You don't even need to "pirate" Windows anymore. You can download an ISO from Microsoft's website, install it, and when it asks for your license key, you click "I don't have one", and that's the end of it. If you look in the activation settings, it'll say "not activated", but nothing will ever become of it. This even works if you install it as Pro. It's not like the Windows XP/7 days where you'd get a 60 day scare timer. They just don't seem to care anymore, or maybe all that telemetry they siphon up from you is just that much more valuable.

I wrote a simple script once that ran in the background and all it did was toggle the state of the caps lock key every 30 minutes. I set it up on a co-worker's computer as a scheduled task for an April Fools prank one year. I thought for sure he'd figure it out pretty quickly, but by mid-day, he had completely disassembled his keyboard, convinced the button was getting stuck due to gunk buildup. Eventually I ended up just disabling the task so he thought he had managed to fix it himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings

IT: Did you flush?

User: Yes, of course.

*IT goes to check and sees the toilet is un-flushed*

IT: Show me how you're flushing.

*User turns sink faucet on and off*

"Dear Slim, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin'..."

I'd watch this. Not an anime fan, but I bet Simon Pegg would nail the comedy.

Yeah, the CAN-SPAM act, as far as I understand it, doesn't allow them to force you to make an account just to unsubscribe.

We still use on-prem Exchange with Microsoft Office at work, and it's really becoming a problem. Microsoft already auto adds shortcuts for 365 (which we don't use and doesn't work with our setup), and the "Mail" app (which also doesn't work with out setup), and now I have to explain to people to use the regularly titled Outlook icon and not the "Outlook (new)" icon (which again, won't work with our setup).

"Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range."

"Hey, just what ya see, pal."

That only allows DNS-based blocking of domains, which isn't going to be nearly as effective. A lot of modern ads are served up from the same domain that you're visiting. Browser-based ad-blocker extensions are in a position to block domains, URLs, and specific parts of the HTML DOM itself. This is going to sound rude, and I'm sorry in advance, but when people bring up pi hole, I assume they aren't very knowledgeable about how things work.

Yeah, I buy a case of these every so often. The label is goofy and probably made by someone who didn't realize what they were implying chemically, but the ingredients are 100% coconut water. No added sugar. No pulp. Good source of potassium. Really delicious.

The FAA might have something to say about it.

See, this is the problem. You either risk getting a ticket by keeping up with the 15mph+ people in the left, or you deal with grandma and grandpa doing 10mph under on the right. So a lot of us end up having to leapfrog back and forth. I just want to maintain my socially and legally acceptable 4mph over.

Pretty deceptive marketing. I bet the person who thought up that name was exceptionally proud of themselves afterwards.

Maybe because IBM bought Redhat so they're saying it's corporate? Just a wild guess. I use Debian, and not sure why that makes me the hide the pain meme.

Just stop dual booting. This is self-inflicted harm. Setup a VM or find a native workaround.

I still remember watching that live, and how shocked I was that he said it, and then being equally surprised that it wasn't being heavily covered by the major news networks that day.

Nah, it's just a heap of junk!

It's not even VESA. DOS just uses the VGA 80x25 character terminal mode that all x86 computers still have to start in for backwards compatibility, where "video memory" is mapped to 0xb800 in the 1MB real mode address space. Software you run can then change the video mode, such as to a VESA mode if supported, or for ultra nostalgia, "screen mode 13" (320x200 256-color mode).