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Ben Bleything

Ben Bleything

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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 4d

this is why I call them “small cat” and “large cat”

Two black cats laying next to each other on a green blanket. The one on the right is slightly curled but still approximately 30% longer than the one on the left.

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 1h

what's wild is that the installer still starts fine, you can interact with it and start the install process but it fails when trying to load drivers. the iso is just cursed somehow. incredibly frustrating

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 1h

so apparently the windows installer isos are nonstandard such that you can't (e.g.) dd them onto a usb stick like you can with every other iso out there. instead you need a tool that knows how to write them like this: github.com/TechUnRestri...

source: www.reddit.com/r/framework/...

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 2h

this is my issue: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...

the only solution I've found anywhere is "use the media creation tool" but that requires you to have a working windows installation already

Windows 11 install USB not bootable with B660M motherboard - Microsoft Q&A

I just built a new PC and am attempting to install windows 11. My motherboard is an ASRock B660M Pro RS and I've flashed the bios to the latest version (12.03). The rest of the hardware is also compat...

learn.microsoft.com

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 2h

gave up on win11, went back to win10. installer boots but says it needs drivers. it doesn't specify which drivers, of course, just "drivers". all of the drivers on the motherboard manufacturer's webpage are executable installers, no archives

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 2h

yeah. See my previous thread for details. It’s a mess.

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 3h

the problem is that I need windows but the windows installer won’t boot. External drive won’t help with that. Right now I’m pinning my hopes on this win10 iso I got from archive.org 🙃

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 3h

welp that’s enough computer for the day. Time to relax with some video ga… oh wait nm need the computer for that

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 4h

it is my field and what you describe is exactly how every other OS installer that has ever existed works. the windows 11 installer also works this way, once it actually boots. but in this case it's halting in the bootloader

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 4h

Yeah, same. I guess I should actually zero the disk? Maybe it’s mad that there’s an existing efi layout that it didn’t create

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 4h

I'm so mad that I'm repeating myself

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 4h

this is insanity. the installer's job is to prepare the system to run the OS. I cannot think of a single valid reason why it should panic if it can't find something it's expecting. the whole point of an installer is to prepare the system

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 4h

Got the official windows 11 iso from microsoft dot com and it won’t boot because the “boot configuration data is missing”

To fix it I’m meant to boot from the install media (which I literally just did) and repair it (which I cannot do)

Did they really make an OS that you can’t install from scratch

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 4h

installed Debian, installed the nvidia drivers, rebooted, x won’t start

Computers!!

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 6h

This is not how I anticipated moving my gaming to Linux but here we are

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 6h

It appears that I may have fucked myself by deleting the recovery partition during installation. I’m not really sure what to do from here… I’m certainly not spending $200 on an OS I already own, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to contact Microsoft about it

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 6h

Oh cool, windows “can’t find” the product key I’ve been using on this exact hardware for many years.

The automated support tool won’t let me log in because my Microsoft account is a personal account. It’s not clear what that matters

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 7h

When you go to download chrome in edge you get a huge banner at the top of the window trying to convince you to just use edge instead

This is fucking vile

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 7h

at least it was one of the greatest songs ever recorded

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 7h

I then had to click skip on about eight different screens of stuff I don’t want, followed by a really shady pair of pages trying to get you to sign up for o365 or whatever it’s called these days

None of this serves the user. None of it should exist.

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 7h

If you do not wish to experience the power of restoring from your pc backup you must first click “learn more” which takes you to a screen that does not contain any more to learn, then “set up as a new pc”, then read some scary warnings before clicking “set up as a new pc” again

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 7h

“Experience the power of restoring from your PC backup” is a series of words that multiple people at Microsoft approved for use in the installer of the “professional” sku of their operating system

Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 7h

“We sent a code to your email address to sign in instead of using your password!”

Why. Why did you do that. I know my password. Let me type it.

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𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐮.@山戌軒 @necoinuken.bsky.social · 10h

Suddenly, I prepared a very simple process for drawing pupils.

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André Arko @indirect.io · 17h

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

We want to move Ruby forward

On September 9, without warning, Ruby Central kicked out the maintainers who have cared for Bundler and RubyGems for over a decade. Ruby Central made these changes against the established project poli...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

To capture an oaf, you have to be able to think like an oaf. Doug Ford was born for this