There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • Powershell supposedly is really great once you’ve understood how it’s structured.
    I keep hearing it’s more logical and discoverable than Bash.
    Maybe that’s true, I keep bouncing off it and getting frustrated. And when I try to read up on it, the explanations throw low level programming terms at me, which I’m too stupid to understand.

    But modern Windows has one thing going for it, which makes it similar to Linux in concept:
    Literally everything can be done with Powershell, and literally every config can be manipulated manually when you know where to look.

    Configs are a bit strewn around the system, though. They can be in your user folder in AppData, or globally in C:\ProgramData or only in the Registry.
    And some software says “Fuck all this” and puts them in C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86) or even in an own directory on C:\ But that’s no different on Linux, really.

    Then you can look at group policies, which are like an extended settings menu for thousands of things that aren’t in the GUI.
    And since you can write your own group policies that set arbitrary Registry values, you can make Windows your bitch.

    The main issue really is documentation. It either doesn’t exist, or it’s wrong, or only available to Microsoft employees.
    So even if you have 10 years of experience in administering Windows systems, you’re still hunting through forums for answers.

    The most important resource an experienced Windows admin can have is a list of bookmarks to trustworthy sysadmin blogs.

    So, to recap: Windows is the Registry. If it reads a config file from somewhere, the path to that config file will be in the Registry. If you change a setting in the GUI, via Powershell, or a group policy, the setting will be saved in a Registry key. Unfortunately, many Registry keys are not legible by humans. And Regedit as a tool absolutely sucks.













  • I’m a natural at shooting a traditional bow.
    I know every edible plant in my area, and some that get you high.
    I can find north without a compass, day and night.
    I can make a fire from things I can gather in the woods.
    I know how to safely fell a tree, split logs and build a shelter with hand tools.
    I know how to act around most predators and have experience handling a spear.

    I think I’d do reasonably well.
    Sometimes I wish I was born in the stone age. My ADHD is completely gone whenever I’m in the wild.