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bbzylstra··on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)
You can use winutil to replace the new start menu with the old one. I think the option is in "advanced tweaks".

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

bbzylstra··on Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time
Also, am I going crazy or do the "comment" and "share" buttons under the header just tick up but don't allow you to actually do anything? This feels like a vibe-coded website but it could be Firefox being weird.
bbzylstra··on Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time
I'm surprised to read an obviously AI written article ("This isn't about efficiency—it's about extraction") from a tech/news site. Does anyone else find this weird? It make me question the editors note about how much background research was actually done.
bbzylstra··on Starcloud
You can even see this in action via NOAA's CCOR-1: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/earth-makes-appearances-goes-...
bbzylstra··on Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats
Not a biologist, but my understanding is that the temporal part of the right eye (the part of the right eye closest to the temple and furthest from the nose) is responsible for processing the inner part of the left visual field, and is directly connected to the right hemisphere (no cross-over required).
bbzylstra··on How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
The OP said they were getting 3-4 TPS on their $2000 rig.
bbzylstra··on My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
There is a great browser extension for Chrome/Firefox called "Unhook" which allows you to selectively remove parts of the YouTube UI you find distracting. Personally I have shorts and recommended videos turned off.

https://unhook.app/