Lynyrd Skynrd and Sweet Home Alabama were too much for the Compound's progleft laptop, one fatal step too far. Enraged, the machine mutinied on Saturday night, taking a BLM knee and going full Black Screen.
Commies Run From Cold Steel
So what to do? Take a knee in sympathy with the upstart radical nihilist, side with the revolutionary, tin-pot Maoist and bring the electronic life of the Compound back to some kind of Year Zero? No. Surrendering to its brazen sedition wasn't an option.
Two paths to victory over the mutineer. Viz. Take the Black Screen syndicalist out to the range and shoot it. Tempting. Or, on the other hand, root out its aggressively dysfunctional thought leader and replace it with something that worked. After running a swift cost/benefit analysis I chose the latter option.
But You Can Always Stab it With The Spyderco
In this case, a 500 GB WD SSD. Off came the back of the fractious box, out went the corrupt MQ01ABD100 Marxist and in went a sane alternative. Boom. Autonomous zone over.
Vicious Little Maoist Removed From Power
New SSD in place, the machine booted off a flash drive and MicroRubbish Windows 10 installed seamlessly, rebellion over. Sorry, Mau-Mau, you lost this battle and lost hard.
Order Restored
There it was, a working, productive, functional machine standing proudly for God, flag, compound and country. No more knee-bending insurrection, no more Black Screen. That was over, and by way of bonus, the commie not-so-hard-drive can always be taken out in the field and shot. Result.
Draw the moral as you will,
LSP
12 comments:
Black screens matter?
Yup. We dismantle hard drives all the time.
Glad you were able to fix it easily.
So, a self-destructing SJW SSD ? Shoot it before it starts a fire somewhere.
As SF author H. Beam Piper once said, "A shot at a target is never wasted."
Microsoft's operating systems are like Marvel superhero movies: Every other one sucks. And the ones that don't suck are not nearly as good as people think.
Well there it was, LL. Buy a new box or fix the old one.
I went down the latter path and I'm glad I did, saved 500++ bucks and got an upgrade. Nice.
#BSM
Me too, Linda. Never can tell with tech and I was expecting all sorts of hassle. But it was seamless enough. Thank God.
Have to shoot the old HDD now.
Kid, that's an excellent point.
And it has to be said, Jim, I've got a lot of old tech just waiting for range opportunity.
Infidel, I like the way you speak Truth to Power.
hahaha! "... taking a BLM knee and going full Black Screen." This post is great!
It was a close run thing, Jenny, but I put down the mutiny.
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