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   Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 19:56:19 JST Phantasm
   >Microsoft tests File Explorer preloading for faster performance
   For when your file management utility has grown to the size of a browser or a full office suite.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 19:56:17 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt windows now preloads bootup - shutting down just dumps a bunch of dirty state onto the drive - so boot is slightly faster - meaning that the "reboot" option is the only way to actually reboot.
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     @phnt Didn't some earlier versions of Windows preload iexplore.exe on bootup also?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 19:57:22 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @allison @phnt Wasn't/Isn't used to display icons on the desktop?
     At least I remember killing it on WinXP and icons just going poof for a bit.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 19:58:45 JST Phantasm

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     @lanodan @allison Active Desktop since Win95 did that. It was removeable until Win2000 I think. On WinXP the start menu and explorer are webpages (that's why you could access ftp sites from Explorer btw).
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 19:59:49 JST Phantasm

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     @allison Edge has been preloaded for a few years since mid-Win10's lifecycle. And if you count Active Desktop as preloading, then Win95 and later would preload iexplore.exe, because Active Desktop is literally a webpage.
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     @phnt the way I see it, Windows 11 is really just a new age Windows 98, like a strawman or caricature of it really
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:02:41 JST Phantasm

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     @Suiseiseki @allison Technically it hibernates on shut down. They call it Fast Startup or something like that. And thanks to Windows Modern Standby you can't even properly sleep most laptops made in the last 5+ years, because S3 sleep has been completely dropped from BIOS support.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:07:08 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt >Linux.
     >Not holy GNU/Freedom.
     >Linux.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt Yeah I'm aware of that, it fucks with devices registering on boot so I had to disable it on several machines before I could wipe and put Linux on them.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:21:50 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt Absolutely proprietary.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt for me, it's berkeley
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:21:52 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt My point exactly.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt "holy GNU/freedom" is nothing of the sort, past a certain point, you're just effecting a change in masters.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:25:28 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt Unix was proprietary software and still is and Unix deserves total proprietary death.
     
     There's a reason GNU's Not Unix.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt be that as it may, they're the legitimate inheritors of unix.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:29:37 JST 翠星石

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     @phnt @allison As far as I am aware, ACPI S3 (suspend to RAM) is still implemented - EFI's just have a cursed configuration where S3 only happens for a few hours and then the device hibernates.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:38:54 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt Counterfeits?
     
     For the software that GNU replaces, GNU has gone far beyond the sad original implementations.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt sour grapes, largely. not to say improvements haven't been made and there isn't a legitimate competition between software worldviews going on but if I'm going to live in this world of counterfeits I'm going to aim for the most direct solutions available to me. this means BSD and 9 with third party software (some even GNU!!) inserted in as appropriate
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:44:37 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt Proprietary software is not agreeable when compared to 100% free software.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt that's not the sense of counterfeit I meant, I meant counterfeit design ethic from the simple fact that we don't live in a platonic world of forms, all software (as with all corporeal things) is inherently fallen so you have to choose which design ethic and set of compromises you're willing to reckon with and the bsd/etc. one is *far* more agreeable to me compared to gnu, with the rare exceptions where it actually makes sense (like emacs)
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:49:31 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt Weak licenses miss many of the problems that face software.
     
     Almost all weak licenses do not have a patent license for example.
     
     The GPLv3 is much juster than weak licenses, as it expressly states that you don't need to accept the license to run the software, while weak licenses often imply that you need to accept the license.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt laws are only agreeable if they're just, permissive licenses stipulate very clear terms which are easy for me to follow, therefore they're just.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:55:13 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt You do not have the legal upper hand.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt patents are a literal spook, when am I gonna be affected by them? never, because I have freedom of action and I can just ignore unjust laws as appropriate for me and my situation. the powers that be know that they shouldn't disturb me, considering that I have the spiritual upper hand in every possible dealing with them.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 20:56:17 JST 翠星石

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     @allison @phnt Software patents for basic things are being granted at a more and more rapid pace.
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     @Suiseiseki @phnt (also software patents for pretty much everything foundational are long since expired anyway, it's a theoretical concern unless you're cucked by video codecs or similar matters)