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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    What? The penguin bird is so fat that it is bigger than a window? Or... I know: "Stick penguin into hole!" But why? Nah... Hey, can somebody read ancient Egyptian?

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I learned one morning that a cmos battery could become a resistor. It can fail in a way that it's not working nor completely dead but passes just enough current to make a server motherboard that otherwise might A: Work, B: detect it's dead/missing and boot anyway with defaults to instead C: just freeze and not do anything. That was a fun full day of time wasted.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

    When I was 12, I thought I had broken the family computer trying to get Ultima III to run. I read every MS-DOS manual I could find trying to fix it before someone found me out. It was the frikin CMOS battery. I learned a lot of DOS that summer.

    [–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Using the capital punishment symbol instead of the killed in action symbol suggests windows was executed after the war (likely by installing linux lol)

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    There are variations of the Skull and Crossbones here that have specific meaning?

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    On wikipedia, capital punishment is a skull and amd bones, killed in action is a christian cross

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Thats kinda shitty its a cross. Like holding one religion above the others on a fucking encyclopedia.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    It is not a Christian cross, the symbol is the dagger † which is also often used for adding post-scriptum information or challenging parts of a text.

    People often mistake it for a cross, given the look, but there's no actual preference towards any religion here.

    The cross is an entirely different unicode character: ✝

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

    Huh TIL. I searched just to confirm and its listed even on wikipedia itself. Thanks for claifying.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark)

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Is there a symbol for a zombie, something that supposedly died many times over but keeps coming back?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    That's the definition of a phoenix: πŸ¦β€πŸ”₯

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    Because KIA takes way too much room on the page.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    I have a motherboard in a state where it won't boot unless you pull and reinsert the cmos battery. After this it will boot exactly once.

    It will also boot without issue if you don't have a cmos battery at all. This is obviously not ideal.

    I wonder if these issues are related? I purchased the motherboard second hand in this state about a year ago. So it is far too early for this update, but it remains a mystery.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    Y'know the setting in the bios where you can choose boot on power restore, stay off or last state? This relies on a capacitor on the motherboard near the bios battery to store the last state. This 5 cent capacitor can die and sometimes behave like you are saying. I had a repair guy fix it cheap and that server worked normally after that.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    I had something kiind of similar once, where it would only boot after trying to boot once, letting it run a bit in idle, and then rebooting where it would actually succeed. Turned out I forgot to put the clear cmos jumper back to neutral after i reset cmos.

    So my best guess (other than new battery) is check the jumpers maybe

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Have you tried putting in a new battery?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    Ain't nobody got time for that

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

    Wait... Microsoft is shit?!

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    But how many civilians cannibalized?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    There are no civilians when profit is involved.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    we prefer to classify that a 'charitably donated meals'

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

    Allen&Heath sound controllers on Ubuntu had a funny failure too. It's touchscreen and extra screen would show nothing on boot although the sound controls (for one surface config) works. In order to fix that, you need a replacement battery, a keyboard to boot into it's BIOS and a password they don't disclose publicly. I revived a couple of these by a pure luck of discovering someone posting said passwords 5+ years ago. It's so hostile I hate it.

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