Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
Link: eteknix.com/microsoft-may-haveโฆ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
When it comes to performance, itโs hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe itโs filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable. According to a recSolomon Thompson (eTeknix)
#Playdate accounts to follow:
("Playdate" is a quirky handheld console with a physical crank on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdateโฆ )
โก๏ธ @playdate - Official Playdate account
โก๏ธ @UncrankdPD - Fanzine for the Playdate
โก๏ธ @Xanialasagna - Indie dev & designer working on Playdate games
โก๏ธ @dave - Playdate staff member & typewriter fan
โก๏ธ @pawprints - Indie game dev making Playdate & web games
Nachdem ich Matcha Latte allgemein sehr geil finde, und im Teeladen letztens Matcha-Tee herumlag โฆ dachte ich mir, den probierst du mal.
Stellt sich heraus: Matcha-Tee ist so gar nicht meines.
Aber hey, es ist Tee, nach guter britischer Art kรถnnte man da noch Milch dazukippen, vielleicht wird's dann mehr Latte.
Stellt sich raus: Nope, auch das hilft nicht, ist immer noch nicht meines.
Jedenfalls โฆ braucht jemand Matcha-Tee?
@Bubu Naja, streng genommen Match Genmaicha^^
Und zumindest der Duft davon (sowohl in trockener Form als auch aufgegossen) ist schon sehr angenehm. Aber der Tee selbst โฆ ist nichts fรผr mich, leider.
Ah, dann weiร ich was du meinst. :)
(Also ich mag den, aber hab auch zumindest Genmaicha, ohne Matcha, noch hier.)
Fellow *non*-Americansโare you using any or all of the U.S. support for Israeli wars and the Israeli genocide on Palestinians, the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the annexation threats against Greenland, or other U.S. policy decisions to move away from U.S. products and services?
(Responses are anonymous. Please reshare for reach!)
#usa #uspolitics #bigtech
- yes (58%, 32 votes)
- long in progress (20%, 11 votes)
- thinking about it (14%, 8 votes)
- no (7%, 4 votes)
what the hell is a Kestrel anyway
Here's more music nobody asked for:). youtu.be/zlK89S7z0WU
ILLENIUM - Crashing (Stripped /Official Audio) ft. Bahari
Crashing Remixes โ out now! https://Illenium.lnk.to/CrashingRmxCrashing ft. Bahari: https://Illenium.lnk.to/CrashingYDFollow ILLENIUM:https://soundcloud.com/...YouTube
Finally put the money where my mouth is: Iโve officially shifted 40% of my time into game development. What started as a late-night hobby 7 years ago is now a part-time job.
This feels unreal and scary at the same time...๐
This feels unreal and scary at the same time...๐
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Who killed the world?
analognowhere.com/wiki/sacc_baโฆ
#unix_surrealism #mata #comic #lore #analognowhere
Servers described as "Glitch Mastodon" or "Hometown Mastodon" work just like Mastodon but have additional features such as larger post sizes, rich text formatting or local-only posts.
Mastodon's server software is free and open source, so programmers can tweak it to make their own versions. (Untweaked Mastodon is often called "Vanilla Mastodon".)
You can find good Glitch and Hometown servers to join or move to at:
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โก๏ธ fedi.garden/tag/hometown-mastoโฆ
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Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.garden
You can say "Have a nice day" without any problem, but using the phrase "enjoy the next 24 hours" can sound slightly threatening.
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This master's thesis about fantasy genres in Chinese internet literature might be of interest here: is.muni.cz/th/s33qt/Fantasy_Geโฆ
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ะคะธะณััะบะฐ Yakuza ะฟัะพัะฐะณะพะฝะธัั ะะธัั ะะฐะดะทัะผะฐ , ะะพัะพ ะะฐะดะถะธะผะฐ/ Like A Dragon Goro Majima action figure strong man doll (17ัะผ) ะะพะดะฐัะบะธ ะดะปั ะฑะพะปะตะปััะธะบะพะฒ
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Although there won't be any dedicated devroom for #accessibility electronics at #fosdem , nothing prevents us from hooking up in the cafeteria or something. Anyone interested in adaptive technology for the disabled, it will be great to meet you.
My fellow homelabbers: which sultion would you recommend if you would like to build a Spotify like Streaming Service for youre family with music you have in a local library?
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de
i think i give Jellyfin a shot because of the selection of clients and Plugins like this: github.com/Viperinius/jellyfinโฆ
GitHub - Viperinius/jellyfin-plugin-spotify-import: Import playlists from Spotify in Jellyfin
Import playlists from Spotify in Jellyfin. Contribute to Viperinius/jellyfin-plugin-spotify-import development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Inside: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition); and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/marโฆ
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When Canada makes an adversarial app for big tech products, they should call it Sorri.
