The start menu being React Native is irrelevant. If it were React in an Edge web view that would be a different story.

Opening the start menu should cause a spike in CPU usage. You want the CPU to open the menu ASAP instead of dragging out the process so the CPU usage is more flat.

But everything in Windows these days is wasting time stealing your data, loading ads or other unnecessary data from cloud services, and interacting with “AI.” Performance is one of the lowest priorities, somewhere between software quality and privacy. Since mid Windows 10, Microsoft consistently replaces things with modernized, but worse, versions and never returns to finish making the new version as good as the previous version that evolved over decades. It’s a really expensive way to ruin a product. They could make a React Native start menu where people wouldn’t complain about the performance. They probably did and people are only noticing now because of a recent regression.

Is this a lost karma bot?

A less intrusive solution would be to just put your sensitive data in LUKS and configure services that use that data to depend on the partition being mounted. That doesn’t require modifying the normal system startup process. You’re less likely to mess up your startup process at the expense of needing to be more mindful about where you’re putting your files.

Tang and Clevis have already been mentioned as a way for one server to boot using another server.

You can also create an environment where the server boots into a phase 1 where it obtains network connectivity and then waits for you to provide it the key to continue booting. The first phase is unencrypted, so don’t put sensitive data in there.

It is bad practice because of point 2 and if you have multiple replicas you can probably get different versions running simultaneously (never tried it). Get Rennovate. It creates PRs to increment the version number and it tries to give you the release notes right in the PR.

Amazing. Is it a trojan?

Is there evidence that this is actually a US government fork of Signal for archiving messages? Maybe they just downloaded some other Signal fork from somewhere else.

That’s interesting. If you’re forking the Signal client to support archiving, you could also remove autoexpiration, the computer linking feature that is used when hijacking somebody’s account, and the ability to invite random people without clearance into your group chats. That would make it a reasonably secure and appropriate tool for communication over public infrastructure. We know they didn’t do at least one of these things.

Didn’t they start doing that decades ago? Did they stop at some point?

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Borg / k8s / Docker are not the same thing. Borg is the predecessor of k8s, a serious tool for running production software. Docker is the predecessor of Podman. They all use containers, but Borg / k8s manage complete software deployments (usually featuring processes running in containers) while Docker / Podman only run containers. Docker / Podman are better for development or small temporary deployments. Docker is a company that has moved features from their free software into paid software. Podman is run by RedHat.

There are a lot of publicly available container images out there, and most of them are poorly constructed, obsolete, unreprodicible, unverifiable, vulnerable software, uploaded by some random stranger who at one point wanted to host something.

VLANs are lower than IP so you don’t need a router to have a VLAN, but you will need a router to get packets between the networks. I don’t think a WiFi repeater works. You likely need separate WiFi client and AP devices so you can put your WiFi on a different channel. Otherwise you’re probably halving your WiFi performance when connecting to the other network over the same airwaves.

Unless you can convince the other network to route your IP addresses, this setup will give you another layer of NAT and may cause problems with online games.

It involves buying a politician.

Some microprocessors in deep sleep mode can consume less than 100 microwatts, so I guess it could be possible with this version, but you’d need to charge for a long time. The power consumption of an active ESP32 can reach 700,000 microwatts.

3V at 100 microwatts significantly limits its usefulness.

They say they’re planning to make a 1W version, which I assume will be either be much larger or have a much shorter lifespan. How does it work? Does it have a way to stop the reaction or does the 1W battery generate 1W of heat when there’s no load attached?

The ones on Amazon are intended to run GPUs for crypto farms, but they’re all brands you’ve never heard of with dubious claims and they’ve all got at least one review where either the device was defective or something was installed incorrectly and it caused damages.

I did this but buying these on Amazon is scary. Try to find one that won’t burn your house down.

I had the same problem with AMD drivers on Windows. Make sure you check the filesystem after a crash while updating drivers even if Windows tells you that it’s not necessary.

Unless Bluesky uses this as an excuse to undo the limited federation, cut off APIs, and try to trap users in another closed, hostile network.

Perfect for the next hand soldered Mitxela project.