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Małgorzata. Poland. i-post-what-i-want blog, but I like Doctor Who, GoT, LOTR/The Hobbit, Qi, ST TOS/TNG, SGU, Discworld, NBCHannibal, cats, birds, random stuff... a lot of other things I take GIF REQUESTS Martin Freeman Russell Crowe Richard...

[everythingfox]

Sneaky orange

[roach-works]

[literally21]

Felt that it’s important to share videos like this too.

[starlightshadowsworld]

The world wants us to forget that they are people.

People who dance and play and smile just like you and I.

And it's important to share things like this, to remind them the world that they are human.

[whyactlikeahuman]

[quasikool]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

[themadmanandhisbox]

[marymunchkiin]

IM DEAD Obi wan is roasting him alive, AGAIN 🤣🤣🤣

[alamogirl80]

If I don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

[enibas22]

YouTube Fraunhofer InnoVisions

link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkJYOXYipg4

»Robertas Reise ins All« gelesen von Tom Wlaschiha | »Down to Earth Space Technology«

31.08.2023

#raumfahrt#TomWlaschiha#AlexanderPfeuffer

Nehmen Sie Teil an Robertas spannender Reise ins All! In dieser Lesung nimmt Sie der renommierte Schauspieler Tom Wlaschiha (u. a. Game of Thrones, Stranger Things) mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise durch das Universum. Autor Alexander Pfeuffer hat eine packende Geschichte für Kinder im Grundschulalter geschrieben, die sowohl junge als auch alte Zuhörer faszinieren wird.

The video is 59:07 minutes, German language

[meckamecha]

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[kuromi-hoemie]

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.

Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO

I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Turn off user tracking: enabled

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled

Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled

Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled

Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled

Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Allow Cortana: disabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

[meckamecha]

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

[catchaspark]

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

[timefortigers]

sheds a single tear

[catchaspark]

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

[gholateg]

Lil Early, but fuck it! I’m not missing it this year.

[schwarzfee]

[kazoosandfannypacks]

Reblog to do that to the person you reblogged it from <3

[proboscidea-althaeifolia]

polish government has opened a website for ukrainians seeking safety and trying to cross the ukrainian-polish border:

ua.gov.pl

as of 13:10 polish time, it has been said as many people as possible will be let through the borders. they are also supposed to let through children who do not have passports, as to not divide families.

[chaberkowepole]

Polish person here, I've been on the website, it looks legit! Adding the full link here:

Ukraina - Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców - Portal Gov.pl

Information is available in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and English

Please get the help available!

Other people, please boost this!!!!

[thickest-antivirus-programs]

Gov.pl is a legit website connected to the polish government i use it to look at tax info and school stuff (it has the lessons for the teachers written out) and driving license info. So this is legit!!!

[moustache-bonnet]

Ukrainian friends, you can also cross the border to Slovakia, with or without a passport, or at least that's the latest update from our Ministry of Interior. You must prepare yourselves for waiting in lines as they check every individual vehicle upon entering (waiting times according to our news are hours long because of shitty capacities but hopefully after today the officials will figure out a more effective system). If anybody has a link too, I'd be grateful as I haven't found anything useful prior to adding to the post. I hope you all stay safe.

[221btimelordette]

I was initially planning on being a casual fan, but then I thought, why not just let it consume my soul instead? 

[quasi-normalcy]

You know how there’s that one Discworld novel where some peasant’s family keeps getting sick because his outhouse is located too near to his well? And Tiffany Aching tries over and over to convince him that needs to move his well by explaining the germ theory of disease and the idea of a water table, and it just doesn’t work? And then Granny Weatherwax shows up and just tells him that he’s sick because his well is haunted by evil spirits, so he immediately digs a new well?

Well I’m starting to think that maybe we ought to be adopting a “headological” approach to public health and environmentalism.

[motherfucker-unlimited]

[lord-of-the-weird]

[dwgif]

DOCTOR WHO (2005-) “Turn Left” (4.11)

[gentianjune]

[grenade-maid]

I think the moment that convinced me the operating logic of our society is truly fucked in a way that cannot merely be reformed was after that eclipse in 2017 when the articles started coming out about how much money had been lost by productivity dropping from people stopping momentarily to watch it happen. To measure the world by the metric of the dollar to such a devotion that any cult leader would be jealous of that you would look at one of the most sublime experiences in nature which we, our ancestors, and even a not insignificant number of non-human species, have been observing in awestruck wonder for millennia, and decide that such a moment of profundity is something to be fought and preferably expunged from the human experience because it briefly impacts quarterly revenue.

It’s a feeling that has been coming up repeatedly, but with increasing frequency in the last few years. That being: what is all of this for? Where are we going? Nobody who defends the status quo can seem to answer it. What’s the point of an uninterrupted quarterly revenue stream if we can’t even look at an eclipse every few years? What’s the point of hustling and grinding 50, 60, 70 hour weeks if you never have time to have dinner with your friends, talk to your family on the phone, but on a bigger spectrum, what’s the point of all of that if you still don’t have any way of retiring in the future? With the way that our lives are being increasingly monetized and squeezed every second, what is there to look forward to?

[spockeveryday]

[hydrocotyle-vulgaris]

‘Pagan Poetry’ by Polish photographer Macin Nagraba

All costumes made by Agnieszka Osipa.