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For the record, here's the state of things: ARM-based Windows devices are forbidden from allowing non-Windows things to run x86-based Windows devices are required to allow Secure Boot to be disabled, but that feature is sometimes buggy The Microsoft signing key used to sign Linux bootloaders is...

Oh, yeah. This thread was about what we're running. I've been 100% Linux (except for my airgapped retro-nostalgia PCs and BSD-based routers) since 2002, when I got fed up with Windows XP and switched to Mandrakelinux 10.0 mid-way through a game of Dungeon Siege. About a year later, I switched...

Yeah, because it's a hard problem. Case-folding requires massive Unicode tables and it differs from locale to locale. I think I remember reading that NTFS bakes in a copy of the Unicode case-folding table as the OS knew it at the time and in the locale the drive was formatted. (And it's an...

That's not quite accurate. (The idea being "If they didn't care about compatibility with legacy hardware, they'd have bought Windows NT".) Speaking of which, the mixed opinions on Windows ME are down to a similar compatibility hack that didn't go as well. Windows ME supports two different...

It apparently happens on its own with time, as it does not limit itself to the regions you grip in devices that are coated in such grip coatings all over and retro-enthusiast youtubers encounter it on devices that flopped so hard that the units they're covering got almost no use.

Oh, I'm well aware of that. Half of them were on a big programming resources site that lost interest in their old catalogue... but it's far more common for a self-hoster to lose interest or not care about keeping their old URL schemes resolving than for a big hoster to close up shop. (And, when...

Even if The Wayback Machine does pick a git repository up, I haven't heard of any way to work around the link indirection they use to inject their history-browsing header to avoid having to manually download each individual file in the repository in order to reconstitute something the git client...

Ahh. One interesting tip I read was to create your own non-abrasive cleaning disk by taking advantage of the manufacturing standards within the floppies themselves. Cut open a floppy you don't need, remove the data surface, and rotate the felt sleeve so that the gap no longer lines up with the...

Oh, I've certainly had two floppies that experienced binder failure. (Squeaking sound and, when the disk was pulled out ASAP, it revealed a transparent ring where the drive heads had wiped the magnetic oxide off the surface) Thankfully, neither of those were important. (A home-made DOS 4 boot...

Also, on the topic of dying media, one piece of advice: EA Kids apparently used garbage stock for their floppies, because my Scooter's Magic Castle and Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure floppies are in far worse shape than anything else in my collection. If you have EA Kids floppies you...

I'm lucky in that I've never had a professionally-made CD go unreadable on me and all of my CD-Rs got migrated to DVD+R pretty early on. (Plus, I've always been pretty good about researching media before I bought it, aside from my earliest purchases being DVD-R because I didn't know it was...

Sorry to respond over three weeks later, but I have two relevant things nobody even touched on: First, the reason I'm researching bi-directional sync between GitHub and GitLab is that Microsoft already locked me out of one of my previous accounts. Specifically, I can't access my old Hotmail...

Apparently it's for hot-plugging and dynamically remappings things (like bluetooth headsets) when you refuse to use JACK.

Possibly. I read what it was years ago, but I don't have time to track that fact down today. The stickers I run into tend to either peel off cleanly or tear too easily, so I use the crystal clear version of the dollar store's competitor to Scotch/Sellotape for that instead. My main use for my...

That does actually remind me of one idea for improvement, taken from the world of keyboard manufacturers. Mould them with a frosted/matte surface and make them out of PBT rather than ABS so they'll be more resistant to "taking a shine". (PBT is what IBM Model M keyboards and Unicomp's...

Thank you. My Pandora's nubs are perfectly fine in that regard and it seems like every device I ever bought which had a spray-on grip coating had it break down into a sticky, gummy mess after a decade. (Wacom Bamboo Fun stylus, 3DConnexion Space Navigator knob, Saitek Cyborg Evo Force USB stick...

$15 sounds far too low to include all the components on a populated CPU board.

Ahh, so sort of like the mistake French speakers often make when translating "depuis" into English. (Also, I think you meant 'til (abbreviating "until" using an apostrophe). "till" is either the cash drawer in a cash register, a type of soil, or the verb meaning "to prepare soil for farming".)...

Sorry to draw attention to something this minor, but it was really bugging me... "until" is only used with continuous/ongoing actions and "arrive" is an instantaneous action. (eg. Meteors can "continue to arrive until the evening" if you blow up the moon, but a package can only arrive "in...

The current structure of the Wiki seems to be based on the assumption that languages not included in GCC don't need cross-compilation and I'm not sure how to go about changing things without making them worse. (eg. The cross-compilation page currently sorts its sections from most to least...