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by p_ing 10mo ago
I would expect Microsoft to relegate little used features to CLI rather than figure out how to integrate them into the UX.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
You're correct, and those are likely all little-used in the grand scheme of Windows users (MBR -> GPT for certain).
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Explorer.exe is still the shell -- the shell is defined at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell, if you want to look (or replace it).
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Of course they do. It's all the telemetry that some people complain about.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Regular volume management can be done entirely within the Settings app. So can sound settings. There's probably an outlier that diskmgmt does better, I'm sure. But diskpart still exists, too. It could be that MSFT targets only the
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by p_ing 10mo ago
As a developer, why target Linux in all it's permutations with an unstable ABI when I can target the only stable Linux ABI -- Win32? If WINE fills the gap (and it largely does), there's zero reason to create native Linux builds. T
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Explorer is the shell ;) But Explorer has had it's fair share of issues. I have a 98SE machine to prove the stalls, lockups, lack of refreshing directories, etc...
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Technical books don't sell well to begin with. I've written a couple w/ a major publisher, it never paid back the RAM I needed to purchase to run the lab environment. Publishers are going to demand chasing the hot-new-thing w
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by p_ing 10mo ago
If the heavy WINE support continues, there will never be a Year of the Linux Desktop because all software will continue to be perpetually Win32 -- OS/2 already proved out this path of [full] compatibility.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
iOS and macOS will nag you regarding iCloud if you don't sign up/in. Apple advertised... something, I forget what it was, via an Apple Wallet notification this past year (?). Might have been for the F1 movie when it was in theater
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Notepad has always been a test ground for new features that may or may not make it to other parts of Windows. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180521-00/?p=98...
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by p_ing 10mo ago
It's unfortunate that falsehoods spread so quickly. https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/24/microsoft-denies-re... > “It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended… with a lot of sp
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by p_ing 10mo ago
NT4 had many serious BSODs. SP6 was so problematic due to a critical bug in LSA that it was re-released as SP6a. Windows bugs have moved more and more into the 'edge case' territory. Not that major issues don't crop up for &q
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by p_ing 10mo ago
> I used a .reg file to disable the new context menu. Complaints about Win 11 performance abound. Brings back slow context menu. The purpose of the new context menu is to get rid of the COM init that made it so slow!
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by p_ing 10mo ago
> They can't buy homes, they don't get raises. How is this any different from the "average" American worker? Home buying is very difficult, raises are generally flat or don't meet inflation.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
If anything, right click is faster thanks to dumping the ability for 3rd parties to pollute it with COM controls that needs to be init'ed.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
The NT kernel continues to evolve. The recent examples I can think of are VBS, HCVI, and Kernel DMA Protection. No reason to dump a very good kernel.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Why would you want to switch to in many cases, an inferior kernel? NTOS is the golden piece of Windows -- it's Win32 that's hot garbage.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
You may want to take clues from the .io domain: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelag... https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement
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by p_ing 10mo ago
> NTOS tries to be fair to every process This is a super simplification of the NTOS scheduler. It's not that dumb! > if i suspend a process, i have effectively vetoed the scheduler. I mean, I suppose? It's the NTOS schedul
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by p_ing 10mo ago
You can't replace the NTOS scheduler. This is more of an automated (?) process manager.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
I picked up a dSLR because the iPhone 15 Pro (and now 16 Max) camera was/is so bad.
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Don't post sites like macosrumors or 9to5mac. They're not worth discussing, regurgitating "rumors" until they're true (maybe).
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by p_ing 10mo ago
> always-on static dashboard) Like the taskbar, dock, menu bar, etc.?
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by p_ing 10mo ago
> A Framework lets me keep the same screen which is cool Probably the last thing I'd want to keep. Screen technology still moves forward at a decent pace. Screens are disposable, backlights fade over time, pixels get stuck, screen b
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by p_ing 10mo ago
> You can perhaps install various weird third party things, but it does not come with it by default. A Window Manager and Window Server don't come by default with Linux... It's always an install-time option on the major distros
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by p_ing 10mo ago
6K isn't good for gaming, too many pixels to push, but given the correct size (32"?), would make a great monitor with the correct PPI for macOS.
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P2B Modification Guide(tipperlinne.com)
6 points by p_ing 10mo ago|1 comments
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by p_ing 10mo ago
Related: https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ptlms6/some_epstein_f...
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PDF Redaction Text Recovery and Display Tool(github.com)
5 points by p_ing 10mo ago|2 comments

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