Windows by default uses a ‘hybrid shutdown’ to allow for faster booting times. It’s basically halfway between sleep mode and hibernate mode, which basically means Windows isn’t actually fully shut down, so all file changes haven’t been fully written to disk and Windows still has open files.
You should do a full shutdown from within Windows first. Unless M$ has changed something that I’m not aware of, that should be just as simple as holding Shift when you hit Shutdown.
It’s not just March 14th, it’s also our next lunar eclipse (here in the US at least), peak eclipse at about 1:59am…
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I set alarms in my watch months ago, before ever learning how that date is also going to affect technology and security certificates and shit.
I do hope the weather will be nice early that morning to be able to see the π lunar eclipse at least.
As true as that may be, what’s the deal with all the times I’ve read stories of people setting up and configuring everything the way they want, and then after installing whatever particular updates manually, then MS reverts a bunch of settings back the way they want?
I dunno, but when I got my HP laptop that shipped with Windows 10, I got to an initial setup screen that asked me something like what’s my mother’s middle name or maiden name or something like that, for sake of password recovery I believe.
Even though I’m sure I could have entered in any random nonsense that I’d remember, I was like what effing business is it of the OS to ask such private details?
I didn’t even finish the setup and first boot, I shut it down right then and formatted and installer Linux Mint MATE 20, and I couldn’t be happier.
Oof, not really a lot to say there. At least we weren’t in the car when it happened. It happened at night in our apartment parking lot. My roommate was inside watching TV and I was on the balcony (2nd floor) on my phone.
We assume it was a drug deal gone bad, and one of the people hid behind my roommate’s car as they shot at each other. Cops found something like 9 shell casings from a rifle and 2 or 3 casings from a pistol.
Glad nobody was hurt. Thankfully both parties have since been evicted. Might have been nice if they covered the damages to the car, but the transmission was already screwed up anyways.
He did not get it fixed. He neglected to change the shaft seal, which ended up letting the transmission fluid to leak onto the clutch plate, which ruined the second clutch plate we had installed.
That car became a serious headache for us. It’s since been sold to a neighbor that cares to actually take the time to fix it properly, then sell it to someone else.
Also it doesn’t help that someone literally shot the car twice and destroyed a window and also cracked the windshield, but that’s a separate story.
As true as that is, we’re talking about photos of a newborn infant. Like for real, who would intentionally leak photos of a newborn?
Oh yeah, that’s right, artificial intelligence!
Don’t feed the online machine, take the photos into a print shop via USB flash drive, and I’m pretty sure anyone with a soul will have respect for family privacy.
Not so with online cloud services though ☹️
Indeed. I use Léon on Android, very straightforward, open source, and easy to install and configure…
This one isn’t for daily private use, more like a throwaway email service for when sites and services have no earthly business asking your email other than to track you and send junk mail…
Edit: You don’t even have to register an account with them, just make up an email with them and it should just work for most sites.
I use irrelevant at dispostable dot com to use Walmart’s free WiFi, the password on Walmart’s side is Walmart1 hahahaha!
Who said the computer components you’re looking for are in the dash? I mean I’ll be honest, I dunno about these modern vehicles, but vehicles I’ve worked on in the past have the main computer in weird unexpected places like under the driver’s seat or in the passenger side cowell area.
I do get your point though, yes such modifications might be simple on paper, but cost quite a bit in labor to actually accomplish.
Regardless, I’ve done dashboards too, even drove my car around for a day with the entire dash completely missing, because I needed to drive it to the store during service that took me two days.
Hooray for dumb cars!
Then block the signal with a Faraday Cage.
I see I’m getting downvoted for my comments about this, but the vehicle will not fail due to a lack of internet connection. Otherwise your vehicle would brick itself anytime you drive through a tunnel.
Go ahead, look it up. It’s about as simple as wrapping the cellular device with metal screen.
Do you not understand what a Faraday Cage is or does? It literally blocks radio frequencies.
Cover the module in a metal screen, block any and all data transmission and reception, without even altering the electronics.
And the vehicle ain’t got much other choice but to keep functioning as expected anyways, as it’s expected to have signal loss at times anyways.
Edit: If you think losing internet connection is gonna break your vehicle, well God forbid you ever drive through a tunnel…
Funny thing is, in the past 4 years or so, I’ve been using those cookies to my advantage.
As far as Google knows, I’ve been at the same location for the past 4 years. I have other private devices when I’m out and about that have never signed into Google nor had location services activated.
I walk both sides of the fence, just to confuse the system…