booting
A kicking, as with a booted foot.
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Fixed issue with laptop not booting up (corrupt MBR on one drive). Took the opportunity to refresh heatsink compound throughout. Now restoring drive backup...takes a couple of hours. It's just like being back at work 🫣
A real recession indicator is the city booting and towing cars for unpaid parking tickets
"We've worked out a compromise that will allow both nations to save face. We've argued them down to a booting."
Since booting out the old Tory Council the Labour/LibDem council have done so much for our city. The World Heritage Site was so run down but now we have people in charge who actually love the city. www.kentonline.co.…
Nice! I actually did get a Saroo but I'm struggling to get it to work. Freezes when booting games and I'm afraid I got a dud
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A kicking, as with a booted foot.
“Fixed issue with laptop not booting up (corrupt MBR on one drive). Took the opportunity to refresh heatsink compound throughout. Now restoring drive backup...takes a couple of hours. It's just like being back at work 🫣”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A real recession indicator is the city booting and towing cars for unpaid parking tickets”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"We've worked out a compromise that will allow both nations to save face. We've argued them down to a booting."”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
C4 run man through the alleyGet a man down with the swammyGet a man down with the whammyBoot couple niggas on the roadNo face no case with the bally (booting)
“Since booting out the old Tory Council the Labour/LibDem council have done so much for our city. The World Heritage Site was so run down but now we have people in charge who actually love the city. www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Nice! I actually did get a Saroo but I'm struggling to get it to work. Freezes when booting games and I'm afraid I got a dud”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Actually that’s Satan booting cats out of hell because cats are too self actualized to do anything Satan says.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“how do you like graphene? I've been considering dual booting it on my pixel”
— Bluesky· May 2026“whatever. I guess it gives me time to get my games for later this week set up properly as far as settings/first time boot goes and let me figure out what the FUCK is wrong with XIV that it's booting up with a black screen.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
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