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by rstat1 9d ago
I think (based completely on anecdotal evidence) both the Windows desktop and lock screen pull their backgrounds from a different source than the Bing home page. I would often see a very different collection of image on my Windows machine (
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by rstat1 14d ago
Sounds like they were getting overly upset by things that don't effect them and also... checks notes a website following the law of the country they're based in. Really weird things to be getting upset over if you ask me. Regardl
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by rstat1 29d ago
>>hacking and spyware that plagued Windows users a couple decades ago And that still plagues every computing platform now. Including Apple platforms. So the lockdown clearly didn’t completely solve that problem like a lot of people se
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by rstat1 29d ago
It’s a one time delay that occurs when you first enable the ability to install downloaded apks and you never see it again for any device attached to your Google account. That’s why I called it a wildly overblown non-issue
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by rstat1 29d ago
is like much of the discourse around the changes, overly sensationalized and borderline false. The only change made that's relevant to sideloading-a-downloaded-APK as far I understand, is a 24hour delay in enabling the ability to do so
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by rstat1 29d ago
I mean if you're gonna stop people from owning their device and doing what they want with it just because of the possibility of crime occurring then their are quite a few more things that probably should also no longer exist because of
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by rstat1 29d ago
The Play Store is not required for APK distribution. Not now, nor has it ever been.
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by rstat1 29d ago
I also had one of this 11th Gen Intel FW13s, and the RTC battery on mine worked for a short time because they for some reason used some garbage rechargeable one with a 2 yr lifespan instead of the more common not-rechargeable battery that e
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by rstat1 1mo ago
>> Linux users are willing to put up with any amount of work - i.e. bullshit - to make their installations work just to get a UX that's almost as good as Windows from 20 years ago I put in the exact same amount of effort to insta
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by rstat1 3mo ago
I've played a little bit of it so far, and really enjoyed it.
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by rstat1 3mo ago
>>>At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code. Execution speed only matters to investors and the stock market. Your users don't give a shit.
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by rstat1 5mo ago
I mean all 3 of those also support LSP plugins, so would also spawn "multi GB nodeJS processes" with your tiny golang projects if you enable them.
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by rstat1 5mo ago
So I'm not so sure how you arrived at your conclusion of Zed having higher memory use than VSCODE but in testing just now that's not at all close to true. Zed for me on my Linux machine opened to a massive C++ project (the Ladybir
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by rstat1 5mo ago
and limited to one type of device that not everyone can get or wants.
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by rstat1 5mo ago
Which when I last used it they forced you to do. I'm assuming this has changed in the several years since?
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by rstat1 5mo ago
Well no actually I do not think either of my granmothers could have done that, nor would they have even known (or cared) what a Bitlocker even was.
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by rstat1 5mo ago
Yes use Bitlocker, the thing that uploads the encryption key to OneDrive "for convenience" thereby negating the whole point of FDE in the first place
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by rstat1 5mo ago
In my opinion if you learned something from it, it was useful. Bonus points if others learn from it as well, but if not then as long as you did then it doesn’t matter. AI age or not. I’ve always found hobby OS projects like this interesting
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by rstat1 6mo ago
The letter of the law says you are correct. Reality however disagrees. People who are most definitely US citizens have in fact been put in jail for the simple not-crime of refusing to provide passwords to their devices to law enforcement.
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by rstat1 6mo ago
The US has been doing that for years already. There's plenty of stories of people (US citizens included) being detained by border agents in US airports for refusal to provide said agents with access to their devices.
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by rstat1 6mo ago
So if a company uses as part of its marketing for a product the phrase "advanced security, privacy, and connectivity for homes of every shape and size" and then is later found to have lied about the "advanced security" a
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by rstat1 6mo ago
If that is truly what you think, then you clearly haven't used a Linux desktop distro since then because that absolutely incorrect.
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by rstat1 6mo ago
OS makers should not be in the business of enforcing censorship. If you want to shield your children from the "horrors" of the internet either use proper parental control software, or don't allow access at all like you said u
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by rstat1 7mo ago
Google did it with the Tensor-powered Pixels a while back, from w/e they shipped with to 6.1
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by rstat1 7mo ago
You can with Dev Drives now apparently, which don't use NTFS and disable ALL the filter drivers (including the Defender one) I stopped using Windows just as these were added so now I'm curious if there's any actual performanc
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by rstat1 7mo ago
I'd wager that's more likely due to Windows than the hardware. Like sure the hardware does play a part in that but its not the whole story or even most of it. My C++ projects have a python heavy build system attached where the mai
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by rstat1 7mo ago
Doesn't need to be in the cloud for it work everywhere.
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by rstat1 7mo ago
>>he thought his job would be in jeopardy if he didn't publish Where'd you get this from? The author's response on Bluesky doesn't imply this at all.
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by rstat1 8mo ago
Here’s the PR explaining why they disabled this function https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/18336 Seems like it caused tons of problems due to the variability of TPM quality among other things
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by rstat1 10mo ago
and also source 1

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