Australis13

Well, I guess that’s one ISP everyone will want to avoid…

So, basically nothing new in Windows 11 that I want and a whole lot of things I don’t.

Indeed! Covers most of the instances where I would otherwise have to use find.

Turns out one of the video-editing programs I use (VideoRedo) has shut down anyway (I think the owner passed away) and so I’ll need to look for an alternative anyway - I don’t think I can activate it on new machines anymore.

Because I haven’t yet updated from Windows 10 to 11 and had been putting it off. In the past week, though, I have seen a number of news articles highlighting issues I am going to have with Windows 11 and this particular article, indicating that they have been effectively leaving systems vulnerable simply because they have applications they don’t like installed is just not good enough. I’d understand it if they were saying “we can’t guarantee your OS stability with these apps” or “we can’t guarantee these apps will work anymore” if they were removing older API support, but this is ridiculous.

Good to know. I don’t play many games, but do have some older ones from GoG that would be nice to keep.

Thanks, will do!

I was already dubious about upgrading from 10 to 11 and this is final straw. I will have to look at Linux options and see if my Windows-only programs will run effectively under WINE.

Given how bad the show’s writing has been for years and the declining in viewership in the Chibnell era, I’m actually surprised the BBC actually reversed course for once.

Very likely to be the physical force applied by the headphones, depending on how they are worn. I cannot use certain designs because they become uncomfortable even if only worn for short periods.

Thanks for that. A very interesting read; I am inclined to believe the author, given how they describe the failure of processes.

Indeed. I’d hardly classify this as going “rogue”; rather, inadequate guard rails in place for this application.

The browser addon “AdNauseum” can help with that, although it’s not a complete solution.

Ugh. If I need to collaborate with my colleagues, I’ll visit their office; I don’t need (or want) to hear every phone call they make or their music escaping their headphones.

I cannot stress enough how much I hate open plan offices and am so glad I do not work in one.

That is better than a fuselage failure, but still disturbing if you’re correct - surely there are checks for exit door plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.

Multiple news articles are reporting that this aircraft had its post-production certification only two months ago. For a problem of this magnitude to develop in such a short time is very disconcerting.

Huh? What does how a drive size is measured affect the available address space used at all? Drives are broken up into blocks, and each block is addressable.

Sorry, I probably wasn’t clear. You’re right that the units don’t affect how the address space is used. My peeve is that because of marketing targeting nice round numbers, you end up with (for example) a 250GB drive that does not use the full address space available (since you necessarily have to address to up 256GiB). If the units had been consistent from the get-go, then I suspect the average drive would have just a bit more usable space available by default.

My comment re wear-levelling was more to suggest that I didn’t think the unused address space (in my example of 250GB vs 256GiB) could be excused by saying it was taken up by spare sectors.

Of course. The thing is, though, that if the units had been consistent to begin with, there wouldn’t be anywhere near as much confusion. Most people would just accept MiB, GiB, etc. as the units on their storage devices. People already accept weird values for DVDs (~4.37GiB / 4.7GB), so if we had to use SI units then a 256GiB drive could be marketed as a ~275GB drive (obviously with the non-rounded value in the fine print, e.g. “Usable space approx. 274.8GB”).

This whole mess regularly frustrates me… why the units can’t be used consistently?!

The other peeve of mine with this debacle is that drive capacities using SI units do not use the full available address space (since it’s binary). Is the difference between 250GB and 256GiB really used effectively for wear-levelling (which only applies to SSDs) or spare sectors?

I second the suggestion of RSS feeds (I use TheOldReader) and DuckDuckGo as search engine replacement.

Also, Mozilla’s Pocket is a useful tool for collecting articles (and having related ones recommended to you).