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Lazers 2.0

21:02

-3

Q: Did i just ruin my romance experience?

Since I only play male characters and Alenko is such a lovely being I decided to install a mod which allowed me to romance him despite my Shepard's gender. And I thought everything was going great, the one with the beacon activation worked okay, then I could assure Kaidan that it's okay and it w...

Ave

god

I was given a laptop "install office"

it's the slowest pc ever

yet it has i5-7200u and 4gb

dunno if I should blame windows, the dying drive or the antiviruses on this device

Chippies

@Ave mobile i5's are only dual core with HT (I think some might not even have HT)

@Ave but it's probably this

Ave

my laptop is on i5-4210u which is a couple gens older and much worse

Chippies

probably also running a 5400rpm HDD as the OS drive, which is super common in laptops...

Ave

but it's muuuuch faster than this device

time to run crystaldiskinfo

Chippies

21:07

@Ave you're running lightweight linux though, aren't you?

Ave

@Chippies I'm on archlinux, yeah

which is fairly lightweight

Chippies

what windows does that laptop have?

I assume 7

Ave

Chippies

ah, 10 is a bit more lightweight than 7

still, 4gb of ram is not much and a slow HDD is just not good in general

especially with AV's

Ave

guess I'm too used to linux then /shrug

Chippies

21:09

with a bit of common sense, there are no viruses that are worth running a "powerful" AV

windows defender does the job and is barely noticeable performance-wise, yet so many people run shit like Norton or Kaspersky or any other 3rd party AV

and they all affect performance a lot

and on a crappy laptop, there's not much performance to spare to begin with...

Ave

crystaldiskinfo stuff is surprisingly good

god this pc has both avast free and mcafee

also I get ads in english, turkish and japanese use.elixi.re/i/zig.png

Chippies

@Ave where's Japanese?

Ave

on microsoft ad

Chippies

oh yeah, I thought it was just numbers or something. If I zoom in I can sort of tell it's japanese

pic is too dark, lol

Ave

I feel bad for plugging this machine into my network tbh

Mad Scientist

21:22

there's really only one answer to a terribly slow PC with reasonable hardware, and that is to nuke the OS from orbit and reinstall. But that's not really an option for many people

Ave

I don't want to waste any more keys on this device

though I could do that

it's just, I don't care enough. I'm not being paid to do this, I didn't say yes to it.

mom brought in pc "oh this teacher wanted office but IT is depressed so you do it"

because of course I have a perfect mental state

also this thing sounds like a bus

I should get used to that considering that I have a server shipping tomorrow I guess

Nzall

@Ave If the laptop has W10, then the Windows key is written away into the motherboard and it should just automatically register when reinstalling windows

Ave

I don't have w10 home isos tho

Nzall

Windows 10 has a built-in restore function

Ave

this was restored 2 days ago and is full of asus bloatware

Nzall

21:31

hang on, I think Microsoft has a tool on their website that can restore a PC without bloatware

howtogeek.com/265054/…

it's even directly built into W10 creators update, it seems

badp

it stops short of reinstalling windows

buyers beware

you have to reinstall all of the non-windows-store software

Ave

thing

I don't want to backup stuff on this pc

just keeping this device connected to my network is making me paranoid

Nzall

@badp I think Ave just wants to reinstall the OS to default Windows 10

Ave

I def won't plug in my backup drive to this pc

Nzall

so she doesn't care about the non-Windows-store software

Ave

21:34

I want to install linux on this, but owner wouldn't like it

Nzall

If you have the Windows 10 Creator's update, you can just open the Windows Defender Security Center and start fresh

that's probably the easiest method

Mad Scientist

@Ave you can download those easily, but I still would never recommend to reinstall a PC you got from someone else. That just won't end well, there'll always be programs and data missing

just install Office on it, and ignore all the rest, not your problem

Nzall

yeah, that's probably the best bet

Mad Scientist

even installing Office isn't your problem, but I assume you're not in a position to just say "no" here

Ave

I could do that

but it's too late now

and god my whole network is fucked this pc is downloading updates isn't it

YES IT IS

Lazers 2.0

21:54

-1

Q: Is there a reward for collecting hidden stars in Evoland?

According to an NPC in Aogai Village, there are 30 hidden stars to collect in the original Evoland. Is there a reward for collecting all 30 hidden stars?

evoland

Ave

Also I found about images.shodan.io and that's really really cool

also maps.shodan.io

(those might require a subscription-- I have academic access)

badp

images does

Yuuki

22:26

Whoo, back on the Bridge

Ave

welcome back yuuki

(also now I sorta wish I gave you vpn access so you could get to bridge)

quartata

is SE blocked in China?

Yuuki

No, the Internet there just doesn’t like loading Chat.SE.

user15026

Yuuki

It kinda hangs on the “welcome, loading messages” box.

I could load the SE sites and the transcript, just not the chat.

@Ash I’m going to assume that’s a reaction to the realization that my arrival heralds the return of puns to the Bridge.

user15026

22:32

@Yuuki I saw a really good one today I was going to save for you

user15026

but then I refreshed Facebook and now it's gone forever into the Facebookian ether

Yuuki

It Face-booked it out of there?

user15026

grins nice to have you back ;)

Yuuki

I had another in mind involving “Face -> phase”, but the execution would’ve been much tougher.

user15026

I appreciate the effort

Lazers 2.0

22:49

Q: Memoria Freese skill Material Killer

So I got one Lefiya (Incantation) who has an ability Material Killer: Ability pt. +50% toward Material. However I used her in both Rampage and regular stories with no apparent increase in either quantity or quality of drops. Any idea what this skill does?

danmachi-memoria-freese

Lazers 2.0

23:23

-1

Q: How can I get a Zeraora in Pokemon Ultra Moon?

Hi guys I finished the Main and Post game in Pokemon Ultra Moon and I heard some talk about a pokemon called Zeraora can you tell me where to find one please dont send any links to videos. Thanks!

pokemon-series

Q: What effect does galaxy age have during game generation?

What exactly do the different galaxy age settings change during game generation? The options are: Young, Normal, Old and Random The hover text for the settings says this in some way effects the temperature of stars with Young having the hottest stars and Old having the coldest stars. But what ...

endless-space-2

Lazers 2.0

23:58

Q: Does loot degenerate when breaking chests?

Neverwinter Nights has a lot of locked chests, and it is kind of tedious to unlock (or have a henchman or familiar unlock) a chest when it would take a single bash or spell to break it. But does breaking chests somehow change the loot in it for the worse, like in some other games? It would take a...