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HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP’s support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

grue,

after Windows pushes new firmware

If a Linux distro pushed bad HP firmware, people would be blaming the Linux distro. Why does Microsoft get a free pass?

grue,

I’m really getting sick and tired of fascists being continually given the benefit of the doubt.

Let’s make this very clear: Aileen Cannon is not “in over her head,” “getting bogged down,” or “overwhelmed by the process.” She knows exactly what she’s doing, and she’s doing it on purpose. As far as I’m aware, she hasn’t missed a single trick in doing everything possible to throw the case in favor of Trump while retaining the tiniest fig leaf of deniability. If anything, she is masterful at corruption!

All these moderate dipshits hemming and hawing and second-guessing the intentionality of everything the fascist traitors do in some misguided compulsion to “decorum” or “norms” or “fair play,” ignoring that Trump thoroughly jettisoned all of those things a decade ago, are going to eventually find themselves in front of a firing squad of redhats and be mystified as to how they got there.

grue,

You can be, but she isn’t. She only appears incompetent to those naive enough to believe her real goal is to faithfully try the case, but that is very much not her goal.

If you think she’s incompetent at her real goal of protecting Trump from justice, I challenge you to cite even a single instance where she had the opportunity to further that goal and didn’t avail herself of it.

grue,

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander: it’s time for patriots to start challenging the fraudulent voter registrations of Republicans in places like North Fulton County.

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Russia is pretty much a vassal state of China at this point, or at least barreling down the path towards it.

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LOL, I don’t give a fuck how the Russians see it; I care about actual reality.

grue,

Putin isn’t brown.

grue,

Work on those reading comprehension skills. This discussion is in the context of the US supplying weapons to Ukraine, so that they can (hopefully) bomb Putin.

grue,

For bicycle repair, sheldonbrown.com is my go-to, along with YouTube.

grue,

I wish I could find a good intermediate reference that picked up at the level of detail the books you mentioned leave off.

For example, I’m framing a wall for the first time and although every book will tell you “put studs 16” on center," it’s hard to figure out that the spacing gets measured from the left edge of the first stud. They also don’t tell you things like where the seam should fall when the wall is long enough that you need more than one board for the top plate, or what to do if you want to locate an electrical box halfway between two studs, or (in a lot of the books) even something as basic as how to detail a corner connection.

grue,

Wait, wait, wait… How many bribes “gifts” are the other SCOTUS members getting? 'Cause I hadn’t heard of any 'til now and naturally assumed it was ≈0!

grue,

The government already has rules to quantify and account for that sort of thing in various contexts, such as this or (more strictly) this. Similar rules simply need to be imposed on SCOTUS.

grue,

I’m pretty sure Omada is proprietary, which is why I’m not using it even though my TP-Link access points support it.

grue,

I’m still using an Archer C7 running OpenWRT that I bought years and years ago, and I like it well enough that I also bought one for my parents and a couple more as backup (when I found them for ~$10 on clearance).

If the AX23 is just an upgraded version that is otherwise similar (i.e. can also run OpenWRT)—and I have no reason to think it isn’t—then I would consider it a fine choice.

grue,

False dichotomy: I’ll still happily grab a paper map to this day if given the option, but I’ve never paid for one.

Every paper map I’ve ever used has been either a state highway map given for free at the state welcome center on the side of the freeway, or a state/national park hiking trail map given for free at the visitor center or ranger station.

grue,

It’s not going to get that deep, or do so that fast.

I am thinking about buying some beachfront property near the Fall Line for my descendants to inherit, though.

grue,

Additionally it is much easier to just move to higher ground.

Yeah, because rebuilding most of the world’s major cities all at once is no big deal at all.

grue, (edited )

Much, much bigger deal than not letting the Earth warm enough to flood them in the first place.

grue,

At first I was sad reading that an actor I liked turned out to be a bigot, but then I realized I was confusing this dipshit with Roy Scheider and felt better.

grue,

The Boondocks referenced it explicitly as something that already existed (claiming Luther Vandross liked it).

As an Atlantan, I’m fairly certain a burger with Krispy Kreme doughnuts for buns was known to be a thing before that episode aired.

grue,

It’s not just that; they also modify the ECU tuning and maybe even swap out fuel injectors themselves to dump in lots of extra fuel that there isn’t enough air to burn. Even without particulate filters and DEF, Diesels don’t naturally produce anywhere near that much soot. You’ve got to deliberately force them to be that bad!

(Source: I have a '98 VW TDI—made before DPFs and DEF were things—that I’ve modded for more performance, and even in the worst-case scenario of flooring it while running dino-diesel, it barely produces a haze. On B100 biodiesel, it’s even cleaner.)

Bottom line is that if a Diesel is producing lots of visible smoke, it’s either really, really old and shitty (think pre-1980s non-turbo indirect injection), or it’s severely worn out, or somebody made it do it on purpose.

grue,

What part of “programming languages are standards” do you not understand?

What you wrote is like suggesting that Internet Explorer shouldn’t have been allowed to implement JavaScript and that all websites should’ve been forced to decide between being compatible with only Netscape or only IE.

grue,

Honestly the fascists make me miss the conservatives they at least had feigned internal consistency on their morals

FTFY.

grue,

Thanks, but I was hoping for a link to the whole video rather than a screenshot.

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