That old laptop’s CPU and TPM are “not supported” by Win11. And also, Win10 already didn’t run that smoothly on it - so, I didn’t even try to hack Win11 onto it.
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Read my text again. This is my only Windows laptop - and it needs to be actual Windows for all the obscure firmware update tools of some devices I have flying around.
Everything else in my household is either Linux or MacOS.
I took the opportunity to “downgrade” to Windows 7. My old HP laptop (which is specifically for a few specialty Windows-only apps) feels double as fast now compared to Windows 10 before. And with the help of LegacyUpdates.net and VxKex-NEXT (provides the very few Windows 10 API calls so you can even run most Win10-only apps on Win7) you get a pretty nice and lean system.
I just found a pattern. Monday, where it was showing up 1 hour earlier, I was connected to my M365 Cloud PC via my home Macbook. Then, the appt (only this one) showed up wrong.
Yesterday, I was using that same Cloud PC from my work (Windows-)laptop and the appt showed up at the correct time.
Today, I’m using the exact same Cloud PC - without rebooting - from my Macbook again and Outlook shows it wrong again.
So, that virtual machine that’s called Cloud PC does something different depending on the system you’re connecting from. How stupid is that?
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Sysadmin@lemmy.world•Is classic Outlook becoming worse and worse?English
1·9 days agoI thought so, too, at first. But why did Teams (using the “New Calendar” setting) show it correctly? And why did it fix itself today?
You’re not alone. We’re forced to use Classic Outlook at work.
I’ve got a monthly recurring appointment for a Zoom call. That was due today again. There was the switch to winter time last week and Outlook decided to “adjust” the scheduled time for me.
That meeting was originally for 11am and should continue to be at 11am during standard time. However, yesterday I’ve noticed that Outlook put it at 10am (and showed a proud message that it adjusted it due to timezone change). No way to undo it.
Teams continued to show it at 11am where it belongs.
Now, when trying to move it to 11 in Outlook, Teams moved it to 12.
And when I opened Outlook this morning, the appt was at 11am where it belongs and Outlook and Teams agreed again.
Mind you, this was only this external Zoom call. All other appointments are still correct. Very weird.
I’m running a local SearXNG which still provides usable results. I don’t see the point in paying for what’s basically a smart phone book. If everything fails, I’m going full #oldweb and use #webrings or some of those retro lists.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•I tried to outsmart the social media algorithm. Here's how it outsmarted meEnglish
9·11 days agoEven better: YouTube still provides RSS feeds. You can “subscribe” to your favourite channels by adding them to your RSS reader.
And for desktop, there’s also FreeTube.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps AppEnglish
22·18 days agoThey’ll probably make “Maps+” soon after.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•the self checkout machines at Walmart need a reboot. syslinux 6.03English
3·18 days agoOpen-source Mbrowser 52.2, packed with security features
Does anyone know where to find this?
EDIT: All I can find are the user agent strings which indicate that this might be some IBM product. Also, there’s
rv:52.0in the environment part, butIBM Mbrowser/60.5.1in the engines part - so the actual version of the browser component might be 60.5.1 in this case, not 52.x. (There’s also arv:60.0withMbrowser/60.9.0- noIBMthis time.)
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is it possible to listen to (or rip) a subscription based radio show?English
4·26 days agoLooks like there was www.diforfree.org some 7-10 years ago. I’ve found a few remnants via Google. But I couldn’t find anything that’s still working.
Also: https://rss-bridge.org/
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•SearXNG doesn't load the settings ...English
3·1 month agoAh, gut zu wissen! Danke! :)
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Technology@beehaw.org•📚 Ruminating on eReaders: Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle VoyageEnglish
5·1 month agoThe K3 Keyboard and the Voyage are the best Kindles IMHO. And I even had the same neon-yellow/green origami case for mine. Gave the K3 to my MIL when I upgraded to the Voyage. And sold the Voyage when I wanted to free myself from that walled garden a few years ago.
If you don’t want to get rid of your Voyage, you can turn it into a TRMNL and have it show your calendar, news, etc. instead.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•SearXNG doesn't load the settings ...English
51·1 month agoThe important bit is
-v /opt/podman/searxng/config:/etc/searxng:Zin the podman call. This will mount your local directory (i.e. on the host the container is running on)/opt/podman/searxng/configinto the container as/etc/searxng(which is where SearXNG is searching for its config). Make sure that the local directory exists and is writeable by your user account before starting the container. This way your config will persist even when the container gets replaced by an updated version.IIRC, after running the container for the first time, SearXNG should put a
settings.ymlanduwsgi.inithere. You can edit them and restart the container for the changes to take.On later container updates, SearXNG will put the latest versions of the default configs as
settings.yml.newanduwsgi.ini.new. This way it doesn’t overwrite your config and allows you to manually merge the new defaults into your running config. (If you only see the*.newfiles after starting the container for the first time, rename them and remove the.newpart.)
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•How do I get started if I am in the Apple ecosystem?English
1·1 month agoDoes the Optiplex have passive cooling? I don’t want these things to make any noise at all.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of InformationEnglish
4·1 month agoNews Explorer on macOS, iOS and ipadOS. Syncs everything, so whatever device you pick up, you can continue reading where you left off. Also supports following people on Mastodon and YouTube channels via RSS.
They changed it quite some while ago but you were still able to get books in the older format by using an older Kindle (or Kindle app version). I haven’t checked myself, but heard rumours that this loophole was closed recently.
If it still works for you: Apprentice Alf’s DeDRM plugin for Calibre.
But I believe this ship has sailed after Amazon’s recent changes…


But what do you do with your Passkey in your password manager if you have to login on another device (you don’t own)?