EpeeGnome

A fantastic piece of spite art.

Finally got a chance to watch this video. I don't know enough about how Windows works to have found the exploits they did, but I do know it well enough to understand what they did and found it hilarious. It's more practical to actually get out of S mode, but making everything run despite still being in S mode was a good laugh.

Yeah, it's technically already home version, just in a special mode, and it's trivial to switch out of if you don't mind connecting your Microsoft account to the computer. Just log into the Microsoft Store and "install" the switch out of s mode "app". It's a bit of a pain to get rid of it without adding an account, so if you want to do that, it's really easier to just do a fresh load that will automatically pick up the home edition license the laptop already has. Why not just use a disposable account just for switching laptops out of s mode? We tried doing that, but Microsoft locked the account after we'd logged it in and out of a dozen odd computers. Now we just use the customer's own account if they have one (and actually know their password), or reload Windows if they don't. You'd be amazed at the number of people buying cheapo S mode laptops and then being surprised when they can't load some other software they really need. (Or maybe you wouldn't be amazed if you've worked with the public before. Point is, a lot of people do this.)

Well, it's always pre installed on the cheapest laptops. Yeah, there are ways around it still, but it's not quite as easy as the old bypassnro.

Because it was really cheap and they didn't know the difference is the usual reason I encounter.

As long as it's not in S mode. Can't run cmd in S mode.

Yeah, bet she's feeling really loved right now.

If it's walkable, then it would be a solid giant, not a gas giant. What were they smoking?

That's my read on it too. Trying to have it both ways, and not exactly succeeding at it.

It's my understanding that the executive does not have the authority to unilaterally change official geographic names. As of my writing this, the name “change” has NOT been adopted by the United States government. Congress granted that authority to the US Board of Geographic Names in 1890. Unless accepted by the US BoGN, it changes nothing. I suppose Congress could rename it if they passed a bill that the president signed into law overriding that authority for that specific case, but until they did so, it’s not official.

Here is the link to the US Geographic Names Information system page showing the current official name of the Gulf of Mexico: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/558730. Note the list of accepted variant names, which still doesn’t include “Gulf of America”.

Google are saying here that they will only change it on maps if it's made official by the US Government, which has not happened yet. That's why they haven't made any change yet, and won't unless Trump gets the US BoGN to do his bidding.

Edit: well that didn't take long. They already made made the change.

I don't even have to click the link to know that's Captain Holt of Brooklyn 99 undercover as a heterosexual man, because that was my first thought on reading the post.

Nah, he just does this every so often. He'll say something surprisingly sensible and moral like this when speaking of the cuff or reacting to new events, and then quickly backtrack on it when he remembers what the GOP want him to say. He knows his usual stances on topics are wrong, he just forgets to keep that to himself occasionally. It's extremely frustrating being one of his constituents.