There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • superkret@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most unfriendliest country that you’ve visited?
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    1 day ago

    France, but more specifically Alsace and Corsica.
    In Alsace, when I tried out my French, people answered in German.
    When I addressed people in German, they replied in French.
    In Corsica, my friends and I were literally run out of town and pelted with eggs and rocks for reasons unclear to me.

    Honorable mention goes to Southern England, where a car coming the other way stopped and the driver mentioned for us to also stop and roll down the window.
    My dad stopped next to him and opened the window.
    The other driver punched my dad in the face and drove off.

  • superkret@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 days ago

    I eventually gave up trying to make myself exercise every day.
    But I am fortunate enough that I could chose to live within cycling distance of my work.
    Now I bike to work every day, which is technically transportation, not exercise, so I don’t mind it.
    This summer I’m going to move into an apartment 11 miles from work. I’m really looking forward to it.

  • superkret@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can I start understanding Windows the same way I understand Linux-based systems?
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    6 days ago

    Powershell supposedly is really great once you’ve understood how it’s structured.
    I keep hearing it’s more logical and discoverable than Bash.
    Maybe that’s true, I keep bouncing off it and getting frustrated. And when I try to read up on it, the explanations throw low level programming terms at me, which I’m too stupid to understand.

    But modern Windows has one thing going for it, which makes it similar to Linux in concept:
    Literally everything can be done with Powershell, and literally every config can be manipulated manually when you know where to look.

    Configs are a bit strewn around the system, though. They can be in your user folder in AppData, or globally in C:\ProgramData or only in the Registry.
    And some software says “Fuck all this” and puts them in C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86) or even in an own directory on C:\ But that’s no different on Linux, really.

    Then you can look at group policies, which are like an extended settings menu for thousands of things that aren’t in the GUI.
    And since you can write your own group policies that set arbitrary Registry values, you can make Windows your bitch.

    The main issue really is documentation. It either doesn’t exist, or it’s wrong, or only available to Microsoft employees.
    So even if you have 10 years of experience in administering Windows systems, you’re still hunting through forums for answers.

    The most important resource an experienced Windows admin can have is a list of bookmarks to trustworthy sysadmin blogs.

    So, to recap: Windows is the Registry. If it reads a config file from somewhere, the path to that config file will be in the Registry. If you change a setting in the GUI, via Powershell, or a group policy, the setting will be saved in a Registry key. Unfortunately, many Registry keys are not legible by humans. And Regedit as a tool absolutely sucks.