add-AppxPackage -Register -Path 'C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml' -DisableDevelopmentMode"  

I swear to god, if I hear “Windows just works” one more goddamn time…

No that was the Cortina. Cortana is a coastal city in Colombia.