adarza

@adarza@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J IS LORD⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  jeremiah?

  no… he was a bullfrog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  my kids will take care of me when I’m older

  with what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I choose innovation and patching it all together.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  …
  step 4: cut hole in chair seat.
  step 5: put empty ice cream bucket under chair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  absolutely loved Oni, still one of my favorites ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The season of giving⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  depends on how hungry you are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i have a new hp laptop here with same specs (r3,17in,8gb,250ssd). cleaned-up and updated, with firefox, the user’s av, and a couple smaller programs, but no crud from being ‘used’ yet. ~ 172gb free.

  your goal of 200gb free with hp’s factory load is not going to happen. you will have to reinstall from a plain win11 installer usb made from microsoft’s utility.

  then after you’re installed, put windows into compact state:
  compact /compactos:always
  instructions here

  before you begin, i would highly recommend finding ‘hp cloud recovery tool’ from the windows ‘store’. install that, run it off the start menu (find it, right click, run-as-admin), and make a factory recovery usb for your model (the model number is on the bottom of the unit, usually, looks something like “63U47UA#ABA”). so you’ll need two empty flash drives. the hp recovery requires 32gb one. the windows installer one can be as small as 8gb i think.

  all that, and you’ll probably still be a little short of your goal–and that’s without updates, junk added while used, and anything you may want to put on. and also remember ssd drives function best when they aren’t jam-packed with data. so you really should be considering an upgrade for the nvme ssd inside the laptop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  so long as it’s under warranty. yea. make sure you have a way to actually do the ‘factory reset’.

  if you nix the partitions during a ‘clean install’ of windows or of linux, you won’t.

  unless you’ve made a backup image of the hdd to an external (using reflect or similar), or in hp’s case–download their recovery media creator (runs on windows only but doesn’t have to be the target system) and build a recovery flash drive for your model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  tell that to amazon and every other retailer that jacks prices up the week or so before a ‘sale’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the prices probably won’t go back down in february, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Teamsters Vote to Authorize Strikes at Two New York Warehouses, Union Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and that’s what’ll happen, too.

  azn will just shift the workload to other nearby facilities, and work those slaves harder and longer. won’t even cause much more than a hiccup for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the scammer thinks he’s gonna score $12000 net on a mis-clicked one-click.

  meanwhile bezos is drooling over amazon’s 50% average cut on marketplace transactions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good evening I choose food panties.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no wonder they’re so damn busy these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this town has been well known for a long time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no wonder american cheese is shit on elsewhere.

  i suppose you could go to mcdonalds or bk, order a cheeseburger with extra slices ‘on the side’ or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this town has been well known for a long time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that ain’t even actual amercian cheese (like burger joints use)… this is the individually-wrapped ‘singles’ garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1K a month is a good deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and that $1k a month increases with inflation, and then some, and then with executives’ desires for bigger mansions, luxury cars, yachts and exotic vacations, too. what a deal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch drama is getting real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  soon to be on clearance everywhere due to tanking sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  some mixed-use redevelopments do have some. if you want more, you need to convince your local governments zoning, permitting, and planning folks to demand more from these types of projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i used to live near a suburb that banned billboards as well as ‘great signs’ (the big and usually tall lit-up signs for businesses) over a certain height (they all had to be fairly short and set back from the roadways). there was also no overhead telephone or power lines there. everywhere should be like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  using a third-party utility to forcibly remove or delete programs is somewhat risky and may screw something up or otherwise cause more problems than you believe it to be ‘fixing’.

  nearly all the ‘bundleware’ on mass market systems is well-behaved (as far as uninstalling goes), these days. just uninstall the crud you don’t want. leave stuff designed for the hardware, though, like hotkeys and osd and whatnot. if you’re unsure if something is needed, ask someone knowledgeable.

  then go through windows settings and turn off the crap you don’t want or use tried-and-true shutup10 (which works with 11, too) and its ‘recommended’ settings. note that disabling settings in it may require you to use that utility again later to re-enable something (some settings can no longer be modified from windows itself unless switched-back by su10), so keep the shutup10 executable around in case it’s needed later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  very glad that Intel has stayed in the market

  for now, anyway. nobody knows if the discrete gpu division will survive the leadership shakeup and new ceo (when they find one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Moana 2’ Achieves Demigod Status: All the Box Office Records Broken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  kickstarter goes up next week, because somehow it still loses money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  didn’t show their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired of having to beg every December⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  santa feeds those to the reindeer. so enjoy the poop and puke on the roof next to a dead reindeer. three blocks over, you’ll find the wreckage of where they crashed into a building because they lost rudolph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its in the details...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s actually a fartpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just saw this in a supermarket and I am now very upset and angry at whoever thought of such a thing and you need to feel my pain.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  better off mixing your own; different than orange juice, but not as horrible as it sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  warframe used to be. but it’s near-impossible now to start & get through even the first major ‘holyshit’ moment without having it at least partially spoiled before hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well then, perhaps governments should start blocking more ‘mergers’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but it takes three lefties to get it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  waiting for David Bowie to show up

  david’s bowie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i remember looking that stuff up before… iirc, vance would not enter the line of succession until the congressional count of electoral votes in early january.