Same here, even told the kids that I won't have this kind of shit on machines that are on the inside of my private network. I explained them what this was about, and basically they went "oh, k understood". The youngest installed it years later and I saw him playing it, and I was like dude what the fuck is this Valorant and he was like ah shit I forgot they installed those rootkits? Am I fucked? Can we clean that up or is it a clean reinstall?

And I was very proud of my youngest son, that he somehow ended up with enough of an understanding of computers and networks that most regular folk probably never acquire in their lifetime.

We nuked that machine from orbit, including re-flashing the UEFI, and reinstalled it together. It was a nice, good humored father-son thing.

Unfortunately only registered an actual account quite some time later, otherwise my UID would be way lower.

Funny how it was the link about Steve Ballmer being fat and bald that won me over to look at that strange site they were parodying.

Yeah, everyone acts as if it were super important to only hire the most excellent people, but the truth is that a satisficing approach is a lot more efficient. Hire for attitude and train for skill. It is all just a giant lottery anyway.

If it were the bar of Andreas, it would have an apostrophe after the s. And that would be a correct apostrophe, not a Deppenapostroph.

No, they are not. The fork is female and the spoon male in German.

When I learned French, one of the hardest things was remembering gender of French words because they often differ from the German ones. Car (female in French, neutral in German) or the sun (male in French, female in German) come to mind.

10 years experience and entrepreneur, in building applications as a freelancer, no less.

Cute.

What does NTFS do that modern file systems do not?

Either I am missing your sarcasm or you have been living under a rock for a decade. There is a vibrant skin market going on. I do not understand why, but it is.

Counter-Strike has been free to play for ages, and continues to be so with CS2.

It is built into macOS and iOS. If you use iCloud, it automatically syncs between all your Apple devices. This answer is probably pretty unpopular here, though.

https://thennt.com/nnt/statins...

Statins are shit. The probability is higher to get diabetes from them than them helping with anything. Their mortality redaction overall is insignificant and you need to add high-risk patients to measure any effect at all. Refuse to take statins. Eat healthily instead.