Meepercat,
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I wonder if I should show my brother my little tiny computer that is NOT a kitten toy. Giggles.

sclower,

@Meepercat What did you get?

Meepercat,
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@sclower A Beelink Mini Pc, although I'm about ready to tank the OEM windows install and do one myself because holy mother of Satan, this one sucks an economy size bag of unclipped wieners. As in, Meepers just had to to talk herself out of downloading a Windows 11 Pro image and throwing it on a thumb drive.

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @sclower Yeah, Beelink PC's have really broken default windows installs.

Meepercat,
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@FluidEscence @sclower I sigh fucking noticed. Now, picture me actually saying that while sighing, which I'm told only I manage to do. This thing is buggered beyond all belief. It looks like someone did it drunk.

fireborn,

@Meepercat @FluidEscence @sclower Most manufacturer installs of anything suck. This is why I appreciate being able to by my computers with no OS installed.

Meepercat,
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@FluidEscence @sclower And it looks mind you, like I'd have to get into the bios of the accursed thing to be able to install from bootable media. Oh isn't that just so cute and adorable and squeaky!

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @sclower no, I have a beelink and I can use, I think it's either F10 or F12, to get into the boot menu

Meepercat,
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@FluidEscence @sclower Oh for Bob's sake. But then you're gonna need eyes to deal with that boot menu right?

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @sclower no, in theory, not necessarily. Provided you have an actual bootable USB plugged in, down arrow once, enter. Works on almost every machine almost every time for me.

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @sclower if it doesn't, you probably don't have a proper bootable thingy.

Meepercat,
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@FluidEscence @sclower And what kinda rocket surgeries does it take to make/get a bootable thingydingy?

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @sclower all you have to do is on a working windows PC, download the windows 11 media creation tool, and follow the setup instructions with a USB drive of I think it's 8 or more GB plugged in. That produces bootable USB's reliably. So does Rufus, if you actually already have a windows ISO around somewhere and you don't wanna waste bandwidth.

Meepercat,
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@FluidEscence @sclower I've never meowing done it before, how the meow do I know if it produces bootable USB's reliably? I have a drive here...

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence it will if you use the media creation tool

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @sclower I mean, you can take my word for it? :) Because I've done it many many times?

bmoore123,
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@FluidEscence @Meepercat me too. many many times and never had it fail without telling me it did and why

bmoore123,
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@FluidEscence @Meepercat I have 2 of these things and got the built in installer to work no problem. what is the issue you are having?

Meepercat,
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@bmoore123 @FluidEscence I'm being cockblocked (tlitblocked?) every time I try to connect anything bluetooth.

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @bmoore123 there is a setting somewhere in bluetooth that you can tell it what kind of devices to allow to connect, I can't remember where that setting is though dammit

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @bmoore123 Oh, hang on, I have windows 11 right over there, I can just go check.

bmoore123,
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@FluidEscence @Meepercat me too. checking

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence easier than reinstalling windows might be to remove the bluetooth driver and let it reinstall itself.

Meepercat,
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@bmoore123 @FluidEscence It seems there are other comedies of errors I haven't found yet. This thing's only 24 hours old.

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence happy to try and sort it with rim if you want.

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence this is presuming it has internet at this point.

Meepercat,
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@bmoore123 @FluidEscence Oh. Oh yes it does. Because I spent most of last night pounding that much sense into it.

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence you got headphones or something with a mic connected? if you want, happy to do a rim session with voice and see if we can sort it out.

Meepercat,
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@bmoore123 @FluidEscence I have a front facing mic on this thing but no idea how good it is

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence doesn't have to be nice to talka through. shit sound is not a big deal for something like ths.

Meepercat,
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@bmoore123 @FluidEscence Headphones? Yeah that's part of the thing here, I have... a cheap 3.5mm pair of ... earbuds. As my headset right now. The only comfortable headsets I own with the ear monster are... bluetooth. so, this be a problem

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence do they have a mic?

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence could call on the phone I guess but rim is easier

Meepercat,
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@bmoore123 @FluidEscence Rim is easier, indeed. So I'll just be squeakless.

FluidEscence,

@Meepercat @bmoore123 am happy to help as well, but unfortunately, RIM can only connect one person at a time. Shame!

bmoore123,
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@FluidEscence @Meepercat yeah, too bad. this could be a fun group project to figure out

FluidEscence,

@bmoore123 @Meepercat well, I suppose, if you wanted to get crazy, one could connect over RIM and the other over like, NVDA remote, roflroflrofl!

bmoore123,
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@FluidEscence @Meepercat hey, we could try that

Meepercat,
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@FluidEscence @bmoore123 You two flip a coin and someone gimme the link to go download

bmoore123,
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@Meepercat @FluidEscence you pick who you want. I don't care which one of us do it

munchkinbear,

@Meepercat @FluidEscence @bmoore123 hopefully yall got her sorted. if you both burn your half hour I've got an hour sittin in the wings, note: rim is found at http://getrim.app

bmoore123,
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munchkinbear,

@bmoore123 @Meepercat @FluidEscence well go you! I didn't have the money to get both packages. sadly.

bmoore123,
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@munchkinbear @Meepercat @FluidEscence I got the community support thing and then bits membership got me an extra hour.

munchkinbear,

@bmoore123 @Meepercat @FluidEscence if it were a weekend I have unlimited squeaks.

bmoore123,
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@munchkinbear @Meepercat @FluidEscence oh yeah right, it isn't a holiday Monday there. it is here so I forgot that.

simon,

@FluidEscence @Meepercat @sclower also you don't even need to do that? Just install Windows from within Windows, choose to keep nothing.

FluidEscence,

@simon @Meepercat @sclower Oh god damn, I always forget you can do that, and I do that religiously. I always just assume there's not an OS installed lol

simon,

@FluidEscence @Meepercat @sclower Yeah. To be honest I think the normal reset option with the cloud download thing checked would also work. That should reinstall Windows from an official microsoft image. But making a Windows drive, reinstalling, and nuking Windows.old will also work.

x0,
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@simon @FluidEscence @Meepercat @sclower The most foolproof way of a clean install ir of course to format the disk, there's no telling what it might read from windows.old in terms of OEM shit

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