That’s kinda cool.

At least those recipes don’t incorporate glue.

Amen to that.

It’s funny you put it that way, because torrents are based fundamentally on the idea of freely hosting the data so nobody has to pay to access it.

It will do no such thing.

Yeah, like I said. No benefit to me. If anything, lots of these ‘features’ are things I want to actively avoid in my closed-source operating systems.

There is not a single thing Windows 11 does better than Windows 10 that benefits me. I’m sure I’ll get a good chuckle out of that list.

I changed the DNS on the router and the devices to Google’s 8888. Cleared my hosts file, too, but still can’t access my files over the network.

I flushed my DNS records and flipped a couple settings off, but no change. I’ll experiment with DNS more by removing it from the equation when I have time. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have checked that numerous times. The network is set to private. Sometimes it switches to Public if I turn on my VPN, but for testing purposes I’ve disabled that until I can successfully access a file share. One step at a time.

Subnet mask is 255.255.0.0. Router defaults to that so it’s what I put in on all the machines I’m trying to connect. Devices are all on the same time and zone. I’ve updated all the machines as much as I can, though all three devices fail KB5034441 with download error 0x80070643, but this shouldn’t be the problem since they were doing this before the problem arose as well. Shouldn’t, but I guess it could be since this is Windows. All 3 (share device, main PC tested and verified prior to reconfiguration, laptop) are Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045.4355.

That fucking snitch. You’re supposed to keep it private and let Microsoft figure it out themselves.

It was unfortunate, but not unexpected. Neo Launcher is a decent alternative, though it’s not quite on par with Nova, and their development has been very slow the last year. Benefit of GrapheneOS, I can just disable Nova’s network access, so I don’t really have to compromise here thankfully.

That’s exactly what a chatbot sophisticated enough to be an existential threat would say.

Wow. I’m totally shocked that Facebook would launch a free VPN out of nowhere and then use it for nefarious purposes. I was sure they just wanted to help humanity. /s

To be resumed at the end of the month, I’m sure.

Yeah, because when I go I count at least five blindingly bright phones in use during the fucking film. If I’m going to have a sub-par experience, I’m not overpaying for popcorn and soda, too. I’d rather wait for physical or streaming.

With all that free money, it looks like Nintendo will be just fine if I never purchase another one of their games. Hell, I may even offer to hack some of my friends’ systems just to spite Nintendo.

*Never Seemed

It was shit when Bethesda did it and it’ll to be shit when the people who bought Bethesda do it, too.