Task Manager is launched by the listener in winlogon if you use the Ctrl + Shift + Esc method though, right? I’m pretty sure you can still launch Task Manager, and from there attempt to relauch Explorer, even if Explorer is borked or not running. You’d just have to know how to do that and that you can.

That’s what I always do when Explorer’s ears inexplicably catch fire and I’m either too lazy or too naively hopeful to reboot.

For anyone following along at home, Windows Explorer is also responsible for displaying the start menu/taskbar. In the example in the article there’s something else funky going on inside Explorer, though, because the taskbar and even the desktop icons are all there, it’s just not rendering correctly. (Explorer is also responsible for showing all of your desktop icons.)

I generally upvote stuff to reward engagement and effort. Anything I pass by that looks like a creative work someone is putting forth themselves I’ll upvote. Also pretty much any response to anything I post or comment on. Often times comments I respond to as well.

I only downvote utter bullshit, i.e. people spouting things that are categorically not true, or bad faith arguments, or just people being argumentative in general when there’s no reason to be so.

I don’t give enough of a flying fuck if we hypothetically disagree, only if your position is so odious that it is in fact literally objectively wrong or intentionally misleading.

Or utterly useless bots that no one asked for. I’ll downvote those, too, but I haven’t seen too many of them anymore in the corners that I regularly haunt.

From the Notepad++ home page:

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API

Trying to port it to other platforms is thus nonsensical. It would have to be a ground-up rewrite without the Windows API dependency. And there are indeed various other projects for Linux and other platforms that pretty much replicate its functionality, but they’re by definition not going to be Notepad++.

Who wants to be the first to martyr themselves getting turned into Swiss cheese after firing the first shot? Is it you? Why not?

That is your answer.

It doesn’t even have to go that far. There is a no way that assault of an elected official is not some kind of high grade felony in Arizona.

Well, fuck. Just at this exact second you’ve taught me that I’ve been doing that the hard way for ages, by actually going to the project’s github page.

Anyway, another shout out for yt-dlp regardless. I get a giggle every time I see one of those sporadic news articles involving the music recording industry still whinging about piracy. Er, the record labels themselves pathologically post every single track ever recorded to Youtube to rake in that ad revenue, and it’s all free for the taking. If you decide you’d like to be proud owner of any of them forever you can just hit it with the ol’ yt-dlp -x.

I am continually amazed at the number of non-Youtube sources that yt-dlp Just Works with as well. It seems any video content posted online that you’d like to gaff can be handily vacuumed up with it, regardless of the site operator’s desperate attempts to prevent you from doing so.

Given that SSDs are also impacted by this fuckery that doesn’t seem hugely likely. However, I’ve already seen at least one punter suggesting placing your swap file on cloud storage, and at this rate I can’t quite tell if they were being facetious or if this is a genuine harbinger of the magnitude of stupidity we’re all going to be staring down in six months.

Internet Pedantry Alert: That’s the white pages. The yellow pages are for business listings. You could, and still can, opt out of the white pages listings.

Equip a sensor that figures out how much ethylene is in the air inside the fridge?

Or just open the door every once in a while and look…

And the ultimate outcome of that was, at one point Google enacted some kind of API change which necessitated Samsung to push out an update to remain compatible, otherwise all of your Google enabled features such as the calendar syncing, email, etc. would stop working. Samsung claimed to be developing a patch for this, and ultimately pushed out an update to… only some of their models. For the others, their response was literally just, “We recommend you buy a newer refrigerator.”

Yes, this actually happened.

But since that was going on for ten years ago now, information about it on the Internet is a trifle difficult to find because the search results have largely been overshadowed by Samsung’s more recent smart fridge fuckup. Grand.

Never buy a Samsung appliance.

IP Over Avian Carriers.

I have informed my cat. She says “meep.”

Thanks a bunch! I’m glad I’m making somebody’s day, or maybe approximately four people.

For sure. The above wasn’t a complaint, just my observation on the difference in popularity between niche nerd stuff (58 upvotes) and something that’s of widespread general interest (cats).

I don’t think any of us are posting on Lemmy of all places to get famous.

I posted a 5,808 word treatise loaded with professional photography and graphs the other day and got a grand total of 56 upvotes on it. Meanwhile, about a year back I slapped a zero effort picture of my fat-ass cat parked in front a mini split heater unit and it remains to this very day my top rated Lemmy post of all time. Hell, the literal shitpost I made last week about cramming some of my camera junk into a Harbor Freight case attracted more interest and attention than the former.

Widespread exposure of content — especially general interest content — that attracts some arbitrary number of up arrows is not indicative of quality, and it sure as shit doesn’t have anything to do with effort. If it did, the Internet would be a very different place.

In other words: Your boos mean nothing to me. I’ve seen what makes all of you cheer.

…To the manufacturer. The retailer’s not going to take it back, and even if you did manage to bully them into taking it somehow that’s still allowing the retailer to shield the manufacturer (i.e. Samsung) from the consequences of their actions. And consequences are what Samsung needs to see over this.

“All” of them most certainly do not. You can still go buy a brand new XR650L right now that not only does not have any electronic rider aids whatsoever, it has no electronics other than its spark ignition system. Never mind a TFT dash. It still has a mechanical speedometer, driven by a rotary cable.

Electronic features on bikes are becoming more available, for sure, but if you really want to they’re dead easy to avoid.

Anyway, I was thinking of the safety aspect. If Republicans say the want cheap and less safe vehicles, motorcycles already fit the bill.

Buy motorcycles. Problem solved.

I will see your Nerf darts, and raise you airsoft BBs. I still find the cats playing with one every now and again, or pick up a stray one with the vacuum cleaner. I can’t remember firing an airsoft gun inside the house at any time more recently than about 15 years ago. And yet.