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> For instance, I don't think that examples of Screen Saver Settings or File Properties are relevant, as long as their styling is in line with the rest of the OS.

The only styling in common is most of the window colours match the selected theme.

The window decoration style, layout, font sizes, iconography, buttons are all artifacts of older MS Windows and do not match the modern Win 11 design language.

Windows file version history is an interesting example of UI inconsistent AND being broken as a result. It has been removed from settings (was in Win 10), but still exists in the control panel (where you can't configure folders to be included in file version history).

Simple Mobile Tools - https://www.simplemobiletools.com/ A collection of open source applications for Android.

No frills, easy to use, fast and reliable.

Sorry, I don't know. I used the OSM website for the purpose of this comparison. I use the Magic Earth app on my phone, which has proprietary route planning (using open street maps).

Obviously YMMV.

I live about 1 mile from suburbs in a town called Bingley in Yorkshire, England.

I can't trust Google maps locally (though its good for local business searches), as the mapping quality is terrible. My village and local town have roads missing, numerous public rights of way missing (over both public and private land). Major areas of trees missing. OSM is much, much better.

See the difference:

https://ibb.co/fk74k3s https://ibb.co/GTKMTzn

I am noticing more and more how poor Google maps is for non-drivers (such as myself recently having to stop driving), such as not being able to do walking routes over local foot bridges, OSM with OSRM or Grasshopper is fine:

https://ibb.co/NtTf6kr https://ibb.co/sq60YQy

I read somewhere that Fedora ships a new power management component called Power Profiles Daemon, I suspect it and TLP conflict.

>and I’m almost certain that when you run multiple wsl distros they are all in one VM, though that may be wrong

Yes, they run as containers.

From https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/1573#issuecommen...:

WSL distributions (instances) are not VMs. They are best described as "containers" running inside the WSL2 VM. Each WSL2 distribution/instance has its own isolated:

PID namespace Mount namespace User namespace (I believe) Cgroup namespace (And probably) IPC and UTS namespaces WSLg System Distribution (Windows 11 only) init process However, they all share the parent VM's:

Network namespace Device tree (other than /dev/pts) CPU/Kernel/Memory/Swap (obviously) /init binary (and some other binaries that are injected in)

Seems just like my experience with Windows, I am not sure if it's driver or software issue though. My printer is often reported as having an error on both my windows laptops and does not allow printing (gets stuck in the spool queue) , but prints fine from ipad, android or Linux. Even a clean install of Windows did not help.

On Windows 11, I am not able to use my finger print reader using the Windows 10 drivers from my oem, this is reported by device manager.

I live 15 miles from there, its a beautiful, popular area, that is easily accessible via nearby carparks and riverside paths, so great for family visits. There are more challenging routes on the surrounding hills and moors, so attracts a variety of people there to enjoy the outdoors, its common for the large carparks to be completely full. I can't comment on the mortality rate at the Strid, the photos and videos do not do justice of how dramatic it is and how loud the water is where it escapes from the narrows. You only have to go a short distance downstream (1/4 mile) and there are safe paddling spots after the river widens again.

The conda-forge channel appears to have it: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/matplotlib

Highly flawed film; bizarre sense of style, ropey acting, terrible culture references, insane computer representations.

All so bad, its agelessly bad, like only a true cult film can be.

But there is one huge redeeming thing for me, and that is I find it a really fun caper.

Also this is not just a hardware issue. Many HPC systems in academic research have very mixed workloads that are hard to optimise the design of a HPC system for. The majority of researchers have little interest or time to spend optimising their code, they are seldom have enough experience in programming or software engineering to know how optimise without assistance (in our case we pick out the worst system hogs that are affecting other users on our HPC systems).

Calibrated (my Audyssey is +-1DB 20hz-20khz) mics do exist and calibration files do exist for some mics, plenty good enough considering how terrible the average house/apartment room is.

Your totally right about room treatment and why I don't spend more than the budget end of HiFi, because I know how terrible my room makes everything sound..

