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From Win11 IoT 24H2 to Win10 IoT 21H2 + KB5099539: Mais quelle horreur !
Downgrading from Win11 to Win10 is not something people do, unless they do that between IoT LTSC editions of Windows, and they use UpDownTool_LTSC_v3.iso. My history with the abominable Win11…
Camomile for your Windows laptop (if you really must)
Remember when I wrote Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux? Well, how about battery life and laptop's temperature in Windows? Despite using the Balanced power plan, there's no…
250 years of hypocrisy and lies
The United States celebrates, in a jingoistic and bombastic style, an independence obtained as a rebellion against unfair taxation following the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), the Townshend…
Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux
There is an open secret that a laptop’s battery life in Linux is worse than in Windows. At least, this was true for Win7-Win10, because Win11, I'm told, is worse,…
În care discut cu Gemini ciudățeniile conjunctivului în franceză și italiană
Nu voiam să discut gramatică în acest moment, dar o mică îndoială cu privire la alegerea unui verb m-a făcut să discut cu Gemini aspecte ale conjunctivului în câteva limbi…
Furious German YouTuber Packs His Bags: to Japan! ● Updated!
RadicalLiving, a YouTuber with 780 videos over 13 years, is a libertarian-leaning entrepreneur who hit his limit with Germany's rigid, high-tax bureaucracy and its failure to adapt to modern challenges:…
A cursory look at WPS Office
Years ago, I quite liked Kingsoft Office. I remember I have used it under Win7 and Android. Since the suite became WPS Office (from Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheets, not from “Wonderfully…
An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty
This is an essay meant to complement my controversial take on Fjord’s Palme d'Or and my other politically incorrect opinions that are scattered throughout the blog. I used WPS Office…
Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!
At first, I thought Cristian Mungiu had produced and directed the wrong movie. After a summary analysis, I decided that his choice was a deliberate trick and that they have…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…
Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
Since the home page of Xebian insists that this Debian blend (not derivative!), “with only a thin layer for artwork and configuration that differs from Debian,” is “based on Debian Unstable/sid,” I…
Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE
This post is an attempt to summarize my experiences and adventures with Linux from the last two or three weeks. Before I finalized this post, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS had been…
ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!
It all started with a vibe-coded PyQt6 app that refused to build or to run under Windows, but it worked satisfactorily under Linux. It navigated in the archives of 15…
Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang
While I abhor OpenClaw for reasons I won’t list here, there are some advantages of it over more traditional agentic AI workflows. To oversimplify, let’s say it’s a shift from…
Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees)
I am a scribbler in the literal (not literary) sense: I need paper to organize my thoughts and to make lists or just to jot down something, even if eventually…
Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱
Via Reddit, via Hacker News: Claude Code's source code has been leaked! 🗄️src.zip Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry! Code: https://t.co/jBiMoOzt8G…
The day GoComics went bad
Having subscribed to Inbox Comics, I noticed that today, March 28, their daily mail claimed that most comics weren't updated. In the past, their system did have occasional glitches for…
How I chose to become Dumbo
Anyone remember where I left off in my blog post about Nyarch Linux? I planned to install Nyarch GNOME on my new Lenovo, using Nyarch Customize and Dash to Panel…
How acidic is your coffee?
Over the last decades, there’s been this trend of telling people that they should try eating “alkaline foods” and drink alkaline water and alkaline teas. Here in Germany, there is…
Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma
On March 10, they released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, the first solid opportunity for people to see what's going to be new in Fedora 44, once released sometime in April.…