This part of the windows experience … the driver updates… can take anywhere from 20 minute to an entire hour.

Without these updates the battery icon is missing, on Lenovo the trackpad doesnt work.

Bluetooth doesn’t work without this etc.

Windows should be like Mac where once you fully finish setting up Mac THATS it, no drivers needed.

Out of the box after setting up an account, ALL aspects of a laptop or PC should just work, you shouldn’t need an audio driver or trackpad driver.

EDIT: a few clarifications, since my first post was unclear (written tired, after a shift):

What it is. A small watcher notices when a drive is plugged in. If the drive has a cartridge.conf file, it opens a simple launcher with the game's cover art and two buttons, Play and Eject. That's all it does.

It is not Autorun. Nothing on the drive is ever run automatically. The launcher only appears, and nothing starts until you press Play. autorun.inf is read for the drive's icon and name only, and its open= line is ignored. It's meant for drives you made yourself, so don't plug in strangers' drives. That's true of any USB drive.

You don't need to buy anything. The NVMe drives in my photos were a bulk lot of refurbished 128GB drives I already had, about $150 for ten. A cartridge can be: - an old USB stick, SD card or spare drive you already own, or - a drive that holds only the cartridge.conf file and points at a game already installed on your PC. The cartridge is then just a physical way to launch it.

If you don't want to buy new storage right now, don't. It's just a launcher that happens to work with a physical object.

AI disclosure. I used Claude Code and Copilot for a lot of the commit messages, docs and git management. I'm a CRNA, not a professional developer. I learned some Python for research and picked up Rust for this project, so I had help.

Free and open source: https://github.com/HarryBMa/pc-gamepak Frontend plugins: https://github.com/HarryBMa/pc-gamepak-plugins Inspired by LewdM3at's original project: https://github.com/LewdM3at/PC-Cartridge-System

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Hi everyone!

Inspired by https://github.com/LewdM3at/PC-Cartridge-System

I wanted to create a better user experience for launching cartridges on pc. I made a gamepak wizard that writes whatever you want onto a drive, floppy, NFC, action, whatever. There is a tiny watcher that launches a simple game launcher when the drive is read it looks for a cartridge.conf whether to launch or not. I've added a memory card system as well (copies save folder onto drive). It's cross-platform and I've made test plugins for various popular frontends. https://github.com/HarryBMa/pc-gamepak-plugins

I just wanted to share if anyone was interested.

Obligatory AI disclosure: i refuse to learn git and use Claude code to push and manage my disgusting worktree. I don't have time to write a comprehensive commit text that makes sense (see this unhinged post) and I let copilot write messages and docs for stuff I don't want to do. I barely have time with work and coding projects, I don't have time to remember what I worked on last night.

Imagine if they shot the april fools vid with chicken mounted gopros. Rip Logistics lol

I’ve had my commuter bag for nearly 2 years and love it.
My partner has been bugging me for nearly as long after seeing Linus using it in green in videos for one.
Her new bag now delivered 👌

Absolutely brutal - this is easily hundreds, possibly 1000s of hours of work lost 🤦‍♂️

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-erases-edited-footage

Google Pixel 1st Gen has unlimited full quality photo/video uploaded from the device. I brought the phone years ago with the purpose to upload photos/videos to my account.

The concept I have is tear down the phone, remove the battery, solider an ac charger to the phone, either use the screen or get a get a bigger screen to access the phone, and diy a custom enclosure.

The Photo attached is a reference of what I want it to look like after I'm doing it.

Resources I've found of other doing something similar to their Pixel 1.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/l1h9lx/can_you_run_the_pixel_1_without_any_battery_247/

https://noflcl.codeberg.page/blog/2024/12/21/2-phone-1-screen/

A song about privacy and the theme song for my upcoming show "WSI: Web Site Investigators."

I have a pc that i was using normally then i sent it to a friend in another city , when he gets it he told me that that fans are spinning but there is no display, things stayed like this for months then i told him to sell the gpu and send me back the pc , now when i get it it doesn't even power up nothing spin or light up , i know i have a cpu socket bent pin in the left bottom side (idk if it affects the power up)
Note:
- Pc was in covered in dust
- psu is working (paperclip test)
- i tried everything troubleshoot ik (power sw pins , remove everything and make sure it plugged ok)
- i jumped start the psu when it was connected to the motherboard but it just spin the fans (no display and cpu is cool )and when i remove my hand the pc shut off again
- the fans have an external controller
- ive removed the cpu and everything just to see if the mobo can turn or anything , but it didnt
Motherboard is biostar z490gta

Started yesterday

Turned three broken controllers into two working ones: one for me (18) and one for my brother (10). Hope he likes his! What do you guys think?

P.S. First time getting to use my LTT WAN Show Precision Screwdriver.