Ive measured a few rooms and sets of HiFi and the biggest issue I find is not the general frequency response, but room modes, they peak far more than even the frequency response from a cheap boom box. Without active EQ or a notch filter and extensive room treatment then trying to flatten out the response of a speaker is futile if you ignore the room modes. Add in transient and phase responses and you add additional challenges to getting good audio.

They had a great formula. Used to get some good scoop, a humorous spin whilst having a decent level of factual accuracy. Sadly, they now need to compete with social media and memes, the newer generations of internet user treat websites as a secondary source of news and entertainment.

Worth noting that extensions may separately send telemetry, that do not have to adhere to the main VSCode telemetry configuration settings.

> Manufacturing costs and margins on LED-LCDs were far better for manufacturers and likely what killed Plasma.

Yes, LEDs are hugely cheaper to manufacturer, allowing them to be priced at a point more suitable for mass markets, where people care more about price than quality (of LED compared to Plasma).

My most interesting jobs have been found via word of mouth where I have ended up speaking to one of the team before I even get to see a job advert or job spec.

I feel most features in teams are worse than others or have major issues. These are issues I currently have with Teams:

Search results that don't allow you to go to the specific part of long conversations. Wiki that doesn't even qualify as wiki. Integrated calendar that automatically tries to make you join meetings you have not yet responded to (with no way to configure not to happen). Inconsistent ability to quote reply to peoples messages. Hap-hazard method of starting meeting recordings (anyone can do it and with the latest update they become the owner instead of the meeting organiser). External guests can't access meeting recordings. Inserts non visible spaces into code you paste in and does not strip it properly when copying and pasting out. Emoji selection popup fails to load if you join a meeting with busy chat as loading new messages takes priority. Inconsistent loading of tabs when you join a meeting, so some people cant do Q/A or look at files (but can be loaded in a separate window even whilst the meeting is running. Bigger issues like high CPU usage (massively compared to Zoom) with lots of attendees and far more limited visible attendee screens (compared to Zoom).

At the moment obvious defects seem to be added faster than they are removed.

Unless its an explicit mention of the exact feature in the contract (usually things like a fixed % annual price increase), its considered a change in terms of the contract that you can choose to continue with the changed terms or exit.

Linus Torvalds likes the fact Kernel debugging is not user friendly so that it does not detract from good programming practice, making sure you really understand your code and what it should do before having to resort to a debugger.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/9/6/65

Would loved him to go into more detail about his approach to coding and how debugging fits into the picture. I personally treat debugging as a last resort for when unit testing and verbose logging are insufficient. I can't remember the last time I debugged a scripting language, but I used to frequently did bug C#

Maybe it stems from Linux Torvald's hate of debuggers ? https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/9/6/65

Merlin firmware is special in a good way. Merlin has a good relationship with the Asus firmware dev team, he gets early access to official firmware, they sometimes ship him unreleased routers. He often finds and fixes bugs and creates/adds new features that Asus pickup. Also very careful to maintain full compatibility with the stock firmware, making it easy to switch between stock and merlin. He has also created an interface to allow 3rd party features to get their UI page. There is probably more, but it really is an excellent project.

Could this be a ruse, a distraction, part of a plan ?

> Not really. Just look at windows. I press the windows key, type reboot and it gives me a link for the movie ReBoot. The Windows design is a joke. There must be something else going on, OP.

FYI in Windows lingo you want to "restart" rather than reboot.

> the problem is open-source is kryptonite to capitalist enterprise. Giving things away for free is a poor way to make money.

Open source is free as in freedom, not as in beer. It does not have to be given away for zero monies.

And also Microsoft have historically (currently ?) just given access to user data of various products of theirs.

By that logic they are not your emails, they are Google's.

Google maps is useless for local results form me, I live in a village on the edge of a small town with a few dozen local businesses and 4 chain businesses and all my search results are polluted by 2 cities 30 minutes and 45 minutes away by car, which is really annoying as these results are useless to me as my disability prevents me traveling that far or amount of time.