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i see a lot of complaining about the login part of Win11, and i dont like it either, but i have not seen anyone mention that you can build an autounattend.xml file (generator here: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/) that allows you to bypass all this. I have a USB Key with the file and the latest copy of the 11 Pro download, and when setting up a new machine, i run a fresh install. Then once booted, i run the developer config (https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig/) and it gets everything i need installed. No Microsoft Login, no Candy Crush, WSL installed and all the tools i need.
Re:We built an Ubuntu mirror and then made it faster on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:02PM (#49984752)
but how? they mention one flag saving 300ms, but no details on the rest.
Re:Bob Cringely Has Died on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:41AM (#49954864)
one of his articles that i read that i remember came out in July 2003 titled "The son of napster" [https://web.archive.org/web/20040619084432/http://www.pbs.or...].
is the cybercab actually "for sale"? can they just get away with this by saying you cant actually buy it... its a rental?
Re:Gary Kildall's Death Investigation on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:46AM (#48858631)
seems the HTML is showing not the page... adding a ?d to the end shows the formatted page... https://dfarq.homeip.net/gary-kildalls-death-investigation/?...
Re:Watch me build out an 80s style BBS over SSH on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @05:12AM (#48657179)
seems to be working now... must have been a transient issue
Re:Watch me build out an 80s style BBS over SSH on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:46PM (#48651148)
yea… ssh is setup…
Re:Watch me build out an 80s style BBS over SSH on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:40AM (#48642516)
tried loggin in and getting "couldn't email the code; please retry or contact an admin." Tried with 2 different email addresses...
Re:Free full BGP feed. IPv4 and IPv6 on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:51PM (#48330379)
Seems to be from 6 years ago.
should probably mention on the page that its free for 1 day after you add a credit card and 20 quid a month after... you only find that out AFTER you text...
Re:New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:45AM (#48193243)
Glad i bought my pass when it was a lot lower (looks like i paid $75 back in 2013...).
Interesting. Wonder could it be modified to work with proxmox?
Interesting. Only thing that worries me is the unlimited for free... How? Looking at this for a business case... Is it still free for that? What about server limits? How many requests can I send to your server? 50/s requests is what I would be seeing on one of our apps... Suppose using caching would reduce the calls but still....
Re:Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:30PM (#47063620)
It's free for up to 3 users. After that you need to start paying.
Re:Transformers v5 GA is out on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:19AM (#46767561)
links?
ohh now thats cool! Thanks for the links!
interesting... x1 would too slow for large amounts of storage, but as a test, a couple small SSDs could potentially be workable... sounds like im doing some digging...
even though it would be optical, it still is using PCIe protocols in the background...
Hmmm.... Wondering if this could be eventually used to emulate a PCIe card using another device, like a RaspberryPi or something more powerful... Thinking the idea of a card you could stick in a machine, anything from a 1x to 16x slot, that emulates a network card (you could run VPN or other stuff on the card and offload it from the host) or storage (running something with enough power to run ZFS and a few disks, and show to the host as a single disk, allowing ZFS on devices that would not support it). but this is probably not something easy...
Re:Show HN: Microwave, native iOS app for videos on ATproto on Saturday January 17, 2026 @01:36PM (#46660614)
Installed. Had a look around. Quite fast. Nice and responsive. No option to share though… wanted to send a video outside of Bluesky and no option. I can re-whateverthewordisinbluesky, but no external share.
Re:Show HN: Blog post runs P2P from my laptop on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:51PM (#46281966)
Any more details on how it works?
Re:10GbE on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:15AM (#46276440)
i think the main reason is that 99% of users, even most businesses, dont require more than 1Gb... Yea, if you are moving massive amounts of data around, 10Gb is handy, but 99 times out of 10, 1Gb will do. And its a chicken/egg situation. Since most people don't necessarily need it, manufactures wont make them in bulk... With the advent of larger games and faster consoles, maybe going to 10Gb will happen soon...
Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:21AM (#46136314)
Is this not the best thing that could happen? Like now its in maintenance, it can be forked without any potential license change in the future, or any new features that are in that license change... This allows anyone to continue working on this, right? Or did i miss something?

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