Kyle J. McKeown

Casual gamer, Internet addict, IT enthusiast and professional procrastinator.

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

"Shit! We're dealing with a SysAdmin!"

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@5mukx https://t.co/6V9IL5wt1G

[JFK Files @read_jfk_files]

tfw you laugh at idiot Microsofty lusers being globally tracked by the NSA because their GUID is hardcoded inside their TPM, but then you suddenly remember Linux also has /etc/machine-id and you forgot to setup your init daemon to periodically truncate and regenerate a new machine-id so you can't also be tracked because you are pretty sure that Chrome is reading it and sending it to Google as harmless "user telemetry analytics."

i stand by my claim that mf'er asshole Lennart Poettering really is the NSA's man on the inside on a mission to destroy Linux and install the NSA's backdoors through all his systemd slop

[JFK Files @read_jfk_files]

tfw you laugh at idiot Microsofty lusers being globally tracked by the NSA because their GUID is hardcoded inside their TPM, but then you suddenly remember Linux also has /etc/machine-id and you forgot to setup your init daemon to periodically truncate and regenerate a new machine-id so you can't also be tracked because you are pretty sure that Chrome is reading it and sending it to Google as harmless "user telemetry analytics."

i stand by my claim that mf'er asshole Lennart Poettering really is the NSA's man on the inside on a mission to destroy Linux and install the NSA's backdoors through all his systemd slop

[autist @litteralyme0]

gaming industry

[Charlie @ghost_motley]

The latest version of Rufus allows you to create a Windows 11 installer with quality of life (QoL) improvements.

This stops Windows 11 forcing Microsoft Copilot, OneDrive and Outlook and doesn't enable Fast Startup.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

They gang-raped a Palestinian so brutally he was hospitalised. They did it on camera. When footage leaked, and the rapists were arrested, Israelis rioted to protect them. They said they had the right to rape. The Israeli lawyer who leaked the footage was arrested. This is Israel.

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.

Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.

By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.

That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.

I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.

So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.

But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@macishish @IGNorantreturns @JuiceHead33 Also, I don't see how some idiot neo-Nazi making the same dumb assumption as you and holding a Nazi flag changes history, or backs up your argument any.

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@macishish @IGNorantreturns @JuiceHead33 "I don't agree with this person! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!"
A play right out of the communist manifesto, declare your opponent a Nazi before they can discredit you. Also, what's with your obsession with the word "retard"? A bit of self-reflection, perhaps?

[Windows Latest @WindowsLatest]

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 has a nasty storage bug that can silently eat hundreds of GB from your C: drive.

If Settings > Storage > System & reserved shows System files using 100GB, 200GB, or even 500GB, random downloads may not be the problem.

A protected file called CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal can grow out of control, and it's found inside:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\CapabilityAccessManager\

This file is tied to Windows privacy/access logging for things like camera, microphone, location, and screen capture. Normally, it should be a few MB. On affected PCs, users have reported 70GB, 110GB, 200GB, and even 513GB.

Microsoft quietly fixed it in KB5095093, saying the update “improves disk space usage” for this file. The fix should also arrive automatically with July 2026 Patch Tuesday.

[Milty @MiltyTheGreat]

A fix for this would be if devs could tag a specific achievement that tells Valve "this player completed the game" and denies the refund.

I love Steams refund system. But devs shouldn't be punished.

[SimplyJohn @SimplyJohn101]

I'll say it this way. I dont care if someone is gay, bi, or even trans. If they are a good person, that is what matters.

The social push bullshit to take "pride" and turn it into debaucherous disgusting dominance displays dressed up as parades turned my acceptance into disgust.

The further push to turn Trans into a "human right" and to "educate" children was beyond disturbing.

I will accept some people if they are good people, nomatter their sexuality.

But the movement?

Fuck them. Fuck the ideology. Fuck needing to accept things that are obviously wrong.

The normal people are sick of this.

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@macishish @IGNorantreturns @JuiceHead33 You really like saying that word don't you? And no, I think you need a history lesson because you seem to think the Nazi's automatically weren't socialists simply because they labelled themselves as such. Not everyone uses false flags like ANTIFA or most ex-communist regimes.

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@macishish @IGNorantreturns @JuiceHead33 I think you need a history lesson if you believe the Nazi party wasn't left-wing. Also maybe a vocabulary lesson too, since you can't seem to come up with more than a single word to repeatedly insult people with.

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@macishish @IGNorantreturns @JuiceHead33 Fun fact, the Nazi's were far-left. "Nazi" was short for "Nationalsozialistische", or "Nationalist Socialist".

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@Kur_art_ai Censors "fuck" then drops a hard-R in the same sentence, wild. lmao

[TrueGen @TrueGen93]

@Kur_art_ai This feels fitting lmao

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@WindowsLatest So when I google "Pavan Davuluri" everything seems to be from within the last 6 months. Did Microsoft recently fire the Windows team lead for what they've done to the OS? I know the guy who insisted Windows 8's UI be treated like a tablet OS was promptly fired after the backlash.

[Kyle J. McKeown @Drift_91]

@theepicmap Okay, lets see you build a house on a half-frozen swamp.

[Doom🍂 @hardwoodboyzz]

@theepicmap It’s not a housing crisis it’s an immigration crisis. Rip real Canadians

[𝔩𝔲𝔫𝔞.𝔥𝔩 @lobotomy_user]

great, i have to pay to cancel my adobe subscription

most pathetic way to get me to keep my subscription lol