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How long has it been since the upgrade? You only get 10 days to do it easily so if it’s been less than 10 days just go to Settings / System / Recovery / Go back

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2337049/downgrade-from-windows-11-to-windows-10-article

If it’s been more than 10 days then you’d need to do a fresh re-install of Windows 10 on that system, meaning losing the currently installed apps and data. Make sure to back up before doing that.

EDIT: Maybe I misunderstood your question - if the laptop never had Windows 10 to begin with then there’s nothing to rollback to. You’d have to do a brand new installation of Windows 10 on that system which may or may not work if the system never had the proper Window 10 drivers & whatnot.

Most/all the main web browsers in use support kiosk mode, you’ll just need to search around for how to do it. This should get you going for Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-enterprise-kiosk-mode

Am not too sure how to get out of kiosk mode afterwards, maybe test it when you don’t have anything else running just in case.

EDIT: If you need to run kiosk mode for a specific amount of time as you say, you’ll probably need to also run a scheduled cronjob or similar to maybe kill the web browser at a specific time. I’ve seen kiosk mode for a few web browsers but they don’t usually have an option to set them for a specific amount of time.

Could try !AskUSA@discuss.online too

Same as the other commenter, Pixel 7 + default Android OS. I appreciate the third party ROMs existing but haven’t really bothered going through all that in a few years. Way back I did used to install CyanogenMod but it always felt like a bit of a hassle with random bugs, phone restarts… at some point I bought one of the early Pixels and felt the stock Android worked well enough. My own motivation early on was to avoid the phone bloat/random apps that were pre-installed on non-Google Android phones.

That aside I may take another look at this stuff if it becomes impossible to sideload apps on stock Android OS with Google forcing app developers to verify themselves. And/or check out Linux-based phones.

Typing this out just realized LineageOS started out as a fork of CyanogenMod so I guess that code still exists in some capacity even today.

I think it’s okay, the Impossible stuff gets pretty close to what they’re imitating.

But I also think I’m not really their target audience… like I’m okay with a veggie burger tasting like veggie. I’m not really looking for something that tastes like beef or whatever. These products like the Impossible burger aren’t targeting vegetarian/vegan shoppers, maybe their niche are the meat eaters curious about trying to cut down on meat consumption which is okay.

There’s definitely an opportunity to lower or even eliminate all the factory farming and animal abuse if some sort of meat replacement manages to catch on in a big way. We’re not quite there yet but you never know how things will work out in the future.

In the tutorial I read that sometimes it helps to enable secure boot

Just as an FYI, normally you would enable or disable secure boot before installing an OS, not after the fact. Otherwise you usually end up breaking the boot process.

Normally you should be able to hit Enter and then follow prompts to get into the BIOS. Maybe hit ENTER then just keep hitting whatever key you were using to get into the BIOS prior (F2, DEL, etc.).

If none of that works try powering off, removing the hard drive, then power back on & see if that lets you get back into the BIOS.

If that still doesn’t work I suspect the laptop is still stuck in power on mode, maybe the internal battery is keeping it on. Try to see if you can actually power it off for real e.g. hold the power button down for x seconds until you see lights go out. Try to keep an eye on how the laptop behaves when powered on vs lower power mode vs full power off.

Assuming I’ve already lost all friends/family then yeah, a cabin in the woods fending for myself sounds nice. Otherwise all things considered I’d try to be the friendly type, having more people in your group is usually better than being solo.

But all that probably means I’d die in the first year LOL. Most likely wouldn’t cut it being alone and starting out I’d probably have the bad luck of picking the wrong type of “friends”. To really stick it out in that sort of situation you probably have to manage to survive through a few groups of people starting out until you end up with a stable group of people willing to work together.

The sole does end up slightly more worn than the right.

You should check this out with a doctor, you could be developing leg length discrepancy. It might be very slight right now if you haven’t already noticed any obvious limp but if it’s developing you may be able to catch the source of the issue early on. Could be a hip issue, scoliosis, something else. I don’t want to make you worry about stuff, just something to check out.

