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Those one-offs can always be in a separate VM (in Hyper-V or something)

This is one usecase where I'm thankful for AI: to help generate a bunch of documents in a well structured manner (giving it audience, having it scan through my comments on why I di…

I had less "custom" work to do with IE 6/7 if I got it working well in Opera first was my experience...

Opera was my secret weapon back in the day: if it worked in Opera, it would be guaranteed to work in Chrome, IE and Firefox. It significantly reduced the browser quirks stuff I'd h…

I'd be super happy if they left Windows alone and did just this for years to come. Use the other products to make money, and just maintain this Win 2000/7/10 type OS without new fe…

I hope there's more to it than something solvable with AutoHotkey... So far I just experience a buggier version of Windows 10 with features I don't want.

Bang on! This is definitely coming and very few talk about it.

Cannot even reliably permanently disable real time scanning...

Even without the AI, it's replacing native apps with web based ones. Case in point: Notepad. It's slower than WordPad on Win 10... and crashes!

"CUSTOMERS demanded bigger screens" That's a bold statement...

What about your local public library as a source? (that's worked for me)

Big assumption there... chances are they would rather keep the money or spend it elsewhere, instead of "unnecessarily" upgrading when things still work

This may or may not help, but have a look at ZorinOS. The latest release and it's announcement is targeted towards those wanting to jump ship from Windows -> Linux. They've tried t…

I use BazQux ( https://bazqux.com/ ) as it was the closest to the old Google Reader I could find. The developer also set up their own instance of FiveFilters Full Text Rss ( https:…

if I REALLY care, then I end up making an agent in my Huginn instance (and hope there's no Cloudflare, etc verification in front that blocks scraping https://github.com/huginn/hugi…

Most non-technical people I know that have VPNs simply have it for streaming media from platforms that geo-restrict. It's a cat and mouse game as the provider bans servers/provider…

I had a similar problem with having to deal with an ISP provided modem, and solved it in the stupidest way possible: xmas light timer to reboot it in the middle of the night. It's …

I have been running Huginn on an Ubuntu VM since Yahoo Pipes shut down almost 10 years ago. I've tried out NodeRed and n8n over the years but they've been a huge let down in ease o…

I'd never heard of it until I just Googled it... Is it a better experience compared to DuckDuckGo with bang operators?

The safer option is to build your own install media using an unattend file. Here's an unattend file generator https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

I didn't realize I would have to say the answers over the phone when choosing the answers (and thought it would only ever be me filling them in online) CSR: "What is your mother's …

Do you have any links for ones they'd recommend?

That's nuts! For what it's worth, I bought this for my old chamberlain. https://gotailwind.com I was looking into replacing the old unit with a new one with myq but then read about…

Which company, and which product did you see this with?

Unless you're getting them for older hardware that only plays mp3 like my car stereo...