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You’re not going to short anything.

The power pins (VCC) on your phone’s USB-C port aren’t “live” at all times, the standard requires communication over CC1 and CC2 to negotiate which side is receiving power and at what voltage. Otherwise, a specific value of resistor needs to be in place between those pins and GND to get “dumb” charging at the original 5V usb standard.

The ideal tool is going to be thin and rigid so that you can get to the base of the port and free up impacted dust/lint. Small enough plastics are going to be to flexible to be effective, anything too thick is going to increase the working time and risk putting pressure against the center tab, potentially damaging it.

I fix consumer electronics for a living, my tool of choice is a pair of ultrasharp tweezers I use for microsoldering. Far as household items are concerned, a real small sewing needle is definitely it. The eye can even be used to catch and pull out fluff.

replacing the single most universal function

For quite some time now, Apple and Samsung have had the shutdown menu behind a multi-button press (Lock + Vol +/-). In Apple’s case, it’s always required more than just the lock button.

If anything, this is Google shifting to the ‘norm’, having multiple button presses be the default is ideal in preventing accidentally invoking the menu and shutting down the device.

Far as “anti consumer” is concerned:

ad delivering spyware

Relative to most consumers, this perspective has you in the minority. Your average consumer is going to engage with this feature, this change makes the feature as accessible as possible so that you can do something like send a text with a single hand / button press.

Me, who gave it my fullest possible attention but struggles with abstract concepts unless I can immediately put them into practice: Uh…

Been holding off on buying any new controllers just for this

Rocking a 10 year old Xbox Elite Controller that’ve I’ve kept going through multiple repairs

Correct

You’ll probably never know when they die :(

No additional software necessary

sudo dd status=progress if=Windows.iso of=/dev/sdX

X is the letter assigned to your USB device, visible in lsblk

Save-a-click:

This beta version of the app makes it so that when you send just a URL, the recipient only sees the preview (primary image, page title, primary domain of web address) That preview gets a color stylization to match the page and the font is different.

The author doesn’t elaborate on the headline bait “We’re not sure it’s for the best”

instead of

Most of the work for Oblivion Remastered was the UE5 graphical overhaul handled by Virtuos, a completely separate studio.

Even then, companies have separate teams for separate projects, I sincerely doubt that we’re getting this “instead of” a FO3 remaster; TESVI, etc

The only logical explanation

It couldn’t possibly be that maintaining compatibility for 70+ thousand different mods that not every player is using would be a feat of impossible proportions

Windows’ installation assistant only runs on Windows

Well, yes, but all that is a GUI to simplify downloading and writing the Windows installation ISO to USB media. You can download the ISO image to Linux and write it to USB yourself. The option to download the ISO is on the same page you’ve been getting Media Creation Tool.

You could get Bedrock edition from the Google Play store and run it via an Android emulator.

Otherwise, based on your other comments, it seems like you’re trying to trudge through manually trimming down a preexisting OEM install of Windows. For such a minimal use case, you would probably benefit from a clean reinstall and should consider exploring something like Tiny11, ReviOS, or AtlasOS

He upset about the apostrophe, the S, or the younglings?

Curious to see if this ends up being an update or a separate install like Skyrim’s anniversary.

If it does wind up being an update, GOG has it on sale for $10 right now - you can install a specific version and it’ll make Fallout London installation breezy.

instead of

Yup, it took the entire team that was working on TESVI stopping what they were doing to get this out the door.

Can you believe they had the audacity to update Fallout Shelter 3 days ago?!

/s

One user already mentioned VR Support.

For simmers, racing wheel and HOTAS Support can be iffy. SimHub for controlling bass shakers requires some extra finagling.

There are a handful of helpful tools written for Windows where I haven’t found a Linux alternative that doesn’t come with some heavy tradeoffs - MSI Afterburner, Voicemeeter Banana, Rainmeter are but a few examples.

Then there’s the ever increasing number of games requiring kernel level anticheat that doesn’t play nice with Proton.

Unfortunately, Windows probably going to stay my go-to for my desktop gaming PC and I have other reasons for that. Happy to have Linux on my portable secondary devices, as I can always Sunshine/Moonlight my way back to my main system for anything those can’t do.

Windows 10 didn’t “die”

Microsoft isn’t offering support for it, but their help was barely useful to begin with.

There’s a few small hoops to jump through to enroll in the Extended Security Updates program, after which Windows 10 devices will continue to be functional and secure for at least another year.

Ultimately, I’m all for folks going out and dabbling in Linux. Unfortunately, most consumers are interpreting this situation as a requirement to rush out and buy a new Windows 11 PC and that’s bad.

You would need to find or make an adapter that splits out the proprietary connection into standard ARGB and (optionally) fan connections.

I’m not sure that such a thing exists, this design was convenient by taking each fan down from 2 cables to one but the achilles heel is the proprietary nature.

Might be easier to find a used replacement controller or to replace all the fans.

Ever had someone looking over your shoulder providing feedback to something that you’re in the middle of writing the first draft of?

I hope they succeed in manufacturing 25 million Switch 2s