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One bug I've been hitting for a couple of years on Windows 10:

If the computer starts with a working Internet connection, but then you lose Internet, Start Menu search just stops working during net downtime. Meaning I type some app name like "calc" in the Start Menu search box and nothing appears! Which is absolutely ridiculous, I can't search for locally installed apps, or Windows settings. Even if I disabled Cortana and Internet search in the Statt Menu (or maybe because of it?)

And I failed to Google the problem since all the keywords combinations I tried inevitably lead to some article on how to disable Internet search in the Start Menu, so I have no idea if I'm the only one with this bug.

Re:A big hurdle to fixing the chip shortage: substrates on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:26PM (#28450667)
The chip companies also know that they will definitely buy electricity in the future, yet they are not buying power plants.

In a sense, buying the future substrate production is just a future substrate contract.

Do you know how building a power plant is financed today? Basically someone buys 10 years of gas futures, sells 10 years of equivalent electricity futures, and uses the profit (since electricity is more expensive than gas) to build the power plant that will turn the bought gas into the sold electricity.