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      That’s a term I haven’t heard in a very, very long time. I keep one in a drawer with my Sound Blaster PCMCIA card.

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        I work at a MSP, and we support a variety of customers, some with quite old hardware. I still on occasion have to assist in replacing 1.8TB SCSI 7200RPM drives in a RAID array. Finding compatible drives gets harder every time.

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    And it’s your fault if it happens to you, because we sent you EMAILS telling you it was going to happen!

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    Is that actually possible? I don’t know how much privilege an operating system has. I would think if would need to go deeper

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        Pretty sure the gpu BIOS is limited by default, nothing the OS can do about that.

        Same for other parts like the cpu - core voltage is determined by the motherboard.

        I doubt the os can just go “2V vcore” and blow up hardware.

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          Yeah there’s quite a bit of safety mechanisms in place but I imagine windows could just adjust all the gpu overclocking settings to the max and make the system unstable. Plus just reformat all of your drives

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    It really feels like no matter what community you look at on Lemmy, every 3rd post is Windows bad Linux good. It’s honestly a bit exhausting. And I’ve been running Linux for over a decade…

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    I’m glad this wasn’t posted like 3 weeks ago when my laptop battery died on me. otherwise I woulda thought this was legit happening

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      Haven’t given Linux a proper chance on my desktop on a few years, till windows 11 finally became too frustrating. Aside from a very short headache with my nvidia drivers, fedora has been absolutely flawless and much less of a pain in my aSs than windows…

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      Nah, they’ll just sue you if you’re using VGA instead of HDMI since it obviously means you are trying to crack DRM and thus running afoul of DMCA.

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        Everyone loves listening to their favorite purchased movie while watching a black screen

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          Nuh-uh, sound has to go over HDMI as well. You may only partake in your own culture through DRM-approved channels.

          This got me thinking, could you still get an abortion in the bad parts of the US if you trademarked your DNA, and claimed that the condom breaking violated DMCA?

          You know, show up at the doctors with a ton of papers headlined

          CEASE AND DESIST

          Or at least get child support out of Durex?

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            More worryingly, I wonder if a male can force a pregnant woman to have an abortion using that logic.

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              ESL person question here - isn’t “male” used as an adjective more than a noun? If you used “pregnant female” as a counterpart, it would sound weird to me, like we were talking about rabbits, not people.

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                As an enby who was assigned male at birth, there’s a decent chance my penis could get somebody pregnant. I’d rather be referred to as a male than a man or a father. They’re all quite unappealing and untrue terms, but male is the most true out of them. I could have used the word seeder, but that’s less well known.

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              I sometimes do drink myself to sovereign citizen. Unlike most of those people, I do get sober the next morning.

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    Never mind that, Windows 10 did an update a couple of days ago, and now my dual boot screen has gone. I literally can’t start my Linux Mint anymore, it boots straight to Windows :(

    There is a way to get it back with the command line, but my computer nerd days are over.

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/911963/dual-boot-with-windows-10-broken-after-update

    I’m assuming that command needs to be edited to whatever my setup is, I have no idea.

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      This is what can happen dual booting from the same drive. If the windows bootloader updates it can override grub.

      Usually you can still boot to the Linux partition from the efi menu manually. Then you can find dozens of guides to reinstall grub to fix this.

      But it’s likely to keep happening. Best dual boot setup is to have a second drive dedicated to non windows.

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      Windows might have changed the boot order in your bios, so just go into your bios and check if the mint partition is set to boot first

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        Yeah with EFI the days of Windows completely overwriting your Linux bootloader are mostly over.

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        I have no idea how to do this, but I’ll keep looking for a tutorial. Luckily I only use my Linux for storing my music. I wish I could have got my art software to work on Linux, they just don’t seem to want to cooperate. My WiFi adaptor also only wants to work about half the time, too.

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          Just spam del or f2 keys when you are turning your PC on (or check your motherboards/laptops manual for which key it is) that should put you into your bios and there check the boot options/order.

          Tho you can also enter the bios through windows, can just search windows 10 enter bios and that should give you the answers

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            I found an old picture of what my boot screen used to look like. If I wanted to do it via bcedit, what would my command line be? Sorry for being so clueless, I’m just really scared I’ll brick my PC completely.

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              Before you mess with commands I suggest you to do what I mentioned before. The picture you sent has the grub bootloader and assuming windows didn’t nuke it, when you choose your Linux drive to boot first it should come back.

              Also changing the boot order will not break your pc

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                Thanks. It was actually F12, I managed to catch it for the split second it showed; for some reason it doesn’t always show the commands when I switch it on.

                This is what I got.

                I selected Ubuntu and I got my choice back again. I hope i don’t have to do this every time I boot though.

                Thank you for being so patient with me.

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                  You entered the boot selection, which is used for quickly booting into a different drive but it doesn’t change which drive the PC boots into by default. To change that you’ll need to enter the bios proper and you do that by spamming f2 or delete key just like you did with the f12 key.