there’s a shell menu extension for Windows that let’s you make symlinks with a few clicks
https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
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FWIW on a surface book it feels 80% of the way to a Mac wipe/restore
I have to use Power BI for work now so my M1X dreams are fading lol
leather and lace symlink booty
toot toot file explorer
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so there’s this too
it seems like everything on the docs subdomain is for devs, OEMs and SIs and this should probably be taken as the most complete set of requirements (TPM 1.2 and secure boot)
i turned on tpm in the bios and i’m ready for the win11 experience. i was wondering how the fuck my computer was not deemed worthy but oh it was just disabled by default
anyway i will probably guinea pig this shit when it comes out officially and report back
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Soft Floor:
- Security: TPMVersion >= 2.0
- CPU Generation
Well that’s good news
Gotta do this myself. I went through my BIOS, disabled CSM, generated keys, turned on Secure Boot and then there were no drives to boot from! I’m sure this is a googleable thing I can figure out later. Just reverted my changes for now, but it’s neat to know I can get things working if I want to.
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yeah just flipping ftpm on sorted it
no interest besides direct storage though
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I have to presume the new restrictions on taskbar placement mean we’re going to see a resurgence of alternate shells
2022 we’re bringing back LiteStep baby
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why would you do that (not you, MS)…
also hey does anyone know of a readily available device which lets you pair Bluetooth keyboards and mice with it and then translates their signals to USB HID?
I know there used to be Bluetooth dongles which had an “HID Proxy” mode, wherein during boot/on unsupporting OSes they ran their own Bluetooth stack, and presented over USB as HID keyboard/mouse until the OS’ driver took over, but they seem to be impossible to reliably get these days, and you’re reliant on rumours of compatibility more than anything else
for this application though I’d be 100% satisfied with something which didn’t function as a general-purpose Bluetooth dongle, but was dedicated to proxying Bluetooth HID to USB HID
I could potentially build this myself but I’d rather just buy a thing ya know?
Not sure this counts but it’s ready to go on a Pi Zero W
(My first thought was to use a Pro Micro clone with BLE but found this instead)
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yeah, I saw that there are a few of these, but bolting an entire computer on just to connect a keyboard feels extremely like too much, particularly as it can draw up to 1.2A, which is probably going to be too much for some of these old computers I want to connect things to
there isn’t too much practical difference between a Pi zero and a teensy tho honestly
do you really have to worry about USB <3 voltage? I feel like the host is pretty good at hard limiting to 1a@5v in practice, 20% shouldn’t be a huuuuge concern
I mean, a Teensy absolutely won’t be pulling that much current, even with a BT adapter attached
on a modern computer I frankly wouldn’t give a shit, they definitely do have per-port protection for these things, on something with USB 1.1 I am not as confident
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Guess it’s time to throw my perfectly good desktop in the trash
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fond memories of my friend’s old thinkpad that he accidentally plugged the AC into the USB of when we were smoking weed in high school, leading to blue smoke, a loud shriek, an extremely anxious series of beeps on every subsequent boot, and a non-dismissable POWER SURGE ON HUB PORT message being infinitely spawned in the taskbar
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Although at the same time Microsoft’s sudden turn to describing Windows 10 as wildly insecure because it doesn’t support things like TPMs makes me feel a bit better about having incurred the inconvenience of ceasing to access any sensitive files or accounts on Windows after I got spooked by my mom getting her PC taken over last year
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I used to work in an office with some kind of carpet that created enormous quantities of static electricity. You’d get a painful shock when you touched the screws on a light-switch, but more importantly, sometimes I’d plug something into my desktop’s USB port and the zap would make the computer reboot
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lmao apparently our PC’s 7th generation Intel Core i5 is completely unsupported
Windows suddenly has a worse hardware support lifecycle than Android, what the fuck lmao
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