<p>honestly fuck ransomware crews but if they pop Broadcom and publish the internal contents of the knowledgebase you better fucking believe I&#39;m downloading that shit in a heartbeat, even if I have to buy more hard disks to store it. their search is so bad and since they own all of LSI&#39;s shit it&#39;s often the barrier between me and data loss. I hate them with the force of a thousand suns.</p>

<p>The inevitable outcome of a world built on prestige, brand name signaling, and bullshit.</p>

<p>I can&#39;t fucking believe that I got absolutely hammered by the dudebros of software on LI for simply talking about my expertise areas in measurement while being employed in tech (instead of being a faculty member I guess??) while some MBA student is able to what, just scrape through undefined activity data and proclaim to people their engineers should be fired??? What is this WORLD. We can&#39;t live like this.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> ok so do you know john mcmaster? he has a car</p>

<p>Jimmy &quot;McMaster&quot; Carr</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://girlcock.club/@poppyhaze" class="u-url mention">@<span>poppyhaze</span></a></span> ok you&#39;ve made me listen to 121.5</p>

<p>also you should be able to double sue them if they acquire another company and then make it impossible to find the stuff that was easy to find on the old company&#39;s website.</p><p>I will never stop raging about LSI firmware.</p>

<p>only half serious take: a company&#39;s website search being absolute dogshit should be considered an accessibility issue and you should be able to sue them for it</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.xerz.one/users/xerz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>xerz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://akko.erincandescent.net/users/erincandescent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>erincandescent</span></a></span> One thing I found that seems to help a lot is to use the N version of Windows; if you currently have Pro installed, and the activation status (in Settings → System → Activation ↓) shows "Activated with digital license", you can do a clean install of Windows Pro N without a key, and it'll activate (this doesn't work with Home unfortunately).</p><p>Once N is installed, you have to install Media Feature Pack through Settings → System → Optional Features (to get the codecs and phone connection support back); this randomly fails – if that happens, run these commands from an elevated command prompt: <br><code>dism /online /remove-capability /capabilityname:Media.MediaFeaturePack~~~~0.0.1.0</code><br>(cleans up halfway-installed Media Feature Pack; reboot after doing this)<br><code>dism /online /add-capability /capabilityname:Media.WindowsMediaPlayer~~~~0.0.12.0</code><br>(installs Windows Media Player)<br><code>dism /online /add-capability /capabilityname:Media.MediaFeaturePack~~~~0.0.1.0</code><br>(installs Media Feature Pack again; if it fails, repeat the command, it usually succeedds on second or third try – don't ask me why)</p>