I’m planning to get rid of the lock as soon as I graduate. The only reason I haven’t done it yet is because I’m worried that doing so would break some of the bizarre black-box proprietary software that we’re required to have.

I was required to rent a laptop as part of my enrollment there. At the 2-year mark we were given the option to trade in our old laptop and rent a new one or buy it outright, and I chose to buy it because it was working fine.

The university I go to locked down the BIOS on my laptop so you can’t boot any other operating system that isn’t the Windows 10 that it came with. I own the laptop, very annoying.

But how else am I supposed to pet the alligators? Do you seriously expect me to go all the way to Africa to pet the crocodiles in the Nile instead?

Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom…

The virtual machine I installed windows on to play games with kernel-level anticheat and other such spyware apparently isn’t compatible with windows 11. That’s a positive for 2 reasons, which are:

1. It can’t run Windows 11, so no risk of a forced upgrade
2. Windows won’t constantly harass me to upgrade.

10/10 experience, would not give give Windows access to bare metal again.

What the fuck were you playing that was so expensive that it makes you think that games are for the rich?

On this episode of false dichotomy…

lol I have 3Mbps down .5 up for 40$

I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like “I don’t need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!” and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.

I followed a tutorial meant to bypass Easy: Anticheat for VRchat. I manually defined the hardware names and versions of some of my computer’s components in KVM’s XML code. It wasn’t very difficult and only took about 30 minutes in total, setting up GPU passthrough was difficult though.

Update: It’s now working.

I’ve finally banished Windows to a virtual machine, and am gearing up to fistfight Easy: Anti-cheat Rootkit AKA Fucking piece of shit that does precisely fuck-all to stop cheating despite having access to kernel space in order to get Sea of Thieves working on my virtual machine.

After Chinese spyware banned, users of banned Chinese spyware migrate to not-yet banned Chinese spyware.