the top stairs could have been added later, why demolish the old stairs if you don’t have to.

Powertoys is basically all the things the engineers internally couldn’t stand not having but the business won’t allow to be officially integrated.

The reason it’s de facto mandatory is due to some in house extensions, assuming they work with this I could, but I also don’t particularly care about my privacy on a work machine. But I will be checking this out for my personal stuff!

In VSCode (yeah yeah MS bad, I have to use it for work) it puts a yellow box around the charcater, which I don’t immediately recognize the meaning of and highlights the line as “identifier “blah;” is undefined”. It’s not like your gunna spend all day on it, but that could waste a couple minutes if the dev wasn’t paying close attention, which is “fun prank” territory.

No actually I’m talking about Tom Sott, the variety reporter style content and a signature red shirt. Just checked out Joe scott he seems pretty cool

It was created by youtubers to try and gain independence from youtube, it’s cooperatively owned by the creators. It is mostly the same as those creators youtube content but with no ads and less ad friendly parts added in, occasionally a creator will put out some passion project that wouldn’t work on an ad supported platform. It skews edutainment and video essay type stuff, contrapoints, strange parts, tom scott, philosophy tube and Not Just Bikes are a few that are involved. Quite a lot of content overall but most of it available on youtube.

I like and use nebula too, but it isn’t really a community, I don’t think it has any way at all for users to communicate, no comments no profiles etc etc

Would this data get screwed up by VPNs?

I’m not sure what language that is but that code makes no sense.

Just remove the lid entirely.

How to spot a canadian that just started using a computer: they end questions with É

On windows 11 or windows 10?

The <win10 context menu is old and poorly designed. Each app that declares itself on the right click menu gets to hold up the entire menu for like 3 seconds each. So if you have one poorly designed app that can appear on that list your right click menu will be super slow. Try to go through the right click menu and disable each app that appears one by one until you find the culprit.

Windows has this official tool, if you go to the explorer tab and find …/contextMenuHandlers section you can easily disable them one by one but i haven’t used it personally.

Win11 tried to fix this and moved to a different model but in doing so made the first level right click menu functionally useless.

add t0, t1, t2 is way easier for humans than the 0x014B4820 that it could be assembled into, and what programmers had to use before assembly existed.

In Putty go to Connections->X11->Enable X11 Forwarding and then put “localhost:0” as the xdisplay location. I haven’t done it in a while but I think that’s all you need.

The average person doesn’t own a computer anymore, but I think steam users are pretty representative of people who want to use the OS that markets itself as “The next generation of Linux gaming”

61% of steam users have 1tb or more total hard drive space.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

I think the only thing that will really push adoption is if more systems ship with Linux preinstalled and those laptops are advertised primarily with linux. People aren’t going to go buy a usb drive, figure out how to download an image and how to download and install a flasher and how to use that flashing tool, not when google and apple actively hamstring computer literacy in schools. They probably won’t even click the “budget penguin thing” unless they already know what it is and have been sold the story of linux on that specific laptop.

I use Buckets . It’s a small 1 person freeware, dev asks for a 30 dollar one time donation but it isn’t mandatory. It’s based on the software and idealogy of ynab which enshittified several years ago. The learning resources of ynab should be mostly compatible but I haven’t looked at it in a while.

It interopts with simplefin, an open source tool that reads your bank transactions and gives read only access to buckets. It costs 10dollars per year to use their servers. It creates some annoying quirks that is mostly the fault of my bank but its passable. The app can also take csv files if you would prefer (which most banks allow you to export).

I like to use it when I’m reading, I’ll set it to move at my reading pace and then I don’t have to touch anything to read the article.

I see some value in this fairly common interaction:

• Person 1: So for bug-1234 I did XYZ and saw ABC
• Person 2: ABC? I see ABC when I do XYZ for bug-1235! They must have the same root cause, I’ll mark mine as a dupe of yours and move on to bug-1236