is notepad.exe still around? I was sure they had replaced it with a new Microsoft Store app with copilot and ads.

If I worked for Giovanni, I also didn't see nuthin'.

My takeaway was not that he was giving them the info they need, but rather that his new persona was so charismatic that he became the one they liked & remembered. A lesson that it isn't what you know, but who you know.

My review of the SuperStation is: oof

For a drop-in replacement for a Playstation, it's not nearly good enough. The disc drive add-on shipped without working. There was no UI aside the default MiSTer menu. The PS1 controller ports don't work by default. No documentation. No communication. Extremely rough out-of-the-box experience. I was not happy.

As a cheap MiSTer... maybe?

........maaaaaaybe?

I'm probably not the right person to ask. I deliberately avoided MiSTers up until now, because of how needlessly complex they sounded. So I stuck with the AVS, the SuperNT, the MegaSG, etc etc etc.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the only reason I would see this as a poor MiSTer is because of the wacky communication and documentation.

I really do hope it shapes up and turns out to be an outstanding product, but as-is... I could see development being abandoned tomorrow without anyone ever knowing.

Tribes 2 was a staple for mine.

If the Game UI update is finally out and ready for deployment, I wasn't aware of that. I knew that they had an alpha demo of it available for testing, but I'm not being paid to test. All the github pages make no mention of a release candidate, nor anything about the SuperDock getting disc reading functionality. It also seems like the composite output can't use the new console mode and is stuck on the old MiSTer menu, so I don't believe for a second that 1.1.1 is an actual release candidate even though that's where they started their versioning.

I looked at the terms of service and noticed that they bind you into arbitration, limit your terms to $100, mandate you to travel to Delaware for dispute, and force you into mass arbitration if your dispute is similar to others.

Pass

I still don't get how telemetry is even legal.

If I purchase a vehicle from a previous owner, I do not have any agreement with the manufacturer regarding collection of my data.

I'm afraid to find out how many people are still downloading OpenOffice, thinking it's the same software they heard about back in 2010.

soooo.... nobody is going to bring up to the judge how Google is adding many more steps to install software outside Play Store?

Do all apps in Epic store and Amazon App Store get an exception from this new rule or something?

At that age I figured out that I could bypass the policy restrictions on my computer by unplugging the Ethernet cable right after login. Gave me full local admin.

A year or so prior to that I figured out that if you viewed IE's temporary internet files and just backspaced your way up, you can access the otherwise restricted C:, where I found other kids had already installed games onto.

No way this works for a full school year.

The heart skip when an rm command runs longer than expected.

It was supposed to patch Secure Boot, not demolish GRUB.

That's why it's a problem.

Geiger’s proposal cites four main concerns: copyright, technical quality, impact on Debian’s volunteer community, and broader ethical issues related to generative AI.

I do not envy their position. Either way they are going to get irate comments.

I honestly cannot believe how bad the new UI feels. It's like they just flattened all elements and reduce information density by increasing whitespace, followed by a shrug and no additional thought into what was lost and what should be added. Which... now that I think about it, is Windows 8. hmm.

The "we know better than you" attitude Microsoft has. They've very slowly removed more and more power user functionality. Almost every customization has to be hacked in with a group policy or registry edit now, or by outright replacing explorer.exe

I love how the arstechnica article words it like you will never need FAT32 and it's silly to consider it.

I had to download fat32format I don't know how many times because I needed to format an extra large SD Card or USB drive for some device. Microsoft really shafted exFAT's adoption with their licensing.