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  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • When was the last time you on purpose used the application key on your keyboard to open the right-click context menu so you could navigate it using the arrow keys? Because that is the key it replaced - Microsoft has demanded for the last 32 years that the two spaces between CTRL and ALT on Windows compatible keyboards are used for the Windows key, and the Application Key, so that people using one-button mice (or no mice) can use the Windows GUI.

  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • They (Microsoft) did actually also originally implement it, the application key was added to Microsoft keyboards in 1994 along with the Windows key. It's meant to give compatibility to the Windows user interface when your PC had a mouse with only one button. Don't remember those being very relevant in the recent years.

    So it's Microsoft deciding that their right-click button isn't necessary any more after 32 years, and swapping it for a Co-Pilot/Windows Search button.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • We also partly ended up with the 5k 5090 because it's just the TITAN RTX of the 50xx generation - the absolute top of the line a card where you pay 200% extra for that last +10% performance.nVidia just realized few generations back that naming those cards the xx90 gets a bunch of more people to buy them, because they always desperately need to have the shiniest newest xx90 cards, no matter the cost.

  • This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026

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  • They've been thinking about doing that here in Finland too, but so much non-phone stuff is using the older networks that while 3G is mostly gone, 2G for calls and texts is still going to be supported to at least 2029.

    Systems like the EU mandatory eCall car emergency call thingy.

  • This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts

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  • Though defamation requires the claim to be both a lie, and made publicly (and have caused "legally redressable injury", whatever that means, IANAL). The tool needs to be run locally, and specifically tells you that it's searching by name and that others with the same name will be found in the results, and that's why it gives the context and lists where in the files it came up.

    So the tool itself most likely isn't defamatory, but anyone that uses is better be damn sure that they have the correct person if they start publicly talking or writing about what it finds.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • You'd think the few global AWS and Cloudflare outages would have worked as a warning, but most people just went from "nah it couldn't ever happen" to "well, it did happen, but surely it wouldn't ever last all too long".

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • I have over 200 logins overall, but most of them are to forums that have been dead for a decade.

    The internet used to be quite a different place back in the day, people had separated communities and everything wasn't just on a handful of massive platforms.

  • Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant

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  • Many did. One common thing is to store some important data on a dongle.I remember a game called DJ Max Trilogy that stores your entire save data on it, so even if you bypass the dongle check to get the game to boot, you'd have to rewrite the entire save/load system too.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • Come run it in Finland during the summer months, we have too much solar and wind generation then and electricity is often free or even goes negative every once in a while.

  • Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update

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  • Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can't turn their computers off, now they complain when they can't turn them on...

  • Tents pitched indoors for warmth and makeshift radiators: Ukrainians are freezing to death | Janine di Giovanni

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  • Though if you are in extremely cold weather areas, like Alaska, it actually doesn't help at all as the permafrost keeps the basement walls and floor frozen all year round down hundreds of metres (~3 times as many hundreds of feet)

    But anywhere the ground isn't frozen, go down a few floors and it usually stabilizes somewhere around 15C/60F no matter the ambient air temperature. Fantastic for geothermal heatpumps - warmth in the winter, cooling in the summer.

  • Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds

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  • My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.

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  • Spring assisted switchblades are illegal in quite a few countries, so I imagine they are in Italy as well. Still completely ridiculous, as these are plastic toy replicas, and not actual knives.

  • OpenSplitDeck - An open source steam controller

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  • It's using a whole bunch of Steam Deck spare parts bought from iFixit, and a few after market upgrades like hall effect sticks and an extremerate shell replacement. Buying a single trigger (just the plastic R2/L2 trigger, mind you) for $20 to fix a broken $500 Deck isn't too bad, but trying to build an entire controller from spares is really not economically sensible.

    But if you did indeed have those parts already for some reason, the rest is all rather cheap, common components. Cannibalize a Deck, and the extra cost would probably be well under $50....plus the $500 to buy a replacement Deck, so don't actually do it.

  • Which software license for research/academic work?

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  • If you want to make it singular like he/she/it, then make it singular.

    He has a car, she has a car, they has a car.He was friendly, she was friendly, they was friendly.He sounds fine, she sounds fine, they sounds fine.

    Notice the issue?A singular they is an okay concept, but you then have actually allow it to be singular, in every use - a direct replacement for he/she with no other word or sentence changes necessary.

  • Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder

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  • It is still the same installation method, directly installing the .apk file, from way back when the term for Android usage was defined. So, kinda, but also kinda not. Also, if you do use ADB to do the install from a PC, the command is "ADB sideload filename" which will do the transfer and installation to the memory directly. Then it truly is sideloading as defined.

    Android doesn't use ROMs (Read-only Memory) any more either, because the filesystems are now writable. But Lineage etc are still called custom ROMs, because the end result hasn't changed.

  • Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder

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  • It's not a "bullshit new term", it's three decades old and means transferring files locally from one device to another, instead of directly downloading or uploading from/to an external server.

    The origin goes back to MP3.com and i-drive in late 90's, but the most common sideloading people did was downloading music to their PC using services like iTunes, and transferring them to their mp3 players. As they did often with early PDA and smartphone apps, where the term for Android comes from - get the .apk on your computer, transfer it to your phone, and install it.Sideloading.

  • Toyota Owner Didn’t Know His Car Was Talking To Insurers Until He Saw His Rates

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  • The fact that they can sell you a car without having to give you all of the terms and conditions is kinda nuts. Imagine if you went to buy a house and they just went "Nuh uh, pay first, we give you all the HOA rules and city ordinance laws you have to follow afterwards. What is in them? It's a mYsTeRy!".

  • ChatGPT is rolling out YouTube-style age prediction

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  • AFAIK it's a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted aren't federated properly and instead just show up as the thumbnail image from Fedia.

    Probably something that is going to be, or already is, fixed in a newer Lemmy version, but some instances are a little slow to update.

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    OLED is nice and all, but the upgrade I really want is this.