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On Windows, by default, files are moved if dragged between folders on the same volume, and copied if dragged between volumes. You can force moving by pressing Shift, or copying by …

Yes. The PCR state after booting won't match that of the regular system, so the TPM will refuse to give up the key.

I briefly researched the matter recently, and I found these: 1. Browser Tamer: https://github.com/aloneguid/bt 2. Browsers (what a stupid name): https://github.com/Browsers-softwar…

> Why can't I just drag a shortcut to the desktop. You can...? I tried dragging from Dolphin, Kickoff and the Task Manager onto my desktop, and in all three cases it worked. Grante…

> how do you type in an en dash instead? By pressing the "-" key for half a second and choosing the exact dash character I am looking for in the pop-up that shows near the caret. K…

Same goes for the Italian "imposta". It's a direct translation of "set up", but not a verb anyone would use to mean "setting up a program", and I've never seen an installer named "…

Cookies are not the basis of the law, which is about tracking in general, abstracted from the exact means and implementation details.

Brazen lying.

Hardly anyone, and in fact they eventually brought back the "up one level" toolbar button.

The fact that your password manager wouldn't offer to fill-in the password field of the fake login page (due to the domain being unknown) should make you raise an eyebrow.

I just tried and it started playing Daft Punk on YouTube Music.

> they won't last long I wish that was the case for people with insincere communication practices. On the contrary, they seem to embody the sociopath stereotype that ultimately cli…

It depends on your definition of "decent". Legal: yes, simple: maybe not. Search in past threads.

> Where else would you put that stuff? A "Centralized thumbnail cache" in the user profile folder, where it's been for a long while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail…

> Thumbs.db Windows has been storing thumbnail cache in the user profile folder since Vista (2006). It's been 20 years. Time to let it go.

> there was a time where Microsoft was offering free license transfers I don't think they ever stopped. Maybe they ceased advertising it, but installing Windows 10 over 7 or 8 woul…

You can still manually switch to a "Related" tab. On the mobile app, you scroll down a bit and the tab header appears. In the browser, there's probably a way to automate it with an…

Forbid they criticize Apple products that are in the very subject of the article. Will you be around to police the discussion the next time something having "Microsoft" in the titl…

Yeah, I'm not part of the cult.

Invoke-WebRequest 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest' -OutFile firefox_setup.exe

It's kind of both. Hyper-V is a bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor. Windows runs virtualized, one level above it, in a privileged (host) VM, next to other (guest) VMs. https://en.wikip…

Well-hinted fonts such as Consolas are indeed very rare. I think I've only found Liberation and Hack to appear decent on standard density display. Roboto Mono is nicely shaped but …

It's way beyond dictation. Medics I know (fresh postgraduates who used LLMs to help write their R code for statistical analysis for their research) are starting to treat it as one …