{"id":5466,"date":"2023-10-11T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2025-02-22T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T19:20:49","slug":"fing-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/11\/fing-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"F&#8217;ing Windows, #About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-weight: 400;\" data-font-family=\"Open Sans\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\">Microsoft Patch Tuesday just kicked me in the balls really hard.&nbsp; Woke up this lovely Fall morning to a borked overnight automatic Windows update.&nbsp; I have been avoiding an issue for a few months, now I have no choice but deal with it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-weight: 400;\" data-font-family=\"Open Sans\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\">Here comes the days long and incredibly tedious process of reinstalling Windows and all my apps, drivers, updates, scripts, plugins, configs, tweaks, tricks, hacks &amp; cracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-weight: 400;\" data-font-family=\"Open Sans\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\">Ugh.&nbsp; This is the worst.&nbsp; Back in a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-weight: 400;\" data-font-family=\"Open Sans\" data-font-weight=\"400\" data-font-style=\"\">* 3 hours later&#8230;welp, maybe 30 years of screwing around with Windows has finally given me enough troubleshooting wisdom and patience to resolve a major problem in hours rather than days.&nbsp; Likely only just delaying the inevitable, but for now at least I&#8217;ll be able to rebuild everything when I want instead of stomping out an unexpected fire.&nbsp; I \u2764 Windows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Patch Tuesday just kicked me in the balls really hard.&nbsp; Woke up this lovely Fall morning to a borked overnight automatic Windows update.&nbsp; I have been avoiding an issue for a few months, now I have no choice but deal with it.&nbsp; Here comes the days long and incredibly tedious process of reinstalling Windows &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/11\/fing-windows\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">F&#8217;ing Windows, #About<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-one","tag-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getoffthisplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}