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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful...
  • As they point out at the end, this wasn't about the old control panel, but the new settings panel. It's all brand new code.

  • "January" in European languages - Jakub Marian
  • Shouldn't Poland be light blue, like the stripes in Belarus? Doesn't seem to match the rest of the green areas.

  • Mildly McInfuriating
  • What's actually infuriating are those bar charts.

  • I got into the wrong career lol
  • I googled this story to, uh, fact check it, and found this article saying that her move to OF is fake news. Except, upon closer examination, it seems the article is AI slop and completely made up. How ironic.

  • Linux removing an outdated, insecure Microsoft USB network protocol that's still on Windows
  • A DE has little to do with this, it's a driver, it gets loaded when you plug in a compatible device, there's no interaction. This should have been disabled 2 years ago when the gaping security holes were found, and actually Greg had attempted to have it disabled in 2022 but it kept getting pushed back.

  • Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
  • I wish people would remember that after 8 years of explaining.

  • Fan-less cooling solution for laptops up to 40W launched
  • Well there's no shortage of those, and they're unusually cheaper too (unless they're specced out). I prefer a thin silent one myself, so I welcome this innovation.

  • Something something case-insensitive file something...
  • The issue isn't just a simple oversight. Git includes the file name as part of the tree and commit hash. The hash has security implications. There's really no way to make the hash support case insensitivity without opening up a multitude of holes there. So there will always be a mismatch, and you can't just fix it without changing how git works from the ground up.

  • Google picks a MediaTek modem for the Pixel 10 series
  • Mediatek has been making phone SoCs since forever now, they have two lines - Helios and Dimensity. They're used in many phones, usually on the lower end. Even Samsung uses them. Both lines have abysmal custom rom support compared to Snapdragon phones, so I don't think you can hope for much there.

  • why so much Star Trek?
  • That's what I signed up for.

  • NCD is actually a successor department to Allied Intelligence in WW2
  • and were to be distributed near German boiler rooms where it was expected they would be disposed of by burning, with the subsequent explosion having a chance of causing a boiler explosion

    Wouldn't it have been easier and more effective to just make them coal shaped?

  • What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?
  • Sir, permission to leave the station?
    For what purpose Master Chief?
    To give the Covenant back their bomb...

    Haven't seen this one mentioned yet.

  • Podman or rootless docker?
  • Podman not because of security but because of quadlets (systemd integration). Makes setting up and managing container services a breeze.

  • How much of a game changer was USB-C for you, compared to other cables?
  • The receptacle is the issue - it can have up to 24 pins (though usually it's 12ish), all bunched up in just a slightly larger space than on a micro usb receptacle which has 4 pins. So it takes some good skill to replace.

  • How much of a game changer was USB-C for you, compared to other cables?
  • Just recently I had a tech store guy gently but repeatedly insist to me that a certain USB cable was a USB 3 cable because it was type C on both ends. I didn't wanna argue with him, but the box clearly said "480 Mbit", so it was just a type C charging cable.

    Of course the box designers were hoping you'd make that mistake so they didn't write USB 2 on there, just the speed. And most boxes won't even have that, you'll just have to buy it and see.

    But I mean if someone who spent their whole life fixing computers can get something that basic wrong, then it's really a hopeless situation for anyone who isn't techy.

    And of course once it's out of the box it's anyone's guess what it is. It's a real mess for sure.