Sprawlie

There's so much in here I would rant and correct you on.
 
But given you're in Highschool, the important thing is yes, Don't do drugs. There is a good reason why Alcohol and Drug use laws are typically 18+ (and if we want to go by science, should be higher). However, don't generalize people who use Cannabis.
 
 
As for your non-techie friend's lack of knowledge on how to use technical features of their device? There's always a first time someone learns something. Hopefully you helped him learn these features and he was grateful.
 
 
I had a CEO who demanded we get them an iPhone and MacBook because "I'm an executive and need to loook it". But then when receiving it, immediately ran down to the IT area, and demanded a "cable guy" help her understand this fancy doodad. She not only didn't know what an iCloud account was, but didn't even know how to use the iPhone at all and this was her first phone and CEO job back in 15 years.
 
the thing you will be shocked with in the world even after highschool is how absolutely ignorant the vast majority of the population actually is in technology. I have employees who are in their 50's, who have literally been sitting at the same desk for 30 years using a computer, and can't even understand what the word "reboot" means and still take photos, print them, than try to fax them.

1: UAT ! Do not do anything in production until you have tested the upgrade in UAT first! 
 
2. This is an extensive project in any regards. Not a press a few buttons and voila, upgrade. Now, yes, from a technical side it MAY be that easy. But corporate projects need checks, balances and oversight to ensure that all thresholds set in the project goals are met, including any risk and what you're doing to mitigate any.
 
3. Snapshot, snapshot,snapshot. If it's in production. Backup, snapshot, backup. two copies. whatever. Don't fuck around if it's mission critical but ensure you have a back out plan in case it goes wrong. That could mean restoring a snapshot, or restoring from backup. But have the plan ready, and have something measurable that would kick off the execution of the back out plan.
 
4. User Apprehension is understandable, but cannot be a barrier to progress. I can attest to this from experience that constantly having to cave upgrades or innovation because of user sentiment, and you will never ever get anything done. Catching up from that far behind is signfiicantly harder, more expensive, and will be that much more oppositional. Get management buy in, With the plan above you'll be able to convince them that you're ready and know what you're doing. And if Management is in, The rest of the employees will fall in line or usually be shut up. 
 
5. @sweaton posters are also completely correct. One app at a time, Vendors are not your friends and likely will not share enough to make the transitions perfectly smooth. Be prepared to either have to pay for support, or rely on your own skills.
 
6. Checklist the exact steps you are going to do in production before you ever touch it. "LIVE" day should be following your own tested checklist of events without the need to think. if you planned and tested right. "LIVE" should be a sleep walk.
 
7. Have a second person involved with live who is fully aware of the checklist and can swap in place should you become unavaialble, or even just to ensure that what you're doing with hands on keyboard is accurate and you're not dozing off accidentally typing rm -rf in the wrong folder 
 
8. In place upgrade is your best bet, but if you hvae third party software that doesn't like it, you need to get that software installed from scratch. Migrating software (especially windows software, that uses proprietary code or engines) is ridiculously difficult and may have massive unforeseen repercussions. The only safe way is a proper, Full re-install from the vendor. Unless supported, you simply don't know what sort of behaviour you may encounter if proprietary software is not installed to the vendor specifications (I Know this as a former Vendor of proprietary software, AND sysadmin of proprietary software)

Do you know what "going to the moon" even means for cryptocurrencies? Rapid deflation of the "currency". Which any economist will tell you is just as bad as hyperinflation. You're still playing the "bigger fool" game, where you're trying to find the bigger fool that will eventually buy the inherently worthless thing you bought at a higher price. And since you admittedly bought in at the peak, you are one of the biggest fools of them all, since you fell for the propaganda hard. The only thing left to you now is basically the five stages of grief.
 
I can't understand this insistence of comparing cryptocurrencies with stocks, real estate or cars. If your investment in any of those latter examples fails, you still have something tangible like an actual house or a car at the end of it. Even with a stocks, you still have a company with assets that can be liquidated to recoup some of the loss. Cryptocurrencies don't have that, they will never have that.

