Microsoft might be going black. Will they ever go back?
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The Verge · Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD and it might change to black
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Our priorities on operating systems are a mixture of practical and highly-specific. The OS must:
- Receive security updates.
- Have software that can edit its look and functionality.
- Allow us to disable and tinker with its policies and settings.
- Remember windows positions across 2 monitors when the monitors turn off/on or we switch inputs on any monitor.
- Have a functional emoji picker.
Windows 10 Pro ticked some of these boxes, but not all of them. It's about to lose security updates later this year, refused to remember window positions, and had an emoji picker that limited which emojis it would display. We had to use PersistentWindows to restore application windows to the correct monitor, size, and position.
Windows 11 Pro meets most of these criteria to varying degrees. It's a bit trickier to edit its functionality versus Windows 10, but still doable with the right software, but it does remember window positions and sizes correctly... so far at least.
The emoji picker for Windows 11 is not a straightforward improvement over Windows 10. It does show newer emojis that the emoji picker in 10 refused to display, even with an updated emoji font installed, but it's less user friendly. We're going to install a custom emoji font to see whether the picker actively hides country flags.
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@dosnostalgic
Those are the choices the bigCorp gave you but they are NOT your only choices.
You dont need to "recycle" the whole computer!
Words matter.
You need to change only the #os ,replace it with a version of #Linux.
They, the #bigCorp, are assuming that you unable to learn something new.
You either can make things happen for you or you can let things happen to you.
#democracy is more than voting!
Linux Kernel 6.14 Is a Big Leap Forward In Performance, Windows Compatibility - An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols:... - https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/2110211/linux-kernel-614-is-a-big-leap-forward-in-performance-windows-compatibility?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #os
linux.slashdot.orgLinux Kernel 6.14 Is a Big Leap Forward In Performance, Windows Compatibility - SlashdotAn anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Despite the minor delay, Linux 6.14 arrives packed with cutting-edge features and improvements to power upcoming Linux distributions, such as the forthcoming Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42. The big news for desktop users ...
Super excited to present my OS research at #wasmio25 in just 2 days!
For two years I’ve been working on a massively concurrent, highly reliable operating system ( using #wasm written from scratch in #rust ) for the 21st century!
stop by it will be great!
https://2025.wasm.io/sessions/smarter-operating-systems-will-use-wasm-the-coming-os-revolution/
Smarter Operating Systems Will Use Wasm - The Coming OS Revolution •WASM I/O • 27-28 Mar • Barcelona 2024WASM I/O • 27-28 Mar • Barcelona 2025Smarter Operating Systems Will Use Wasm - The Coming OS Revolution • Wasm I/O 2025. A 2-day WebAssembly conference in Barcelona, Spain
There's quite a lot of talking about @eu_os lately, and with good reason! And since this week we released an article on Europe's Digital Sovereignty, we prepared another article introducing the EU OS project. What a better complement than to delve a bit more into practical cases?
We will release the article tomorrow. And this Friday we release our first #newsletter , the Monthly Report, so subscribe if you want to receive it: https://the-debugger.ghost.io/faq-2/#/portal/signup
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magic to me, last seen in 1992 at my mom's university computing science department
Without looking it up what’s the default text messaging app called on stock Android?
Please note I said default text messaging (ie. SMS/MMS etc) and stock (as in what Google Android Open Source Project and many other Google Play enabled phones run for their OS.
Just released version 1.10 of "You're the OS!", my open-source browser game where you are a computer's operating system and you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events.
You can play the new version here: https://plbrault.itch.io/youre-the-os
itch.ioYou're the OS! by Pier-Luc BraultBecome a computer operating system and try not to anger the user!
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That is true. In fact, any more sophisticated #BigTech device should be avoided for this reason. In particular if it is from the #US or #China.
I write "device" b/c any time there is hardware that runs with a proprietary software or even an operating system, the user looses control (e.g. an #Amazon #Alexa or a #Tesla, or a #Huawei smartphone as examples for the latter, an #Android or #Apple app or #Windows #OS for the former.)
Just using browser software and turning...
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released - New submitter TronNerd82 writes: Linuxiac reports that the 6th alpha release of th... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/01/0059224/cosmic-desktop-alpha-6-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #os
tech.slashdot.orgCOSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released - SlashdotNew submitter TronNerd82 writes: Linuxiac reports that the 6th alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment has been released. The new alpha release includes zooming, desktop icon management, some new scaling options, and improved accessibility features. Also included in the release are a number...
An appreciation thread:
What are the #software tools you use daily (in your personal, not professional life) whose creators have an official presence on the #fediverse? I'll start:
#OS : #TuxedoOS by @tuxedocomputers
Email: @Tutanota
Instant Communications: @signalapp and @threemaapp
Notes: @notesnook
Browsers: @Vivaldi and @torproject
Password Manager: @keepassxc
VPN: @ivpn
Podcasts: @AntennaPod
Music Player: @videolan
Yes, I use all of these products DAILY, and I am grateful to their developers for making world-class products and teams for choosing to have an official presence here.
Had to use a Windows 11 machine today, and apparently now the start page is a running advertisement (trying to sell Microsoft Copilot at the login prompt). #crap #os #windows11
Ach menno!
Ich benutze mein #OS üblicherweise in Englisch, weil mich die ständigen Übersetzungsänderungen in Win genervt haben, und weil sich mit der originalen Fehlermeldung leichter Fehler beheben lassen.
Nu ist der Standard aber üblicherweise American English, und die Amis benutzen am/pm.
Unter #Linux (#KDE) lässt sich die #Lokalisierung üblicherweise umstellen und in jedem beliebigen Format anzeigen, aber der verdammte #Browser ignoriert das.
Für #Firefox gibt es zwar ein Addon, das 24h-Format erzwingt, das funktioniert aber nicht in Formularen (wie beim ÖPNV oder dem Nextcloud Kalender).
#Librewolf hat das gleiche Problem, UND zeigt Zeiten grundsätzlich in UTC an, egal welche Zeitzone ich eingestellt hab.
Kennt jemand das Problem, und evtl eine Lösung?
Das kann doch nicht so schwer sein, wenn selbst Windows das hinkriegt.
Bestimmt überseh ich hier was.
Ich benutze mein #OS üblicherweise in Englisch, weil mich die ständigen Übersetzungsänderungen in Win genervt haben, und weil sich mit der originalen Fehlermeldung leichter Fehler beheben lassen.
Nu ist der Standard aber üblicherweise American English, und die Amis benutzen am/pm.
Unter #Linux (#KDE) lässt sich die #Lokalisierung üblicherweise umstellen und in jedem beliebigen Format anzeigen, aber der verdammte #Browser ignoriert das.
Für #Firefox gibt es zwar ein Addon, das 24h-Format erzwingt, das funktioniert aber nicht in Formularen (wie beim ÖPNV oder dem Nextcloud Kalender).
#Librewolf hat das gleiche Problem, UND zeigt Zeiten grundsätzlich in UTC an, egal welche Zeitzone ich eingestellt hab.
Kennt jemand das Problem, und evtl eine Lösung?
Das kann doch nicht so schwer sein, wenn selbst Windows das hinkriegt.
Bestimmt überseh ich hier was.