Never wanted to do high quality voice recognition? No need for face/object detection in near instant speed for your photos, embedding based indexing and RAG for your local documents with free text search where synonyms also work? All locally, real-time, with minimal energy use.
That is fine. Most ordinary users can benefit from these very basic use cases which can be accelerated.
Guess people also said this for video encoding acceleration, and now they use it on a daily basis for video conferencing, for example.
Those usecases are at least 5 years if not 10 years out. They require software support which won't come until a significant part of the pc market has the necessary hardware for it. Until then, paying extra for the hardware is foolish.
This will only come if Windows 12 requires a TPU and most of the old hardware is decommissioned.
Often the problems are complex, unless you take steps to simplify them to be easy to solve, usually by relaxing constraints a bit, by carefully examining what are the real business/physical constraints which MUST be fulfilled, and not going for the textbook solutions. This is called engineering, and is rarely rewarded, complexity is praised all around the industry.
Oh we do end-to-end encrypt everything for your safety, see our article on the unbreakable protocol... but you can unlock everything with this 4 digit windows hello pin, unlimited retries, you are mandatory to define the pin, if you want to use high security features... Totally not a backdoor.
Apple is more principled on this front definitely.
But a 4 digit PIN with unlimited retries can be brute forced.
Replacing a password with a 4 digit PIN is less secure. If a user wanted a 4 character password, they’d make a 4 character password. Forcing the creation doesn’t make much sense on a desktop.
Microsoft working hard to ruin the Windows brand... copying the worst parts of MacOS, and coming up with their own user-hostile innovations too.
Everything listed there makes me consider abandoning windows. It is getting slightly worse every release overall, despite great advances on some fronts (eg WSL2, robust graphics subsystem, Storage Spaces).
With Win11 the taskbar and Start were already gutted, and regressed a lot, also with the borderless windows, and wide margins, and the terrible trend continues.
Where does current Notepad store its settings? How could I distribute settings to new users, eg. by applying a reg file?
It looks like to me that it stores its settings at "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat", which is some binary format.
Why is registry being abandoned? If it is, why isn't ini or json or a plain text format used? Who are working at Microsoft now, abandoning both the windows ways to approach tasks, and also the other generic sane default approaches?
I had issues with performance/power management, and had to abandon Podman Desktop on Windows. Have not checked out recently, but my issues may possibly be solved by
Basically I had a 5 second periodic CPU spike after some update. Also I had some compose issues, and some issue with Fedora based WSL. These together were blockers for me at that point, but I'm using podman on my pet Fedora server, and it works (using quadlets there) perfectly there, and will retry it on Windows also when I get the time.
A key difference is that Ukraine has land borders with the EU, with significant potential for trade, while Georgia lacks land borders with the EU which limits the potential in harnessing the single market.
That's not a key difference though, that's the same situation Greece was from 1981 until 2007 when Bulgaria and Romania joined, and Ireland, Cyprus and Malta are still in this situation (unlikely to change). And again similar to Greece and Ireland Georgia has access to sea ports, and Bulgaria and Romanian ports are not far away.
My problems with KeePass are rather that its development model is much like SQLite: a pretty closed model, with source published regularly, but no clear way of code contribution, which is sad because it has some UI regressions recently which I'd be happy to fix, if contribution was lower friction.
Adding poisons (fumigation) is definitely not a good idea. In mushroom plants the compost/humus used to grow mushrooms is often steam boiled to sterilize it, to keep the yields high and the production safe from any dangerous contamination. It is seeded with the spores of the desired species afterwards.
That is fine. Most ordinary users can benefit from these very basic use cases which can be accelerated.
Guess people also said this for video encoding acceleration, and now they use it on a daily basis for video conferencing, for example.
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