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it still bugs me when they build these ultra low end machines and just run stock windows 11 and are surprised it runs bad.

Watching the WAN show I was shocked to hear @LinusTech and Luke hating on PDF files and wondering why they exist, with Luke offering the bizzarro-world comment that you can't edit PDF files.  (To be fair, Linus gave a rough answer that was vaguely in the right direction, but missed a critical element.)
 
In simplest terms PDFs exist because if one company had proprietary control over all document interchange, that would be evil.  Microsoft was working hard to be that evil company, and most Windows losers [oops] were happy to send each other .doc files when they created a document and wanted to send it electronically, rather than by snail mail  Sending .doc files worked fine, until you sent one to a Mac user or a Unix user, or an Amiga user etc.  So (in the short version) Adobe created an open standard for document interchange that anyone could read anywhere with a free browser provided by Adobe, or developed by anyone who could read the open standard.
 
Sure, there were early efforts at developing software on Mac and Unix and other OSes that were in play back then to read and write .doc files, but they were clunky and worked poorly, and Microsoft actively "upgraded" their proprietary format to frustrate this exact sort of development.
 
So the reason I say I was shocked is because Linus is usually more savvy about giant corporations trying to control information through proprietary standards, and the need for open standards to avoid that nonsense.
 
To be fair, no PDF was never intended to be an editable format  Luke was on the right track here when he said it's like a digital printer.  When Word was young, the endpoint of documents was priting them out.  But there was a need to sometimes have the endpoint be sending them electronically.  And, like a printout, there was no goal for the document to be editable.  The goal was to share a "printout" electronically, with anyone, whether they had purchased Word from giant evil Microsoft or not.
 
A lot of younger people today don't appreciate how much more evil Microsoft was in the early years.  The browser wars is a well-known example, but that wasn't an isolated event.  Microsoft tried to do this whenever they could, and document exchange was absolutely not an exception to their desire to be evil and monopolistically control everything that happened on computers.
 
The longer story of why PDFs exist (in the form that they exist) is perhaps more technically interesting.  Before PDFs, the preferred non-proprietary format was another open Adobe document format, PostScript.  Luke would really appreciate this as would any programmer, because PostScript was (and still is) FREAKING AWESOME.  PostScript, for those who don't know, was a standard on how to get graphical information from document software to a printer, but the really cool part is that it's a complete programming language, with powerful graphics and text capabilities built in.  It has loops and functions and complex data types, and works as an interpreted language.  All in reverse-polish notation, which is trippy, but really fun to program in.  Reverse polish notation means that it was a stack based language, where objects were pushed onto a stack until a command was pushed, and then the command would be executed, using up data from the stack as needed.  As a trivial example, consider this code fragment that draws a grey box with a black outline:
0 setgray newpath %start a new line 10 10 moveto %move the current point to 10,10 100 10 lineto %add a line segment from the current point to 100,10, and then make 100,10 the current point 100 100 lineto 10 100 lineto closepath %add a line segment (if needed) to make this path a closed shape gsave %save the current graphics context (i.e. the path we just drew, plus other things like current color) 0.5 setgray %set color to halftone gray fill %fill the current path, and then dispose of that path grestore %put the last saved graphics context back (restore the path we just used up) 4 setlinewidth stroke %draw the current path in the current color and dispose of the current path  
PostScript was great if you were a geek and wanted to write a program in 35 lines that would draw a seal, and then send that to the printer.  But most PostScript was produced by printer drivers and they were terrible, and would include in any PostScript output the entirety of the printing functions that the writers of that driver had created to "simplify" turning documents into printed output.  So "Hello World" written by me, by hand, would be four lines, but written by a printer driver could  be like a megabyte, which in those days was insanely large.
 
As cool as it is that PostScript is a complete printer language, in practice it produced overly large documents and they were slow to print (because the program had to be run, and computers (especially the ones they stuck inside printers) were not that fast back then.  And PostScript was also being used beyond printers as a generic document exhcnage format (again, because sending .doc files is evil, or at least it was then).  So PDF was created as a new approach to digital output from word processors that could be sent to printers, but also be exchanged among people without having to pay the Micro$oft tax, and be used more efficiently to display documents without printing them.
 