The network requirement is Gigabit cable for the best experience
 
The pc requirement is can decode h.264 streams. Which yours does easily.

So this user was returning to work an got frustrated that they couldn't log in. Over and over and over again trying their password and insisting that no matter what the password didn't work
 
After calling helpdesk, and repeating that he knows his account login, and that he's doing it correctly. He looked closer at his screen and realized he was using an old, deactivated account and not the one instructed to use.
 
 
That user was me.
 
I'm now a Luser.
 
 

Ik no-ip is not a bad one.
 
Holy, the amount of info here helped out a lot. I am comfortable with loading up HA and giving it a shot and port forwarding and setting up dns for it. BUT not only do I have renovations going on, I am still looking for a good cheap (under $35 per unit) z-wave light switch as I need about 25 of them. 

He replaces his piston return springs every year so he’s good. Engine barely does any work 

I've had similar frustrations getting thing integrated into my HA setup. Usually nothing to do with HA, but similar BS from multiple different vendors.
 
 
I get his anger here. I read the "I've been defeated" title and knew right away what his anger was going to be and I feel it. 
 
It's not just GE and these sorts of things. In my professional career I have constantly run into the same head banging frustration throughout the software industry as a whole. Companies are becoming far more consumer hostile towards the customers. 
 
I was defeated as well. Resulted in a mental breakdown and the inability to do my job. I don't blame Linus for his anger. If I were facing that, I'd probably have ripped every single switch by hand out myself at this point, boxed them up and dropped them on the companies front steps.
 

So this user was returning to work an got frustrated that they couldn't log in. Over and over and over again trying their password and insisting that no matter what the password didn't work
 
After calling helpdesk, and repeating that he knows his account login, and that he's doing it correctly. He looked closer at his screen and realized he was using an old, deactivated account and not the one instructed to use.
 
 
That user was me.
 
I'm now a Luser.
 
 

It's volatile - no power no memeory.
Memory does not remain.

It's not depressing.
 
Not making your 40th lap is Depressing.
 

Do one app at a time.
 
Migration vendors never tell you the pitfalls. It never goes smooth.
 
Do one app at a time.

Id just try to do a inplace upgrade from 2012 to 2022. Make a snapshot first, but it should work most of the time, and be the most seamless way to move to a newer os.
 
Otherwise can you get support from the app vendors, that seems like the best option here. If you can't do that, try using the installer if you have it, or copy the installed program files. You can also monitor a program to see what files and registery keys it's reading and copy those to the new system.

As the sign in my office reads:
 
"I'm at that age where my mind still thinks I'm 29.  My sense of humor indicates I'm 12.  And my body mostly keeps asking if I'm sure I'm not dead yet."

This is unpopular?
 
Like, everyone should love dill pickles 😛
 
Now olives. Olives are literally poison.

46m and no intentions of growing up.
Also have a 4 year son so I get to play with lego / transformers / and hang out at parks (without the odd looks I used to get ..... 😆)

First Computer was a ZX81 and first online game I played was BF1942!

To hell with it. Produce something worthwhile, not just click bait, people will find it. 

Before reinstalling GPU drivers you should always perform DDU. IF you haven't done it, try it and then install the newest drivers. 

World of Warcraft has always worked fine using WINE. It easier nowadays with the kutris installnscriot too.

I am 68. 
I came over on the boat so a true dinosaur and a real Boomer.
 
The boat.
 
 

43. soo started with wierd consoles (not NES/SEGA) C64, Amiga 500, 386 / 486 / pentium..
 
Cutting the soft cased floppy disc 5 1/4 inch to get more space on it, running amiga with dual disc drives.
 
Not really a console boy, always pc. when MB´s where big storage, and you had to choose if you wanted to run a game in Tandy/SXGA/VGA or whatever, and choose is sound was soundblaster or something else.
 
Still build computers, tinker with al kinds of stuff, build keyboards, just a giant nerd.

50.  And all I do is play chess and want to be liked more.

Oh, kids nowadays..... Getting on my nerves and the lawn.

55 and ain't getting no younger. 😁

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