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Hmm, 16 segments. I was hoping for 10.

Yeah, the whole Backup thing is misleading. I always have to do a second take when this question comes up because I do want this sometimes and don't want it sometimes. If it asked if I wanted my default documents, etc. locations to start pointing inside of my OneDrive folder, I'd understand what it was asking. Saying it is a backup makes it sound like it is a cloud version of Time Machine which it isn't.

I have the Legion 7-16ITHg6 (16") which seems to be related-ish. It has a nice dim blue power indicator which never bothered me. Unfortunately it won’t boot anymore. However, I loved how the screen gets really dim. All of the Dell laptops I have had exposure to are unbearably bright even at the lowest dimness (I even resorted to using CareUEyes’s grey shading feature on an XPS which fortunately had an HDR-rated display which meant that black was actually pretty dark has a workaround but that was still not ideal). One of the reasons why I am sticking with Lenovo for my replacement.

Basic network monitoring would tell you that there is a lot of growth, not whether it is legitimate or not. Maybe back in the day you could actually review each individual thing. AI enables creation of a lot of noise which traditional approaches can't scale to. It's an arms race and regulating weapon distribution will hinder the white hats and isn't guaranteed to hinder the black hats.

Did you ever figure it out? Are both Windows 11 hosts actually identical? Do they have different build numbers?

Perfectly valid question. I am wondering the same thing.

It sounds like the GPU was working until the OP started using it. It’s not like the original owner could predict the failure or somehow make the GPU work just long enough to sell the way people sell broken cars. If anything, the story of the seller not using it for a while and then suddenly using it again explains the failure—the GPU may have undergone some corrosion during the period of non-use setting it up for failure during the next heat/cool/heat/cool cycles. It’s not like that is something you can control to that degree.

I think many people skipped over some things that can cause writes. Many websites use service workers which get stored on disk using a caching mechanism that is supposed to be persistent. Also, some sites, especially webapps designed to continue being useful whole temporarily offline, store data in IndexedDB. And persistent cookies can be set any time a web resource is accessed. Those will still be stored on disk even when you disable the disk cache and can result in writes. There are probably many other features which result in writes that I am not aware of. And most of these need persistent storage in order for websites to function as designed.

Linux had tmpfs which stores stuff in pagable filesystem cache, so it will sort of stay in RAM until it gets stored in swap either preemptively or when the system needs that RAM for something else. That data is lost on reboot. I think many distributions will mount /tmp with tmpfs and point ${TMP} to a user-specific subdirectory of /tmp which no other users (ignoring root) should be able to access.

However, it's better to let the disk cache use the actual disk as that is how it is designed to work. I.e., Firefox expects writes and reads to the disk cache to be slower than the memory cache and it also expects the disk cache to be more persistent (and survive reboots). If you really want to disable disk caching, setting the preference to disable disk caching in Firefox is the best option. Then Firefox won't even spend resources on writing something to the disk cache.

Honestly would love to see this come out in some code snippets.

Interesting that this question needs to be asked.

They wanted one less thing for small organizations to have to do. It is an interesting feature and a time saver but it is obviously not a conservative and even a dangerous approach.

If this shows up again, try opening a browser and verifying that you have internet access. The time probably passed if you're able to post on Reddit. Then retry your GitHub Desktop stuff. Since there is no retry button, maybe hit cancel, fully exit the GUI, then reopen it.

Looks like your internet temporarily was disconnected and your router was trying to show you a page saying “your internet is down”. alive.github.com is an internal GitHub website it uses to check for Internet access, nothing to do with your repository named “alive”.

Yeah, I disabled calls from ringing unless they are in my contacts. Been a long time since I've had a phone call.

You haven't been to the places in the world where literally business advertising on billboards has the WhatsApp logo on it. For example this is common in Indonesia and I think also even in tourist-oriented places in Seoul and Tokyo (not totally trusting my memory on those last two though). In which country or city do you see Telegram used as the primary means of communication?

You can hardly call Mexico and Canada international. Verizon and ATT and any comparible plans include both of those countries. But once you go international for real such as overseas you might want the one TMobile option or just get local eSIMs.

Honestly I think the real reason is iMessage. People who would have wanted WhatsApp already had iMessage which is arguably better if you ignore the vendor lock-in. Users who were fine with less user friendly things were on Android and used Facebook Messenger when that became available.

I was pleasantly surprised when Dell Support sent me messages to my WhatsApp account instead of via SMS after giving them a phone number. But I suppose they are a global company. Hopefully other companies follow suit.

$10/day is crazy. Getting a local SIM is worth it. Just use Google Voice for your phone number (unfortunately Whatsapp stopped allowing new accounts to sign up with Google Voice a few years ago, so I'm lucky to be grandfathered in).

If the salt story is real then maybe the engineers went too far with the thinness.

Cement and having it land perfectly.

I stopped using screen protectors because I realized screens are pretty sturdy and the protectors always give a bad experience. But I have a phone case and I'm pretty sure that has saved me from damage already since I tend to drop my phone every week or so (but rarely on cement thankfully).

Are we talking Kelvin here? Celsius? Fahrenheit?

They must be talking specifically about YouTube TV?

BTW, when you say region do you mean locale? Do you want the place names to display in Japanese or are you trying to like unlock some feature which normally only shows up to Japanese users

On Android, you can go to Settings / System / Language and Region / App Language / Maps and set just the Google Maps app to Japanese (at least on Pixel). iOS has the same feature in Settings / Apps / Google Maps / Language. This would let you see the Japanese locale for Google Maps.

However, your region will still be where your Internet is coming from. For example, even though I am in Canada and have my phone language set to Korean, I still see 아메리카호 (Lake America) instead of 온타리오호 (Lake Ontario) because I am roaming with an American SIM. So it depends on what you're trying to accomplish.