I assume “destructively scan” means to cut the spine off so they lie flat, and that one copy of each book will be scanned? Isn’t that a pretty normal way of doing it in cases where the prints aren’t rare?

I discovered that there’s a separate application which just reinstalls Teams all the time. I don’t remember the name, but it had Teams in the name. After I uninstalled that it finally stopped popping up.

I think it’s more that they’re not really making money on Windows anymore. The money is in cloud services like Office 365. So Windows is just being used to push people towards what actually makes Microsoft money, disregarding whether they actually want those services.

https://pureinfotech.com/microsoft-windows-11-ai-brakes-copilot-recall/

Note that this article completely buries the lede. This is the last paragraph:

#Enterprise pushback is also influencing decisions#

Separately, enterprise users have pushed back against Copilot in managed environments, prompting the software giant to test options that would allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot more easily on business devices. This indicates that the rethink isn’t just about consumer sentiment but also addresses corporate deployment challenges.

The reason they’re having second thoughts is due to enterprise customers, who are the only customers they really care about the opinion of. If it was just home users complaining, they would not be adjusting course.

I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They’re doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.

Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they’ll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.

In this case “Doomer” is probably an alternate word for Gen Z. They are sometimes called the doomer generation.

/dev/md127 is probably a raid 1 from a previous installation. Assuming you don’t need the data on it, you can either delete or ignore it.

I’m not familiar with this exact installer, but I have installed Debian a bunch before. Judging by what I’m seeing here, you probably need to do a bit of manual labor. I’m guessing you first create partition tables (usually gpt), then raid partitions, then combine them into a raid, and maybe then put lvm on top of that again, and finally a filesystem. If you’re planning to go the lvm route you probably want to create a smaller raid on the start of the disk for /boot (250-500MB should suffice) separate from the lvm, because last I checked you can’t boot from an lvm volume.

Are you confusing flatpaks and other containerization solutions like docker? Flatpaks are specifically for UI applications, and that doesn’t make much sense on a server.

It’s way cheaper and easier to not have to source the buttons. The bean counters saw Tesla get away with doing it on the touchscreen, so they figured they’d get away with it, too.

He’s resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn’t have any pockets.

Doesn’t the VP take over if the president is incapacitated? Then they get to try to kidnap him too!

Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.

I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.

Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?

Just like Richard Scarry! He also moved to Switzerland.

Doesn’t really matter. A French citizenship will let him live in Italy, too!

Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?

The article doesn’t mention ages, but another article says she groomed them from age 15.

However, I have to remind you that language is under constant development, and “paedophile” has long lost its original meaning. It now covers a much wider age range, although counting adolescents is a stretch.

No ally of the US would look at them the same way ever again. To be fair, they already don’t, but this would propel the US from “bad ally” to “second cold war enemy”.

The key to becoming bilingual is consistency. Kids quickly settle on one language if they catch on that everyone in their sphere speak it. Therefore it helps a lot to have certain people in their lives exclusively speak the minority language around them. Otherwise they’ll soon stop speaking the other language.

Also, it’s important that kids overhear adults conversing in both languages. If all conversation only happens between adults and children, they are in my experience a lot less likely to want to speak that language, and they also miss out on a lot of vocabulary. Reading books helps with the latter, but not the former.

If this kid is growing up in Poland, they will inevitably learn Polish. The parents don’t need to, and also shouldn’t, be the ones teaching the child polish. That job is best left to native Polish speakers. This will ensure that the child learns both languages well. There’s no point in the child learning how to speak polish with a heavy Ukrainian accent.

I’m guessing the old CPU was simply defective, and they needed to replace it to install any os.