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Run by andwereallwevegot. A blog for all the stuff I find on other people's blogs.

[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!

[shrimpblaster]

I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.

As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech's debloat tool on it.

Having Fun with Technology

It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.

[hil-arrr-y]

Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:

This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Shout-out to @ms-demeanor for putting these on my dash again, I’d like to add this exceptional interview question “answer guide” that explains traps and “the best” way to answer over 64 common questions. I don’t know who to attribute it to, but here it is: PDF from tri valley one-stop career center.

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Hey some of these answer templates helped J get an offer letter from her dream job; strongly recommend you read them if you’re job hunting

[lapt0pp]

how to grow the fuck up

[friendliness]

Home

what the hell is a mortgage?

first apartment essentials checklist

how to care for cacti and succulents

the care and keeping of plants

Getting an apartment

Money

earn $50-$100 by taking surveys

how to coupon

what to do when you can’t pay your bills

see if you’re paying too much for your cell phone bill

54 ways to save money

How to do Your Own Taxes

Health

how to take care of yourself when you’re sick

things to bring to a doctor’s appointment

how to get free therapy

how to prevent a hangover

a list of stress relievers

how to remove a splinter

Emergency

rights when cops pull you over

a list of hotlines in a crisis

things to keep in your car

how to do the heimlich maneuver

Job

time management

create a resume

find the right career

choosing a major

job interview tips

how to stop procrastinating

How to write cover letters

Travel

ultimate packing list

traveling when you have no money 

best way to pack a suitcase

how to apply for a passport

how to make a travel budget

Better You

read the news

leave your childhood traumas behind

how to quit smoking

how to stop skipping breakfast

how to stop micromanaging

ways to get better at asking for help

how to stop being a pushover

learn another language

how to improve your self-esteem

how to sew

reasons to stay alive

small daily goals

[eatingdisorderssuck01]

Imma need this eventually cause they don’t teach you jack squat in school

[sanders-sides-uncorrect-quotes]

Ima schedule to reblog this when I’m 16.

[mxdragonturtle]

Ima need this eventually

[ace-lost-in-motherfucking-space]

same fam.

[angelmavmurdock]

reblogging so i have it for when i leave school in a year yessir

[the-haiku-bot]

reblogging so i

have it for when i leave school

in a year yessir

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[3liza]

Bra Fitting Graphics

 

[3liza]

fyi

[3liza]

this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it

[eternallybutthurt]

I haven’t stopped laughing at this

[jaimeedarling]

hmmm… there’s probably an INFINITELY more humane way to do this…

i get that they’re not killing them and they end up fine, but imagine the trauma of you, a mammal, going through a long ass tube, not knowing what’s going to happen to you, and you can’t breathe. 🤷‍♀️

[itsaruse]

They get misted with water throughout the thing, and it results in fewer injuries than the ‘ladder’ method. Also, it’s a fish. It never knows what’s going to happen to it at any point in time throughout its life.

[jackhawksmoor]

Also, I, a mammal, have paid 80 bucks to get into a water park to get the opportunity to feel like that fish, and that motherfucker gets in for free every day is fish day at the fish waterpark

[weaselle]

well the MOST humane thing would be to not build dams blocking salmon migration routes, nor create a society where there are only resources allocated to solving the problem at all because blocking the salmon endangers the profits of a segment of the food industry. 

Buuuut since we’re past that already, here are a couple of additional thoughts:

1 this IS the more humane alternative, which was invented to lower injury and death rates associated with previous techniques. When a better alternative is revealed it will probably replace this one. But this one is a pretty huge improvement over the other methods, one of which killed off something like 80% of the fish involved. A study of the above fish tube was conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in 2017 on the Columbia River and showed a much higher success rate. In that study, only one fish died (“due to a human error during the system setup”) and only 3 percent had signs of injury. So. The next best improvement might have to be “remove dam”

2 they are on their way to die. That is where we are helping them get to. That’s the end goal of the salmon’s migration. They on their way to mutate, start rotting alive, have an orgy, and die. That’s where the tube is taking them.

So like, it’s not going to be the weirdest thing they experience this month, is what i’m saying. 

[gilfmobile]

[mckitterick]

thank you for that, @hug-your-face

[homunculus-argument]

The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.

With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.

[redrobin-detective]

Danny Phantom headcanon that for how unpopular they are, most of Casper High and various other people follow the trio on public social media. It’s not like they’re interested in the nerds lives or whatever but you just never know what’s going to show up. Fenton posting videos of living hotdogs running around his living room? Foley taking selfies from atop Amity’s tallest (also restricted) building? Manson making an impassioned video on globalism while Fenton is doing something strange and unsettling in the background? 

There’s something UP with the nerds but no one wants to ask but everyone follows them because everyone wants to know what the hell they’re going to do next.

[captainkirkk]

You can’t convince me Tucker and Sam don’t have semi-popular accounts. Goth vegan sjw who isn’t afraid to tell politicians to fuck off? Hacker nerd that posts food porn? Not to mention the fact that they’re both insanely skilled gaming nerds. Gaming channel WHEN

Meanwhile the Fentons have been That Family since Danny was little. And while Danny tries to radiate the same “nothing to see here” vibe, it has a tendency to slip. Especially when he doesn’t have Sam kicking him under the table to remind him to Be A Normal, Totally Alive Teenage Boy. Which means the place he slips up the most is probably Twitter, when he flat-out forgets that people outside of Sam, Tucker, and Vlad follow him

[reallydumbdannyphantomaus]

danny, posting a photo of plasmius with one eye half closed and his tongue sticking out slightly: @vladmasters look at how dumb this ghost looks

vlad, seething: well that was OBVIOUSLY a photo taken when the ghost wasn’t expecting it look at how sexy that ghost looks normally [posts a selfie with a flower crown filter]

jack fenton, retweeted by danny: vladdy, are you. fucking the wisconsin ghost?

