The final boss of Windows is to crowbar out a metric shitton of bullshit and you do it with a bunch of registry tweaks and GPedit
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
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Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee
UNIX: rename your NIC to something human readable
windows 10: uninstall edge
windows 11: uninstall copilot
windows: uninstall
I am not nearly computer literate enough to understand what all these comments are talking about. But I expected personal bias to be one of the answers.
Have an upvote just for commenting.
Yes, there's always gonna be some sort of tech bias regarding such questions. Every OS has flaws, somewhere..
If it's unix, sudo rm -rf /* the system without mercy!
If it's windows, nah, it will win.
- First you pay money to Canonical, and then you load the disc into the PC.
- Animal noises and bongo drums play for some reason and you're presented with an orange game menu.
- You click on one of the squares stacked clumsily on the left and nothing happens.
- You click it again and it drags with your mouse up the hierarchy.
- Finally, it lets go and a big white square fills the screen, knocking you off your chair.
- A popup window spawns from an empty corner and informs you that there are 25 packages that can be updated.
- Daunted by the unending onslaught, you curl up into a ball and weep
Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.
The final boss is acknowledging the hubris of believing you could ever win.
That final boss is easy. Just do Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then start killing all processes one-by-one until you get the blue screen of victory
Blue screen of victory?
Fuck, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! ππ€£
Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano
Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.
I say you've won an operating system once you've contributed code that got into its kernel
So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!
Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.
The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.
Game over.
Alright, have an upvote π
But.. If you wrote the boss (or even just portions of it), then defeat the kernel boss you partly wrote, isn't that like cheating?
Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.
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There is literally written that :q to exit!
People who have never had the pleasure of experiencing vim might not realize that the colon is a part of the command and will start recording a macro instead.
If you read the clues, yes.
Wont work if you have unsaved edits or are in insert mode. Escape then :q! will.
and when typing :q with unsaved edits it literally also says βadd ! to overrideβ
True.
I tend to use ZZ it ZQ instead. Its been a while.
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BTRFS deciding it's corrupt and refusing even read only access.
Edit: You beat it by trashing the disk, using any other file system, restoring from backup and accepting any losses.
God.
You patch God out of TempleOS
Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.
Win10, the updates that keep loading bloatware and undoing debloater
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Guru meditation
Grub Rescue
Same way you overcome any of life's challenges: decide it's impossible bullshit and move onto another game
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