tinyhitman

why would a consumer device need a randomized password?

Do you also happen to why this is not more common? Must be useful for more than just telephone wires.

> cloud provider had no virtual console for some reason.

Azure still hasn't got this. It has serial and does screenshots of the console, but no access to my knowledge.

Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.

I don't know. As a developer there would be even more reason to be curious as to why the release binary is an order of magnitude slower then what is seen in development.

Cool, hoping this will become more common and easier done with help from distro's!

> and each app is isolated in a different user id

I always liked this idea; but wouldn't you run into issues with file permissions? And if not, wouldn't that mean that the program in question would have access to all your files anyhow, removing the benefit of isolation?

delaying SLA

I'm sure I do.

In the garbage language that we dont use anymore. Right? Right!? :)

Sane, but I'm greeted with a three-eyed avatar, lol.

Its not strictly the same. '1' is a number whereas '!0' is a boolean.

With steamcmd (the steam client CLI) one can download whatever version of their owned games they want.

Maybe prompt the user with a "use clean" or "use as-is" button (and "cancel").

and maybe a custom option; where you can toggle what is cleaned and whatnot.

and provide a "remember for this domain".

NotOnly-cache?

Sorry for the late response. This was on Windows yes but it must've been fixed by now as I very rarely reset profiles and haven't experienced this since. I'll keep your offer in the back of my head tho, thanks!

While I'm not disagreeing that this should be possible to (easily) factory reset a device, it also shouldn't be possible for just _anyone_ with physical access to completely reset the device either. Easy resets also mean more interesting to steal

Yeah this is likely. Not sure about other browsers but I haven't noticed any of such issues myself anymore. And hey, if it ain't broke... It would be a nice for browsermakers to implement such a testsuite tho, but until then its just too easy to just clear data. Average user has all data synced to their respective cloud accounts anyway or don't care enough.

Anecdotally in a certain Chrome version somewhere in the past years I've noticed something like this. The first 2 characters in my omnibox caused a terrible slowdown. So likely the history used for autocomplete kept growing or there was no sane index on the data.

Clearing my history fixed it to be _instantly_ again (even with history of a few days) and it took a few weeks to be very slow again.

So yes, I'd say its very likely that some of our assumptions might be false around such matters :)

luckily this was fixed sometime, but unfortunately this seems to coincide with autocomplete of Chrome not showing literally anything anymore.

Cool! I used to run a similar setup, when I started out I passed through the hardware. But when things were running smoothly I never booted back into windows natively (Wasn't planning on this use-case).

Nice to hear that it is possible. I feel like MS essentially gave everyone the wrong idea about OSes dealing with hardware changes.

What interface do you use (USB/eSATA, etc)?

And you mention gaming setup, assuming windows, is this as portable as you make it sound? No weird hardware-dependent issues?