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New comment by noisem4ker in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

noisem4ker — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:27:11 +0000

I'd even describe these as some of the most gullible and less ethically principled people at that.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

noisem4ker — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:12:59 +0000

Fractional scaling is now supported by major toolkits and compositors.

https://wayland.app/protocols/fractional-scale-v1

Also, I wouldn't hold the rendering quality of macOS as a high standard at all, since all it does is render at a multiple and then downsample, wasting energy and introducing blurriness.

New comment by noisem4ker in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

noisem4ker — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:12:14 +0000

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 pressing Control as a modifier.

You can make a context menu appear giving you an explicit choice by dragging with the right mouse button.

On KDE Plasma, the default is to give you the context menu.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Ubuntu's TPM encryption switches to snap kernel that blocks deb kernel packages"

noisem4ker — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:41:10 +0000

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

New comment by noisem4ker in "Firefox Containers Preview"

noisem4ker — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:11:50 +0000

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-software/browsers

3. Switchyard: https://github.com/alyraffauf/switchyard

New comment by noisem4ker in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

noisem4ker — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:48:56 +0000

> 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.

Granted, there's a moment of confusion having to choose between copying or linking, as offered by the context menu that pops up, but...

New comment by noisem4ker in "git's –end-of-options Flag"

noisem4ker — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:59:13 +0000

> 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.

KDE Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/this-week-in-plasma-press-a...

New comment by noisem4ker in "How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran?"

noisem4ker — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:37:47 +0000

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 "Imposta.exe". Maybe they had an example of such a poorly translated program, though, which warranted adding a special case to the list. The correct verb would be "installa", which was already covered by "inst".

New comment by noisem4ker in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

noisem4ker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:54:27 +0000

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

New comment by noisem4ker in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"

noisem4ker — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:01:10 +0000

Brazen lying.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

noisem4ker — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:21:04 +0000

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

New comment by noisem4ker in "The Future of the Con Is Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed"

noisem4ker — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:49:33 +0000

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.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Siri AI"

noisem4ker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:16:29 +0000

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

New comment by noisem4ker in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

noisem4ker — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:19:37 +0000

> 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 climbs ladders.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

noisem4ker — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:31:08 +0000

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

New comment by noisem4ker in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

noisem4ker — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:01:15 +0000

> 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_cache

> so that it alway perfectly mirrors

Who cares? It's a cache.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

noisem4ker — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:47:50 +0000

> 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.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

noisem4ker — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:51:52 +0000

> 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 would silently inherit the license far past the original terms. The time-limited offer was just a FOMO-inducing marketing scam.

New comment by noisem4ker in "The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse"

noisem4ker — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:25:28 +0000

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 user script.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

noisem4ker — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:58:46 +0000

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 title is submitted and the shit-flinging-at-Windows-and-the-PC-world contest starts regardless to any relevance to the topic at hand?