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Search on Windows is completely pointless, it’s been broken for years at this point. I’ve installed PowerToys and use Command Palette now


It was never good when you compare to internet search.

On the internet I can search for "pictures of the eiffel tower". If I try the same on my own computer I expect to find photos from the time I took the family to paris... Yet I don't.


But that's not the point of the Start Menu. The purpose is to quickly start programs with a fixed name, not to do a natural language query. Yet it sucks with that simple task. If programs would add themselves to the PATH, then Win-R would be a worthy replacement. As they don't, it is not.


And yet Gnome and KDE have no troubles doing just that if you activate the corresponding plug-ins for the respective search engines (Tracker and Baloo). How you access them is a matter of taste, but both integrate into your runner dialog or launch menu, if you wish.


> I’ve installed PowerToys and

Does PowerToys still installs new updates once a work-day, and never delete it's old updates so you end up with GBs of useless .exe's? Remember discovering about 200GB of old updates back when I was still using Windows.


KinGrinder are worth checking out, I got the K6 for about £70


A driverless car will be involved in a fatal accident


Wow, the last 14 years


How long till they block apps like plex or kodi


> Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench

Amazing


Nazare, there’s a show called 100 foot wave that follows a couple of surfers who ride there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazaré,_Portugal


Thanks, yeah, I misremembered the name. But are Mavericks' waves bigger than Nazare? From the photos I've seen, Nazare's waves are truly massive!


They are typically bigger at Nazare, but it all depends on the swell. Its not impossible for Mavericks to receive a swell that could create waves bigger than whatever Nazare has received in the last 20 years, but it's less likely.

However Mavericks is definitely the "nicer" and gnarlier wave of the two imho, Nazare is massive but has no shape, so they just surf the shoulder for 5 seconds and kick out. Mavericks has much nicer lines.


Nazare definitely maxes higher then Mavs



Recently started using Viumium, much prefer it to using a mouse


Isn't it called Vimium, or is Viumium a new thing?


Probably just a typo


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