So... Weather Underground predicts 93°F today, and PG&E is saying they're cutting power in many remote regions to reduce wildfire risk.
Surprisingly enough, what's usually a 3-4 day period of intense unhappiness in late September/early October looks like it's been shortened to a single day of almost-tolerable heat.
I am not complaining.
EDIT: Hey, if it was 93°F in your area and you had no air conditioning and woefully inadequate insulation, you wouldn't be wearing clothes, either!
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OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
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OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
you mean Global MegaCorporation doesn't speak Freehold?
I am offended!
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Personally, I see a lot of languages missing. Who in their right mind is going to expect a German to speak French?
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Personally, I see a lot of languages missing. Who in their right mind is going to expect a German to speak French?
Don't mention the war!
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OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
Wordless screaming.
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OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
When I worked for SBC in the Bay Area, a large percentage of our data entry clerks had Tagalog as a first language. If it's truly a global employee survey, I would expect Arabic, Korean, and, what, Hindi? Ukranian? I would expect Cantonese as well as Mandarin. But Korean was probably the third Asian language, if it looked like someone was playing 8-bit Hangman. But, wait, you eat Korean food often enough that you should recognize the writing.
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I woke the kids up at six and they got it *mostly* clean, enough that they've got from after school until dinner tonight to finish up and save both the sleepover and the State Fair.
Which I mostly did because WW said to me at 5:30 this morning, "Please tell me there's a way out of this; I don't want to miss the Fair!"
At least the room is getting cleaned.
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Wordless screaming.OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
Best answer. LM, get this man some cookies.
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Wordless screaming.OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
Yeah, they did miss Saiyan.
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Yeah, they did miss Saiyan.Wordless screaming.OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
I admit it. I had to look that one up.
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Yeah, they did miss Saiyan.Wordless screaming.OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
You win the entire freaking thread.
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I woke the kids up at six and they got it *mostly* clean, enough that they've got from after school until dinner tonight to finish up and save both the sleepover and the State Fair.
Which I mostly did because WW said to me at 5:30 this morning, "Please tell me there's a way out of this; I don't want to miss the Fair!"
At least the room is getting cleaned.
sounds like someone just volunteered to clean their room for them.
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Personally, I see a lot of languages missing. Who in their right mind is going to expect a German to speak French?Don't mention the war!
took the joke right out of my mouth.
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OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
you mean Global MegaCorporation doesn't speak Freehold?
I am offended!
That's because Freehold is body language, long stares, and come hither looks.
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That's because Freehold is body language, long stares, and come hither looks.OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
you mean Global MegaCorporation doesn't speak Freehold?
I am offended!
So...wordless screaming. Got it.
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That's because Freehold is body language, long stares, and come hither looks.OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
you mean Global MegaCorporation doesn't speak Freehold?
I am offended!
in ancient times, yes. Many Traditional Freeholdian Stories are told this way. But there are spoken and written forms!
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So...wordless screaming. Got it.That's because Freehold is body language, long stares, and come hither looks.OK. Sometimes Global MegaCorporation (and nope, not Google) is more than a little hilarious.
"Your voice counts! Take the global employee satisfaction survey now! Available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and (a third Asian language I don't recognize)."
Notice any languages missing from that list? I sure do...
you mean Global MegaCorporation doesn't speak Freehold?
I am offended!
that only comes AFTERWARDS...
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Milkmaid milkmaid? Milkmaid. Milkmaid milkmaid milkmaid milkmaid... milkmaid.you mean Global MegaCorporation doesn't speak Freehold?
I am offended!
see? Perfect diction!
Computer was giving me random blue screens of death, with different errors, but all in the sys handler area.
So I opened up the case, and swapped the two slices of ram (we call them slices in ducth, like a slice of cake).
Been steady for a few hours now.*knocks on wood*
Good luck, but I don't think you need it.
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This is long, and more of my usual workplace b~+@&ing, but without the incredulous humor.
I really want to carve off a section of my division of the business and sell them off to the lowest bidder. It would cost me my job since I'm not in the young and cheaper part of our team after the work evaporates, but I'll take that trade-off. I'm serious.
The following is copy/pasted directly from the ticket, edited only for privacy and other things I can't divulge outside the company.
Description (entered by the user):
My Drives are missing. no S drive, Y and such
My written response:
This is usually most easily fixed by logging out of the computer and logging back in. Those drives are mapped by group policy, and that gets applied during the login process. If that doesn't fix it, then we'll have to do it the hard way.
User reply:
I already logged off twice today.
Me:
<Uses remote software to request session with user.>
User:
<User manually rejects request.>
User written reply:
But no worries. Feel free to close the ticket.
Me:
I did ask to remote in through (software), but was informed that you rejected the request by (same software) after you said you tried relogging twice already. I will manually map the drives you need, but if you're telling me to close the ticket and do nothing instead...I just want to be clear that's what you're saying.
