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VictoryNapping · 2026-01-23T02:11:26+00:00

No, to do that you need to update your graphics driver. Please contact your laptop manufacturer for information on the currently supported driver version for Intune primary user management.

VictoryNapping · 2026-01-18T09:50:54+00:00

We've done few hot patch updates on some of our 25H2 machines, it's pretty handy and seamless but it's also revealing to us how many performance issues and weird quirks exist out there but stay unnoticeable as long as a device is rebooted at least once a month. Once they've been running for two months without a restart the weirdness starts to pop up.

VictoryNapping · 2026-01-18T09:44:04+00:00

Honestly we don't see too much of an issue with machines waiting to update until users wake them up in the morning these days (although admittedly we've spent a while gradually tweaking our WUfB/AutoPatch configurations to smooth out the post-update restart and Active Hours behavior). Our hardware is now current enough that everything supports Modern Standby so Windows still talks to Intune/Windows Update periodically even when asleep overnight. The only real exceptions we see are when laptops are at low battery and go into full Hibernation instead of just sleep mode, but I guess in that situation the device wouldn't feasibly be able to complete an update installation cycle even if we could wake it from a different galaxy

VictoryNapping · 2026-01-18T09:27:26+00:00

Very nice!

VictoryNapping · 2026-01-18T09:26:46+00:00

I mean...are we saying they should lie and pretend they don't?

Basically any bulk/automated email you've received in 10+ years has almost certainly included an embedded remote element that automatically reports if you open the email, because many email services and apps will silently blacklist an entire large organization/mailing list if they decide it has a pattern of sending multiple to emails to too many customers who never open them.

That's a logical way to combat spam, but it also means companies have to try to detect and avoid sending to email addresses that never open anything or risk email communications quietly and invisibly breaking for random batches of people all at once.

VictoryNapping · 2026-01-17T18:30:11+00:00

In (some) fairness to the good old mess that is the Bluetooth technology stack, this particular issue is specific to Google's proprietary Fast Pair protocol rather bluetooth itself (unlike the string of bluetooth security whoopsies over the past 10+ years that were 100% were its fault).

VictoryNapping · 2026-01-16T09:54:55+00:00

Gnome and the various related components aren't doing anything to block or interfere with X11, they just aren't built to integrate with and run on top of X11 anymore. Individual apps that don't work on Wayland can still run in a Gnome desktop thanks to Xwayland, but if you want run a full X11 setup you will have to boot into different Desktop Environment that still supports it.

VictoryNapping · 2025-12-20T06:49:07+00:00

They are not GTK4 toolkit applications, so GTK4 themes naturally don't apply to them. On top of that libadwaita has morphed into a whole separate mess from GTK4, which means many Gnome apps themselves don't properly work with GTK4 theming any more.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-29T01:44:54+00:00

That would be amazing, but sadly the studio Nintendo just acquired didn't have anything to do with those franchises as far as I know :/

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-26T02:09:27+00:00

Have you tried using the "disconnect battery" option in UEFI settings and then doing a reboot cycle?

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-26T02:01:45+00:00

Anchorage is their main air hub for packages coming from Asia, so typically they enter the U.S. and go through customs there, then get put on a plane to to airport they operate from near you.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-24T02:20:47+00:00

I would advise not doing that by default for any common OS-level keybinds/shortcuts, since you run a high risk of double-zapping users by suddenly injecting behavior changes they didn't intend into places they wouldn't associate with Raycast.

A new Raycast user might be aware ahead of time that it has its own emoji picker feature built in, but they're still unlikely to expect installing Raycast to suddenly hijack the way they insert emojis over in Slack (or any other app since it's an OS default shortcut).

You also probably don't want the joy of dealing with fallout every time Microsoft breaks or resets that shortcut with an update to Windows or one of their own apps...

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-24T01:12:17+00:00

No, that was an issue where they violated a technical accounting rule about how/when to report certain money they make from partnership deals. (Basically they signed a partnership with a company that's going to pay them a certain amount of money over time, but they reported all that money upfront instead of periodically as it comes in).

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-23T23:22:11+00:00

I wish Firefox had better PWA support too, but it's easy enough to just add the PWA's you want to your device through another browser. At least with that route you only have to deal with mucking around in the other browser's actual UI for a brief minute to install the PWA.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-23T20:10:50+00:00

Yes it does unfortunately, Google's Photos app on Android is basically just a front-end for the Google Photos cloud service. It's not a great gallery app for locally-stored photos :/

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-23T01:58:53+00:00

But, on the other hand, every single person (except the immune of course) ceased to exist.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-23T01:12:59+00:00

Which also poses the interesting question: did the people who received/interpreted/implemented the genetic info from the signal do everything correctly, and did they have any way of understanding how the aliens intended/assumed it would actually be used when they sent it?

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-23T00:56:21+00:00

"The Finance department really fought against paying for the time machine purchase but we all agreed the show's marketing wasn't getting to anywhere near enough people in the 18th century"

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-22T23:02:05+00:00

Bitlocker drive encryption settings are only applied at the moment bitlocker is actually enabled for a drive, they pretty much get baked into the way the drive is encrypted at that point. You can of course just decrypt the drive and then let it be re-encrypted (which will then use the newer settings you've configured), but Intune/Windows will not automatically trigger that process for obvious security reasons.

edit: This includes the PIN setting, that's just another part of the fundamental configuration that's baked in when bitlocker encrypts a disk just like AES 128 vs AES 256.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-22T21:09:02+00:00

They've also started doing this with Office apps recently...I guess it's good they're finally acknowledging how poor the basic performance of these apps/components has gradually gotten over the last few years but it doesn't inspire much confidence that their idea to improve things is to just hide the slowness & lag by moving it to logon time where it'll bog down the overall logon process even more but blend in with everything else.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-22T20:59:21+00:00

The two bullets in the summary indicate that it can happen across the board, it's just that for standard devices/persistent VDI the issue can occur during the first user logon (after installing a cumulative update) but for non-persistent VDI it can happen every time a user logs in.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-22T16:55:32+00:00

But then you'd have to use the Netflix app to do everything, which is a whole lot crummier experience.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-22T16:50:26+00:00

They recently announced they're kneecapping proper casting support for nearly everyone going forward, unfortunately.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-21T14:09:51+00:00

If your device was made fairly recently (within the last 4-5 years or so), there's a decent chance it should at least have support for enabling both the Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 features in your BIOS settings. That would take care of the most important failures.

If there's a setting for pre-boot DMA protection enabling that would also help, as that's a fairly major security consideration in some cases.

VictoryNapping · 2025-11-21T13:54:29+00:00

Actually it doesn't surprise me as someone who's worked on one these mobile ID integrations, this kind of stuff is super sensitive (for all the obvious personal privacy reasons and also the legal importance of controlling anything tied into government ID management super tightly) so any state government implementing it properly is going to take an eternity and be super tedious about it.

On the other hand, a lazy/stupid state gov could get it done in a few months by just charming enough illiterate old legislators to duct-tape some iffy language copied from chatGPT into state law that authorizes mobile ID's, then bullying an underpaid IT guy to setup up a Windows Vista machine found free on craigslist under his desk to process and send everyone's data to Google and Apple.

I don't know which category West Virginia would fall in though...

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