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"I can boot the OS because an ad-blocker prevented download of the kernel."

I guess we really do live in the future.

Insert joke about EA going into the OS business and asking for money to download USB 3.1 drivers here.

Then again, we already had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service

Hey that's not fair. They would also give you the option of unlocking it yourself by gaining enough points by accomplishing arbitrary challenges. You only have to pay if you don't want to play along, silly.

I think the site is under load and the kernel loading is timing out.

EDIT: Yeah, it can't transfer the files in time. It doesn't help that the image files are set to no-cache and the browser reloads them every time. I wish he had published it on IPFS.

I couldn't run it today, but I remember a few months ago it ran fine. The load hypothesis seems right.

Surely the ad blocker would only block Windows 10?