PDF does still include a postscript-like graphical language inside that's used for all scalable graphics, and as the basis for the text capabilities for PDF.  But PDF is also a container format, that lets you include image files in a variety of formats.  It specifies all things as objects, describes what objects are on what pages, and where they are on the page, and how they're arranged.  It's also indexed, so that printers and readers can process it much more efficiently and (for readers in particular) jump around to different pages without having to reprocess the entire document again, as one would need to do for PostScript files.  (There were actually some standardized PostScript formatting conventions that also allowed for this by adding structure to the PostScript documents in comments, and it was widely used, but kind of a hack).
 
PDF added the (optional) ability to be searchable by specifying the actual textflow and rough location of all the text in a document — because without this, text was only described graphically, not necessarily in order, not necessarily even as whole words.  Later versions of PDF made it possible to begin displaying the PDF while it was still loading (because in early versions the object index came last, so you couldn't display anything until you had a complete file.
 
So yeah.  it isn't editable**.  It was never supposed to be editable.  It was supposed to be a way for people to look at "printouts" without printing them, to send them back and forth intact, and to not have to pay Micro$oft for the privilege of doing any of this.
 
The idea that the recipient of a file wouldn't need to the same program that the sender used to create it is critically important in the history of software.  Think of it as "right to repair", but in this case it was "right to read documents without paying a vendor tax".
 
Hey you know what, this might make for an interesting TechQuickie.  Also, I encourage Luke to spend an afternoon learning some PostScript basics.  it's a very satisfying programming experience.  You'll need a PostScript viewer, and these days I'm not sure what supports that.
 
**Fun fact: you can load a PDF file into a text editor, search for JPEG objects within the file, trim everything above and below any set of JPEG data, save the result to a new file, and just view it as a JPG.  Because it is a JPG.  Because PDF is a container format, not unlike a zip file (credit to Dan for making that comparison).  But a container format crammed with document layout and presentation information.  I actually do this to get images out of PDFs sometimes (modern viewers sometimes allow you to just do this through the interface, and there's also command line programs to extract images, but hey I'm old school).  Anyway, the point here is that, for me, PDF files are "editable" because I can do this.
 
I'm editing this to add that an absolutely critical modern use of PDFs is in printing. They are now the de facto printer language, having almost entirely replaced PostScript (it's possible that some modern printers may not even be able to print PostScript files.)  Sure you can often directly send an image format like jpg or png and most printers can handle it.  But if you want to print a file that is going to be scaled perfectly to the resolution of the printer, it's basically guaranteed that it will be PDF.  If you want to be able to scale a page up to poster size and have it not look like ass, it has to be PDF.

This video finally got me to make an account here (I kept forgetting) due to one pressing issue; that astronaut. I am rather suspicious that he may be an older batch, and therefore may still have a dangerous amount of lead and other chemicals in him. The company I work for have completely stopped selling him ever since this was discovered, and I suspect most lots are still affected by this. If anyone owns one of these little fellows, I would highly recommend checking their model numbers to see if they match the affected ones (TYD-YHY-001), as I fear a seller like Wish have not kept up with any such recalls. Honestly, it would not surprise me to see if that's where all the rest of the faulty stock went.
 
If anyone wants a link/screenshots of the information of the recall, I can hand it over. It is, however, only in Swedish and Norwegian, so it would need to be translated (I even checked our company's internal communication for an English version, but no dice). 
 
Please be safe out there, and yeet that little man out the door if you suspect he has the Danger Chemicals.

Can we force Linus to daily drive the LG wing.

