Today, we're launching the Proton Drive #Windows app for everyone. Automatically backup and sync your files and more. Get it here: https://proton.me/drive/download.
As a general PSA, this is the very thing I fight against every single working day of my life. An acquaintance of mine is an older lady, this popped up on her screen. She sent me this snapshot in a panic. For her, considering everything, I told her to simply turn off the machine without shutdown. Wait ten seconds and turn it back on. She’s all set, but these scams are getting disturbingly high quality. #hack#scam#malware#Windows#today
Une amie de mes parents à perdu toutes ses données suite à une mise à jour Windows 10 vers 11
Elle est dans la mouise car elle n'avait pas de sauvegarde récente
Connaissez-vous un professionnel sur Nancy qui sache faire de la récupération de données ?
Je lui ai dit d'éteindre son PC et de ne plus l'allumer
Le repouet augmente les parts de marchés de Firefox
Did you know if you're working in the #Windows command line you can use clip to pipe the output of your command to the clipboard? 👀
For example, you can do this in cmd if you want to copy and paste the info somewhere else (rather than manually having to select the output to copy it):
Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 support clipboard history - if you have it enabled this isn't a problem, you can just press WIN + V and see the previous text you'd copied #Windows
ICQ is closing down. It was really at its height in 2000 and that is when we integrated ICQ into Opera. We made a small (5k) client and it worked really well.
AOL had purchased ICQ and they were concerned about MSN taking users from them by connecting to their service, so they stopped supporting 3rd party clients. We contacted them, to see if they would make an exception for us, but they did not.
They said that if we removed our 5k client, we could maybe discuss bundling their client, but it was bigger than Opera, so that was not going to happen.
If you have a windows laptop and an iphone, and the laptop can't connect to the iphone hotspot, change the name of your phone to 1 word. Apparently windowz has problems with phone names that have spaces in them.
📰 🚀 "Szlezwik-Holsztyn, jeden z 16 krajów związkowych Niemiec, potwierdził w środę plany przeniesienia dziesiątek tysięcy systemów z Microsoft #Windows na #Linux. Ogłoszenie jest następstwem wcześniej ustalonych planów migracji rządu stanowego z pakietu #Microsoft#Office na rzecz #LibreOffice o otwartym kodzie źródłowym.
Jak zauważyła The Document Foundation, rząd najwyraźniej zakończył pilotażowy program LibreOffice i teraz ogłasza plany rozszerzenia na więcej ofert open source.
W 2021 r. rząd stanowy ogłosił plany przeniesienia 25 000 komputerów do LibreOffice do 2026 r. Szlezwik-Holsztyn podał wówczas, że testuje LibreOffice już od dwóch lat."
There are many government PCs out there that have 4 GB of RAM and won't run Win10 well anymore due to it requiring 3.2GB of RAM for itself on a clean boot (plus ~1.5 GB of Chrome + MS Office on top of that).
If only someone could convince them to just install #Debian and #XFce on them (750 MB of RAM needed on a clean boot), it'd be a good way to save our smelly landfills from abandoned computers. #Chrome + MS #Office on top of XFce would barely touch the 2 GB mark.
In the entire history of computing, there has never been a more important time to teach people about #Linux than right now.
(And never a worse time for me not to be doing @Linux4Everyone -- so I hope my fellow YouTube and content creators will double down and show people the light!)
today I've heard for the first time about the #RigelA open-source screen reader project for #Windows written in #RustLang. Unfortunately only Readme has an English version, all other documents and code comments are in chinese, but the project seems very promising. Use Google Translate or another translator if you, like me, don't speak Chinese. https://gitcode.net/mzdk100/rigela
If the survey I did on Mastodon is anything to go by, most people do not.
2% Want AI in their browser.
25% Want AI in their browser, if their data is not used for other purposes, such as ads and profiling.
73% Do not want AI in their browser at all.
575 entered the poll.
A lot of browser companies are now pushing AI in their browsers.
I guess the 2% have a lot of browsers to choose between.
Growing up with MS-DOS, I knew its role in today's Windows' usage of \ to separate directories and / for command-line arguments (choices that sound quirk-y in an Unix-influenced world that uses / and -, respectively.)
I never understood why MSFT - a very Unix-aware shop, having released their XENIX a year before MS-DOS - went with such an odd choice, until I looked at the (recently open-sourced) MS-DOS source code.
The files include documentation for computer manufacturers (so they could write compatible BIOS code, customize distribution, etc.), and this piece on MS-DOS 2.0 (which introduced subdirectories) suggests that - as usual in those times - the party behind the odd decision was none other than IBM:
I am amused. One the one hand, Microsoft is introducing Recall, which literally takes screenshots of everything you do on windows, but on the other hand, they are taking users ability to take screenshots of their browser away if their company configures it as such.