Crimes of the Hot

49 times we fought that beast

Your old man and me

I’m on IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021. As far as I’m aware it’s up to date, and if not I don’t really use my PC for modern games anyway. Still good to know though.

Windows 10 LTSC is supported until 2032 or so. I’ll be avoiding upgrading for a long time.

For the longest time I thought “limp wristed” meant ineffective, like if you were to hold something with a limp wrist you were more liable to drop it.

That was a fun day at work when I found out what it actually meant… after using the term in the middle of a meeting to describe a vendor’s poor performance.

On launch it was surprisingly playable on Stadia. My first playthrough was entirely on Stadia.

Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker. Those graphics were slammed at the time for being cartoony, but they hold up even now. Meanwhile, games that were going for realism at the time look like ass in comparison to modern realistic graphics. And today’s will suck compared to next year’s and so on.

Oh yeah? You are now manually breathing.

It didn’t before?

But with such skill to put him in a neck brace? Surely that would require some previous experience.

Also holy necropost, Batman!

Bubsy 3D. The controls were awkward, the platforming was horrendous, and the levels were nonsensical.

Doobie (cat) is currently looking out the window intently at a bug and hatching a plan on how she can somehow reach through the glass and get it.

It was a local restaurant run by a shady businessman who’s known for running less than good quality restaurants. Whatever, I figured, it was cheap and close to my house.

Except me and my family were served rotten meat when we ate there. The manager only wanted to give us a 20% discount. Like hell I’m paying for rotten food. Never again.

Easily the lead singer of Kings of Leon. That whine in his voice makes me want to chug bleach.

Burn MF - Five Finger Death Punch

Turns out people don’t wanna pay console/PC prices to play games on their mobile devices. Who knew.

Yeah, but doubts of that were cleared up when he went to visit the guy they put away.

If I had a nickel for every time a full power cycle fixed it all, I’d be rich. However, if you did power cycle before and call in again, often it’s an issue that needs deeper investigation. In that case, the tech can likely watch the process of your equipment coming online in realtime to see where the issue is happening. Network entry, authentication, package application, DHCP, it can often be monitored as it’s happening. A reboot while on the phone starts the process right from the beginning so it can be monitored to determine what happens immediately and what happens after it sits for a while.

1. Unplug the power
2. Wait ~30 seconds, just to ensure it’s good and off
3. Plug it back in

Fortunately there are no commands to enter or buttons to click. They’re designed to handle losing power.

I work in the magical world of ISPs. If you’re having an internet issue, reboot your router and/or modem before calling in. It may not seem like much to you, but many background processes happen when you do so. This can be useful to troubleshoot where the issue lies. There’s a reason why techs will make you do so when calling in. And yes, they can tell on their end if and when you do so. So don’t bullshit them by saying you already did it if you didn’t.