Hey fediverse! At one point one of my followers posted a .reg file or script that added exclude this folder from Microsoft defender to the explorer context menu. But Iโve lost it. Can anyone help? #windows#win11 boost okay @FreakyFwoof
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Sorry, I can't resist showing you one more.
"One night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson"
youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9โฆ
Note, performed by one single man, Jonas Wolf, he did all the voices.
#Music #Baroque #YouTube
"One night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson"
youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9โฆ
Note, performed by one single man, Jonas Wolf, he did all the voices.
#Music #Baroque #YouTube
One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson
If Clรฉment Janequin (ca. 1485 - 1558) was the songwriter for Murray Head...One Night in Bangkok, words and melody in their original form by Tim Rice, Bjรถrn U...YouTube
My mother is in the market for a new home-office PC, or will be soon. She's an accountant; she's retired now, but she still does taxes for our family and some accounting work for her church. The last time I helped her select and set up a desktop PC was in 2013. Now she uses the church's old office PC, which has a Skylake processor and a spinning hard drive (not even an SSD; I checked). So naturally, that machine's getting slow. 1/?
She doesn't need much computing power, but running Windows is non-negotiable. I'm thinking I should recommend a small form-factor desktop PC, roughly the size of a Mac mini, that she can connect to her existing monitor and keyboard. Any recommendations? Something prebuilt would be best. I can live with uninstalling some crapware during initial setup.
Probably a Mini PC of some kind, Beelink comes to mind? Though any brand will probably be fine.
@jonathan859 Yeah I'd second Beelink, something like the EQR7 7535u,or7735u, varients would be good.
I ran an Intel NUC for two or three years with no problem. Nowadays, Intel has abandoned that idea, but companies like Minisforum and Beelink have run with it. I have an AMD 5600 machine on my desk right now that's about 4x4 inches, maybe 3 inches tall. I got it on sale for, I think, $279, and it came with RAM and an SSD. They probably cost more now, because of the RAM crisis, but I love tiny machines.
I got this to run Linux on, but it came with Windows 11 23H2 installed with just a bit of crapware. Smaller than a Mac mini, super quiet and fast. amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-5560U-โฆ
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I bought a refurbished Dell Optiplex years ago, for non-gaming Windows Desktop use, and it held up pretty well. One of those things at your doctor's office reception desk that's just been replaced by a newer model.
I got this mini PC a couple months ago for a home server. It comes with Windows pre-installed and has sufficient USB ports for the basics. I imagine it can handle what you need without issue.
RE: mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlโฆ
When Musk fired the entire #accessibility team.
Andrew Stroehlein (@andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)
When did you stop posting on X? Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes. Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse. Government: We're still posting there.Andrew Stroehlein (Mastodon)
I wonder how common the Eloquence phenomenon is in blind communities around the world.
That is, an old speech synthesizer made years ago and long since abandoned by its maker, which blind people tightly hold on to for one reason or another.
Two examples I'm familiar with are Neurosoft's SynTalk 1.6 in Poland, and IBM's ProTalker in Japan, and I'm curious if this happens in other places as well.
That is, an old speech synthesizer made years ago and long since abandoned by its maker, which blind people tightly hold on to for one reason or another.
Two examples I'm familiar with are Neurosoft's SynTalk 1.6 in Poland, and IBM's ProTalker in Japan, and I'm curious if this happens in other places as well.
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I mean this hasn't been abandoned and isn't comparatively as old, but I know of many folks who still use this Vietnamese SAPI5 speech engine which essentially plays audio files in sequence. It was initially released in 2004 with a southern voice reading three different encodings and updated in 2009 with a northern voice according to the timestamps within the installer:
saomaicenter.org/en/smsoft/vnvโฆ
saomaicenter.org/en/smsoft/vnvโฆ
Sao Mai VNVoice | Sao Mai Center for the Blind (SMCB)
Sao Mai VNVoice is the first usable text-to-speech engine with screen reading software on Windows for Vietnamese language.Sao Mai Center for the Blind (SMCB)
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@twynn Wow it really is raw audio files. I opened the VCE files as raw data in an audio editor, and the sounds are completely audible, not even including a click from a header. Interesting.
Yep. It was very rudimentary, but it worked and provided access to Vietnamese text for a lot of people.
@twynn As the voice data is VCE files, I would guess the engine is based on the Microsoft Sample TTS Engine that was included with the speech SDK.
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@datajake1999 @twynn Indeed it was. VnTtsEng.dll references CoffeeS0, which is part of the CoffeeS1 tutorial program in the SAPI SDK. documentation.help/SAPI-5/SDK_โฆ
As for what the voice data for the sample TTS engine sounds like, here is the VCE file played as raw PCM. The sample format is 16-bit little-Indian mono, and the sample rate is 11025 Hz.
