I use the google for lots of services in this life. Most recently it's started making recommendations for music.
It is not good at this.
That's a solid no google. Not good.
I'm reasonably sure it's because I watched this video sometime ago.
The song is interesting, the video is pretty much every bit as awful as the particles song.
I work in IT so I frequently have an interest in checking out how the "other" team works their magic. It comes up from time to time that for completely legitimet reasons I need to use tools that might be considered hacking tools. The most recent case of this came up a few days back, someone set a non-standard password a laptop that the company owns. It wasn't written down and I've since forgotten it. It's not critical, but it is the backup for a system that we use to control the lights in the facility. I tried different combinations for a few days, but finally decided to dip into my back of tricks.
The following video (that you'll need to turn on closed captioning for) shows the steps to break into an up to date windows 10 machine by having physcial access to the machine.
The short version is use the bios/boot options to boot into a windows installer disk. From there start the install and go to the repair this machine option. Use the commandline to rename the on screen keyboard executable to osk.old and copy cmd.exe as osk.exe. Exit the install media and boot to the sign on screen. On the sign on screen open the accessability menu and turn on the on screen keyboard. Boom now you are running a command prompt with administrative rights.
The command net user <username> * lets you set a new password.
Time to break in is under 10 minutes.
I've been using a lot of android devices for some of the side hustle grinding I didn't write about. Apps are a pain in the ass, but I'm in charge of disposal of the old devices so I have access to lots of older, but still serviceable android phones. It's tedious to manage 4+ phones, each app needs a little care and feeding throughout the day. If I try to keep them with me at work and at home then there's the process of gathering them, and making sure everything is plugged in once I get to my destination and the apps are running again.
It's not really been a pain point, I've stopped moving them to and from work and just check a few times in the evening. It slowed down earning but also cut the headache of it all down too. For some reason I thought about trying to remotely manage them. I found a few apps that would let you remotely manage phones wirelessly, but none of them looked like you could control the screen in real time. In my search I found Vysor. It's slick and really aimed for developers (if you stick to the free version they will overlay ads on your screen from time to time) but it lets you see the phone screen and click on apps like you're in front of it.
I started using Chrome remote desktop to manage my home PC's without all the the hassle of setting up a vpn so now I can just plug the phones into a single machine remote to it, and manage all the phones from a single location.
Randomish. I've gotten asked about laptops from several people the last few days though. 2 through family and another from a friend of my wife. I'm pretty sure it's been at least a year since the last time someone asked for direction on purchasing a laptop, interesting to get 3 in 2 weeks.
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