turned one on a half hour ago. still waiting for the disk and cpu activity to mellow out.

expected, though. it is a scrap-tier laptop with slow hdd and win11 that is not completely up-to-date.

it’s what they have the most experience re-installing.

doesn’t every game have its own c_drive?

he’s sweating cuz he knows if he pushes either one he’s gonna be eatin’ plain ramen for a month and short on rent

laptop simply no longer detects the display

it could be a loose connection or broken wires between the main board and the display panel. it might be worth the effort to open it up and examine those.

people were microwaving their phones, ffs. idiots are everywhere

i guess not enough people were clicking on the installer stubs (start menu shortcuts that trigger the app install) they already have been using.

it also says:

For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in version 6.12.111-1.

fake it 'til you makebreak it.

that’s what trixie’s netinst defaults to when i set up new desktops using encrypted lvm… root and swap volumes inside that, unlocking together at boot. my use doesn’t hit swap much, so it’s nbd. i just leave it like it is. only where an installer doesn’t support encrypted swap partitions do i use a file or ram-based swap instead.

i remember when gas stations had to fabricate a “1” to put in front when prices first went over $1 per gallon because their price signs didn’t have a ‘dollars’ digit.

probably due to the amount of pushback from users getting automatically opted-in with ‘backup’ enabled, and then immediately running out of ‘free’ space… because 5 gigabytes of space isn’t very much at all.

oh, my. that third line is horrendous. that’s what happens when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser. trying to underline using unicode… and failing, instead of just using css.

you can modify ent to install as an upgrade, even from 7 or 8. iirc, it’s just a text file inside a wim in the iso.

they used to sell them, but it was all shit-tier hardware and didn’t sell.

which time?

Absolute loony…

i don’t think so.

the loony bin has windows pre-installed.

it appears to be both.

According to the report, prices for PCBs used in consumer motherboards are expected to rise by at least 50% during 2026. Costs for copper, surface-mount capacitors, power components and supporting controller chips have also increased.

every recovered dollar is returned to the market through across-the-board retail price cuts

so, iow, it will be up to the merchants to pass that along to customers… history says that ain’t gonna happen.

athlon was booming and netburst was dead. the core2 is what stopped amd’s momentum two decades ago… right when they were on the verge of overtaking intel on the desktop.