His prior book The Zombie Survival Guide goes into a lot of detail about the how and why of Zombie biology and durability

And diesel ain’t gonna last forever. Pull up at the pump, tank crawling with Z… “Ok Junior, jump out and pump the gas would ya, grab yourself a coffee while you wait!”

Thanks, I’ll look into that one!

World War Z - needs to be done properly tied closely to the book as a short TV series.

Business: we need “additional incentives for research and development”

Govt: ok, this will help grow the economy.

Employees: we need additional incentives to work due to eroding wages and increasingly shitty work conditions. This will also help grow the economy.

Business & Govt: Get fucked!

Iracing without the subscription and an SR system that can be tuned to allow minor incidents without penalty, particularly if you lose time as a result and have had minimal impact on the other drivers

S4 Mini - flagship (or slightly under) in a one-handed, pocket friendly format. I would love to see a modern take on this

Hercules Returns https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107103/

100%. I’m not a manager but the higher I get, the more I’m paid and the less useful work I do. I just end up telling people smarter than me what I need them to do.

Coming from a working class background, it’s a difficult thing to rationalize in my mind but a friend described it well by saying “Can you do their job? - No? Then you can be the buffer against the politics and BS and keep them organized and working on the right thing so they don’t have to worry about that”

It’s a lot less fulfilling than doing practical work but I also feel like I have a lot more agency (for better or worse) than I did at lower levels.

It’s been a while since I’ve done this but in Win10 days, if you wanted to get rid of the pre installed apps properly, you could use DISM from the MS Deployment Toolkit. It can remove just for the current user or from the entire install so they won’t appear if you create new users.

If you want to spend the time and effort, you can even mount the wim file from the iso and remove them offline, so you’ve removed them from the install media completely.

Looks like Win11 has a new but similar process: https://www.deploymentresearch.com/removing-applications-from-your-windows-11-image-before-and-during-deployment/

Right next to the white-out

There were lots of Jedi but only two Sith… Jedi are a bunch of cheating bastards who wouldn’t let the Sith play with their Senate. That’s why Anakin got recruited, they just wanted to balance the teams for a fair game.

A lot of this is often down to shitty IT practices by the vendor who has little IT knowledge let alone decent security insight.

I helped support a new PCL installation (technician control PCs and software upgrade) in this exact scenario many years ago. The vendor came in expecting to treat our system as their own. Direct remote access to several over-specced, physical servers from the outside world, available on our core network, shared account names (and passwords!) across all devices, every account a local admin and their own domain admin account so they can make changes as required… Needless to say our security guy almost broke a rib from laughing so hard!

What they got was very different. I ended up doing fairly basic troubleshooting to get the shitty software working without it needing admin rights to run - XP era software running on Win7 clients so it was meeting basic folder and reg key write permissions - everything else was locked down as tight as we could. They didn’t even get admin on the servers.

A few years later I heard they’d reported that our site was their most reliable. Probably due to the fact that they (or the techs) couldn’t fuck with anything without our permission. Apparently their original configuration is normal in the industry… Shudder

I would wage good money that very few millennials are buying new cars

Gear changes in cars. Any car racing or high speed chase these cars are always accelerating and changing through endless gears despite being on a long straight.

Except Ronin, Ronin does it well since the chase is in the city and they’re always slowing to avoid objects turn down alleyways etc so going through the gears over and over actually makes sense!

It’s covered in the article

Yes, this works well!

I did this with my mates at the pub once a month. An hour or two over a quiet beer, no pressure, just a casual catch-up if you could make it. Couldn’t get everyone each month but across the year we had seen everyone much more than normal

I love me a cunning stunt!

Absolutely, was in the same boat as you.

Got burnt out with the corporate job but now I’ve moved to another discipline, I have my mojo back for messing with PCs.

The last few years I’ve delved into all the things I’ve wanted to but never took the time. I’m all in on Linux from mid-last year - which in itself has reinvigorated my curiosity for everything.

I’ve recently started leaning html to create a basic web page with the intention of joining the indie web, then when I tire off those, I’m keen to contribute to oss projects (support because I can’t code)

Chris Cornell’s cover of Nothing compares to you