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Read my text again. This is my only Windows laptop - and it needs to be actual Windows for all the obscure firmware update tools of some devices I have flying around.

Everything else in my household is either Linux or MacOS.

I took the opportunity to “downgrade” to Windows 7. My old HP laptop (which is specifically for a few specialty Windows-only apps) feels double as fast now compared to Windows 10 before. And with the help of LegacyUpdates.net and VxKex-NEXT (provides the very few Windows 10 API calls so you can even run most Win10-only apps on Win7) you get a pretty nice and lean system.

I just found a pattern. Monday, where it was showing up 1 hour earlier, I was connected to my M365 Cloud PC via my home Macbook. Then, the appt (only this one) showed up wrong.

Yesterday, I was using that same Cloud PC from my work (Windows-)laptop and the appt showed up at the correct time.

Today, I’m using the exact same Cloud PC - without rebooting - from my Macbook again and Outlook shows it wrong again.

So, that virtual machine that’s called Cloud PC does something different depending on the system you’re connecting from. How stupid is that?

I thought so, too, at first. But why did Teams (using the “New Calendar” setting) show it correctly? And why did it fix itself today?

You’re not alone. We’re forced to use Classic Outlook at work.

I’ve got a monthly recurring appointment for a Zoom call. That was due today again. There was the switch to winter time last week and Outlook decided to “adjust” the scheduled time for me.

That meeting was originally for 11am and should continue to be at 11am during standard time. However, yesterday I’ve noticed that Outlook put it at 10am (and showed a proud message that it adjusted it due to timezone change). No way to undo it.

Teams continued to show it at 11am where it belongs.

Now, when trying to move it to 11 in Outlook, Teams moved it to 12.

And when I opened Outlook this morning, the appt was at 11am where it belongs and Outlook and Teams agreed again.

Mind you, this was only this external Zoom call. All other appointments are still correct. Very weird.

Just finished Powerwash Simulator 2. Now trying to get my The Outer Worlds savegame from the Switch working on the Steam Deck to play the few DLC missions I skipped back then.

Open-source Mbrowser 52.2, packed with security features

Does anyone know where to find this?

EDIT: All I can find are the user agent strings which indicate that this might be some IBM product. Also, there’s rv:52.0 in the environment part, but IBM Mbrowser/60.5.1 in the engines part - so the actual version of the browser component might be 60.5.1 in this case, not 52.x. (There’s also a rv:60.0 with Mbrowser/60.9.0 - no IBM this time.)

As lemmy.zip blocks users from the UK, here’s a direct link to Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/Dispatch/

mastodon.social is the flagship instance and as left as it gets.

Yeah, I’m trying to build some muscle memory in yazi, too, as I like its instant previews.

I’ve also just remembered this website that has lots of other cool terminal tools:

https://terminaltrove.com/

Midnight Commander (mc) is a classic file manager if you grew up in the 90s with Norton Commander on DOS.

For my local Git repositories I prefer lazygit now. There’s also a plethora of other lazy* tools for e.g. Docker.

And you should maybe look at dialog or whiptail to spice up your shell scripts.

If you do Python, there’s the rich library and there’s also pythondialog. Both pretty easy to use. If you want more, there’s textual.

EDIT: mutt for emails is nice once you’ve managed to set it up.

Start your own instance, be the change you want to see in the world.

This right here is the beauty of the Fediverse. And as such, it’s not “The Fediverse” that’s a “Left Wing Circle Jerk”, it’s just the servers you’ve found so far.