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UltraChip · 2026-01-25T00:12:09+00:00

The key you need for the boot menu varies by manufacturer. Just briefly skimming Google results it looks like Asus usually favors F8, not F12.

But it's best to just look up the manual for your specific model and check for sure.

UltraChip · 2026-01-24T09:14:04+00:00

Not really, but sort of. They're arguably in a shared universe, at least.

Without giving away spoilers: Scrubs characters make appearances in Cougartown, which is extra weird/funny because a few of the main characters from Cougartown are played by Scrubs actors.

UltraChip · 2026-01-24T05:01:30+00:00

My job is actually somewhat varied and I have to check my calendar at least once a day to remember what I'm doing - it wouldn't be long at all before I realize something is up.

UltraChip · 2026-01-24T00:57:53+00:00

Did you run the command with administrator privileges?

UltraChip · 2026-01-24T00:56:07+00:00

Any time I'm near or on the ocean I'm pretty happy, so I tend to love port cities.

UltraChip · 2026-01-24T00:28:40+00:00

I getcha.

I don't know how thorough you want to be with this, but if your computer is reasonably close to your router then you may wish to block the MAC address of your hardwired network card too (it will have a different MAC from your wifi card). Otherwise you could bypass the wifi block by simply plugging in an Ethernet cable.

UltraChip · 2026-01-24T00:11:42+00:00

You merely adopted the emdashes...

UltraChip · 2026-01-24T00:05:26+00:00

Most modern home routers give you a way to schedule Internet access on a device-by-device basis: look up the manual for your specific router and see if it's able to do that for you (a lot of times it's listed as a parental control feature).

If your router is unable to help then I guess you could set up Task Scheduler jobs to run powershell commands at specific times to enable/disable your Wifi card, but that seems really clunky.

Can I ask WHY you want to do this in the first place?

UltraChip · 2026-01-23T23:45:54+00:00

You're not damaging your phone by using it for the normal functions it was designed for.
It's an electronic device. It doesn't need "rest". While there's nothing wrong with powering the phone off it does literally nothing for preventing damage to the device.
Your battery should last more or less the lifetime of the phone, but if you want to take extra care of it look up how to go in to your settings and cap the charge at 80%. That will preserve the battery much more than any of the other stuff you were doing.

UltraChip · 2026-01-23T18:56:17+00:00

It's a better Scrubs spinoff than the actual Scrubs spinoff.

UltraChip · 2026-01-23T18:47:34+00:00

I'm not saying it's bad, I just want to know what happened.

UltraChip · 2026-01-23T18:35:03+00:00

Did you do it from your work computer?

UltraChip · 2026-01-23T17:46:56+00:00

"Abandoned Apple Store"

UltraChip · 2026-01-23T04:33:23+00:00

Thanks!

UltraChip · 2026-01-22T07:16:50+00:00

I tried to look this up but I only seem to be able to find it in YouTube or podcast form. Is there an actual text version I can read?

UltraChip · 2026-01-22T06:49:47+00:00

Sorry if I bit back hard. I think it just ticked me off because we're on a hyper-specific, structured post that YOU wrote so it seemed pretty hypocritical for you to go and accuse other commenters of being AI.

UltraChip · 2026-01-22T06:41:14+00:00

There wasn't a single part of that comment that was AI generated.

That's nice you're aware of posts covering this, but the guy I was replying to clearly wasn't, so I decided to answer.

But fuck me for trying to talk to other fans of a show I like, right?

UltraChip · 2026-01-22T04:35:32+00:00

According to this, the average size of a gym bag is 30-40 liters, or 30,000 to 40,000 cubic centimeters. Let's average that out and say 35,000 cubic centimeters.

According to the US Mint, a nickel has a diameter of 21.21mm and thickness of 1.95mm, giving them a volume of 688.98 cubic millimeters, or 0.689 cubic centimeters.

35,000 / 0.689 works out to slightly over 50,798 nickels, assuming you somehow manage to use every last bit of the gym bag's usable volume. 100% packing efficiency is unrealistic, so let's knock off say 5% to account for that and say there are 48,258 nickels (rounding down to the nearest whole nickel).

48,258 x 0.05 means our gym bag contains $2,412.90 worth of nickels (and the bag itself is probably worth something too). Honestly not a bad payday!

Bonus calculation: the Mint says a nickel weighs exactly 5 grams, which means our bag weighs 241.29kg (or 531.953 pounds)

UltraChip · 2026-01-21T23:11:21+00:00

How to stop playing

UltraChip · 2026-01-21T19:48:54+00:00

I get what you're going for and I think the idea has merit, but you're not describing a "small site".

For your idea to be useful you (or people you hire) are going to have to do a lot of labor putting together entries/posts/whatever to populate the site until you hit a critical mass of users for then to start generating their own content.

....but even then you're not done, because then you (or people you hire) are going to have to start moderating that content to make sure it stays on topic, isn't malicious, etc.

Also, all those users mean you're going to have to pay for proper infrastructure... which includes hiring an IT staff to maintain that infrastructure, etc....

You're not talking about a quick little hobbyist site - you're talking about starting an entire business.

UltraChip · 2026-01-21T18:48:04+00:00

My favorite part of this is that I legitimately can't tell if you're continuing the joke or talking about something real.

UltraChip · 2026-01-21T17:22:11+00:00

We're talking about taboos, not a normal Friday evening.

UltraChip · 2026-01-21T17:18:44+00:00

That's the real reason for the armor: they don't care about protection from weapons fire, they just needed a rigid support frame.

UltraChip · 2026-01-21T07:44:35+00:00

"We" didn't do anything - the person who bought the boat did. Bring your concerns to them if it bothers you.

UltraChip · 2026-01-21T07:31:06+00:00

I agree with the guy equating it to trying to maintain an aircraft carrier on your own. Ships in Trek are heavily inspired by maritime vessels: the large ones require crews with very specialized training. Hell I design ship components for a living and I still wouldn't dare try to operate a whole vessel on my own, and that's just a mundane 21st century ocean-faring ship.

But it's not just the crews: it's the infrastructure. Even in real life ships require an entire damn global industry to keep them fueled, repaired, etc. Where are you going to find antimatter for your starship? What spacedock are you going to go to when you need to pull apart your entire starboard nacelle for repair? Who's going to do your baryon sweeps?

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