OT: 119th Obsequious Banter Thread: April Foods Day

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

From no rain for 40+ days to a thanksgiving week snow storm

https://x.com/i/web/status/1855716212711248300

As long as it’s dry the day before so I can get my flight out to Oregon

 

[Lord Defect]

I’ve been remodeling my kitchen floor. Tiling is definitely a young man’s game. This shit has kicked my ass. It’s not hard but my knees and back are killing me.
When the hell did tile start coming in at 10”x 60” size? They looks nice but they are unnecessarily large.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

They looks nice but they are unnecessarily large.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

I’ve been remodeling my kitchen floor. Tiling is definitely a young man’s game. This shit has kicked my ass. It’s not hard but my knees and back are killing me.
When the hell did tile start coming in at 10”x 60” size? They looks nice but they are unnecessarily large.

I did a job a few years ago where the customer ordered the tile and I went to pick it up. I was expecting a bunch of 12x12 boxes. Nope. 2'x4' tiles. 2 per box and still heavy. That bathroom came out nice, but I always thought it looked like it should be in a casino

 

[Lord Defect]

I did a job a few years ago where the customer ordered the tile and I went to pick it up. I was expecting a bunch of 12x12 boxes. Nope. 2'x4' tiles. 2 per box and still heavy. That bathroom came out nice, but I always thought it looked like it should be in a casino

Come finish my kitchen. It’s grouted. Just needs the haze cleaned up and whatnot. I’m just done with this particular job. So done

 

[ajgoal]

Come finish my kitchen. It’s grouted. Just needs the haze cleaned up and whatnot. I’m just done with this particular job. So done

I repointed my patio this summer. That was a nightmare. My body is still mad at me.

 

[mja]

I’ve been remodeling my kitchen floor. Tiling is definitely a young man’s game. This shit has kicked my ass. It’s not hard but my knees and back are killing me.
When the hell did tile start coming in at 10”x 60” size? They looks nice but they are unnecessarily large.

I redid my kitchen last year. Tiling the floor literally injured me.

 

[ajgoal]

I redid my kitchen last year. Tiling the floor literally injured me.

I put down vinyl planks when I redid my kitchen floor. One of the best decisions I ever made.

 

[Lord Defect]

I put down vinyl planks when I redid my kitchen floor. One of the best decisions I ever made.

I had the pergo shit down. About three months after I redid my basement my dishwasher told me to do it again.
Tile goes where water goes from now on

 

[ajgoal]

@Captain Dave Poulin

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/entertainment/dwayne-johnson-elf-on-shelf/index.html

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@Captain Dave Poulin

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/entertainment/dwayne-johnson-elf-on-shelf/index.html

There are attention whores, and then there is that guy - the Attention Whore of Babylon.

 

[ajgoal]

There are attention whores, and then there is that guy - the Attention Whore of Babylon.

Jimmy Kimmel?

 

[DancingPanther]

The harvest

 

[trostol]

so i haven't done it before..but how do I clean my PC after I get my new one so I can give it away? like is there a way to give it away with windows on it but not associated to anything of...me

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

so i haven't done it before..but how do I clean my PC after I get my new one so I can give it away? like is there a way to give it away with windows on it but not associated to anything of...me

Works every time

 

[Lord Defect]

so i haven't done it before..but how do I clean my PC after I get my new one so I can give it away? like is there a way to give it away with windows on it but not associated to anything of...me

There’s smarter people on here than I am. I’ll let them answer.

 

[Embiid]

so i haven't done it before..but how do I clean my PC after I get my new one so I can give it away? like is there a way to give it away with windows on it but not associated to anything of...me

Porn eh?

 

[ajgoal]

so i haven't done it before..but how do I clean my PC after I get my new one so I can give it away? like is there a way to give it away with windows on it but not associated to anything of...me

Pull out the hard drive(s), remove the platters, and take the platters to your local range to use as targets. You'd have to put a new hard drive in with windows though after that.

On a serious note, there are file shredding programs out there which overwrite data making it at least difficult to recover. @JojoTheWhale or @Beef Invictus can probably help you out with a good one. My experience with that though is that it'd be a fairly tedious process, and windows may maintain some of your info in the cache that you don't realize.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

so i haven't done it before..but how do I clean my PC after I get my new one so I can give it away? like is there a way to give it away with windows on it but not associated to anything of...me

You really don't have to worry about this very much, but if I was concerned and didn't want to keep the drive, this is what I would do.

Put this on a USB stick. Darik’s Boot and Nuke – DBAN

It will not be quick.

But once you do that, you'll need to reinstall windows if you want someone to be able to use it. So having a second stick with an install package would help.

 

[trostol]

You really don't have to worry about this very much, but if I was concerned and didn't want to keep the drive, this is what I would do.

Put this on a USB stick. Darik’s Boot and Nuke – DBAN

It will not be quick.

But once you do that, you'll need to reinstall windows if you want someone to be able to use it. So having a second stick with an install package would help.

thanks..but i think i worded it all wrong

I am getting a new PC. On the old PC, I am gonna wipe the drive that holds my stuff and do a restore on the SSD that has windows on it. I want to to then give the old PC away but want to make sure that windows key on the old one is not tied to me any more...is that doable? Like when you restore can you change or bypass the connecting it to an email?

 

[Striiker]

I redid my kitchen last year. Tiling the floor literally injured me.

Did you die?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

thanks..but i think i worded it all wrong

I am getting a new PC. On the old PC, I am gonna wipe the drive that holds my stuff and do a restore on the SSD that has windows on it. I want to to then give the old PC away but want to make sure that windows key on the old one is not tied to me any more...is that doable? Like when you restore can you change or bypass the connecting it to an email?

If you bought a pre-built, the Windows key is tied to the motherboard. They go together.

 

[trostol]

If you bought a pre-built, the Windows key is tied to the motherboard. They go together.

thanks..i think i have it figured out now

 

[ajgoal]

If you bought a pre-built, the Windows key is tied to the motherboard. They go together.

But that only necessarily works from motherboard to windows, right? He could conceivably re-install windows with a brand new key on the same MoBo? What I've always thought wasn't possible was to swap the MoBo without getting a new windows key - so he couldn't re-use his old key on his new computer, for instance.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

But that only necessarily works from motherboard to windows, right? He could conceivably re-install windows with a brand new key on the same MoBo? What I've always thought wasn't possible was to swap the MoBo without getting a new windows key - so he couldn't re-use his old key on his new computer, for instance.

Yep.

(We're assuming an OEM license here.)