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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.











  • They already remastered this game

    This is a re_make_, not a remaster Notice the 32rd AR, sprinting, and Hunters not going down in a single pistol round. They even drove the Warthog up into an area that was previously inaccessible to vehicles.

    It was a huge failure because they half assed it

    By what metric? The original gameplay was untouched, they updated the graphics to 2011 standards while preserving most of the feel of the game. Nobody I know was disappointed, when I replay I only toggle to the old graphics for nostalgia every now and then.

    Forgot how bad the Master Chief Collection was

    Again, by what metric? My main gripe with the original games was that I was a PC gamer stuck using a controller. To play all of the games at any given time, you had to have multiple consoles. MCC consolidated everything into a single package and, once it came to PC, brought Keyboard/Mouse controls and the ability to enjoy it on high resolution ultrawide monitors with an unlocked framerate and customized FOV. Thanks to the Steam Deck, I even have Halo on the go. IMO, MCC is the definitive Halo experience.


  • 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





  • 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.