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Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once?

Yeah, basically that. I’m back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It’s not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I’ve encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?...

silentdon,

Sfc and DISM have each worked exactly once for me.

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Thanks! I just learned something new!

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Iirc some people used to think so for some reason when it was first released.

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Yeah it was quickly disproven but some people never got the memo

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No, it’s like criticising a murder enthusiasts group because murder is a crime.

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Yup the people that are mostly disadvantaged by (and cause) a housing crash are the people that treat houses like stocks.

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I have Sonarr/Radarr set to monitor lists on trakt.tv

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I had a metal door and an iron gate inside with shitty locks. Burglers broke the locks and got in.

I replaced the door and got great locks. The locks held up fine but they broke the gate right out of the wall and got in.

If someone wants to get in, they will.

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I’m from the Caribbean. It’s considered rude to enter a room without saying good morning/afternoon/night once and loudly enough that everyone can hear. No one has to answer but it’s polite to acknowledge. You don’t have to say anything when leaving tho.

This doesn’t apply to places that are loud, large, or where people are already socialising. So no to restaurants, bars and supermarkets, etc. But yes to hairdressers, small cafés, doctor’s offices, and small offices in general.

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I thought they were pushing a “right to repair” bill /s

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I think it manifests as the subscribe button forever saying “pending” wyou hit it

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Why would you oppose this? Don’t you want children to be safe online? Won’t anybody please think of the children? /s

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Imagine you’re running a very long relay race. Just after the race starts, members of the other team jump out of the bushes, beat up your runner and tie them up. This happens for several laps until someone decides that this is probably bad so they stop beating and restraining you. But the race doesn’t stop and the positions aren’t reset, but the other team is like 20 laps ahead and allowed to finish. Is that fair?

Reparations would theoretically allow your team to catch up but former slaves and their descendants have never been allowed that. What’s more, in the UK, former slave owners were paid for the inconvenience of no longer owning slaves (edit: up until 2015!!!) while the former slaves got to continue living as second-class citizens for a while.

Also, saying slavery ended hundreds of years ago and no one benefits from it today doesn’t work because all slave-owner countries still benefit from slave labour in the form of generational wealth, advanced infrastructure and old laws that specifically aim to disadvantage black people (whether they were abolished or still on the books the effects are still felt). Imagine your great-granddad was able to build up a fortune, how likely would it be that your family would still be rich? Imagine your great-granddad lost every cent, how likely would it be that your family would be still poor? Sure, it’s possible that situations drastically over time but that’s the exception and not the rule. There are reasons why things are the way they are.

I believe that reparations should not be any lump sum of money but in the form of education, investment opportunities, resources and infrastructure. That way all persons living in former slave countries can benefit and pass those benefits down to their descendants.

Edit: I believe that up to last year Barbados went after Richard Drax for reparations due to his family’s direct involvement in slavery in that country. I don’t know how successful that was, but I support it.

silentdon,

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and let you know that white people were indentured servants. While the conditions were just as bad as the slaves, indentured servitude was for a finite amount of time, while slavery was for life. This allowed the white people a chance to rebuild wealth and their children did not have to experience their parents’ conditions. Slaves never had that chance.

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Thanks, it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time since it was a big discussion topic in my circle for a while.

I haven’t given the same level of thought to universal basic income, but I guess it would be a start. What people really need is a way to not only survive but to build wealth and pass that wealth on to their descendants. Like I said in my previous comment, education, investment opportunities, infrastructure upgrades, etc. will go a long way towards that goal. In my mind, a universal income could be a part of that but not the whole solution. And yes capitalism will find a way to ruin it but we can always hope.

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I thought we were talking about the Transatlantic slave trade in the Americas?

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Maybe you should have named your desktop Theseus because of his ship.

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I like swords
Odachi - Server
Katana - Desktop
Wakizashi - Laptop
Tanto - Phone

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Could you add links to the new community here and in the sidebar?

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People don’t care what’s superior, they care about if their friends are already on the app. And whatsapp built up that critical mass first, so it’s the default.

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Wow who would’ve thought

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Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.

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Owning an NFT is analogous to owning a receipt. You don’t actually own the image and paying for one means you fell for a scam. Pointing that out is enough to piss off any NFT owners.

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I agree. An idea that I liked was that NFTs can be used to transfer items from one game to the next. Like a rare gun in COD can be transferred into Skyrim where it is a rare armor or something.

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Definitely not GoDaddy

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I’ll add to protest a company’s practices.

Just had my first interaction with Meta Services last night. Thought I'd share what I learned. (kbin.social)

I was up late last night and we know how that goes - rabbit holes. This time I was trying to find some ways to make my phone feel a little snappier and possibly eliminate the issue I was having where my recent apps button stops working until I restart the phone. On Android 13 I found that if I changed to gesture based navigation...

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There’s a possibility that it is called Facebook Services as well

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I unironically like Sucker Punch. And no, it’s not only because of scantily clad women.

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Yes exactly! The only thing that would make it better was if it was a music video album like Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories

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tbf I have not watched it in a while. I did see it in theatres and the director’s cut a few times at home.

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Why not subscribe to the stuff you want to see and then only filter by subscribed? I honestly find it strange that people don’t do this by default.

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This doesn’t seem to happen on lemmy. And even if it did, my “All” filter is all memes.

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At the very least you can blur NSFW images in the settings

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I understand. I hear it’s an issue on Kbin and it might be fixed on the newest versions of lemmy. But that’s just how “All” is, you’ll see everything whether you like it or not.

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How long before Reddit staff start editing pixels to remove anything “inappropriate”?

What's your views on PIC season 3?

I’m currently rewatching it, and at first I admit I hated the season and didn’t understand all the praise it got, but on this second viewing, I am actually warming up a bit to it. It still is deeply flawed, with a lot of things that don’t make sense or could have been done better, but I kinda like it regardless. What do...

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Definitely the best season compared to the first two. It hit all the right nostalgia notes. I had a problem with the villains being the Changelings + Borg and with the Titan being renamed and the Enterprise F getting like 1 minute of screentime. It for sure has its issues but I still enjoyed it.

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It is morally and ethically ok to pirate media that no longer legally accessible.

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I definitely would. Especially if it was no longer made or sold

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No but you’ll get the square root

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This is why I joined lemmy.

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