burn it in a usb stick before you nuke it to install linux

This is very very important unless you have another windows computer around. Took me a whole day to figure out how to properly burn a windows install USB from linux. It isn’t straightforward.

+111111 on this
Following hashtags was the game changer for me.

Duo was so much better than Meet. What a backwards move.

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Hadn’t heard of “How Did This Get Made”, gonna check it out. Thank you!

Got me through a lot of walking/jogging

• Stuff You Should Know
• The Office Ladies
• The Always Sunny Podcast

That’s good. A lot of communities have been slowly dying 🫤 I’ve been using Mastodon more and more but it’s not the same.

+1 this, it is amazing. The scripting features are the cherry on top.

I gotta resist the urge… I have two Pis idle 🤦‍♂️

This is pretty darn cool to use occasionally. Neat!

News, soccer, and some memes.

I just want to reiterate that it is a major pain creating a bootable Windows installation USB drive on a Linux or macOS system. It’d be prudent to create it before installing Linux or make sure you have another Windows computer accessible to you to avoid some headaches if needed.

What language?

🤯 marsh mallow, a plant

Lemmy has almost completely replaced reddit for me.

There are a handful of subs I still visit because the equivalent communities here either don’t exist or are near dead. I’ve refused to install the reddit app though and found Geddit which doesn’t use their API. I just lurk so it works out for me.

If we don’t truly die until we’re forgotten by the living, he’s gonna live a long time as the ancestor that passed away at the hands of cheese wheels.

Same here but audiobooks.

I have COVID to thank for showing me the light. Never going back.

I think there’s something wrong with lemmy.world, this is the post. The developer posts to confirm the tracking is turned off. Sorry the direct link didn’t work.

https://lemmy.world/post/2538321

Edit: a federated comment link: https://programming.dev/comment/1561763

Tracking is for ads only, when ads are disabled then so is the tracking.

https://lemmy.world/comment/1991550