In regards to glass houses, I just want to leave this old thread here. You can see how Steve from GN responded to a call out two years ago from a smaller YouTuber (RA Tech).  The GamersNexus.net forum appears to be deleted, but there are screenshots of it in the 2nd video from RA Tech.
 
https://www.overclock.net/threads/investigating-the-amd-fx-benchmarks-from-gamers-nexus-hardware-unboxed-somethings-not-right-youtube-ra-tech.1776731/

But it wasn't just Linus, it was also Luke, who also struggled a lot.
 
A lot is about intended use case. Their point of view was how Linux was for basically newbies, who do have the know how to tinker with their OS, but still have basically 0 knowledge of the OS.
 
Now you say Pop OS was his fault, but I just searched for "easy to use Linux distros" and the first his gave me Pop OS in it's top 10 list. And they aren't the only one, multiple sites on the first page, has Pop OS (and some specifically mention how good it is for gamers, which was an important part) at the top. And this is 1 of the issues. Windows is Windows. You grab the latest version and you should be fine. MacOS the same thing. But not with Linux.
In the end the goal was to see how it would be to go from Windows to Linux.
 
I get it, Linux users are defensive about their platform. They also tend to be powerusers, and like to tinker with their OS. But for casual and even more advanced users, the OS requires a ton of work, to get where they are in Windows, and even then things will not always work as they would on Windows. That's definitely not always the fault of Linux, but also due to support. But as a consumer, you don't want to think too long as to whether something will work or not.

The problem is: What's a floatplane exclusive? Is it something short, unscripted unedited or a full - length scripted video? Without the background knowledge all speculation is just blabla.

For the social media workload. As a marketing guy, I am having several clients to handle, not that much load for each of them but several different companies. It's all a question of work-flow. Also - if it is too much, you usually can talk to your higher ups and ask for a 2nd crew guy, or some professional training. These training tutorials cost about 20-30 bucks on udemy. And even if your company doesn't want to pay for that, or their financial structure is too stupid for that,. it's not that much money that you can't invest it in yourself.

What I am saying is: without both sides of the story, you can't assume anything. Also, the timing of this "bombshell" is pretty...aimed. There have been claims in the past, and people went mad, and in the end it turned out to be a disgruntled intern trying to shit on the company for not giving him what he wanted.

IF things really have been as bad as she says, why hasn't she sued LMG? The fear of never getting a social media job ever again sound a bit far-fetched, since I am pretty certain that there are enough companies out there that never heard of LMG.

Summary
HMD Global are planning to manufacture nokia phones  in EU.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
 It is a first big smartphone manufacturer who will produce their smartphones  in EU.
 
Sources
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nokia-phone-maker-hmd-set-140640819.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucXdhbnQuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACPlCkghbAiuAGb2DJUVR1KJWLOT34_pPS_ts_uYB-xmgVtA7DUXPK-OpfxFp1Y-jVhdcBsHZnu5c8j9ShDJWpyO6KJPPpo7OsiFrCqzO-nVkWJje_BErAwoNQe0H4lg8JJz_n6poSp5axzMcjRCMeFiqG6U6iTvrH0_aqQuuIM9

I have just seen michael mjd has just done quite a good video on it
 

Lol @LinusTech should love this, given his "fun" experiences with his smart home:
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off (nbcnews.com)
 
TLDR: When building a new school, the school district went with a "smart" solution, with every single light controlled by a central computer and no physical light-switches. Eventually, the software got corrupted and all the lights defaulted to always on and because the vendor had changed ownership several times, no-one could find the original software to fix the system.
 
 

What are the specs of his PC? I highly doubt 64-bit Windows would make it any faster, it would probably get slower because of higher memory usage compared to 32-bit.
It sounds like it might have a hard drive as the boot drive. Windows 8.1 was the last one that ran decently without an SSD. Depending on the test of the specs I'd recommend getting an SSD and more RAM.
Going from 32-bit to 64-bit requires a reinstall.

Okay, I was just watching a YouTube video that had a rather strange sponsor - And I Must Know The Truth!!! (lmao)

Their product is called StopWatt, and they claim it can reduce your power bills by up to 90%! They also say "Over 2 Million StopWatts Sold Worldwide" and that it's "The #1 Selling Power Factor Correction Device!"



