PANTS_ON_FIRE,

I already use unattend scripts for the rest of my family’s Windows shit… I add irm https://christitus.com/win | iex at the end too so I can then install cool stuff

And no, I’m not upgrading any Windows 10 stuff rn

Drive letters? (Yes, they are stupid and don’t work with MTP but I won’t explin /dev/ to him)

We’ve been using Classic Shell since Day 1 of course. I modded it to quit qBittorrent when Mom opens the Shutdown dialog* (yes, she always opens that awful window) because that takes the longest to terminate. I’ll use it plus Explorer Patcher on 10, a semi-transparent taskbar without blur is so handy

* Classic Shell Start Menu can run arbitrary and predefined commands from buttons but not both at once. The Shutdown dialog can only be triggered with a predefined CSSM command or JS script so I’m using a VBS script (unlike BAT or JS, it can run silently) that runs the JS script and taskkill command.

Our family PC still has 8.1 (parents really don’t like change and Firefox got security updates until recently). I think I’ll upgrade it to 10 when I have time, the amount of debloat required to keep it sane is manageable as opposed to 11. Mom could handle mildly riced XFCE Linux with Firefox and our legal copy of Office 2007 under Wine but dad uses Total Commander and won’t use anything other than drive letters.

RAM, especially… Very high for sure

This is how I learned about Portal in 2020

Everything is injected. Even most of Pokémon Gold, including the code enabling GBC features (the font is the same tho). This can’t be done on the NES because the character (graphics) is in CPU-inaccessible memory (and therefore ROM on most cartridges). There are several stages of the payload that write and execute each other:

1. name+item manipulation
   • a few bytes in several seconds
2. copying existing button input buffer
   • 60 bytes per second
3. polling buttons in a loop
   • only CPU-constrained, almost as fast as copying from the cartridge to RAM, literally fast enough to stream video at 10 fps (or in this case, 15 fps with ⅔ of the screen area updating, see technical writeup OP linked)

The Ocarina of Time “Triforce%” TAS speedrun (very good live commentary at GDQ!) activates some debug code such as the inventory debug menu and Starfox spaceship model

I used Imagine by Logotron (Czech-localized, including keywords - yes, with diacritics) as my IDE, and I still have it installed because the accompanying graphics editor (LogoMotion) is just so good. I never got to the OOP part because the textbook didn’t cover it and there are no materials onlone about the Czech version (not even a keyword dictionary), and I couldn’t speak English back then. I stopped programming for way too long because I couldn’t get another IDE working and I didn’t know how to make arrays and text I/O in Logo, the tutorials I had stopped at variables.

Yay, Logo

I used it way too long because my clumsy ass couldn’t get another IDE to work

Someone should add -b, -t and -w flags to the Archinstall script

Some banks issue stickers for phones without NFC. It’s another physical card but contactless only and very thin (probably with an aluminum strip antenna).

There’s a 2001 rewrite of the documentation. There’s lots of funny instructions aside from P00 meaning root process of the computer, like an OS kernel which also includes the P00D00 abort routine. There is also SEXTMARK (sextant mark) and ENEMA (software restart).

I know what P00 is, that’s program 00 or the root process of the computer. Terminating the subprocess hands control back to P00, which is why the processor is instructed to GOTOP00H (the H might indicate the point where the subrutine was called; presumably because the CPU lacks a hardware-implemented “return from subrutine” instruction)

Strange that the AI did not elaborate on this, that’s one of the best known parts of the Apollo software…

Forcing people to write CSS? I thought there was an international treaty against that

Yup, and they didn’t even try to hide it. The etymology is literally bra + vixen (female fox)

…PC meaning Pokémon Center, not Personal Computer?

Edit: Apparently not. Wtf

LMDE

Here’s some KDE lore.

https://community.kde.org/Konqi

Canonically, they hatch from eggs, but as usual for child-friendly characters, the genitalia question is not explored in the lore. Kiki is a robot representing an antropomorphic squirrel. In general, animal and robotic characters don’t need to wear clothes to be considered “appropriate for all ages” as long as they don’t have genitalia or sexualized antropomorphic features like boobs. However, the fact that Kiki, Konqi and Katie are canonically a boy and girls means they should not be sexualized, ever.

That’s the mascot ambassador, a boy dragon with a headscarf and “K” horns antlers, but there’s canonically an entire village valley of them, and they created Kiki.

Edit: changed terms to reflect official lore