Interesting. I can shoot raw directly to my Android internal storage, although it isn't fast enough for 4k60 10 bit without compression.

Without knowing precisely how Explorer is structured, it's conceivable that there may be different dynamically-linked libraries and/or execution points for running the desktop and for the file explorer, in which case just having explorer.exe running in and of itself doesn't mean that new modules have to be loaded if explorer.exe process fires up. The solution could very well be to load the libraries involved in file browsing when the desktop opens.

Just guessing here. There was a time when there was a lot more horsepower required for GUI elements than folder browsing, but this is 2025, and explorer.exe probably uses orders of a magnitude more resources now than it did in 1995, because... well, who knows really. Probably to sell more ads and load up more data to their AI.

What's changed is that in the early days flash memory was one bit per cell. Now most consumer grade stuff is multi level, so instead of a single threshold voltage that separates a 1 from a 0, there are multiple thresholds that each represent a different binary code.

SSDs sometimes have to re-read blocks with different voltage thresholds to get good data, and make use of error correction on top.

Presumably age related degradation is worse for multi-level flash.

Twitter used to do this with the verified badges, but then Elon started selling them and they became the mark of someone stupid enough to give him money for a blue tick.

It's not a bad idea in principle. A simple cryptographic certificate that government agencies can use to validate their messages. The hardest part will be the UI. Making sure it is clear and not easily spoofed.

Indeed, I've lost count of how many attempts this has been now.

That, on modern hardware, they have to preload a fucking file browser so that it pops up faster is just an indication of what a steaming pile of garbage MS is. They had sweet spots with Win2k-WinXP and with Win7, but their incoherent need to be a whole bunch of contradictory things --- with AI! has led what was a rather iffy OS and UI experience to begin with to become a cluster fuck of incoherence.

I do most of my day to day work on MacOS and Gnome, and fortunately the Terminal services version I have to RDP into is Server 2016, but every time I have to work with Windows 11 I'm just stunned by just how awful it looks and how badly it behaves.

Clearly you've never done inventory management before. Managing extra stock like this consumes a whole lot of internal resources. Also given how many PCs Lenovo ship per quarter and assuming you need 2 memory units per PC we're talking for your 15 day extra (assuming that's what it is), about 6 million additional RAM sticks in inventory.

This here! What the hell? Explorer.exe is running permanently. File Explorer should just be an additional window. It's also loaded for literally every application (not written in Java) since it is used to display save as and open dialogues boxes.

Something about this announcement isn't right.

I'm guessing it's mostly due to add-ons installed by third party software. There are APIs that let third party stuff hook into Explorer, and the current situation is an absolute shit-show. Because there are so many old and broken ones, Explorer loads them to see if they crash, and if they do it loads them again in compatibility mode, and if they still crash it gives up. Once loaded there are no limits on how slow they are to start up or operate.

Thanks. That link seems to suggest that you can only import data from external storage, not export to it. Is that right? Major limitation if so.

Technically incorrect. Trump has fucked up institutions that generated an incredible level of power for the USA as well. I've never seen a more America first person actively try to destroy America.

Technically incorrect, you have a giant asshole in the Oval Office, the buttplugs are in congress and they are actively trying to outdo each other to see who can get in that asshole the deepest.

Who said tariffs? There just won't be trade. Look at the historic trade deal Trump made with Australia. It opened up the beef industry to Australia reduced the restrictions on import. Hurrrah!. Except precisely no one is importing American beef, and literally every major beef supplier in Australia said they have no intention of stocking any American imports as their idea of "quality" doesn't care what Trump negotiated with the Australian government.

At this point much of the world has figured out it's easier to just wait out another 3 years until the Orange Piggy is gone.

It's like something from that Captain Planet cartoon, or an 80s movie sci-fi dystopia.

Arduino isn't about the microcontrollers. It's about the IDE and the community built around it.

Non-EE people may find it much harder to program up a communication systems with an external display compared to simply clicking on the display in their IDE, having it load the library, and then typing drawline(x,y).

That said PlatformIO would be a good contender, I'm not sure of any others, and I'm not sure how dependent it is on Arduino upstream.