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Remote Control requires (relatively) manual pairing per session and setting the controlling session as trusted, even if the controlling session is a web browser. You can enable a m…

> That doesn't take away at all from the complete absurdity of this level of bloat. When the article compares that figure directly to macOS Weather.app's 250MB usage, yes it does. …

I don't want to "akshually" this, but on a stock[1] up-to-date Windows 11 x64 25H2 (aka: my desktop) Weather takes up around ~670MB of RAM at launch, not 1GB. While writing this co…

WebView2 has some memory optimizations across several WebView2 instances, so it should save memory once you have multiple WebView2 apps running.

I think it defaults to showing the account in Edge but enabling sync still requires a button click. I'll see if I can verify this with a spare PC somewhere.

> so they'll then get sent to Microsoft and associated with your Microsoft account. The import is entirely local, the "sent to Microsoft" bit is if you have Edge sync enabled. This…

Whether it's a parody or satire or a fake product page for a DIY project, emphasizing the climate cost of AI while using AI to generate every video there kind of ruins it.

And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

Archive.md link: https://archive.md/BXov8 In case you were also inexplicably blocked by Cloudflare.

Odd, it was off for me the first time I opened that website, maybe it's persisted from some other context.

iOS does this by default too, but it tells you about it and gives you the option to not strip the location from EXIF: the bottom of the photo picker has the text "Location not incl…

This is why I said Electron-esque . I meant you didn't need a wrapper or renderer of some kind. You literally didn't bundle anything executable, your app was a ZIP of JS files & im…

Yeah, I was expecting something like the Animal Crossing dialog bubble or something. At least put Tom Nook as the boss character.

WinJS was a bit different, where your app was genuinely just a bundle of JavaScript and a UWP host process dealt with the rendering. (No Electron-esque to deliver with your app) Ma…

It's funny that Horizon Worlds will shut down before its actual launch here. Meta Quest headsets are sold here but the Horizon Worlds part of the OS was entirely blocked off. (The …

I would also read "Windows Native Development" as driver development or compiling directly with `nmake` (neither of which are described there).

Windows SDKs, WDKs (driver dev), Visual Studio releases, and .NET SDKs all coexist peacefully on a machine. If a project build breaks due to newer SDKs, it's because it was configu…

> You don't have to install executables downloaded from an unknown GitHub account named marler8997. You can download that script and read it just like any other shell script. You d…

If you haven't already, you can ask Google for a refund on that (the second, recent) in-app purchase: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/15574897?hl=en The policies are "…

It could also just pretend to encrypt your drive with a null key and not do anything, either. You need some implicit trust in a system to use it. And at worst, you can probably rev…

BitLocker recovery keys are essentially the key to an at-rest, local copy of the real key. (I.e., they need access to the encrypted drive to get the real encryption key) When you u…

No, you can just revoke and regenerate the recovery key with `manage-bde`.

Not anymore, modern hardware running Windows 11 Home now also has FDE, technically running on BitLocker, just that it's called "Device Encryption" and doesn't have the same options…

> so they can never target just one individual You assume the binary can't just have a machine check in itself that activates only on the target's computer.