I’m going through something similar right now, sort of started years ago with one of my shoes always wearing out before the other. And I always wore a backpack that would rub against the back of my shirts/jackets walking around. Never put two and two together, figured I just had a crappy backpack and crappy shoes but over time this morphed into a slight barely noticeable limp that turned into a more noticeable limp. Eventually that turned into a little bit of hip pain that kept getting worse. When I finally did see a doctor it turned out I developed leg length discrepancy due to osteoarthritis in my hip, apparently this hit me early on in life most people get something like that in their 60s-70s so I’m 20 years early. Going to get hip replacement surgery soon and get it fixed.

Hopefully you’ve got nothing like that but it’s good to check.

Years back when I checked it out it was full of people into conspiracy theories and general bigotry. Interestingly they weren’t specifically right-wing at the time and in fact when the site was originally started it was named something like antiextremes as a reference to not wanting to be left or right leaning.

But you know, over time it just kind of filled up with the types of people that typically got banned on mainstream sites like Reddit. You’ll get an idea of how people in general are there by reading through the posts and comments there.

That’s a good tip, it’s a good idea to subscribe to a Lemmy instance that participates in Fediseer (IMO). It helps to keep spammy instances off your own instance hence lower spam posts overall.

A lot of spammers tend to spin up their own Lemmy instances just to spam the rest of the Fediverse, or they’ll create a ton of new accounts on an instance with lax admin/moderation to use for spam later.

You don’t even need to browse the Fediseer website directly, pretty much all Lemmy instances participating in Fediseer will have the “Guarantor” and “Endorsements” links in the sidebar of their homepage.

Later on when you successfully sign up on a different Lemmy instance just go into your new user’s profile settings again (exactly how you just did for https://lemm.ee/settings but it’ll be [YOUR-NEW-LEMMY-INSTANCE]/settings, in there under “Import/Export Settings” look for the Import section and there you can import the file you just exported.

PS - For a quick overview of Lemmy instances you can check out https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active&open=true and/or https://join-lemmy.org/instances

A few times a year, probably around 5-6 I’d guess. Some months I end up going to more than one and other months it’s quiet.

Almost always buy merch… I have a lot of t-shirts haha.

Broadcom is pretty bad, I’ve had to migrate away from products after Broadcom bought them and jacked up prices, changed licensing, etc. Generally speaking it feels like Oracle and Broadcom are the worst of the worst IMO.

I’ve definitely re-watched old Adult Swim stuff. Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 in particular. (I need to include Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law in that mix)

I’m kind of in the same boat, thought I’d be programming but figured out early on that sitting at a desk coding for 8+ hours a day just wasn’t my thing. Turns out I’m happier doing all the other IT grunt work e.g. setting up servers, backups, dealing with the network/wireless/firewalls, even provisioning and supporting user desktops gets interesting.

Twitter/X was easy for me, as soon as Musk touched it I closed that account. Wasn’t too active on there anyway.

Still on Instagram but planning to close that soon. Facebook is a bit trickier with all the older friends/family on there that probably won’t move elsewhere. Then again most of the friends/family I see regularly already stopped posting/commenting on Facebook so there’s a lot of dead accounts on there.

Left Reddit during the API exodus.

https://www.wikihow.com/Wrap-Luggage-in-Plastic-at-Home

MISUNDERSTOOD INSTRUCTIONS, CAN’T BREATH.

Would notice immediately when I go to work, too much of a strange coincidence for most of my office to be missing.

Plus I guess you’re saying they still exist? So it would be sort of like being in an office full of ghosts still going about their day, I’d keep seeing invisible people answering calls, printing stuff to the printer, etc.

PS - This is all assuming I make it to work, just walking to work in the morning would be a disaster if I keep bumping directly into invisible people in my building, out on the sidewalk, etc… so most likely would notice something is wrong long before I make it into work. And all the self driving cars, LOL.

Never did that on purpose.

In fact it wouldn’t even had occurred to me to try to do that speaking spanish - The school district I went to growing up is about 60% hispanic so most of the teachers knew at least some spanish.

I just tip the amount I would have tipped if it was something paid. In practice that only happens to me in bars if the bartender gives me a drink on the house and I’ll always tip in those situations. Always tip your bartender :)