Sounds like Windows Search Indexer. I just changed the settings in my Win 11 VM to only index the Start menu, but I’m also an old school folder user, so I never use the Windows menu to find files anyway.
Before the change, my VM was arbitrarily locking up, unable to do just about anything. It’s been a lot smoother since the change.
The ending content is pretty level-headed about this. Basically, “wait for a legal consult/directives from Arch Linux before implementing anything.” That seems like the most prudent thing to do.
Hopefully, the legal opinion is that this is unconstitutional, and that a conglomerate of nonprofits will collectively agree to fight this in court if any of them are sued over ignoring stupid laws.
Vista was fine. They just made the shift then to signed drivers, so anyone with old hardware was fucked. Windows 7 was no better, really; it had just been long enough that most people were using hardware with signed drivers by then, or were willing to accept that the “old thing” didn’t work anymore, so the perception was that it just worked.
Granted, Vista had bad default theming, so 7 looked better (by default). That probably plays a lot into the hate for Vista, too.
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idk. I think it’s very clearly labelled that this is the author’s guess at where things are going, with context around it to explain those prognostications. I like articles like that; it’s not saying anything definitive, but his specific angle on why agenic AI might be so interwoven into Windows 12 to make it impossible to strip out was fairly compelling, imho.
Who knows; it’s not like Microsoft isn’t aware of the AI backlash, so maybe they’ll scrap most of the agenic AI bullshit. Or maybe ask the speculation is wrong and it won’t be included. But if Windows 12 includes deeply integrated AI slop, then I think the author has a decent chance of being right.
But I’m happy to hear why this article is a waste of time, so let me know if you disagree with his argument. I’m not married to the idea, but I’m seeing Linux adoption IRL already by “normal people” who have connections to technical people, so I’m biased toward the argument.
You don’t need to ask. It’s clearly explained in simple terms in the summary of coverage. It’s not even hidden in the fine print.
Wasps. Fuck wasps.
If not for wasps, my family would eat outside most of the summer. As it is, it’s either wasps writing 3 minutes of bringing food outside, or a wind strong enough to blow the wasps and our food away.
WiFi mesh networks can have impressive range outdoors, without walls and reflections blocking the wifis. And they can be powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet) so you only need to run 1 cable to hook it up.
But for most of my work, a cellphone hotspot is suitable, so long as it’s not so remote that I don’t get at least a strong 4G signal. Video conferencing isn’t very data intensive with compression and, if I’m not running the meeting, slight spottiness is fine.
Over-ear headphones help with this. Then you can just ignore them and pretend you can’t hear.
(My neurospicy is showing…)
This is exactly right, I’m pretty sure. Scam emails are poorly written and have tells for anyone paying attention on purpose. It’s a feature, not an error.
Scammers don’t want to waste time on someone who will never believe that the government takes Walmart gift cards.
Based.
Email is terrible. It’s an unreliable communication system. You cannot depend on sent emails arriving in the recipient’s mailbox—even the spam folder.
People incorrectly assume that all emails at least get to their spam folder. They don’t. There are multiple levels of filters that prevent most emails from ever making it that far because most email traffic is bots blasting phishing links, scams, and spam. Nobody wants phishing and scam emails, but the blocks that prevent those are being used by big tech to justify discriminating against small mail servers.
I can’t remember the site, now, but I literally couldn’t log into one this week because the email never arrived.
And “Windows” games run better in Linux/Proton. It’s more like a re-implementation of a feature set, right? Like, I could see devs targeting Proton as the primary target sometime in the future. That’s kinda how some multiplatform systems work already, going all the way back (at least) to “Java apps” in the 90s. (I can’t think of any older examples off the dome, but I only got into coding in a big way in the 00s, so I’m not confident.)
It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster’s point.
The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.
With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The “War on Terror” was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.
And it’s working. I haven’t seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.
Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.
Peach. Separation is where it’s at, and companies should be required to provide technology required for work.
In an ideal world “No, I don’t want that on my personal device” should be sufficient, but it’s a lot harder to argue with “No, I literally cannot install that on my device; it’s incompatible. Provide an alternative for me.”
I’m finally taking steps to walk the walk re: phone separation—I’m hoping the Click Communicator pans out, since it seems like the ideal work phone. (I get a stipend for tech, so I can get whatever I want. I’ve been pocketing the extra cash, but it’s time to get an actual work phone.) I’m just hoping I can wait it out and ignore the Authenticator warnings until then, or maybe look into Magisk Hide or whatever.
The downvotes are, I assume, from the *WHOOSH* sound as the point flies over your head.
This is the optimal packing of 17 squares in a minimum-size larger square. Of course it’s not optimal everywhere. It’s specific to 17 squares packed in a square.
The joke is that there’s no reason to choose 17 squares as, clearly, a rectangular* array is optimal.
*squares are, of course, rectangles.
I think “contextual awareness” would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it’s great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn’t fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.
“Next”? Isn’t that already baked in with the platform’s spyware that governments can access freely?
Lowkey how I version number personal mini-projects and small things I roll out for my team.
I guess more like:
x… “huge new feature, scope expansion, or cool shit.”
.x. “small feature, or fixing a serious bug”
…x “testing something. Didn’t work. Try again +1.”
I’m not ashamed it didn’t work. I swear!
I don’t believe my bank allows NFC payments or camera depositing cheques using the web app. I never use my bank card to pay anyway (not as protected as credit cards), so I don’t really know much about NFC payments by phone. I don’t think there are any significant technical barriers preventing them from implementing camera-based cheque depositing online, at least. I could live without that anyway… I get like 5 cheques a year?
I imagine NFC payments might have technical requirements that prevent a web app front end. They also might require more protection than just loading a website, but idk. We can already e-transfer once we’re logged in, so I’m not sure why NFC would need extra protection. But the cards they mail you has NFC payments built in, anyway, so I don’t get why this would be a deal breaker. It’s a minor inconvenience to get a bank-/credit-card phone case.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve been using Moon+ Reader for years as it was the only eReader I could find with my required features. I have fairly unique TTS requirements about speed and text highlighting, and many apps don’t read fast enough, or don’t support my preferred TTS engine, or drop words at max speed over Bluetooth. This sounds like it could be perfect for me, depending on how they implemented TTS.
I’d love to move to something open source, too. I’m getting the Click Communicator for a work phone, so I should hopefully be able to de-Google my personal phone. Getting off Play Store apps entirely would be amaze balls and make that very easy.
The last sentence is kinda core to why parent poster’s comment isn’t really helpful.
But here we are talking about it, so more evidence that engagement hacking works, I guess?