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The start menu being React Native is irrelevant. If it were React in an Edge web view that would be a different story.

Opening the start menu should cause a spike in CPU usage. You want the CPU to open the menu ASAP instead of dragging out the process so the CPU usage is more flat.

But everything in Windows these days is wasting time stealing your data, loading ads or other unnecessary data from cloud services, and interacting with “AI.” Performance is one of the lowest priorities, somewhere between software quality and privacy. Since mid Windows 10, Microsoft consistently replaces things with modernized, but worse, versions and never returns to finish making the new version as good as the previous version that evolved over decades. It’s a really expensive way to ruin a product. They could make a React Native start menu where people wouldn’t complain about the performance. They probably did and people are only noticing now because of a recent regression.

Yes. No taxes on tips is a weird exception that encourages tipping wages. We should be discouraging tipping.

That’s part of it. The other part is that Google, and other search engines, assume you’re clueless and try to “fix” your query for you, and you can’t stop it because they’ve been removing support for searching exact words or using boolean expressions or excluding words.

Is this a lost karma bot?

A less intrusive solution would be to just put your sensitive data in LUKS and configure services that use that data to depend on the partition being mounted. That doesn’t require modifying the normal system startup process. You’re less likely to mess up your startup process at the expense of needing to be more mindful about where you’re putting your files.

Tang and Clevis have already been mentioned as a way for one server to boot using another server.

You can also create an environment where the server boots into a phase 1 where it obtains network connectivity and then waits for you to provide it the key to continue booting. The first phase is unencrypted, so don’t put sensitive data in there.

In the 2020s we have new active USB to PS2 dongles like HIDman.

I’m less hopeful. People would just switch to the formatting tab and use that. Most people center text on a title page by repeatedly hitting the enter key to go down and then the space key to go right and then they get to the next page by pressing the enter key until they get to the first line of the next page like they’re using a typewritter.

It is bad practice because of point 2 and if you have multiple replicas you can probably get different versions running simultaneously (never tried it). Get Rennovate. It creates PRs to increment the version number and it tries to give you the release notes right in the PR.

In Markdown and HTML and TeX and even Microsoft Word you’re supposed to just use the Heading 1 style option instead of manually changing the style of the paragraph text. There are times when you don’t want to use Word, most commonly because you’re managing your documents as text files in a source code management system or because you’re an LLM and you’re incapable of anything besides Unicode text, and it has some limitations that make it unsuitable for typesetting, but it’s not bad for word processing, and the file types aren’t that terrible to work with anymore. People just don’t know how to use it.

Amazing. Is it a trojan?

Is there evidence that this is actually a US government fork of Signal for archiving messages? Maybe they just downloaded some other Signal fork from somewhere else.

That’s interesting. If you’re forking the Signal client to support archiving, you could also remove autoexpiration, the computer linking feature that is used when hijacking somebody’s account, and the ability to invite random people without clearance into your group chats. That would make it a reasonably secure and appropriate tool for communication over public infrastructure. We know they didn’t do at least one of these things.

Didn’t they start doing that decades ago? Did they stop at some point?

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Borg / k8s / Docker are not the same thing. Borg is the predecessor of k8s, a serious tool for running production software. Docker is the predecessor of Podman. They all use containers, but Borg / k8s manage complete software deployments (usually featuring processes running in containers) while Docker / Podman only run containers. Docker / Podman are better for development or small temporary deployments. Docker is a company that has moved features from their free software into paid software. Podman is run by RedHat.

There are a lot of publicly available container images out there, and most of them are poorly constructed, obsolete, unreprodicible, unverifiable, vulnerable software, uploaded by some random stranger who at one point wanted to host something.

VLANs are lower than IP so you don’t need a router to have a VLAN, but you will need a router to get packets between the networks. I don’t think a WiFi repeater works. You likely need separate WiFi client and AP devices so you can put your WiFi on a different channel. Otherwise you’re probably halving your WiFi performance when connecting to the other network over the same airwaves.

Unless you can convince the other network to route your IP addresses, this setup will give you another layer of NAT and may cause problems with online games.

Freedom fries

The only good thing about Trump is that if America survives it will be forced to fix its system of government if it ever wants to become as internationally important as it was just a few months ago again.