For me it’s the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they’re being spied. Here’s the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won’t use it or haven’t used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can’t really spy on you on something that’s already off and unplugged!

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    Rebooting your PC really does fix a lot of issues.

    But in Windows, you have to go to a sub-sub-sub-menu of the old control panel, click on a button called “choose what closing the lid does”, then on “change settings that are currently unavailable” and then disable “fast startup (recommended)”, just to get your pc to reboot properly.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Here’s an even easier hack than all of that :effort:

      Just hold the power button down for about 10 seconds, ez-pz

      • DokPsy@infosec.pub
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        4 months ago

        I like to call that the “putting a pillow over its face” method of rebooting. Reserved for when even a shutdown /r /t 0 doesn’t work

      • tehmics@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I prefer yanking the cord out while furmark, prime95 and a full delete 0 write on the spinning disks is going.

    • blandfordforever@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Hold shift while you click start and shutdown (or reboot) when necessary. This will have windows do a full shutdown instead of a hybrid shutdown.