“Santa Claus” doesn’t come down the chimneys but his helpers do, and he doesn’t come in the night after Christmas Eve, but the night between 5 and 6 December.

Here, Christmas is people giving each other presents. Santa Claus is only a thing in commercials. I’m sure some families try to follow the American version for their kids, but i don’t know any. We don’t put up Christmas decorations until Sinterklaas has left, but that unwritten rule is slowly disappearing.

Let’s see how this plays out with windows 11 😄

My screen is wider than it is tall. I have more horizontal screen real estate than vertical, why are you forcing me to waste vertical space? I wanna move it to the left again…

More importantly, what brand, type and/or specs. It’s easy to get cheap disks with crap performance. I have a few around that we quickly dubbed “Super Slow Disks”.

Let’s look back 100 years and see what decisively to the right did to the EU 🤔

If they knowingly sell to EU customers, then EU law applies. 2 year warranty, and burden of proof on the seller for defects, not the buyer.

On Linux there is “onedriver”, a 3rd party onedrive client. Works great, but iirc not with sharepoint shares linked in your onedrive folder.

https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver

Could be, my kids have identical pc’s, but the disks are different. One has a slower ssd and its symptoms are exactly how you described, I knew it was slower but it’s all I had around. Both pc’s have SATA ssds. We’re saving for new disks, which I’m sure will alleviate the symptoms.

At work a similar problem with Windows server. The hosting company changed the IO tier and like snow these issues disappeared. Clicking start and waiting for it to open would take a minute, completely unacceptable, but ultimately fixed by having faster storage.

I’m not saying Microsoft is doing good work, I’m suggesting a workaround until they do, which we both know is very probably never.

They already pushed out older hardware with Windows 11, they won’t care about slower storage options.

I have that problem on my son’s pc. It’s definitely an io issue. A faster disk would solve the problem.

Nobody sees it that way, nobody notices what we notice. They don’t know any alternatives, it has new features so it’s innovating, it does what they want/need. I hear no complaints, only from tech people who are invested in privacy and digital sovereignty. That’s the reality.

Just being there and breathing probably releases more bacteria than just touching it

I don’t think windows is how they make most of their money

Don’t forget to add a string to your wifi ssid so Microsoft doesn’t index it.

And if you don’t want Google to index it you need to use a different string, and it must be placed at the end.

As someone who manages a mail server, new debian releases have the same effect.

If you want to avoid this, use a rolling release distro.

Were you affected by the dotcom bubble?

Maybe the remaining tech companies, such as Microsoft and Nvidia, might raise prices of their products to cover the losses.

I worked with SAP software before, not sure how I should feel about this 😄

It’s deekseek the new Grindr?

I got a notification from bpost saying it’s suspended because they don’t know how much the cost will be, so they don’t know how much to charge.

They probably think this will persuade the politicians to review these rules, as they can’t reach their target audiences anymore. I hope they see the overwhelming support for this decision, but I’m not sure if I’m in a bubble. I only see positive reactions so far. There was 1 critical article in the news, but just stating facts, no opinions. I think it’s great. Less brainwashing going on during the election cycles from now on since Facebook in particular allowed for some really specific demographic targeting.

They are technically free to leave the country

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/07/21/twee-israeli-s-op-tomorrowland-tegen-wie-klacht-was-ingediend-w/