a fat italian

Accept people for what they wanna be, its not that hard…

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • To allow modern windows to run legacy applications a lot of caution is given to updating libraries or fully new ones are given while keeping the older ones. Also static builds are more common on Windows, or come bundled with a copy of the required libraries as .dll files.

    • Let’s say an application requires libexample1. It works, the library is available too.
    • Eventually the application gets abandoned, but still works.
    • But eventually a libexample2 gets released that drastically changes how the library works. The program doesn’t work on this version. The older release of the library then get’s abandoned.
    • Distributions now start removing the package from the repositories as the older library is slowly requiring no longer supported releases of its own dependency.
    • Now application is borked

    Aplication could have still worked if it came bundled with its own copy of libexample1 and of its dependencies, or was statically linked.

    An example of this is Nero, a software kit for managing CD/DVD disc media. They made a build of some of their tools for Linux, meant to run on Debian 7. This builds were an experiment and got abandoned because of the very few users it had. Yet, these tools still work perfectly fine on Debian 12 despite being based on ancient libraries because it bundles all its requirements as a copy in its own proprietary blob.

    I talked about caution on updating libraries on Windows. You can find many deprecated methods in any native Windows library that will likely never be removed from the library binaries, as many applications require it. The new, better and more feature rich method is given a different name instead, and is pointed out in the documentation for the older method.

    Projects like FUSE are very nice for this, where an AppImave bundle of prebuilt binaries is given and can potencially not only be ran everywhere that can run FUSE but also in the future too.



















  • It was actually an inaccuracy. Some keyboards mostly from Microsof come with the Office key.

    Pressing Office plus other keys would open various Microsoft products, a few example:
    Office+W opens Microsoft Word
    Office+D opens OneDrive
    Office+L opens Linkedin

    But you don’t actually need the key, as all this features are actually binded to Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Super (In Windows, Super is the Windows key on the keyboard. On MacOS, Super is the Command key). In fact, all Office button shortcuts can be used by using the same combination (Like Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Super+L for Linkedin).

    So, here is why I think the Copilot key will actually be just a shortcut key that is binded to whatever shortcut you can use on a normal keyboard to bring up Copilot.