ExFAT has other useful features for applications that stream data to storage (e.g. recording audio/video). It's a lot more efficient than FAT32 for these applications.

When I visited the UK last year, I went through customs. It took one of those facial recognition scans. There was no opt-out, there was no agent at the booth, I got no stamp in my passport.

Whatever system they're using already needs to be so pervasive that their solution to "papers, please" is to take the "paper" part out of it. This doesn't surprise me at all...but it would be somewhat fun to attempt using this app on a rooted phone.

There's already far too much evidence showing the real purpose of AARO is to further obfuscate the issue rather than conduct any legit investigations.

If he just left a potato at his desk would anyone notice any difference?

I've got a Lenovo notebook with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X (not even an X Pro or and X2), and it easily beats Intel i5 notebooks in raw performance on plenty of things written in plain C or C++ with no ARM-specific optimisations. But on top of that, it does it without getting hot or needing to spin the fans up. Even when it doesn't come out faster, it's still far more pleasant to use, being running cooler and quieter while being lighter and having better battery life.

They never called the Windows Server operating system edition .NET. You're probably thinking of the cancelled Windows .NET Server product, which was to have been a software bundle including SQL Server, Exchange Server and MSN (a successor to BackOffice server, I guess). Visual Studio got the .NET branding, and Microsoft accounts were called .NET Passport. But the majority of the other things that got .NET branding were actually using the .NET framework, or .NET wrappers for some other API/service (e.g. ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Visual Basic .NET).

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FDwedit%2FNoCo...

Tiny utility to turn it back into the right Ctrl key it's supposed to be. 10/10 recommend because I used to use the MS PowerToys program (1.5GB when the only function I needed was the key remap?!), and while it *usually* worked, *some* software had a bit of trouble with the PowerToys implementation, but works perfectly with NoCopilotKey.

"Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence." Microsoft is probably using AI to review all the people with signing keys, and it hallucinated a reason to terminate his account. They've been blindly trusting their AI for all sorts of things it can't do properly.

Warren Buffett and Richard Branson seem to be OK for billionaires as well.

..."classified a family of three earning $133,000 to $400,000 in 2024 dollars as upper middle class"

The median income in 2024 was $45,140. So a family of 3 all earning the median income would now qualify as upper middle class. Baloney.

This is clearly a rebranding of "upper middle class" than anything truly informative.

Fuck that. The whole reason that I buy Samsung is because they have viable alternatives to all the Google apps. Google is a shit company and completely untrustworthy.

I use Samsung Messages. It works fine for SMS and MMS. Samsung Smart Switch copies your message history across when you get a new phone. You can disable the RCS and AI crap. I really don't want to be using Google applications if I can avoid it. I don't want them getting their dirty mitts on my data. One of the best things about a Samsung phone was that there were alternatives to all the Google crap. There's no reason to buy Samsung if they're moving away from that.

>> I use Motorola phones because they give you the closest thing to plain-old Android that you can find anywhere.

Wouldn't that be a Pixel phone? I mean by definition...