Lukka-Velven

Just an otaku passing by

[vancouver-lord-goldeneyes]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[mcmodknower]

If you have the time and flexibility, you can also try out libreoffice.

Download free office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Microsoft compatible, based on OpenOffice, and updated regularly.

[shucktsubo]

Just did this on November 14th, 2024, so this is very current!

[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.

[leahikol]

[thenegoteator]

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-- 'One Art' by Elizabeth Bishop

you ever think about how after everything Ahsoka told Vader "I'm not leaving you" and it wasn't enough

[renegade0897]

WARNING

This move is owned by the Jedi "Master" and completely extra drama king Anakin Hayden Skywalker. Any and all who attempts to replicate it will be slaughtered.

Then there's this bit.

The nerve of this man to call Ahsoka old. I mean, THE NERVE... Like, I really wished Ahsoka would've retaliated or something.

Ctto

[gffa]

Tfw your student is apparently still bothered by your 20+ year mass murder, child-killing, genocide spree:

"Is that what this is about?"

Really???? You're still hung up on that??

How much apologizing does he have to do??? (I mean, once would be nice.)

[tesb]

Hello, Snips. I didn't expect to see you so soon. HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AS ANAKIN SKYWALKER IN AHSOKA (2023)

[kelstares]

listened to sonne for 4 hours on loop that's the result

[lukka-velven]

Hello people of tumblr I have a serious question that won’t stop bugging my mind and google doesn’t help So the thing with jedi avoiding medbays, is it canon? If so could you guys help finding the source?

[stealingpotatoes]

various shmi lives au stuff because 1. i love her and 2. i don't draw the skywalker-lars family enough <3

(ko-fi requests are open!)

[othersystems]

[urbanpineapplefarmer]

It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.

He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.

Like, look at this stuff????

It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!

Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.

And then there's this one:

The Fantasy

For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.

The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.

But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.

Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.

This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.

"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.

"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.

"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.

[futureevilscientist]

There’s also Alexei Leonov, writer and artist and first person to conduct a spacewalk!

This is his art.

[sevensmallgummies]

You can't forget this, the first art made in space.

March 1965, Alexei Leonov made this drawing only moments after narrowly surviving the very first space walk.

[clonerightsagenda]

The Hohenheim post inspired a discussion on discord about Ed's daemon and the kid would absolutely be swanking around military installations with a bear or lion or eagle or miniature dragon, all big and flashy, showing off against his adult coworkers stuck with a single boring form. His daemon can go as far away from him as she wants, look! Definitely don't look at his brother who's an empty suit of armor missing a chunk of his soul.

However I maintain that once he's out of the military and not as obsessed with proving himself anymore (and also taller) she would settle as something a little more laid back and in keeping with being a rural househusband. His nature as a rowdy boy is not entirely changed though so I realized there is only one correct answer here that encompasses both that and rural simplicity: a goose.

Specifically a Steinbacher goose which I found when googling species because they were a fighting breed but are allegedly fairly chill and get along well with their siblings.

It is a beautiful day in the countryside and you are a terrible ex-state alchemist goose.

[ando666detonao]

don’t you ever read a piece of fanfiction so good you just

[casieyfran]

Skywalkers family 🥺 idc what anyone says they live happily in naboo. Anakin and padme is raising their babies

[phoenixkaptain]

I am once again obsessing over Mara and Anakin being narrative mirrors to each other.

Obi-Wan taking Anakin’s lightsaber away once he realizes that Anakin is no longer in the Light, then Luke giving Mara Anakin’s lightsaber because she’s trying her best to be in the Light.

Mara and Anakin, both groomed by Palpatine from a young age to be weapons for him, to do his bidding with no questions asked.

Mara and Anakin, who both break that manipulation by asking questions. Questions raised in them by Luke.

Palpatine wants both of them to either turn Luke or kill him, but both of them find themselves not incapable of hurting Luke, but not wanting to hurt Luke.

Neither of them want Luke to die because both of them want to know Luke. Both of them don’t want help, but want to be helped. Both of them felt alone, and both of them felt less alone when Luke was with them.

Their relationship to Luke (minus the romance, on Mara’s part, I’m talking purely the trilogy Mara was introduced in and the Original Trilogy of movies) is a direct parallel. Luke marks the beginning of the end of Anakin’s life, but the beginning of Mara being able to live. Luke giving Mara Anakin’s lightsaber is proof of this narrative mirroring, but also proof that Luke not only believed wholeheartedly in Anakin, but he’s now putting that unshakable trust in Mara.

The whole thing is fascinating because, if you really think about it, the Skywalker twins did the exact opposite of the stereotypical “if you’re a boy, you marry someone like your mom, if you’re a girl, you marry someone like your dad” thing. Mara is an Anakin parallel. Han isn’t technically a Padme parallel or mirror, but Han and Padme play similar roles in their stories, the third party love interest who is actually very talented with a blaster.

Luke married someone like his dad, Leia married someone like her mom, this is honestly something I wholeheartedly believe in and am shocked by every single time I think about it, despite the fact that I think about it often. I can’t get over it. It’s so… so funny.

(And yes, I am aware that Padme and Anakin were not, at that point in time, characters yet. Because Anakin was just the nebulous idea of good Vader and I’m pretty sure Padme isn’t even name-dropped once in any of the movies, until her actual appearance. This just makes it funnier.)

Anyway! All this! To say! I am obsessed with the idea of a Mara and Anakin dynamic! I think AU Anakin who never turns should be Mara’s Jedi Master because can you! Imagine! The! Chaos! They are two peas in a pod, both hanging on to their last shred of hope because they know Luke would be sad if they just snapped and murdered everyone who pisses them off!

Mara and Anakin should interact more because I think it would be the funniest shit ever, like really-

[david-talks-sw]

As an addendum to this post, I just wanted to share this other gem from the Revenge of the Sith script :D

Like, forget that Anakin gets to pull a Reverse Uno card on Obi-Wan's sass from Episode II...

... look at how it's written!

"Only in your mind *PERIOD* My Master."

Anakin fucking pauses for better effect before unleashing THE most sarcastic "My Master" in galactic history!

He's taking the time to savor his revenge and because this little shit knows Obi's not his Master anymore and he knows Obi will be triggered and will instantly remind him of that and he does it anyway.

I mean if it were shown on screen it'd be like:

These beautiful morons, I swear!