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I inadvertedly discovered a way to bypass the online account requirement. You just need to create an account online, disable it and then try to install Windows. The system will detect that you are registered but it can't let you log in so it will offer you an offline account.

Did a fun experiment to see if the hype about the M1 is true. Downloaded and installed... 25fps and moderately playable at 5120x1440. Not bad. And the laptop doesn't even heat up or fans spin.

https://eclypsium.com/2021/09/20/everyone-gets-a-rootkit/ Is this a news anymore? Yet another serious vulnerability in all current versions of Windows.

Linus tech tips got early access to the Steam deck and was really impressed, contrary to what some members here predicted:

Microsoft got such a backlash from it's Win11 upgrade video that it blocked further commenting and deleted all previous posts, after 1000+ dislikes and only 100 likes :LOL...

Interesting results in Blender performance Ubuntu vs Windows 10... Favorite quote @8:45 :D

This meme pretty much sums it up for me. Do you use IoT devices in your home and if so, why?

Apparently if you install the update and have bitlocker enabled, Windows will lock you out of your computer and force to enter the bitlocker recovery key. Must be a fun surprise just before that crucial business meeting :D Especially if you don't have access to a device in order to perform the...

What's your record? I'll post a baseline

https://thehackernews.com/2020/08/microsoft-software-patches.html So if you use Windows, better either stop using it or at least update and pray.

Last weeks Windows security update corrupted my sons Intel 910 SSD array. I had to troubleshoot him on the phone for the majority of the day and nothing seemed to fix it. Then another Windows update later like magic, the array was functional again. I wish I could send a damn bill to MS for every...

Been working day job and then nights on server upgrades for the past 56 hours. Been hitting cold snacks for the past 2 hours. Hands up any1 else with severe work stress :D

https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/windows-fileless-malware-attack.html

A free decrypt tool has been released: https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/pylocky-free-ransomware-decryption.html

Everyone is complaining how gaming on linux sucks but at the same time the origins of linux (unix) actually started from rewriting code in order to make a space game run better:

A friend of mine is a devoted Windows user so he even went and bought a Surface pro 3. He is also a home theater hobbyist that has been forced recently to start using streamed content (the local blu-ray rental store went bankrupt). Whenever he streams any content using the surface pro, direct...

This video may give a fix. Recently someone complained slow boot times but I couldn't find the thread:

If you need tools to analyze your bluescreen crash dumps, scan folders etc. here is a list of freeware tools: http://nirsoft.net/system_tools.html

I ran into this interesting video of the history of the desktop operating system: 'Q-DOS, Quick and Dirty Operating System which was 'dirty' being an illegal copy of CP/M became MS-DOS'. Yeah.

About 4 years ago I made the mistake of buying another Seagate, this time an SSHD. It croaked now of course. I've had 100% failure rate with Seagates. Some claim they had a Seagate that survived. I call it an urban myth!

My mother (who is on Ubuntu Mate) unfortunately uses Skype to communicate with my sister who lives abroad. Today she complains that Skype lost the stored user credentials. Turns out that even after resetting the password, Skype crashes immediately after logging in. The reason? Skype got...

There are so many forks of virtual currencies at the moment that I thought of making one of my own. It's called the Boogercoin and it works utilizing SPU (Smell Processing Units) mining. Identically to Bitcoin the value of Boogercoin is based on limited availability and block chains. The crowd...

Another very revealing presentation by a professional audio mastering technician / audiophile: Shines some light to the format discussion we had in a previous thread.

Here's a youtube video which lets you compare sounds from different sources and try to figure out if you can hear a difference between 25 dollar and 1500 dollar DAC among many other tests.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/09/new_amiga_to_land_in_late_2017/ Bulletdust, are you going to be one of the shoppers? :D

I hear that one is the latest and best, very popular. Anyone tried it yet? Oh, you wouldn't be reading this, right...

I met a neighbor at the convenience store and since I sold him a monitor 10 years ago, he confronted me with his computer issue: His old laptop died and he couldn't install Thunderbird again (he's a bit older guy already). I told him that not only I can help him with that, I can probably rescue...

Here's the first measurements of the horn subwoofer build. 100db at 0,5 watts not bad. The resonance at 50hz is caused by the flimsy shipping crate the sub sits on currently. It weighs in excess of 120 kilos. It would go deeper but it's high passed at 18hz in order to give it a 2500 watt power...

A couple of minutes ago my daughter called me upstairs and complained that her Windows became all weird. The desktop was full of windows and her shortcuts were gone. She did nothing to it except played some GTA V. Turns out that something somehow had enabled the tablet mode on her desktop...

Both my sons and my gaming boxes got a forced Win10 update last week. I'm running Win10 pro and he's running Win10 home. The update porked our Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titaniums so that the microphone devices became 'undetected'. Driver reinstall etc. tricks didn't help. Had to roll back the...

Some people who consider themselves IT engineers claim that if you install Win10 the included p2p services will make your computer a part of a p2p network for distributing updates. Sounds pretty wild, anyone have studied the data traffic more carefully already? I know the p2p services exist...

Today I installed Ubuntu linuxes on both my mother- and father in law. They were enthusiastic to try the new OS and loved the wobbly windows animations of the Compiz. So now my mother, mother in law and father in law all use linux at 70+ lol.

Latest research shows what I've been telling all along - Android store is full of spy/malware. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537186/the-truth-about-smartphone-apps-that-secretly-connect-to-user-tracking-and-ad-sites/

I just watched the live feed from the todays EVA. They were showing a screen capture of the orbit - and the computer was showing a Windows XP desktop on the background lol.

Google released the Google Earth pro version for free. Or so it seems untill you see that it wants to install 'an updater' program that comes attached to 'new privacy rules' that basically state you're agreeing to install spyware on your computer.

Changed internet providers, got pretty horrible results: It's expensive too, 40 bucks a month no data cap.

http://news.yahoo.com/telepathy-experiment-sends-1st-mental-message-222701481.html Looks like Matrix is going to happen before Judgement Day. Anyone? :p

Tried Mint Petra just on virtualbox, seems buggy as hell. Flash playback is broken, browsers are gimped to limit search engine selection and the two tested browsers (firefox, chromium) froze the whole virtual OS on several occasions untill I killed the whole image in disgust. Does it work any...

I've been trying to find a 'Tomshardware' type of site or an article that would list current generation monitors and have a comparison chart for their respective input lags. Google has a few hits but even on those many bloggers do not even understand what input lag is and start talking about...