User:
Yes please close. No need to take up your time, seems like I get emails on how to resolve my own issues when I submit tickets. If the problem is still there tomorrow perhaps ill put in a ticket then, or just wait for the problem to resolve itself. It’s a pattern to just do work around.
Me:
<closes ticket>
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.
So.
I say that a lot.
So.
This thing I asked you to do. Log off and log back on. I know it's cliche. I know an entire TV show was developed around that joke. It's sometimes frustrating to hear it all the time. I get that. I really do. I also know that there are techs out there that will tell you to reboot to help buy them time while they look stuff up, or just to put you off for a while.
But.
That's not me.
Secondly, I specifically said *why* I wanted the user to log off and log back on. It's not for s**ts and giggles. In a business setting, these mapped network locations are set to be connected during the login process. *Usually* it works. *Usually*, if it doesn't work the first time, it works if you log out and log back in. Vast majority of the time. This isn't a work-around. This isn't a kludge. This isn't even duct tape. This is the way it's designed to work, and like all things, once in a while it just doesn't. Usually it's a timing issue - it tries to map them when the connection isn't actually ready or one of the connections times out and throws off the rest of the script and things just don't work.
The work-around would be me remoting in to map them by hand without trying to get the system to do them correctly in the first place.
And I have an entire chunk of my division that act just like this one. Passive-aggressive, says this to my face, and by tomorrow morning I'll get a call from my boss asking why I'm not being helpful.
The Stupid Little Things That Make You Happy:
I'm one of those guys who likes to track the temperature on hot days. Not only is it interesting to me, but it lets me know when to open up the house once heat inversion has happened (it goes back to being colder outside than inside). So I don't like it that the Weather Underground weather station in Albany is about a mile from my house, and the temperature can differ by 8-10 degrees.
I finally found out that you can see a little map of all the available Wunderground weather stations. And I clicked on the one that's just a block from my house.
And its thermometer matches mine to within a degree.
I'm not crazy. Woo hoo!
Well, maybe not crazy.
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This is long, and more of my usual workplace b**+%ing, but without the incredulous humor.
** spoiler omitted **...
There's really nothing worse than honestly trying to help someone, only to have them lie to you. (Or refuse to accept your help.)
"You admitted you needed help. You came to me. And now that I have suggested the first, most-obvious solution, just to confirm that you've done it and we can move on from there, you refuse to take even that first baby step towards resolution.
Nope. Sorry. We're done here. Walking away..."
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This is long, and more of my usual workplace b+~@+ing, but without the incredulous humor.
** spoiler omitted **...
I read the bulk of this in Dark Knight Joker's voice.
Then again in japanese Dark Knight Joker's voice.
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The Stupid Little Things That Make You Happy:
I'm one of those guys who likes to track the temperature on hot days. Not only is it interesting to me, but it lets me know when to open up the house once heat inversion has happened (it goes back to being colder outside than inside). So I don't like it that the Weather Underground weather station in Albany is about a mile from my house, and the temperature can differ by 8-10 degrees.
I finally found out that you can see a little map of all the available Wunderground weather stations. And I clicked on the one that's just a block from my house.
And its thermometer matches mine to within a degree.
I'm not crazy. Woo hoo!
Well, maybe not crazy.
no, just old.
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Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
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Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
Uh...
Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
Yeah, our first year in Davis we tried to keep it at 72 for a month. One $300 electricity bill later, we learned to cope.
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Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
7 weeks older than you. 7. Weeks. And this is the shade I get? I see. I had no idea we were dating. ;)
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Aaaaand... here we go again...
Have a free evening, so installing Ubuntu 18.04 as a separate boot partition on my PC, then installing Steam, then seeing whether my current games run.
From my past experiences with Linux, the answer will be, "Not until you've spend 15-20 hours modifying the configurations," but hey, I'm an eternal idiot optimist.
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7 weeks older than you. 7. Weeks. And this is the shade I get? I see. I had no idea we were dating. ;)Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
Er, doesn't that make me 7 YEARS older than you?!?
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7 weeks older than you. 7. Weeks. And this is the shade I get? I see. I had no idea we were dating. ;)Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
;-p
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Er, doesn't that make me 7 YEARS older than you?!?7 weeks older than you. 7. Weeks. And this is the shade I get? I see. I had no idea we were dating. ;)Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
Yes, but he's not dating you, either.
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Yes, but he's not dating you, either.Er, doesn't that make me 7 YEARS older than you?!?7 weeks older than you. 7. Weeks. And this is the shade I get? I see. I had no idea we were dating. ;)Man, we get spoiled around here.
It didn't *quite* top 100 outside, and my planning managed to keep it at 78°F inside, and all I can think is, "Man, it's hot in here!"
Considering I used to bike in 106°F weather, it's amazing how quickly your body adjusts to a new climate, and how stupid it can be when it's pulled even slightly out of its comfort zone.
And it's amazing how well you can adjust.
I used to b***h like Freehold if the mercury rose higher than Vany's birth year, and now my thermostat is never *lower* than 78-80.
you're all dated, compared to me.
