noisem4ker

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by noisem4ker 5d ago
I couldn't find any information about that. Do you have something to back it up (news articles, changelog entries), or was it just your subjective experience?
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by noisem4ker 19d ago
There's no way the typically included 30-day trial of an antivirus or Office costs 50€. It must've been a full yearly subscription of one or the other, that managed to sneak in right before checkout without being de-selected.
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by noisem4ker 28d ago
I'd even describe these as some of the most gullible and less ethically principled people at that.
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by noisem4ker 29d ago
Fractional scaling is now supported by major toolkits and compositors. https://wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1 Also, I wouldn't hold the rendering quality of macOS as a high standard at all, since all it
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by noisem4ker 1mo ago
On Windows, by default, files are moved if dragged between folders on the same volume, and copied if dragged between volumes. You can force moving by pressing Shift, or copying by pressing Control as a modifier. You can make a context menu
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by noisem4ker 2mo ago
Yes. The PCR state after booting won't match that of the regular system, so the TPM will refuse to give up the key.
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by noisem4ker 2mo ago
I briefly researched the matter recently, and I found these: 1. Browser Tamer: https://github.com/aloneguid/bt 2. Browsers (what a stupid name): https://github.com/Browsers-software/browsers 3. Sw
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by noisem4ker 2mo ago
> Why can't I just drag a shortcut to the desktop. You can...? I tried dragging from Dolphin, Kickoff and the Task Manager onto my desktop, and in all three cases it worked. Granted, there's a moment of confusion having to choo
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by noisem4ker 2mo ago
> how do you type in an en dash instead? By pressing the "-" key for half a second and choosing the exact dash character I am looking for in the pop-up that shows near the caret. KDE Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Chara
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by noisem4ker 2mo ago
Same goes for the Italian "imposta". It's a direct translation of "set up", but not a verb anyone would use to mean "setting up a program", and I've never seen an installer named "Imposta.exe&quo
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by noisem4ker 3mo ago
Cookies are not the basis of the law, which is about tracking in general, abstracted from the exact means and implementation details.
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by noisem4ker 3mo ago
Brazen lying.
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by noisem4ker 3mo ago
Hardly anyone, and in fact they eventually brought back the "up one level" toolbar button.
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by noisem4ker 3mo ago
The fact that your password manager wouldn't offer to fill-in the password field of the fake login page (due to the domain being unknown) should make you raise an eyebrow.
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by noisem4ker 3mo ago
I just tried and it started playing Daft Punk on YouTube Music.
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by noisem4ker 4mo ago
> they won't last long I wish that was the case for people with insincere communication practices. On the contrary, they seem to embody the sociopath stereotype that ultimately climbs ladders.
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by noisem4ker 4mo ago
It depends on your definition of "decent". Legal: yes, simple: maybe not. Search in past threads.
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
> Where else would you put that stuff? A "Centralized thumbnail cache" in the user profile folder, where it's been for a long while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache > so that
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
> Thumbs.db Windows has been storing thumbnail cache in the user profile folder since Vista (2006). It's been 20 years. Time to let it go.
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
> there was a time where Microsoft was offering free license transfers I don't think they ever stopped. Maybe they ceased advertising it, but installing Windows 10 over 7 or 8 would silently inherit the license far past the original
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
You can still manually switch to a "Related" tab. On the mobile app, you scroll down a bit and the tab header appears. In the browser, there's probably a way to automate it with an user script.
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
Forbid they criticize Apple products that are in the very subject of the article. Will you be around to police the discussion the next time something having "Microsoft" in the title is submitted and the shit-flinging-at-Windows-an
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
Yeah, I'm not part of the cult.
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
Invoke-WebRequest 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest' -OutFile firefox_setup.exe
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
It's kind of both. Hyper-V is a bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor. Windows runs virtualized, one level above it, in a privileged (host) VM, next to other (guest) VMs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V#Architecture
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by noisem4ker 5mo ago
Well-hinted fonts such as Consolas are indeed very rare. I think I've only found Liberation and Hack to appear decent on standard density display. Roboto Mono is nicely shaped but blurry. I think Noto Mono used to have hints but droppe
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by noisem4ker 6mo ago
It's way beyond dictation. Medics I know (fresh postgraduates who used LLMs to help write their R code for statistical analysis for their research) are starting to treat it as one of their peers for domain reasoning, e.g. for discussin
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by noisem4ker 6mo ago
Your experience may be valuable, and in fact made me think, but I also think the brashness of framing everything in the "adapt or die" ultimatum is unnecessary and off-putting.
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by noisem4ker 6mo ago
I don't think they were appreciating that HTML could be read unrendered. I think they meant that it was up to the browser to render HTML with sensible but unspecified or otherwise user-specified styling (the browser is supposed to be a
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by noisem4ker 6mo ago
It's documented here: https://umidevi.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-make-windows-xp-...

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