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It was clear and understandable to me, but follows a format I've seen many times. Headlines in English tend to have a style that's widely used, but would not be considered good usage outside of headlines, which I could expect to be troublesome for non-native speakers.


In 90’s New Brunswick it was practically legal tender. Accepted at basically every mom and pop store, and even many chains. Not so much since the turn of the century.


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Yup there was always a sign in my experience.


Similar to v4 DHCP guard, configure RA guard on your switches.


> As far as I'm aware, the wishlist has no other function.

It's also visible to accounts you've friended, for gift-giving purposes.


If you care about this enough to abandon old software, they built that and called it Windows S and few wanted it.


Windows without backwards compatibility is a dead end because the only reason why Windows exists is backwards compatibility and the existing user base. As an OS it is decades behind all its competitors, with a 30yo filesystem, file locking ridiculousness (which is why uninstallers and updates end up being so complex and require reboots), an antiquated central registry for settings that ends up slowing the system down over time, and a security framework so broken that you need anti-malware software running and inspecting every little thing happening on your system or you're easily compromised (everything is executable by default).

The security situation is so bad at this point that you can't trust any Windows benchmarks anymore. The benchmark suite will run on a "bare" Windows system; probably with updates and Windows Defender disabled and many other system services stopped to maximize performance and prevent background services from slowing everything down. The reality though is that on a regular user desktop all these things and a whole lot more will be enabled, resulting in vastly degraded performance compared to the benchmarks. The end user experience sucks.

Now they're forcing ads down your throat and pestering you at every turn to use more Microsoft software (e.g. trying to get you to use Edge). They've also recently included UI changes in "essential" system updates that can't easily be reverted or undone, breaking people's workflows. It's anti-user insanity and it's all because Microsoft can't actually go back to the drawing board with Windows anymore because the alternatives are just too good.

After using a Linux desktop full-time for a while, going back to Windows feels like going from having modern plumbing to pooping in the woods.


2. Achron from 2011 is an RTS fully and completely built around time travel as it's core mechanic, perhaps to the detriment of general playability.

Available on steam or direct.


That's ancient and perhaps best forgotten.

More important in this day and age is since Firefox 91 there is a checkbox in privacy and security to automagically SSO using the account on the Windows 10/11 Account Settings page that Edge uses.


Trace output was easier to read in the days when everybody trusted and there was no security.

Try reading this, with just the tool output, A and NS records, like the old days:

dig +trace jvns.ca | egrep ";|IN\s+A|IN\s+NS\s"


I agree with this.

Much of the square footage is devoted to entertainment pursuits that don't have a roof and close for the winter elsewhere in Canada.


Going so far as to actually smoke it is a hair too far.

Get a quality vaporizer and enjoy the full bouquet without the harmful combustion byproducts.


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