never install optional preview updates for windows.
that's what this one is. if you install what is essentially a beta update, expect the worst. that your computer will not boot back up. that your data went 'poof'. that kind of 'worst'. a lost wallpaper and goofed up cursor is nothing compared to what could happen.
the file splits, yea. but it was the recovery records that winrar has that made it become the de facto standard in that place we don't talk about.
i just set up a new laptop for someone--well just the account bullshit they couldn't get past. none of the tricks to bypass the microsoft account requirement worked, even the "WinJS" method that was the only known way to do that on s-mode.
i think from here on when someone brings me a new windows POS, i'm gonna just be nuking the oem load and putting a rufus'd one on instead if they want windows (and unfortunately, most do).
Now it's $30 but it's still like buying a cd a month.
it's about twice as much as a mainstream cd at a brick-and-mortar or a random sampling of physical disc offerings at bandcamp.
the criminal-in-chief wants more 'donations' from major retailers.
we had no cop or 'resource officer' at all, in any of the schools i attended (70s-80s minnesota, rural and the cities). the only times we even saw cops at school was when they were conning parents into letting them have our fingerprints, or for what became the annual 'DARE scare'.
already have a media 'server' and several things to watch 'tv' on or from.
this is what we were doing with it.. trying out winpodx, but it's not quite 'usable' like this (updated after this, does same). so it (and it's hp cousin with similar specs) sit waiting for their next call-to-arms.
i'm using an optiplex sff with 32gb ddr4 as a monitor stand right now. i just don't know what the hell to do with it.. so it sits, probably until the dietpi running on a jaguar soc keels over.
the sku and item description indicates a third-party sold the item via bestbuy's web site. it was upgraded by that third party before final sale. the extra ram would be covered by that entity, not bestbuy.
but we do not know if bestbuy actually returned the modules that were originally in the laptop, nor do we know if it was the oem one or the added one that was 'bad'. we also don't know if the third-party seller simply added one so-dimm to the original configuration or pulled the original to install a matched pair instead.
if it was the oem one, it should have been covered by lenovo's warranty, i.e. replaced by bestbuy as a warranty repair--the laptop having been upgraded is irrelevant to that remedy.
this is the next logical step. raise the 'price' of 'regular' windows and systems with windows...
so the subscription looks like a 'good' deal.
they actually make money on many of those windows preinstalls due to all the bullshit they get paid to put on.
i used to do the one-month binge on one service. then awhile later, do a different one.
prices kept going up. i don't even do that any more.
it's been over two years now without anything but what i already have in my library, or the occasional free streamer through pihole or a ubo-backed browser.
i just don't care about new 'tv' or movies anymore.