Windows 11 is a thing, Solarwinds is still a thing, Zune is still a thing, PowerBI regional migrations, and Windows 10 learns a new trick. Hope This Helps is back!
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Pre-Boot
Windows 11 and the TPM
Golf is boring, unless it's mini-golf
LinkedIn is like the golf course of the internet
Boot Up
Tiff and Steve's desktop computers, Macs
Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake
Solarwinds hacks + version number madness
Get them on the payroll!
Remember LulzSec? / LulzSec Leader 'Sabu' Flips on Friends for FBI
Orion web console tells you one thing in the web console, Database Manager tells you something different
Version number schemes don't line up…Product Upgrade Advisor uses YYYY.MM based versions while the database still uses legacy 12.x version schemes
What the heck is Bonjour?
Bonjour chat
Barrier uses Bonjour to find other Barrier nodes
Windows 11 phone integration
Android apps
Gripes about macOS Catalyst/"Project Marzipan" apps being half-baked
macOS uses Home/End keys wrong
More Windows 11 thoughts
Windows 11 will require TPM 2.0, UEFI, and Secure Boot
Surface Studio 2 can't run Windows 11
People is Removed
Brief tangent on disconnecting from social media/cloud services/Windows
State of the Zunion
Elon Musk's tweet
Steve's Zune-to-M3U-to-AirSonic PowerShell script for playlists
PowerBI data migrations + general cloud frustrations
Configure Multi-Geo support for Power BI Premium
Originally you could only pick one region, but more options expanded over time
Egress costs are expensive - On-prem datacenters wouldn't see these OpEx costs
It's a headache when moving regions
MS can sometimes even lose your data during a regional migration?
Out-GridView is temporarily (?) dead (on Mac/Linux)
No more work is being done on Avalonia-based Out-GridView until we move to .NET MAUI
Let's talk about how great Out-GridView is on Windows and how nobody knows about it
Windows 10 News (literally)
The new Windows 10 taskbar "News and interests" widget
Why exactly was this shoved into a cumulative update? This is a new feature.
Disabling "News and Interests" causes entire notification area to go blank
The actual content is low quality
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