Microsoft's plan to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 backfires: double the RAM, still slow Microsoft's plan to fix the slow performance of File Explorer in Windows 11 involves having the app pre-load on startup, and that's it.

Typical Microsoft
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Not a fan of Windows 11? Here's how I made my system look more like Linux or MacOS This free and fully customizable desktop environment enhances Windows every which way.

It's not the look of Windows that bothers me, it's mainly the built-in spyware and useless bloat, and the inconvenience of updates needing a reboot and long waits. -

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Is there a time limit?

Any chance of a simple howto for installing and configuring mpd? Every time i try to use it, it never sees my entire 90,000 track collection which are well tagged and what i think are the right permissions but still it misses loads of tracks

Well it would make a much longer headline and Music Player Daemon doesn't really explain what it is to the less knowledgeable

Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97 A child prodigy in mathematics who graduated Harvard at just 19, his darkly prophetic and cynical show tunes won him a cult following in the 50s and 60s

RIP Tom Lehrer, probably most well known for the song "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Nah trans after usually just deluded, mental ill

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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds Lenovo Legion Go S gets better frame rates running Valve’s free operating system.

As it always has been
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Absolutely fed up today. Wasted 5 CDRs trying to make an audio CD because KDE Neon is flakey AF. Then tried to download and put Kubuntu on a USB stick and the stick promptly died. Fuck this whole day

Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine (and you don’t need to buy a new one) Windows 10 support ends in October, and the company is telling millions of users their machines can’t support Windows 11. That’s simply not true.

Microsoft’s big lie: Your computer is fine (and you don’t need to buy a new one)
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I found a file-transferring app that works between Android and Linux - and it's free to use I'm always on the lookout for apps to make it easier to work between Linux and Android, and this one by Packet fits the bill.

As a KDE user I don't see the point in using this flatpak app when KDE has KDE Connect built in

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But all ministers are conmen and for profit in murica

Why I'm done with Firefox for good - and which browser I'm using instead I've used practically every browser out there and keep coming back to Firefox-based browsers. But not anymore. Here's why I've had it with Mozilla.

I'm sorry @jlwallen.bsky.social have you gone stark raving bonkers? You're switching to Opera because you trust them? The Opera owned by some dodgy Chinese consortium? Seriously? 🤣 www.zdnet.com/article/why-...

a man in a suit is making a funny face and saying oh no ! ALT: a man in a suit is making a funny face and saying oh no !

Well they should have had better security, i can't find any details on how the attack occurred

Yeah it has to be one of the greatest films and one of the greatest actors of all time

Ready to ditch Windows for good? This is the Linux distro I recommend for beginners SDesk is a lightweight Linux distribution designed with a familiar interface, making it an ideal choice for users transitioning from Windows.

Nope sorry @jlwallen.bsky.social there's no way I'd recommend an Arch based distro with Gnome for a newbie 🤣 www.zdnet.com/article/read...

Well i don't like AI much but it has its uses occasionally, but i also don't take much credence from the world's biggest child abuse ring...

That app and other similar cleanup tools usual tend to do more harm than good.

The Prodigy, "Poison"

Yes, most religions

Depends on the album i suppose, they're such a great band, very innovative in just guitar bass and drums

His Patronus is a cannabis leaf :D #harrypotter #severussnape #snoopdogg

Only Fools And Horses - Musical Doorbell YouTube video by riffovlje

missed opportunity to show a clip of Delboy's fancy musical doorbells :D #secretgenius #ofah www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvQ...

“I said, ‘Mike, I don’t know how to tell you this, but that’s a note-for-note guitar solo from...” Mike McCready stole his Alive solo from Kiss – but Ace Frehley had already stolen it from another leg... The revelation comes from Gene Simmons, who sees no problem in bands taking inspiration – and lifting ideas – from others

Mike McCready stole his Alive solo from Kiss – “I copied Ace Frehley’s solo from Kiss’ She, which was copied from Robby Krieger’s solo in the Doors’ Five to One.” www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...

Actor Val Kilmer, star of 'Batman Forever', dies at 65, NYT reports Actor Val Kilmer, best-known for his roles in "Batman Forever" and "The Doors," died in Los Angeles at the age of 65, the New York Times reported late on Tuesday.

Well damn. RIP
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Woman Who Ripped Her Own Eyes Out Reveals Why She Did It Kaylee Muthart, from Anderson, South Carolina, has revealed why she ripped out her eyes. Find out more information here...

Meth. A boatload of meth and religion, thinking she could get closer to God.
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BBC presenter issues apology after calling comedian Eddie Izzard, 63, 'the man' during broadcast The presenter apologised during a Friday broadcast on Radio 4

Why apologise? He's a bloke. He's in full possession of a cock and balls, and the chromosomes of a bloke. www.gbnews.com/celebrity/bb...

#homesunderthehammer