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The short answer is yes, but your question implies a fundamental misunderstanding of Bitcoin and blockchains. The coins do not exist "in your wallet" - the wallet just holds your keys that prove you own some of the coins visible to everybody on the public blockchain.

If you want a really great learning aid, search for "Island of Yap Blockchain" and read any of the million articles about it.


Yes, and a dollar bill in my pocket isn't money, just a taxpaying scrip that can be used as an IOU with people who are interested in taxpaying scrip.


If you happened to buy a machine with an OEM Windows Home license baked into the motherboard and want to install retail Windows 11 Professional, this makes it extremely frustrating because you no longer get the choice of which version of Windows to use during the install process.

You need to add the EI.cfg and PID.cfg [0] files to the installer medium before booting it. Once you have those files present with the correct syntax, it will install the version you want, but I can't imagine a non-tech person being able to figure this out on his own.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...


Couldn't you upgrade after the install?


You can do that too, and it's very easy.


I was mostly concerned with making sure none of the preinstalled Windows Home bloatware would remain after an upgrade. I figured the safest way would be installing Professional right off the bat.


In the US, you no longer need to learn Morse to get any of the amateur licenses. Most people who are learning it today are doing it just for fun.


Like ham radio itself.


Edge has vertical tabs built in. Many other browsers can be made to have vertical tabs with plugins.


Edge is not free. I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing.

You can't really have usable vertical tabs in Chromium via plugins either, unless you're content with wasting a lot of horizontal space for an ugly sidebar and vertical space for uselessly duplicated tab bar.

Firefox is the only actual choice I'm aware about.


> I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing.

Why? Are you considering forking Firefox?


For clarification - if you either contribute code or money to Firefox, you are clearly supporting the existence of a free browser.

I don’t see how just using it does. So if you aren’t contributing to it you may as well use the browser with the best feature set for your use case.


Using Firefox definitely supports the existence of a free browser. Loss of market share is the #1 threat to the continued existence of a free browser. Beyond the obvious (if a tree falls in a forest, crushing the last copy of the code for a browser that has zero users, then was it a browser at all?):

    lower market share =>
    nobody testing against the free browser or fixing site breakage =>
    quirks (bugs, underdefined specifications, nonstandard features) of other browsers becoming required for a functional Web =>
    free browser is no longer a browser of the actual Web.


I agree that submitting bug reports or patches is an important contribution.

I don’t see how that relates to market share, since regular users won’t do that.


Marketshare is important, default search engine revenue is based on usage.


It’s not really ‘free’ if it has to produce ad revenue.


It is irrelevant to it being free.


No it isn’t. The direction of development is controlled by the need for funding.


The direction of development is irrelevant to it being free.


If it is controlled by corporate interests, it is not free.


Being controlled by corporate interests is completely orthogonal to being free. A lot of Free Software is being controlled by corporate interests and there's nothing wrong with it.


Given that the issue of Firefox being forced to restart primarily happens on Linux, I doubt Edge is an option for them. Though I have to concur that Edge has one of the most stable and smooth vertical tab implementations around, most of the plugin-based ones are more fully featured but much less reliable.


Edge has been released for Linux a while now... not that I know anyone who uses it, but it's available for those who need it.


I use it, and it's decent. And more in the vein of "it's not google" though I do slightly prefer the chrome dev tools to the modifications that Edge has made. I don't like a lot of the "helpers" for shopping though. And definitely don't like the article wall with ads that are really hard to block/script out.


Rider is also a bit different in how it handles Visual Studio solution / project files AFAIK. You can definitely rig up IntelliJ for e.g. Python development, but PyCharm is going to be a far better experience.

I pay for the All Products Pack purely out of convenience - If I wanted to spend a ton of time tweaking my IDE, I'd go back to Emacs!


I am currently using Python with IntelliJ. What exactly am I missing from PyCharm?


Same here. Been on Windows 11 Pro for a few months now and have had absolutely no issues whatsoever. Definitely like the UI improvements.


I made the mistake of buying a Win 11 Pro laptop and despise the UI.

Taskbar icons are always combined and you can't change it. Also right click menu is mostly broken and/or changed for the worse. I hate it.

I can't believe a multi-billion dollar company can't just have a tickbox to keep the old UI that everyone knows?

Why have changes for no reason and more clicks needed?


> Taskbar icons are always combined and you can't change it.

That's an immediate no-go for me, why in the world are they sliding backwards in functionality?


Different strokes for different folks. I find the right click menu to be much better.


The right click menu is only a minor irritation, but it's the taskbar combining that I hate most. It's a massive step backwards.

Of course with the forced updates (that I also hate), they could change it at any time on a whim. Or change something else...


I haven't seen anybody here mention that you can do this with systemd path units [0],[1].

I know not everybody uses Linux (or loves systemd as much as I do) but it's a great solution if you already use systemd.

[0] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/introduction-path-units

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.pat...


I also used to do this when working on a big convoluted system. I had a conference room near my desk with all the walls completely covered in code. A big pack of multicolored highlighters is key.

I remember a whole bunch of light bulb moments when I showed other developers the "big picture". It's an awesome technique when you're forced to work on spaghetti!


If you use GNU Parallel, there's a fairly easy way to parallelize [1].

That being said, I hadn't heard of rclone - thanks for mentioning it, it looks amazing. I'll definitely be trying this out for my use cases...

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#example-parall...


Wow, Parallel also looks awesome. Never seen it before.


It's hard to recommend anything other than the original K&R - "The C Programming Language".

It's obviously not going to teach you the ins and outs of modern C development, but it's the best introduction to the language out there IMHO.


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