This little device is the size of 2 or 3 decks of cards -- at the Most -- and can apparently reduce your power bill by removing "Dirty Electricity" from your home, and all you have to do is leave it plugged into a power outlet - indefinitely!



Hmmm . . . Yup, that's Exactly how big my ego was when I was a toddler.



Electricity Stabilizing Technology, you say...



The thing is, the website is a MASSIVE Red Flag that's made out of tiny little Red Flags - made from Recycled Red Flags!



Nope! No no no no No Noo NOOO! Electricity doesn't work like that! Linus: this product was made for you to take appart and expose it's secrets to the World! 😄


(P.S. Can you show us -- or just me -- how to make a Computer Cluster? You've got all that tech just sitting there doing nothing, and a bunch of fans -- or just me -- that would probably Love to see how to build our own Clouds and data processors. I've got a couple of PS3's I could give you on top of what you've already got, if it'll help. lmao)

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Yeah, so when you log in you already have your credit card assigned to your google account. My account is not associated with any of these cards.

I have to give this information to watch a restricted video.

It is for European users, I do not know if I am allowed to post links in the forum. You can search "Youtube will start to demand ID / credit cards information from European users." on reddit.

microsoft.com

it's clearly missing the 'Genuine you should pay more money for new hardware' feature.
 
grab the whatever tool or trick it is to bypass the checks.. it'll probably just work..

I swear to god guys, since getting my new laptop with windows 11 I realise how far microsoft have strayed from the light, I have used windows 2000 on some retro PCs I have had and seen the beauty, the elegance, the simplicity, the efficiency of windows 2000, no crashes, no nagging updates and antivirus things that cover the entire screen. fast loading even on a slow as shit 20 year old hard drive, what more could someone ask for? Also, the settings, oh the settings, actually having them all in one place (the control panel) and putting them in my computer instead of the clusterfuck of control panel and stupid slow settings app that everyone despises. and no stupidly long animations that make  the computerr look more fancy and smarter while just adding extra time to do things, back with those older operating system they only put animations when they actually made bloody sense at giving the user a feeling of where windows went and where desktop elements where and hinted at what to click. This sort of shit is why I like using Linux Desktop environments that are no frills because they are just so much better and you don't need to faff about. I would like to hear from anyone else who lived in the early windows NT glory age if they miss the operating systems of that era.

I'm surprised how many people see an old computer and never think to run the software it was designed to run.

you run windows xp and period correct games/software , thats what it was made to do and what it can do.

I worked for Microsoft for five years and actually had access to related information. I think I’m slightly more qualified to answer this topic. 
MSDN keys won’t ever be legit unless you are also a subscriber, in which case it’s pointless anyway. On MSDN you can request for “retail” or “multiple activation” keys. 
“Retail” keys work EXACTLY like real retail keys, however the product key part name and distribution channel will include MSDN. They can be activated, reactivated and transferred just like real retail keys, activation parameters are the same or mostly the same as real retail keys, which are designed for consumer fair use. 
MAKs don’t have the transfer option since you just activate it against the total MA limit. MSDN MA limit is very low, only slightly above MSDN retail, unlike MAKs from real VL programs where you can get MAKs with hundreds of activations. 
The problem with MSDN-sourced keys is that they get blocked much quicker. Microsoft limits and detects MSDN abuse, if they believe the subscription is being used to obtain keys for resale, they ban the whole thing. 
Due to this limitation, seller will definitely multi-sell the keys and run off once the subscription gets banned, leaving you without a working key. 
Reselling real VL MAKs is also violating license terms, but will generally be found much later due to those keys having much higher activation count limits. Sometimes the original owner won't even notice for years.
 
This is not a problem at alll for OEM envelope keys. The seller may not be selling them right and we may be violating EULA for using them this way, but you get the sealed keys not leaked anywhere else. MS’s activation servers can’t distinguish legit use cases or not since these envelope keys are sold to system builders who build PCs using the same generic parts that behaves JUST LIKE any PCs. 
 
