Tag archives for 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…
File Explorer: less annoying sans Automatic Folder Type Discovery
I prefer all folders to open by default in the compact List view; some other people prefer the Detailed view by default. Either way, only morons need a folder to…
Too many ways to install shit in world’s #1 desktop OS
I thought Linux package management was broken, but then a small annoyance I experienced in Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC made me reconsider. To put this in context, it happened…
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…
Updates on GoComics and ComicStripBrowser
① On browsing GoComics.com: Bypassing GoComics’ paywall has been updated with uBlock Origin filters that currently manage to bypass the paywall in Firefox, even under Android! I'll copy here the…
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…
Windows users and “experts” are dumb as shit and lazy
I'm not saying that Microsoft was right to do what they did. They have always been wrong in the last 20 years, starting with Vista. (And not only that. From…
Curiouser and curiouser…
Why do I feel the need to comment on Dedoimedo’s latest post? Well, because I disagree with a fundamental premise that led to a questionable conclusion. It has to do…
Gemini vs. Fran Blanche + BONUS: crazy units
I don't like Fran Blanche. For someone who's a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), her videos are incredibly shallow. Five years ago, Fran made…
Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups
There aren't many kinds of software I'm willing to pay for. VPNs are one such category. Dictionary apps (or online subscriptions to dictionaries) might be a second one. And Beyond…
I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE
I never liked ONLYOFFICE. I hated that it has a unique binary that you have to launch, instead of separate apps for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. I found its ALL-CAPS…
AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026
Resolutions are meant to be broken, but I’m trying to simplify my life. I intend to stop the distro-hopping and even to stop caring about any new distros. Keeping up…
Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100
Despite my previous post Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?, in which I established that Win11 would be a better fit for my newer Acer, and…
Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?
As I was scratching my balls, I had this revelation: what if we are fools to want to install Win11 on CPUs that are officially unsupported? Sure, they're not supported…
A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?
After 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits and Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke, the post 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu…
E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents
I have always favored, literally for decades, the ePub file format for e-books and ranted against Amazon's various Kindle-specific e-book formats. And, oh boy, they have changed in time: from…
Moartea Win10 nu afectează prețul rablelor SH & refurbished
Nu am cumpărat absolut niciodată un computer second-hand, și nu aș cumpăra un astfel de laptop, pentru că pur și simplu riscă să nu se mai poată răci. Puteți schimba…
I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
Everyone swears by VirtualBox for Type 2 virtualization, most likely because it has always been free. But it's a complete piece of crap, and never was anything but a pain…
When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year
As reported by Bleeping Computer, the consumer protection organization Euroconsumers has managed to determine Microsoft to provide one more year of free security updates to consumers in the EEA, without…
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell…