I haven’t had the laptop long enough to know what happens after updates. However, if Microsoft wants to reset any of the changes or reinstall software or features, they will regardless of what methods or tools you’ve used to debloat. I like this tool because it’s easy to run and can be done periodically (like after major updates) without much hassle. And it’s open source on GitHub which I very much appreciate.

Here’s a really nice script to debloat a new Windows install. I bought a new Windows 11 laptop and this made it super easy:

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Bob Loblaw

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=beelink&Submit=ENE&pageTitle=beelink&Order=1&N=50102834+4840

I bought a brand new Lenovo Yoga laptop, and when connecting to my TV via HDMI, the TV occasionally goes black for a second or 2 then comes back. It doesn’t happen at all when streaming video full screen, only when doing something simple like browsing the Internet. Happens with Windows and Linux, although it’s more frequent on Linux.

When turning off my Samsung TV, every once in a while it decides to turn itself back on about 5 minutes later. This has been going on for several years now.

It doesn’t happen every time, and seems to happen randomly as I can’t replicate the conditions in which it happens. It didn’t happen when I bought the TV, so I suspect it started after Samsung pushed a firmware update. It’s a bug others are experiencing with the same model TV and I’ve tried every fix people suggested online, factory reset the TV, and updated the firmware. My conclusion is that it’s a bug that Samsung needs to fix, but I’m confident they won’t given the TV is about 5 years old now.

Arrested Development

The feature I absolutely love on Opera mobile is it will dynamicly wrap text and adjust the page layout to a single column when you zoom in/out. So for pages with small text, you can zoom in to see enlarged text and just scroll down to read - where on all other browsers you have to scroll horizontally back and forth to read the enlarged text.

Opera has been doing this brilliantly for at least 10 years, and I have yet to see this on any other mobile browsers I’ve tried.

Uhh Yeah Dude They’ve been doing the podcast since 2006, and just surpassed their 1000th episode. Listener supposed and ad free. Just two guys trying to figure it all out.

I don’t think you even need consent-o-matic. uBlock Origin can block the cookie popups (it’s just not enabled by default)

I’m interested in more details if you want to share. What are the other specs/components of your machine? What OS and software do you run? How do you handle backups?

By default it’s not enabled in uBlock Origin. Go to the filter list settings and enable the appropriate Annoyances filters for Cookie Notices (or just enable all the Annoyances filters)

I can’t seem to find a decent simple open source guitar tuner app for Android

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A cast iron pan that I inherited from my grandmother is around 100 years old.

Arrested Development

A dash cam was definitely one of the best purchases I’ve made. I was able to submit video to the insurance company to show a collision wasn’t my fault. It has also captured some other random interesting events like an electrical transformer explosion during a storm.

1. Nokia 5150 - My first phone. It featured swappable faceplates, great games like snake, and 1 week of battery life.

2. Motorola V710 - Flip phone complete with crude internet browsing and GPS.

3. LG G2x - My first real smart phone, running Android 2.3.

4. Samsung Galaxy S4 - A significant upgrade, running Android 4 eventually upgrading to Android 5.

5. OnePlus 2

6. OnePlus 3T

7. OnePlus 7T - I have been using this for 4 years now. I think it’s finally time for an update.

8. OnePlus 12?

Yes

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-pump-water-heaters

In the 1970’s Exxon not only knew about climate change due to the burning of their fossil fuels, they accurately predicted global warming projections. And studies by their internal scientists continued to predict and verify global warming in a bunch of reports between 1977 and 2003. Yet they still continued to lobby against renewable energy and admitted that they still aggressively fought climate change science.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/business/exxon-climate-models-global-warming/index.html