smileybarry

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by smileybarry 1mo ago
Remote Control requires (relatively) manual pairing per session and setting the controlling session as trusted, even if the controlling session is a web browser. You can enable a more well-encompassing remote control "server" mode
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by smileybarry 1mo ago
> That doesn't take away at all from the complete absurdity of this level of bloat. When the article compares that figure directly to macOS Weather.app's 250MB usage, yes it does. It brings the sensationalist comparison down fr
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by smileybarry 1mo ago
I don't want to "akshually" this, but on a stock[1] up-to-date Windows 11 x64 25H2 (aka: my desktop) Weather takes up around ~670MB of RAM at launch, not 1GB. While writing this comment it dropped to 450MB. All in all much lo
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by smileybarry 1mo ago
WebView2 has some memory optimizations across several WebView2 instances, so it should save memory once you have multiple WebView2 apps running.
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by smileybarry 2mo ago
I think it defaults to showing the account in Edge but enabling sync still requires a button click. I'll see if I can verify this with a spare PC somewhere.
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by smileybarry 2mo ago
> so they'll then get sent to Microsoft and associated with your Microsoft account. The import is entirely local, the "sent to Microsoft" bit is if you have Edge sync enabled. This is identical to Chrome importing your Fir
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by smileybarry 3mo ago
Whether it's a parody or satire or a fake product page for a DIY project, emphasizing the climate cost of AI while using AI to generate every video there kind of ruins it.
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by smileybarry 3mo ago
And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)
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by smileybarry 5mo ago
Archive.md link: https://archive.md/BXov8 In case you were also inexplicably blocked by Cloudflare.
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by smileybarry 5mo ago
Odd, it was off for me the first time I opened that website, maybe it's persisted from some other context.
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by smileybarry 5mo ago
iOS does this by default too, but it tells you about it and gives you the option to not strip the location from EXIF: the bottom of the photo picker has the text "Location not included", and the context menu opened by the "..
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by smileybarry 6mo ago
This is why I said Electron-esque . I meant you didn't need a wrapper or renderer of some kind. You literally didn't bundle anything executable, your app was a ZIP of JS files & images that Windows spawned a host process for.
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by smileybarry 6mo ago
Yeah, I was expecting something like the Animal Crossing dialog bubble or something. At least put Tom Nook as the boss character.
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by smileybarry 6mo ago
WinJS was a bit different, where your app was genuinely just a bundle of JavaScript and a UWP host process dealt with the rendering. (No Electron-esque to deliver with your app) Made for some tiny, succinct apps.
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by smileybarry 6mo ago
It's funny that Horizon Worlds will shut down before its actual launch here. Meta Quest headsets are sold here but the Horizon Worlds part of the OS was entirely blocked off. (The mobile app shows it, but I could never get the headset
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by smileybarry 7mo ago
I would also read "Windows Native Development" as driver development or compiling directly with `nmake` (neither of which are described there).
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by smileybarry 7mo ago
Windows SDKs, WDKs (driver dev), Visual Studio releases, and .NET SDKs all coexist peacefully on a machine. If a project build breaks due to newer SDKs, it's because it was configured with "use newest version". (Which is usua
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by smileybarry 7mo ago
> You don't have to install executables downloaded from an unknown GitHub account named marler8997. You can download that script and read it just like any other shell script. You do because the downloaded ZIP contains an EXE, not a
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
If you haven't already, you can ask Google for a refund on that (the second, recent) in-app purchase: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/15574897?hl=en The policies are "up to 48 hrs after purc
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
It could also just pretend to encrypt your drive with a null key and not do anything, either. You need some implicit trust in a system to use it. And at worst, you can probably reverse engineer the (unencrypted) BitLocker metadata that pr
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
BitLocker recovery keys are essentially the key to an at-rest, local copy of the real key. (I.e., they need access to the encrypted drive to get the real encryption key) When you use a recovery key at preboot, it decrypts that on-disk b
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
No, you can just revoke and regenerate the recovery key with `manage-bde`.
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
Not anymore, modern hardware running Windows 11 Home now also has FDE, technically running on BitLocker, just that it's called "Device Encryption" and doesn't have the same options: https://support.microsoft.c
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
> so they can never target just one individual You assume the binary can't just have a machine check in itself that activates only on the target's computer.
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
That's for Entra/AD, aka a workplace domain. Personal accounts are completely separate from this. (Microsoft don't have a AD relationship with your account; if anything, personal MS accounts reside in their own empty Entra fo
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
That's actually a misunderstanding that blew up to an outright lie: The Start Menu is fully native. The "Recommended" section (and only it) is powered by a React Native backend, but the frame & controls are native XAML. (
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
Just Teams in a browser tab instead. Does it actively require running as a full app to do anything?
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
This is all paraphrasing. The closest paraphrase of the original statement to Forbes, from Forbes' article, is: > Microsoft confirmed to Forbes that it does provide BitLocker recovery keys if it receives a valid legal order. I suspe
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
I know that, I meant: Steam is preventing it from going into that sleep phase (it's still a sleep phase after all) and keeps the OS awake.
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by smileybarry 8mo ago
Nope, going into standby is the same as logging off, since your client doesn't send keep alive packets anymore. (Not sure if macOS is an exception, because I think my MBP doesn't go into proper sleep if I keep Steam running)

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