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AnyOldName3 , 8 days ago to Technology in OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions

It's been the default since 2015 when Windows 10 launched, although there was an obvious button to opt out during first-time setup back then which was then respected permanently. It's got gradually less prominent over time, and maybe the article's just doing a really bad job of explaining that it's no longer something where your initial preference is permanent and it'll change back to the default every so often.

AnyOldName3 , 12 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

It's a silly flag to use as it only works when running 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows, and if you're compiling from source, you should also have the option to just build a 64-bit binary in the first place. It made a degree of sense years ago when people actually used 32-bit Windows sometimes (which was usually just down to OEMs installing the wrong version on prebuilt PCs could have supported 64-bit) if you really wanted to only have one binary or you consumed a precompiled third party library and had to match its architecture.

AnyOldName3 , 27 days ago to linuxmemes in Windows updating just before thesis defense

They tried. UWP and the Windows Store did loads to boost security and make the source of apps verifiable, but people hated it and barely used it, so the holes they were supposed to patch stayed open. The store itself did have the problem that part of its raison d'être was to try and take a cut of the sales of all software for Windows, like Apple do for iOS, and UWP made certain things a pain or impossible (sometimes because they were inherently insecure), but UWP wasn't tied to the store and did improve even though it's barely used.

AnyOldName3 , 27 days ago to linuxmemes in Windows updating just before thesis defense

They update on two Tuesdays a month, and have done that at least since XP. Even with the most reboot-keen settings, the update doesn't happen until the time of day you're least likely to be using the machine based on when you typically do it. It tells you when that time will be and gives you several hours of notice with a popup with the option to delay. Depending on the variant of Windows you're using, you have settings to delay a forced reboot for up to a week (Home), a month (Pro) or forever (Enterprise). Obviously, that's not enough to make sure no one ever gets updates forced on them when they don't want them, and it would be nice if there was a way to distinguish users who know what they're doing from users who don't so people who do could be given more power to control if and when they install updates, but it is enough to ensure that checking the equipment before you use it is enough, potentially two weeks in advance.

AnyOldName3 , 1 month ago to 196 in so fetch rule

Looks cheaper than a horse or motorbike, too, so also cost effective.

AnyOldName3 , 1 month ago to 196 in gay rule

What if I wasn't gay this morning and thought it would have to be Marceline from context, but looked nothing like her?

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to Memes in Game difficulty

I think you're reading things into my comment that I intentionally didn't put in it. I'm just making the point that games already don't get to control the amount of hardship the player experiences because some players start out better than others, and some improve faster than others. If a game has a fixed difficulty level, there'll always be people who find it easier than the developers intended, and people who'd still be unable to finish it with thousands of hours of practice (and plenty of people will play for ten or twenty hours before deciding they don't have time to find out if they'd eventually get good enough). On the other hand, if a game's got several modes, then there's a good chance a player will pick a difficulty level that's too easy or hard for them, so it could make the problem worse, but, critically, it wouldn't be what introduced it in the first place.

Regarding your point about Animal Farm, it's a bit more like deciding not to read an encrypted copy of the book. It might be a trivial Caesar cipher that could be easily broken, and you could be reading about some animals being more equal than others in a few seconds, or it could be modern AES that can't be broken before the heat death of the universe, or it could be anything in between. If you don't quickly make enough progress to see that you're actually going to get to read it, then you've no way to know whether it's seemingly insurmountable or literally insurmountable.

If someone's saying they don't have time to get good at Dark Souls, they're agreeing with you that not everything has to be for everyone, and they've decided that Dark Souls isn't for them. They don't have to be happy about that, though, especially if they've had to pay for the game to find out.

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to Memes in Game difficulty

Different people have different skill levels, so will experience different levels of hardship. Someone who'd played every Dark Souls game ten times (which isn't that rare) would find Elden Ring much easier than someone who'd never played a soulslike before. If the difficultly could be scaled to normalise for that, then everyone would have a more consistent experience closer to the intended one. It's probably not remotely practical to achieve that in every case, though.

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to 196 in rule conditions

Tankies are advocating for the USSR, with any eventual communist utopia being optional.

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to Technology in Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica

It's a 250W+ part running at around 1V, so it's going to draw a lot of current. Power is supplied via many pins on the back of the CPU, and they're connected to many traces, so it's not putting all that current through just one. It still puts out a lot of heat anyway, which is why modern motherboards have large heat sinks, sometimes with fans, on their VRMs.

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to Technology in Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets

It's super quick to swap it on Windows once you know the problem exists and know where to look. You just click the audio icon in the system tray and change the output device in the dropdown from the headset version of the device to the headphones one, and it enables all the higher-bandwidth modes. I'm not sure there's user-accessible control over which specific codec gets used, though.

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to Technology in Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets

Some Bluetooth controllers can't handle the bandwidth required for sound input and output at the same time unless it's at very low quality, and if Windows suspects such a device is in use, it defaults to the low quality mode as users are more likely to be able to tolerate it than tolerate their headphones not working at all. It's overly cautious, though, and uses the low quality mode far more than it has to.

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to Memes in You're treading a fine line Mr. Tim Apple

Circumventing DRM is illegal under the DMCA, but the DMCA has an exception saying you're allowed to ignore parts of the DMCA if it's for purposes of interoperability between different computer systems. It's that exception that makes emulators legal in the first place. However, there's no case law setting a precedent as to whether the DRM circumvention prohibition or interoperability exception wins when both apply.

That means that the decryption is in a grey area if it's part of an emulator, but definitely illegal if it isn't.

We also don't know if this is an argument Nintendo relied on to stop Yuzu. Their initial court documents claimed things like emulators being totally illegal and only invented for piracy, which weren't true, and they settled out of court, so the public can't see what the final nail in the coffin was. It could simply be that they'd make Yuzu's position expensive to defend with spurious delays until they were bankrupt or shut down and gave them all their money, which doesn't require Nintendo to be legally in the right.

Not long before this, Dolphin's Steam release was cancelled because Nintendo asked Valve to block it, so the Dolphin team double checked they were entirely above board with their lawyers. Despite Dolphin containing the decryption keys from a real Wii, and using them to decrypt Wii games, they were confident it wasn't at risk. The keys are an example of a so-called illegal number, but they're generally believed to not actually be illegal (hence the Wikipedia article about them featuring several examples). The decryption should be safe as the lawyers thought that if push came to shove, the interoperability exception would beat the DRM circumvention prohibition.

AnyOldName3 , 2 months ago to Memes in Trolly problem solved any % WR

Look at the wheels to check for bogies. A train or tram without bogies will come to a stop. One with bogies will multi-track drift until the tracks get too far apart.

AnyOldName3 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Money has changed microsoft

WSL2 is, but WSL1 implemented the Linux kernel API in NT, so ran things directly.