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  • most likely they don't want to get into any legal trouble and it's like a thing they're rolling out on per country basis rather than creating a blocklist of countries where it's illegal

  • massgrave can activate enterprise by hwid

  • there are simd accelerated json decoders

  • entire home tab is just ad space and can be disabled
    or just upgrade to enterprise, comes with no ms 365 ads and the home tab is disabled out of the box.
    you'll get literally zero ads or bs like onedrive in built-in apps, and even anti features like ms account login can be disabled (os will just skip right to local account creation)

  • tbh i was pretty shocked when i went to the app to check notifications and saw "don't lose your 2 day reddit streak" or sth

  • it's for the official Office keyboard.
    it comes wirh shortcuts to ms office stuff and was supposed to work without installing any software, so they bound them to an extremely long key combinations no one will trigger by accident and shipped the changes to all windows users.

    also another fun fact: Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win corresponds to the "Office" key, and hitting that combination will make Windows silently and automatically download and install the Microsoft/Office 365 App and launch it, even if it was previously removed

  • 8 is enough if you're not multitasking too much
    wanna play a game? close absolutely everything except maybe discord (if you need it), but keep it in the tray
    wanna look sth up while playing? don't forget to close the browser afterwards

  • Copilot Chat

  • interacting with a pump sounds kinda awkward tho, i totally see why some people would prefer some sort of remote control, e.g. an app

  • oh,youre right, i kinda forgot us plugs are rectangular

  • technology connections made a video on it, none of the sockets actually use the holes, and ones that do, do it unintentionally

  • idk I'm not from the us but i think these are pretty common?
    hole is just there for making production easier

  • yeah you need to mess around with snappiness to avoid that
    (so either increase it to make it unload stuff to hdd earlier, leaving more ram for critical stuff, or decrease it to like 5 in order to make it only use swap when absolutely needed) basically just mess around with it and see what value works best. i my case 10-15 works more or less okay-ish under full ram load

  • well I'm using lower-ish-level stuff like wgpu a lot, so there's a lot of repeated code in my codebase with only small variations, but I can't really encapsulate it into anything since all of my pipelines are completely different and have different requirements (it's basically already as encapsulated as it gets without limiting freedom)

  • don't get the negativity towards copilot in other comments.
    it's a really smart autocomplete, and this is exactly what i wanted for the past 5 years.
    (yeah it's not going to replace programmers or whatever people's exaggerated opinions of it are)

    wanna quickly create a wgpu bind group?
    let texture_bind_group = <tab> <tab> and it's smart enough to understand the context and pull in texture and texture sampler that are already defined as local variables.

    too lazy to type this obvious thing in?
    (like of course the next opcode islet op = self.fetch();) just press tab and move on with your life.

    wanna quickly refactor something?
    select, ask CP Chat to "replace all if statements with match", check if it's correct and click confirm (it will even show git-style diffs, so it's hard for something unexpected to slip in)

    it's not perfect, and it's suggestions do not match your intention like 50% of the time but when they do match or your intention is REALLY obvious (like you already wrote a clear and concise variable name and need to complete the value), you're a single keypress away from completing those 2 lines of code

    It's not a total deal breaker but it's definitely very useful. (especially for me, because of my very short attention span. unless i can quickly complete a thing I'm currently working on in less than a minute i will forget about the next 10 things I was thinking of doing)

    also i don't believe the price is justified, but it's free for students so of course I'm gonna use it.

    (you just need to verify your student email and upload a photo of your student id on education.github.com, and you get a free gh copilot subscription, gh pro account, priority support and promos on loads of services like heroku etc while you're a student)

  • then defederate?
    hexbear and lemmygrad should burn in hell, they're one of the worst places on the internet

  • never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it's pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
    freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it's really usable once everything gets cached to ram.

  • I'm still using 8 for gaming and stuff
    (i built my pc in 2021 and don't see a huge reason to upgrade it yet except modded Minecraft/skyrim)

  • btw the app language should be based on the one set in the os, not location