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What I do with dates in my spare time is entirely my own business.
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This is long, and more of my usual workplace b@$~@ing, but without the incredulous humor.
** spoiler omitted **...
Yep.
Sometimes I'm working on an issue (even with my home system), and get nowhere, then realise I had not simply tried rebooting.
It fixes so many things.
Even in software. Huh. Weird error. Try logging out of the app and logging back in.
Solved.
Computers man. Almost as if they had been made by flawed beings.
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This is long, and more of my usual workplace b**+%ing, but without the incredulous humor.
** spoiler omitted **...
There's really nothing worse than honestly trying to help someone, only to have them lie to you. (Or refuse to accept your help.)
"You admitted you needed help. You came to me. And now that I have suggested the first, most-obvious solution, just to confirm that you've done it and we can move on from there, you refuse to take even that first baby step towards resolution.
Nope. Sorry. We're done here. Walking away..."
Yeah, its what frustrates me about my job the most.
You, called me. For help. That means you have to do this bare minimum thing of at least communicating with me.
Some people just thing we have a magical 'fix it' button that we just have to press to fix it all.
What I do with dates in my spare time is entirely my own business.
I usually eat them. ~rereads~ Oh. Not that kind of date.
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Other than Drejk and myself, does anyone else play Stellaris?
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Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
... guys.
Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys.
Guys.
Oh, my Guys. Guuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyys.
I just... guys.
I'd heard of it.
I did. I'd heard of it.
I... I just didn't. Guys.
I didn't think it was real, guys. I... it just... it couldn't be.
What even is reality, now, guys.
What even is. Reality.
(Also: I am tired, mildly sick, and hope that those who were sick before - lookin' at you, Woran - are feeling better.)
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Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
... guys.
Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys.
Guys.
Oh, my Guys. Guuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyys.
I just... guys.
I'd heard of it.
I did. I'd heard of it.
I... I just didn't. Guys.
I didn't think it was real, guys. I... it just... it couldn't be.
What even is reality, now, guys.
What even is. Reality.
(Also: I am tired, mildly sick, and hope that those who were sick before - lookin' at you, Woran - are feeling better.)
WHERE IS MY EYE BLEACH?!?
AAARGH!
This is long, and more of my usual workplace b@$~@ing, but without the incredulous humor.
** spoiler omitted **...
Yep.
Sometimes I'm working on an issue (even with my home system), and get nowhere, then realise I had not simply tried rebooting.
It fixes so many things.
Even in software. Huh. Weird error. Try logging out of the app and logging back in.
Solved.Computers man. Almost as if they had been made by flawed beings.
as an aside, I have noticed that people working in the IT field are sometimes the LAST ones who want to know WHY something happened. I get that the whys and wherefores are not always a part of the job(in fact, they are often hired to not ask questions and make the machine go), but the lack of curiosity(or the presence of anger when curiosity bubbles to the surface) always struck me about people in the IT field.
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Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
... guys.
Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys.
Guys.
Oh, my Guys. Guuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyys.
I just... guys.
I'd heard of it.
I did. I'd heard of it.
I... I just didn't. Guys.
I didn't think it was real, guys. I... it just... it couldn't be.
What even is reality, now, guys.
What even is. Reality.
(Also: I am tired, mildly sick, and hope that those who were sick before - lookin' at you, Woran - are feeling better.)
WHERE IS MY EYE BLEACH?!?
AAARGH!
his chicken will never be more than mediocre, but that is one damn sexy colonel. Why the need for eyebleach?
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Guys.
Guys.
Guys.
... guys.
Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys. Guys.
Guys.
Oh, my Guys. Guuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyys.
I just... guys.
I'd heard of it.
I did. I'd heard of it.
I... I just didn't. Guys.
I didn't think it was real, guys. I... it just... it couldn't be.
What even is reality, now, guys.
What even is. Reality.
(Also: I am tired, mildly sick, and hope that those who were sick before - lookin' at you, Woran - are feeling better.)
WHERE IS MY EYE BLEACH?!?
AAARGH!
I feel...saved...by the fact that my corporate network blocked that link for me.
Aaaaand... here we go again...
Have a free evening, so installing Ubuntu 18.04 as a separate boot partition on my PC, then installing Steam, then seeing whether my current games run.
From my past experiences with Linux, the answer will be, "Not until you've spend 15-20 hours modifying the configurations," but hey, I'm an eternal
idiotoptimist.
Update #1:
- Installation #1: Failed to install boot loader. Managed to save Windows.- Installation #2: Failed to install boot loader. Killed Windows.
- Google Search #1: "How to manually install boot loader". Succeeded.
So it took 2+ hours, but I have a dual-boot machine.
Step 2: Just how hard will it be to install Steam?
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I... I'm thinking of downloading it, guys.
Of putting it in my library and... and... and playing it.
With a bucket of KFC.
Because.
I mean, come on, guys.