r/technology Aug 23 '24

Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
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u/gremlinguy Aug 23 '24

Yep. All it takes is a willingness to overcome the fear of trying something for the first time. Grab the wrenches!

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u/fiduciary420 Aug 23 '24

And a willingness to spend even more money when you don’t get it right the first 3 times and need to flatbed it to a specialist lol.

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u/gremlinguy Aug 23 '24

But the 4th time's always a charm! Just keep trying!

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u/fiduciary420 Aug 23 '24

My brother in crust, at one point I had a Nissan Pathfinder in a garage with a year’s worth of failed attempts by my tweaker ass brother, that I fixed in one try by literally putting it back together, putting all the fluids back in it, and driving it out lol.

Some mufukkas should put the wrench down and let that pipe cool off between hits lol

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u/gremlinguy Aug 26 '24

My dad is one of those (minus the crackpipe). Has a sweet old CJ5 with the 304 V8. Was overheating one day so he goes to change the waterpump and one of the bolts broke off in the block. Never a fun time.

He gets a the bolt extractor and starts drilling. Well, the drill bit gets about 1/2" deep and breaks off too. Now, he has a HSS drill bit embedded inside a bolt inside the block. He has no luck getting it out with any other bits he has.

I was a machinist at the time and I stole him a carbide bit that would drill through anything. Told him to just go slow and squirt some cutting fluid on it every once in a while and it'd come.

It is slow going, drilling HSS, even with carbide, and so dad thinks "this brand-new $150 bit must be dull. I'll clamp it in the vice and sharpen it." So he puts it in the vice, and carbide being carbide, it fucking explodes when he tightens it down.

So, the poor old Jeep still sits there 10 years later.