[dannysanny]

Some excellent additions

[captainkirkk]

Vlad is cancelled on Twitter - not for wanting to fuck a ghost (re: the whole “it’s not gay if he’s dead” thing), but for having such terrible taste

[redrobin-detective]

#Vlad has done a lottttt of shady things as mayor#but it’s the fact that everyone thinks he wants to fuck PLASMIUS of all ghosts that gets him in hot water#and the more people point out how musty plasmius the more Vlad buckles down and tries to insist he’s hot as hell#Danny is having a BLAST#Vlad tries to get him back and accuse him of being into his counter part too#but every teenager in amity park is ALSO into phantom so it doesn’t work#dp @captainkirkk

please guys please I’ve done enough spit takes from the tags on this post. I can’t take it anymore.

[sheepscot]

[ravenatural-art]

I would like to share with you all glockwork, a joke that came about in the dark ages server and that I can’t believe I forgot to share here

[frauleinpflaume-deactivated2020]

For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

[ladytygrycomics]

Great find, thanks!

[keiko86chanart]

OMG HEAVEN!!

Bless you!!!!

[art-res]

Very nice resource for those looking to improve their perspective, composition, and background rendering skills!

[paolando]

We need to talk more about this.

[ahallister]

A number of experts (such as Dr. Russell Barkley) have advocated changing the name of ADHD,as it does a very poor job of describing a handful of symptoms, and entirely ignores the root cause. As I recall, his preference was Executive Function Deficit Disorder, which does a much better job of describing what is happening, and has the benefit of being ‘I have a condition which causes difficulty in performing these types of tasks’ rather than ‘I don’t pay attention and can’t sit still’, which more closely tracks to ‘disability’.

[starshipviolet]

i know the magnus archives just ended and i want to share recommendations for some really cool underrated podcasts that y’all can check out!

the pasithea powder: two women communicating through voice recordings after a space war, they’re both bi and they were both childhood friends but now after the war, they’re in completely different places. sophie, a war hero, touring planets to try to get everyone to believe that yes, there’s really peace, and jane in a prison on their homeplanet for science war crimes- and together they, at first grudgingly, investigate a government conspiracy! and slow burn.

the strange case of starship iris: violet liu’s government space science vessel goes up in a mysterious explosion, leaving her stranded and left to rely on the sketchy “kay grishman” and her wonderful very queer found family crew, and they fight fascists, i really couldn’t recommend it more

me & au: 2 queer women bond over the “selkirk” fandom, a canadian werewolf show, through tumblr messages and fanfic readings until they eventually find each other irl!

greenhouse by atypical artists: two women- okay if you’re sensing a theme here you’re not wrong, but you know i feel like magnus archives has some sad sapphic narratives so really i’m being helpful anyway- after her philanthropist father’s death, jane finds in his will that the only way he would let her continue living in his house is by writing letters to abigail, a woman who works at the flowershop he would visit every sunday. the two bond over their shared anxieties, loss, classic books and movies before Events Occur pulled from jane’s past that pull them together in real life.

brimstone valley mall: demons who work in a mall right before y2k! theyre goth and in a band and looking for their missing lead singer before the reckoning.

dear liisphrya: call in advice show for magical creatures! lots of queer rep, just a light good time

[weaver-z]

Me and the other ex-evangelicals watching this r/n

[biglawbear]

Oh this is powerful, I literally GASPED

[your-very-rude-neighborhood-ace]

omg i love this

[december-rains]

Fuck yes -🧡

[fozmeadows]

on anti culture & how narrative influences reality

So look.

A common point of discourse from anti-shippers is the fact that narrative influences reality, and therefore - they claim - depictions of harmful acts will have a normalizing effect on how real people perceive those acts outside of fiction. The problem with this claim is that, while there is evidence for the idea that narrative can indeed influence reality, it’s a gross distortion of fact to say that it does so in the specific way they mean.

Read on below the cut:

Keep reading

[demonicseries]

Imagine an animated movie with a canonically gay friends-to-enemies-to-lovers storyline ending in love confession and gay kiss, along with a canonically nonbinary main character

...oh wait... you don't have to imagine, because the movie Nimona (by the creator of she-ra) is 75% complete in production. The problem? IT JUST GOT CANCELLED!

Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios, which was producing the movie, so our best hope is that it gets picked up by another production company.

To help, please sign these petitions to show that people want to see this movie:

petition 1

petition 2

Reblog to spread awareness

[etherianinenine]

Alas, they are not “cowabunga” people

[etherianinenine]

Important addition:

[itsqueenshroom]

my bf and I have the same fucking brain

Quiplash is the greatest game ever made because it allows for things like this and you can’t change my mind.

[wooferdill]

[raideo]

[starshinebeaches]

[natsumischwartz]

[nylarac]

[ragsy]

[glowstickhaloboy]

question was how to get kicked out of hogwarts

[shadywinters]

Top tier answers here

[direfoxicorn]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Oh gawd every time you think it's over it gers BETTER

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