I’d usually start with my suite of cleanup tools, do some manual cleanup if needed, apply all the software and security updates, and then give it a day with some light test usage. Then I’d re-run the tools to see if they picked anything back up. If not, I released it back to the customer. If anything at all came back, I’d backup their data, pull all the product keys I could (Office, Photoshop, etc), nuke the OS, and reinstall what I could as close to the original as possible.

And then of course, the least fun part of that era, the guys who would bring their machines back weekly despite very stern warnings to stop visiting “those sites”.

Hey, they were good for business lol

Can confirm 100%.

During Vista’s heyday, I worked in a PC repair shop. All the ones that came in because “Vista sucks” were all Walmart specials with the bare minimum 512 MB RAM and crappy, bottom-of-the-barrel Seagate HDDs.

The thing would start thrashing as soon it booted with the default assortment of bloatware. By the time they brought it in, the HDD was in rough shape which made the thrashing even worse.

Fix was always to upgrade the RAM and, most often, replace the dying Seagate drive with a good one. Removing the bloatware helped as well once the root problems were addressed.

The UAC stuff was also annoying, but those could be tuned.

Assuming I’m understanding your thought experiment correctly, AFAIK, unless the chance of a duplicate card coming up is an issue, it should be about the same.

QI did a bit about this:

The chances that anyone has ever shuffled a pack of cards in the same way twice in the history of the world are infinitesimally small, statistically speaking. The number of possible permutations of 52 cards is ‘52 factorial’ otherwise known as 52! or 52 shriek. This is 52 times 51 times 50 . . . all the way down to one. Here’s what that looks like: 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.

To give you an idea of how many that is, here is how long it would take to go through every possible permutation of cards. If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, each with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second, and they’d been doing that since the Big Bang, they’d only just now be starting to repeat shuffles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLIvwtIuC3Y

Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

Thanks!

Heat shimmers

TIL the term for those.

Ah, so it’s air density. I was suspecting it was water vapor.

TIL thanks!

Lol, I’d accept that. Maybe he’s the template for future engineering holograms.

Computer, activate the Emergency Engineering Hologram.

Holo’brien: Jaysus! Your warp core’s knackered. Nothing I can do. Deactivate emergency engineering hologram.

(I don’t think any incarnation of O’Brien would give up so easily; just playing off of your Wolverine clip lol)

Yeah, I’ve read similar that it was “just a job” from his view, but you’re right: if he’s offered a role and is available, he’d probably take it.

Even if he just pops up for a cameo as an Emergency Engineering Hologram or something. Maybe in Academy they find a 900 year old pattern buffer floating in deep space, and O’Brien pops out like Scotty in Relics. I would not be picky about how they bring him in, I guess, is what I’m saying. lol

Yep.

Maybe he’ll be more amenable to a voice role if Prodigy keeps going or another animated series comes along.

Oops!

Yeah, everything’s dropping. I first noticed it when my push failed.

Oh, I run my own Gogs server internally, but for collaboration, we all use Github.

🤦‍♂️😆

Didn’t even catch that in the screenshot. lol

Sadly, it’s a stupid dependency of a lot of things.

Just ran npm explain is-number on one of my projects, and it’s a dependency of to-regex-range which is a dependency of fill-range which is a dependency of…and so on up the chain.

I was hoping I wouldn’t find that in there, but alas, it is.

Mom, can we stop and get some Python?

No, we have Python at home.

Python at home…

Same. I just commented on the other Academy post about Notaro being a regular and said “Sold!”

I always thought Academy was going to be a vehicle for Wiseman since they seemingly did a stealth pilot in DIS and wrote Tilly out for most of the season. So yeah, it’s really surprising she’s only going to be a guest. Maybe it’ll be like when Michelle Yeoh was a guest but was almost a regular.

Reno instantly became my favorite / spirit animal from the moment she was introduced in S2. I also doesn’t hurt that I’ll literally watch Tig Notaro read the phone book 😆

Notaro will be billed as a series regular

Sold. lol

Lemmy UI constantly pissed me off, Photon didn’t quite do what I wanted, so I forked it and learned Svelte. lol