In conclusion make sure you get real OEM keys and not MSDN ones, which can be hard to tell on eBay. 

As Windows 11 is about to make a Microsoft Account mandatory for all new installs many have raised multiple concerns from privacy to anti-trust behaviour. But I haven't seen anyone talking about the fact that logging in with Microsoft-Account bricks core Windows functionallity:
 
The root of the problem is that even though Windows will display your Microsoft-Account name as the user-name, deep down Windows requires a real account name. (Eg. The one it lists when you call the "net users" command or the one you have to use when doing anything with the terminal or the one your user folder is named after) The problem is that it chooses the first five letters of your Microsoft-Account E-Mail-Adress at the time of setup!
Additionally even though you log into your computer through Windows Hello, deep down Windows requires a real password. And it uses the one of your Microsoft Account during PC-Setup WHY??? The problem is that soooo many services rely on these "true" log in details. Not only the command line or the file system rely on this information, but nearly every Windows functionality introduced before Windows 10. So also network folders / shared folders and many more.
 
It gets even worse when you forcefully change these things through the command line (you can't do it in the settings). Either it doesn't work because the Microsoft-Account somehow just reverts the changes, or destroy your installation. (Both happened to me)
 
And we haven't even talked about the fact that it is very common in a lot of companies or schools to have a central data storage server with all the user data and for the users to be able log in from every computer connected to this so called "windows domain" it completely bricks that very useful functionality.

Hello people,
I have managed to install Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on my computer and everything is working well, except for the task scheduler, which shows an error “MMC could not create the snap-in”…
 
Searching the internet, I found several instructions, basically as shown on this site https://www.get-itsolutions.com/fix-mmc-could-not-create-the-snap-in-error/ I tried modifying the registry, enabling net framework, renaming mmc.exe, running DISM (error code 87) and system file checker (sfc) in cmd.exe, as well as disabling and deleting NVIDIA video driver for GTX 970 graphics card, which is also connected in the PC, and installing microsoft update KB2966583.
But nothing worked! Task scheduler still won’t run and is showing the MMC error.
 
Has anybody encountered the same problem??? Does anybody know how to fix it?
 
Some sources referred to the MMC error due to a wrong or absent video driver. This might be the case, indeed… There are working Win7 video drivers for integrated Ryzen CPU graphics, but none for the 5600G, see https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/solution-win-7-win8-1-x64-ryzen-apu-video-driver/34203
Background info: Before the OS installation, I have added drivers and few updates to the Win7 Pro ISO-image with NTLite to make the installation run:
added the USB Controller, System Device and NVMe Samsung drivers from the AMD package shared here [Solution] Win7/8.1 Drivers for USB 3.0/3.1 Controllers of new AMD Chipset Systems added updates KB3033929 and KB4474419 added NVIDIA display driver and Realtek audio driver added DirectX, NetFramework 4.8 and Visual C++ 2005-2022 System components: B550 motherboard, Ryzen 5 5600G, Samsung 980 SSD, Geforce GTX970 GPU

I'm actually starting to agree. 

HOT TAKE, this is easier on the eyes and easier to read than the standard font. Leave it.

This is just false. Yes, it's not secure, but saying that an unpatched XP machine will get a worm or something almost immediately is just not true. 

By not going anywhere that’s so insecure or generally shady on it’s own that it would have a worm.
 
Like, you have the option of tons of restaurants but instead you eat a truck stop deli sandwich that’s been sitting a bit too close to a heat lamp for a while now. 
You don’t eat that sandwich, that’s how you avoid malicious software. Don’t involve yourself in things that are going to probably give you malicious software.
I used XP daily until about 2016, on XP era hardware, with no firewall or antivirus. I never had issues, I think that’s primarily because I have more than 2 brain cells and wouldn’t click on “download Minecraft free now!!!” banner ads on backwoods porn sites.