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Yep, I can say for myself, speechlab is a Bulgarian synth that was abandoned in favour of the new neural voices. More like, no one knows how to update or fix it, and no one bothers to pay, but I like it and I know others who do too. So, yep, there's a thing like that in a lot of places, I suppose.
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No sleep. I'm busy implementing proper chunking into the SoftVoice-Say program, of course. What else? Codex sucked at it, it did a half-assed job. So now I'm manually writing up patching section prompts to GPT-5.2 Pro instead, because it'll actually build it, unlike Codex which prefers to make minor changes in the file and do one single task from many. That's the downside of Codex. Think of it more like a code review friend who can do quick repo scanning and read context if you tell it what files and where. However, Codex won't write you a new feature in your program from scratch, regular GPT is still way better for that.
Haha. I am the last zone of time in the eu though, so it'll still be 5 something to the west of me. Cause, why not, throw us out,, the little evil bulgarian humans. LOL.
I wanna have some girl time but idk where imma get the girls from.
This is a survey all #Discord users need to fill out {edit - seems they closed it within a day?}. Discord wants to know if we want AI to run the app. It'd be using data from pictures, conversations, voice notes, live streams, art, 'learning' from us in the app if they don't get strong enough pushback.
Let them know how you feel before they ruin that app for everyone as well.
It's an [assumed - see replies] official survey and it doesn't even take 5 mins. Please boost and share in your servers too.
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#genAI #AIslop #AI #gaming #streaming #streamer #noToAI #gamer #gamers #womenWhoGame #resist
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A record this week, 4 claims my pics are AI; one photo + three pieces of art from ~2010s.
AI isn't fucking up art, it's fucking up people's perception of what art or creativity can be or what things not phone camera pics can be.
Modern phone camera shots are more AI than my photoshopping btw.
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Itโs bewildering how bad offline Apple Music is.
When I have spotty reception the app just stops working until I enable airplane mode.
Now I went to listen to music on an actual plane and all my downloads are just gone.
I guess I need to ๐ดโโ ๏ธ for a better UX. Whatโs a good iOS app to play mp3s?
apps.apple.com/mx/app/decoupleโฆ has never failed me.
App Decoupled - App Store
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Well, it looks like hard drive prices are spiking upwards too.
Idea: An energy drink but instead of energy it's motivation
I'm chatting with a gen alpha, think he's like 11 or sth and he just asked me what XD stands for. I'm getting old...
I've been using Eloquence 5 for several weeks now and find I can listen to it much easier than I can Eloquence 6.1. I like how it reads things better mainly.
We all need a a timeline cleanse!
A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container.
On display at Antikensammlung Mรผnchen
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I'd like to ask folks to reflect for a moment.
Are you adding to a pile-on of criticisms? If so, is the target of those criticisms someone who might be exposed to undue amounts of judgment already because of who they are (whether through race, gender, queerness, etc)?
Might you be magnifying the underlying bias against the person with your actions? Are there more compassionate approaches to take? Do your actions help or hinder in the grand scheme?
This is a masterpiece.
"When you play billy Joel like it's 1700"
youtube.com/watch?v=BRRLAQjKPxโฆ
#Music #Baroque #YouTube
alt: Some clever guys and girls from Germany took four songs by Billy Joel and made it into a genuine Baroque concerto for two recorders and basso continuo.
In spite of what we're living through as humanity, we are blessed to live in such times. Imagine this before YouTube!
"When you play billy Joel like it's 1700"
youtube.com/watch?v=BRRLAQjKPxโฆ
#Music #Baroque #YouTube
alt: Some clever guys and girls from Germany took four songs by Billy Joel and made it into a genuine Baroque concerto for two recorders and basso continuo.
In spite of what we're living through as humanity, we are blessed to live in such times. Imagine this before YouTube!
When You Play BILLY JOEL like it's 1700
1. Uptown Girl (Adagio) 0:002. For The Longest Time (Allegro) 2:553. And So It Goes (Grave) 5:594. She's Always A Woman To Me (Allegro) 7:39Words and melodie...YouTube
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@technocounselor Oh yeah! This is great. I am a classical musician and I grew up in the 70s, so I absolutely love this!
How cool!!! A (somewhat similar) channel does songs on an organ. Look at this, for instance. youtube.com/watch?v=woTmxtvIUmโฆ
@Tamasg There is a dll in the pwWebspeak version of SoftVoice that, unlike the NVDA version (which uses the one within Note Talker/Talk It! from Microsoft Plus! for Kids), it doesn't have the character limit, and produces true 16-bit audio output, not 8-bit.
@Rich When was Soft Voice popular? I've never heard of it till you all started talking about it a few days ago.
"Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad daylight": Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolisโฆ
Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder
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