My son’s Windows laptop did the same. Turns out there is a setting to make Windows truly shut down when selecting “shut down” from the menu, because normally it secretly sleeps or hibernates or something to have faster start-up times. There’s also the power another device via USB option that you may have to disable in BIOS / EFI settings.

Jeez, are they still using mail pigeons?

Because having more ticked boxes than the competition sells. Doesn’t matter if it’s of any relevance.

cut the cheese into cubes with individual toothpicks

Jeez, next time just use a knife my dude.

Your typical bike dynamo puts out 6V AC. I bet yours does as well, so that diode sounds like a good idea.

Jammer dat een artikel van de kinderombudvrouw achter een betaalmuur verdwijnt.

So I downloaded slackware on dozens of disks.

This is no joke. When I downloaded Slackware in '95 or '96, it was over 100 3.5" floppies of 1.44 MB each. And there were still more available, those were just the ones I thought I’d need. And before you could even begin installing, each of those had to be downloaded, written and verified because floppies were not terribly reliable.

Press ctrl+alt+esc. The cursor will change into a red skull and when you click a window, the process running it will be instakilled. Press esc again to cancel. That’s much better than going through task manager, finding the right process and then killing it.