There is no such thing as idiot-proof steps to tamper the registry. Most of those registry keys are not documented, and it’s very hard to be completely sure about what you are touching.

If you need a debloated experience, install LTSC.

I don’t think they care about the budget. They probably care more about impressions and clicks. So, just use an adblocker, to lower their ad impressions.

Sure, in many cases the dev’s computer is powerful enough to handle that.

However:

• The more the dependencies, the more likely it is to pull-off a supply chain attack. Any of those thousands modules can be compromised and infect either the user or the developer.
• Not all computers are optimized for working with so many tiny files. Have you ever worked in a company that uses McAfee Antivirus? Even Defender can be a massive performance hit in some cases.

I feel the importance of user privileges distinction, as I see it from a server perspective and organization managed devices. Some would argue the insignificance of this in the personal desktops.

However, I believe that the community structure of Linux is benefiting everyone. It is a general purpose kernel, that gets improvements from various different sectors. In the current space, where most servers run Linux and most desktops run Windows, desktops are not benefiting from filesystem or scheduling optimizations implemented for servers.

I had a look at Haiku some months ago. Its single user architecture is an interesting choice. I mean, you don’t need to worry about privilege escalation exploits, if you are always fully privileged /s

I was literally reading your guide about bonfire moments ago.

For those who don’t have a problem with systemd, there is NixOS, which offers the same capabilities as guix, while having a larger community and way more available packages available in its repos.

Care to elaborate?

Wait until you learn about the Linux kernel and the plethora of modules and patches

You also need to ln -s /dev/null /dev/nul

In bash, when you redirect the output of a command to /dev/null, like cat /etc/passwd >/dev/null, you are silencing the output.

There are cases that this is useful, for example when checking if an application is installed:

node -v >/dev/null && echo "Node.js is installed"

This line tries to get the version of Node.js, but it silences the output. That’s because we don’t care about the version. We only care about whether the execution was successful, which implies the existence of Node.js in the system.

Point (5) is not about the arcs’ lengths. It’s about the angle they create with the center.

Also, I never said that COD * 2 = 2π. I said (inner COD) + (outer COD) = 2π rads

Take this shape as an example. The “square” in question consists of AC, BD, the outer AB, and the inner CD.

Point (5) means that, since the lines AC and BD are radii of the concentric circles, the arcs AB and CD should have the same inner angle. That’s because the angle COD is equal to AOB.

Since, the inner angle is the same, then the outer AOB should, by definition, be 2π - (the inner AOB), because that’s how radiants work; a circle is 2π rads.

Since the straight lines are radii, they cut the circles at angle θ and 2π - θ, respectively. Adding those, you get 2π.

Solution:

Explanation:

1. in order for the straight lines to be 90 deg with the circles, they must be radii of circles with same central point

2. the length of an arc is defined as c = r * θ (where r is the radius, and θ is the angle)

3. we define the inner circle with radius r₁ and its arc L₁ = r₁ * θ₁

4. we define the outer circle with radius r₂ and its arc L₂ = r₂ * θ₂

5. Because of (1), θ₁ + θ₂ = 2π

6. To create the shape, L₁ = L₂ = r₂ - r₁

If you start replacing and solving, you will get a 2nd grade quadratic, which has a positive and a negative solution. The positive solution is that magic number.

Kids nowadays don’t know about DVI, VGA, COM, Parallel or Gameport. I loved the days when one could accidentally remove the screw on the board side.

Is this true also for CPUs? I have 8700G

Fixed it

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Oh, ok. I am in EU.

My parents wouldn’t even notice that their computer decided to encrypt their files. And they will blame the service guy for not being able to recover their photos, in case of hardware failure.