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I got blind-sided by having Windows 11 pushed onto my workstation

The upgrade is not automatic. You interacted with a prompt to approve the upgrade, you just might not realize it because it may have been on impulse.

I manage Windows installations for tons of folks and I’ve never seen the level of repeated prompting / nagging you’re describing.

For anyone who has wanted to stick with 10, it has been enough to decline the upgrade from the full screen prompt and then choose “Stay on Windows 10 for now” from Windows Update.

It’s possible that your registry changes had something to do with your unusual experience. I run into a lot of folks who complain about OneDrive “ruining their computer” after they’ve tried some obscure method of disabling it when all they had to do was uninstall the program like any other.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty Microsoft does wrong but compared to the Windows 10 shitshow I’ve found they’re actually handling this transition quite well.

Reminder that a lot of these design trends are intended for the average basic user, not power users with strong preferences. They make up the majority and need quite a bit of handholding.

It’s for a fan.

That fan can be powered either with the Molex connector (big chunky loose/floating bit) or a PWM fan connector (smaller one plugged in to the motherboard).

You wouldn’t plug in both of them at the same time.

Since there’s already a connection directly to the mainboard, the bigger connector was already disconnected and probably tucked under the IO shield.l that you taped it to.

If you want, you could also route the cable over to the back of the chassis and plug it in to the power supply’s Molex cable. Instead of having its speed regulated by the motherboard, it would just run at 100% all the time.

Really? I feel like they did a fantastic job layering in new gameplay mechanics and making the salvage process more of a “puzzle” as the ships got bigger

Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) is only legal in 11 US states.

At best, it requires a diagnosis for a terminal illness with 6 months left to live.

Individuals with an Alzheimer's or Dementia diagnosis are precluded from being able to make that choice, even if the diagnosis is recent and they still have most of their faculties.

We could be doing so much more to allow people to go out on their own terms and die a good death. It doesn’t have to be traumatic for family members, whoever discovers the body, or those who will inevitably clean up the aftermath.

All 1200 pins in the socket need to make contact with all 1200 pads underneath the CPU in order for it to have full functionality.

The socket pin arrangement is flat, so the CPU also has to be flat.

From the pictures, it looks like the CPU substrate might be cracked and I would be surprised if this processor ever processes again.

There’s a high probability that, in addition to the damage to the CPU, pins in the socket on the motherboard were also bent or broken.

You can get away with certain specific pins breaking or not making contact, but many are absolutely critical.

TL;DR Outlook not so good

Why yes, yes you can.

You can even just sign out and remove it from the startup list.

But people are still going to find ways to fuck around in the registry or use some random Powershell script and then blame Microsoft for “ruining their computer with OneDrive”.

Ironically, these same people often end up paying to get their own files back.

An email message can include a tracking pixel that informs the sender the message was read. Just opening a message is usually enough to trigger it, unless your mail client blocks loading external content bu default.

“I got one lemon from one brand once and swore off the entire brand”

Just about anything from 2018 or newer meets the hardware requirements, but at time of release (October 2021) that was just over 3 years. Ryzen 2000 and Intel 8000 are the initial entry level.l that meet the requirements.

Unless you used 2+ year old parts for you build, you just need to go into UEFI/BIOS and enable the firmware TPM (fTPM) or perform the BIOS update that switches that to being on by default.

I’d recommend the latter since you are likely to also gain stability and/or security improvements going that route.

You’re right in that this isn’t true of your typical working folks who use Microsoft 365, Sharepoint, or specialized design software.

There are a lot of folks who just use their computer for a web browser. When you tell them that their hardware, some of which is as young as 2017, will lock them out of security updates in two years, they’re pretty receptive to alternatives like ChromeOS or Linux.

For some of the older population, the simplicity of such options is a huge perk.