https://youtu.be/U1yzG2WUjTM

relevant Dr Who

Windows philosophy is that it comes pre-installed and should be used with recent hardware. You may think of that what you will (environment wise etc), but to me that’s a valid design choice to make, in principle.

Very demure.

It could be worse. You could be one of the knights who say: Ni.

It’s not really “the only way”. A similar problem to think about would be: what if your primary email account got compromised?

It makes sense to set up alternative means for recovering any account (or changing the associated email address), for example via second mail address, phone number, one-time-passwords, snail mail or similar. Many account providers use a recovery question system - here, I’d suggest using irregular answers, e.g. for “what is your favorite colour”, I would’t use a colour at all to make it harder to guess.

Compartmentalizing would be another approach: use different providers in a mix so that when one goes the way of the dodo, parts of your registered accounts remain useable. Ideally, for “critical” stuff like bank accounts, you’d split them up between different email addresses. But then again, for this kind of account, I’d really expect the bank to provide some other ways of backup access/restoration.

I like to think that they don’t “fly by” as in “pass” because they keep being a part of who we have become, parent and child alike.

This you?

That’s what MS Teams code blocks and ChatOps are for.

Abrahamitic Incantations

I have a message and a question.

A message from ESR and a question from me.

Where do you want to go today?

Shouting in the Datacenter

x32 mode may be an option to take advantage of some more registers/instructions, but I’d assume not many distros support that as a platform.

I have an Asus EeePC where the latest BIOS update straight up removed the option for AHCI and hard wired IDE compat mode. Luckily, I had kept the previous version and downgrade was possible.

It does support 64-bit though?

Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

the sleep issues.

Ah, the life of a sysadmin

Except if they’re on “our side” if course.