28 Years Later trailer

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I LOVED the movie 28 Days Later when I saw it as a kid and I still adore it. I sat out 28 Weeks Later because I was so mad they’d made a sequel to a perfect movie. But this really good trailer for the next installment got me back into the franchise.

Set to a chilling arrangement of “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling. Really good use of a poem. (The Guardian has some more, also chilling, info.)

I—’ave—marched—six—weeks in ‘Ell an’ certify

It—is—not—fire—devils, dark, or anything,

But boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again,

An’ there’s no discharge in the war!

reddit

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Today I can no longer access Old Reddit (the one with the remotely useable interface) and maybe that’s my cue it’s time to leave the platform. I did get into a huge argument last night about why you shouldn’t call female characters whores, and was downvoted. This was on a subreddit that is a haven for sexism and racism, but it stung all the same. Reddit is not for me. I’m there but I know it hates me. Sometimes I get creepy messages from strangers asking me out. It’s a weird, weird place.

My mother-in-law who I’m very close to is getting older and she doesn’t understand technology. She keeps getting pop-ups on her phone like this one, which I posted to reddit in a rage last year after finding it on a game I downloaded from Swagbucks. (Swagbucks itself is very good, but the free games they offer are soul-suckers.)


You and me know that that ad is a disgusting scam, but someone who lived the vast majority of their life without technology does not. If Luigi Mangione had gotten around to shooting the person who made that scam, I would break into prison just to shake his hand. Anyway, a year on and my mother-in-law is constantly worried about her phone because of scams like that one. That’s what she was worrying about today. I feel so bad for her and so unimaginably fucking angry that she has to deal with that. And I will never forget the response I got when I posted that screenshot to Reddit. It was this, upvoted seven times:


Caring for relatives is difficult. It ate up my childhood, and now as an adult I see even worse things, like Alzheimer’s. I see the disabled people of the world being prey to the monsters that scam them over their phones, and cunts like that just want to cape for the companies profiting off human misery. Burn in hell, “ps4rulez.”

…….Anyway, yeah, probably best to avoid Reddit for a bit. I wish I could take my mother-in-law out somewhere nice.

I am SO invested in the UnitedHealthcare assassination right now

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This story has EVERYTHING. An unsympathetic victim, a cryptic message carved into bullets, a hot assassin, a Christmas setting. Better than most of the movies I’ve seen this year. I sense a folk hero in the making, especially if the guy is never caught. People are already selling “deny, defend, depose” t-shirts.

Basically, yeah, really digging this edgier remake of A Christmas Carol where the three ghosts are played by three bullets.

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shrimpblaster:

meckamecha:

kuromi-hoemie:

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.

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:

  1. Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.
  2. Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBEBypassNRO
  3. 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

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

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.

The Ultimate Windows Utility

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.

Looking back

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Looking back over old posts in this journal/archive/whatever it is, it just seems like a long line of “Ah yes, I wrote that before he turned out to be awful.” So many celebrities I liked were exposed as bad people inbetween the last Trump administration and the (sigh) new one. Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling … All sorts of stuff I used to really like has just gone now. (I am glad that Good Omens is getting a final episode to finish things off, but that’s because of the actors involved, not because of Gaiman.) It’s depressing.

Unfortunately the lesson I seem to have taken from this is “Try not to like anything” and “Assume every celebrity, if not every person, is bad.” I don’t think that’s going to work out very well in the long term.

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