If replacing an existing server, make sure to wipe the disk during install.

It’s too bad that, at least for me, your comment doesn’t come immediately after this one.

That’s … Pretty depressing.

I was going to post a note about typewriters, allegedly from Tom Hanks, which I saw years and years ago; but I can’t find it.

Turns out there’s a lot of Tom Hanks typewriter content out there.

I tried to buy an external 20TB drive from Amazon twice. First one that came, I bought refurbished; the drive had been shucked and replaced with a 146GB drive.

Second one I bought was 20TB, but was clicking and grinding from the moment I turned it on. When I tried to initiate a return saying “drive is clicking and grinding, indicating that it’s failing,” their support bot helpful informed me that a clicking and grinding drive usually indicated drive failure.

They did accept the return for the latter. They also accepted a return for the former, but it took literal months and several support interactions where the (seemingly real) agents actively lied to me.

I’ve had okay luck with smaller Amazon drives in the past, but will have trouble recommending them for this kind of purchase in the future.

It’s amazing how much I agree with (almost) every response to this post (so far).

It was indeed unpopular at the time and not widely known now. I personally actually enjoyed the action (I think the final gunfight is one of the best or at least most fun I’ve ever seen), but I understand how it would be unappealing to some.

As I mentioned, Christian Bale’s performance is allegedly what got him the role of Batman, so make of that what you will.

It’s also worth mentioning that there are enjoyable qualities to the movie even discarding the action. If and when you do watch it, I hope you enjoy it!

That is the protagonist from the (IMHO excellent) movie Equilibrium. He describes himself as a “tetragrammaton cleric.” Prior to your comment, I didn’t know the first word had any actual real world meaning, so that’s where my mind went when I saw you use it. (Apologies if this is disrespectful to the intent of the word.)

As an interesting side note, supposedly that movie is what got Christian Bale cast as Batman.

Sounds about right to me.

There is, or maybe was, a YouTube channel that would run well known song lyrics through various layers of translation, then attempt to sing the result to the tune of the original.

AKA a WAR, which is an unnecessarily aggressive acronym for “weekly action report.”

Would have been more fun, if less accurate, to call them pinecones.

You know, I’m not sure whether to be insulted or flattered … But I don’t disagree.

All of my skills are devops or sysadmin related.

It’s been a while, but I used to regularly get emails inviting me to apply to be a Wendy’s manager. I doubt I would have been good at that.

Looks like Mojave does one comment above you.

I don’t know yet how to link to a user.

I can tell you that buggering is not how you become a parent.

HTML is more traditional than \n?

I was actually wondering, when the previous commenter referenced the setup menu, if the shift+F10 thing still worked. I know it brings up the command prompt in the install interface, but in case you didn’t know, it also brings up the command prompt in general use Windows. (Or it used to. Again, I’m very out of date on the subject.)

I think “not hard, just annoying” means that anything tech related is out of reach for most people, unfortunately. Plus, to be honest, most people probably won’t care about or see a problem with Microsoft forcing an online account on them. I’m happy they’re happy, but their privacy ends not with a bang, but a whimper.

Ah, fair enough.

I haven’t used, or especially installed, Windows in years. Wasn’t sure if what I described was still the case. Good to know there’s still a way, though, in case I get desperate!