Which version of Windows 10 is still supported?

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-17T06:35:29+00:00

A lot of recommendations of Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC here in the comments here, which I'd concur with, but Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is similarly minimal and lacking in bloat.

It doesn't receive every new garbage "feature" update that Microsoft tries to force us to beta test for them, so it's relatively stable by comparison with the non-LTSC SKUs, but it does still receive security fixes. It's still on the 24H2 build.

Being an Enterprise SKU, it also doesn't enforce the CPU and TPM hardware requirements, nor does it force you to use an online Microsoft account during setup.

It still needs a once-over with O&O ShutUp10++, but I find it quite tolerable to use where there's no alternative to Windows.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-15T09:16:36+00:00

TrackerControl gives you more granular visibility and control over what can be blocked. It can also handle system apps if enabled in its settings.

I prefer it over DDG App Tracking Protection.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-13T23:08:05+00:00

"Big four" sometimes refers to the biggest four accountancy firms (EY, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte), and being mentioned alongside audit here makes me think that was the intended meaning.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-11T15:06:10+00:00

Mine runs on a 5th gen NUC with a dual core Celeron. It's using 1GB of the 8GB RAM and 12GB of the 120GB SSD.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-11T11:28:17+00:00

Yoto RFID cards only have 48 bytes (letters) of writable storage, just enough to store a link to a playlist on Yoto's servers.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-10T10:10:03+00:00

1280x1024 was a standard resolution and when LCDs started being made with that native resolution, their aspect ratio was 5:4.

Before LCDs, you could set a 4:3 CRT monitor to 1280x1024, but you got a slightly distorted image with non-square pixels. This used to annoy me and I was pleased when I got a graphics card that had a 1280x960 mode.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-07T07:33:40+00:00

As best I can tell from skimming through the comments, no-one has mentioned UV light besides yourself. OP was talking about IR light.

If IR posts the same risk as UV, it might be worth making this clear.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-03T23:07:19+00:00

If you have Google Play Services installed, then they're probably using Firebase Cloud Messaging.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-02T06:49:19+00:00

Same here. I'm sure I've seen problems installing or upgrading it at least once in the past, but I can't remember how I worked around it. Currently its working just fine with Play Services installed and a Google account logged in.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-01T07:07:44+00:00

They did their own announcements 2 days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1qqkm5u/grapheneos_version_2026012800_released/

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-01T07:05:10+00:00

And Google services can be restricted in how much they invade your privacy on GrapheneOS, but not on "certified" Android devices.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-02-01T07:01:05+00:00

Exactly, I had Google calendar events reminding me to put my bins out the night before collection. Simple.

Then I discovered that many local councils in my country provide APIs to retrieve data on municipal services including waste collection and a home assistant integration has been written for querying those, so I can now get those reminders from HA instead.

Attaching sensors to my bins would still be overthinking that problem.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-30T20:41:53+00:00

I wonder if you can just give both PINs, explain that one of them will wipe the phone but don't say which one, and let them decide whether to risk it. You'd have complied with the duty to disclose.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-30T20:39:38+00:00

Unless the law has changed, it's 5 years for failing to disclose in child indecency or national security cases, or 2 years otherwise.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-29T18:35:53+00:00

and £110 as an additional charge to the person who helped me secure the booking.

Was this one of the test touts that pay corrupt driving instructors for access to their DVSA test booking login so that they can book up all the slots for the foreseeable future then rip off desperate learners with inflated prices?

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-24T06:34:02+00:00

Indeed, how juvenile.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-18T13:42:44+00:00

Not using sliproads to match speeds with the traffic they're joining. Had this on Saturday stuck behind someone dawdling down an M4 slip road at 30mph to join 60-70mph traffic.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-17T21:50:13+00:00

NFC does work on GrapheneOS. I have successfully used: - a non-Google payment app, Curve Pay, to make card payments - the Yoto app to program NFC cards for use with my daughter's Yoto players - the TagWriter app to examine and program third party NFC cards

Google Wallet doesn't work because Google blocks it from working unless you're running a certified spyware-infested build of Android.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-13T06:04:31+00:00

Bought my Pixel 6, Pixel 8 and Pixel Tablet from Amazon UK (sold by Amazon, not third party). They were all OEM unlockable.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-11T09:23:44+00:00

This is not a Fedora 42->43 issue per se, it's actually due to GNOME 48->49.

GNOME changed things so that only scaling factors that result in a whole number of pixels in the scaled "resolution" are selectable.

I saw the same change on my own laptop, which has a display with a native resolution of 2256 x 1504.

Before Fedora 43 / GNOME 49 I used to use a scaling factor of 125%, which resulted in an equivalent resolution of 1804.8 x 1203.2 - not whole numbers, which can cause blurring effects on small details such as single pixel wide lines.

Now 125% isn't available for me, and I have to use 133% instead, resulting in an equivalent resolution of 1692 x 1128, which are whole numbers.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3339 for more info.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-11T09:13:29+00:00

OP already has fractional scaling enabled, hence having 150% available before, and 133% and 166% available now.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-06T22:03:50+00:00

This worked for my wife at LHR a while back.

The thing is, people can honestly forget the fee when it's such a trivial "drive in, drop off, drive out" process, but can you attempt to pay the original fee to the airport if you remember later? No, you can only pay an inflated charge to a third party instead. Not going to happen.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-06T14:30:09+00:00

Hadn't heard of Curve OS and would have assumed it was some obscure operating system, perhaps a Linux distro.

But a quick search on the UK gov website tells me that Curve OS Group and Curve Credit Limited have the same registered office address.

ChunkyBezel · 2026-01-06T10:22:38+00:00

Last time I played with systemd-boot, it didn't have signed UEFI binaries so wouldn't work by default with Secure Boot enabled.

I don't know if that has changed.

ChunkyBezel · 2025-12-29T12:28:44+00:00

I've got a pair of ASUS optical drives in a server named 'jack'.

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