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Here’s a simple thing that I hope someone finds on Google while trying to diagnose this issue. If you have a USB key that you have put a Linux installer on, and then you use the Windows Media Creation Tool to reformat the key into a Windows install key, the Media Creation Tool will complete creating the key, but then if you boot, rather than going through the installation process it will ask you to provide drivers for your hard disk, and you won’t be able to proceed further. ...

This is going to be a very niche complaint. Please feel free to skip. I currently use Monzo for budgeting. Nothing else works quite as well. Nothing else works quite as well because Monzo, and only Monzo, deals with a ridiculously common budgeting scenario in a sensible way - i.e. sometimes I buy something on my card, and someone else pays for part of it, and then I want to actually see my remaining budget. ...

As Microsoft continues to turn Windows 11 into a vector for more Copilot stupidity nobody wants, a lot of attention has now been put onto Linux, which - thanks in no small part to Valve’s excellent work on getting Steam games to run mostly well with a very good success rate - now seems like it might actually have some viability as a desktop operating system. But how should you best broach the subject to people who might be interested? Here is a helpful step by step guide for anyone familiar with Linux on how to spread the word! ...

I have decided to blow away Wordpress and instead use Hugo to make this run as a static website. This is a colossal pain for no particular benefit but then if I didn’t like that I wouldn’t go to the gym or use Arch Linux.