They eventually walked back what caused the recent controversy but they’ve been losing user goodwill for years. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/

I remember TNT used to show the later seasons of Angel, which were originally 16:9, cropped to 4:3 and then stretched back to 16:9. 🤮

Please leave the original aspect ratio alone. Also fuck AI.

Agree 100%. Bazzite is what you want if you’re gaming or you need the nvidia proprietary driver.

Try Silverblue or Kinoite. They’re designed such that if you find an update breaks something, you can literally revert to the version before that update with a reboot. Application distribution through flatpaks offers pre-configured environments so it’s not a pain to get stuff running. Toolbox lets you dick around in isolation from the system. You’d really have to go out of your way to break something. Great stuff.

Agreed on your assessment. I’m beginning to suspect I did all the Linux stuff right but screwed up on the Windows side. Copying over a new vhdx right now. ⏳

No grub involved in this scenario. Machine being virtualized is Windows only.

Ty for response! Error is BdsDxe: failed to load Boot0001 etc. I do have TPM hardware on the host. See pic below.

Good suggestion on repair. Had to do that one time when virtualizing a Win8.1 box back in the day, though I recall I at least got a Windows logo at boot on that occasion.

My Outlook stubbornly refuses to stop giving me email. 😑

Edit: Just checked Bleeping Computer. They’ve got the story. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-impacts-exchange-online-teams-sharepoint/

The upgrade turned out to be extremely uneventful!

I’ll keep your advice in mind. Thanks kind internet stranger. ✌🏻

I maaaay have layered some stuff that I couldn’t find flatpaks for. 🥺

This’ll be my first Silverblue major version update. What am I in for?

Wouldn’t it be nice if documentation used the words index and offset consistently?

Hey, sometimes you need to hose out the cruft.

Why yes, I do maintain a legacy application that still stores user files in Program Files in blatent violation of 15 years of Windows best practices and continues to be done contrary to my repeated advice, why do you ask?

I made an effort to learn it. In 2000. Again in 2012 or whenever the last big push was. If past is prologue, I may need to learn it again soon. 😆

I’ve threatened more than once that I was going to quit and take up potato farming. Potatoes are good. 👍

Don’t stop I’m almost there. 😆

I like the joke but I suspect the levels for “young programmer”, “adult programmer”, and “old programmer” would all look a lot like “programmer”. It’s true at least in my case. The occupation does seem to attract the more spicy-brained among us. 😆

I’m struggling to understand how this comment relates to anything. Perhaps you could explain what you are attempting to convey?

Pfft I wish. I’m one bad day away from asking people if they want fries with that.

😆