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Should be possible, as it’s a normal VM you can already install flatpak apps in said VM as normal, you’d just need a Windows side bit to invoke the install within WSL when you opened the flatpak bundle, and then something to add a start menu shortcut from the app inside the VM (Which I actually assume already exists, I never actually ran WSL2 when I was on Windows)
Why have a laptop or a dual boot with Linux when you can now more easily stay on the proprietary OS ?
This is called market retention.
Preventing migration to another OS, another software ecosystem.
The ‘Embrace’ and ‘Extend’ parts of EEE.
That’s stretching the definition to the point it’s nearly unrecognisable.
What the term meant was for things like Internet Explorer, where MS adopted an existing standard (Embrace), started changing it in incompatible ways (Extend), while using their market power to lock out competitors (Extinguish)
e.g. IE used an incompatible method for sizing and laying out elements than any other browser, so a site that laid out properly in NN4 looked broken in IE6, and vise versa. So most devs targeted IE6 as it was more popular, and NN4 users got more and more broken sites.
ACPI was similar, Windows had an extremely lax implementation of it, so motherboards often shipped with bugs that Windows would ignore but would stop anything else from booting. Intentional? Doesn’t really matter, since it sure was helpful in slowing the adoption of things like Linux, that had to come up with workarounds for all the broken hardware.
Not like you can fork it to run on a different OS.
For WSL1? yep that’s effectively impossible.
WSL2 is effectively just a wrapper around the kernel virtualization support and a bundling format, as long as whatever image you run talks to the host properly (like any other virtualised OS would) it’d run.
I can’t imagine the shame I’d feel if there was a legal finding stating that I was a fan of the minions.
Yep, main reason it’s associated with Google because they bought a company (Jibe Mobile) making one of the main backend service offerings and offered cloud hosting of it, so providers just went with that rather than rolling out their own software.
Also with Apple ignoring it in favour of iMessage, Google was the only one supporting it on handsets. Google client + Google backend = people think it’s Google’s iMessage competitor.
If you’re doing hashing and salting on the client then yep it’s useless, no difference to just using a hash output as a password.
If on the other hand you’re doing a zero-knowledge password proof method then it’s quite secure. As the password is never transmitted over the network, not even the server knows what it is, but can still verify the user has the correct one.
It is all generic layers, the base USB stuff is called a “Human Interface Device”, controllers/keyboards/mice/etc. all show up as a HID to the OS. But you need some way to standardise the input and map the device side events to the host side, so the OS will have a mapping layer above the base USB layer that turns a generic HID into a “controller device” that an app can use.
As you can see from the patch, that’s all they’re doing. They’re adding the USB IDs of these controllers to the mapping layer so instead of being shown as a “Generic HID”, they’re shown as “Generic Xbox Controller”. Doing so also means the controller layer can drive the devices specifically, e.g. xbox controllers need a special handshake to enable the xbox button, the base generic input layer doesn’t need to know that stuff.
There’s a reason Trump wants to give medals to women who have multiple kids, dangle a one-off shiny bauble as if that’ll offset the costs of having the kids.
Australia has been giving couples $5k for their first kid for the last couple of decades, hasn’t helped and our birth rate has dropped to 1.50.
He could have tried to fight the order, that’s what the previous management used to do.
Yeah I think they’re generally regarded as a mistake, browsers have removed all the UI signifying an EV cert these days.
Plan 9 is inspired by UNIX (Helps that it had the same devs), but it’s not a direct continuation.
UnixWare is I think the only direct continuation of the original AT&T UNIX. The various BSDs are close enough but were re-written entirely in the late 80s/early 90s so there’s nothing original remaining.