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We’ve already mentioned the All Users folder, which contains settings that are merged into each user’s individual profile, such as shortcuts on the desktop or Start Menu, but there is also the Default User folder. The purpose of this folder was to provide a base template for all users who logged onto the device, with a default set of configuration items that were copied into the new user profile.
A Brief History of Windows Profiles | Ivanti
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I have to admire Apple’s insistence on this topic. Over the decades it’s tried windowshades, a floating application bar, Dock minimization, single-window mode, Exposé, Spaces, Mission Control, Full Screen, and Split View, and while many of those features have been embraced by some Mac users, the company still doesn’t think that it’s cracked it.
macOS Ventura Review: A Work in Progress
Jason Snell
Caught between the easy profitability of network effects and growing anger over toxicity, the big social media platforms turned to centralized moderation. Unsurprisingly, this didn’t work. Not only was it an impossible task for the moderators themselves, but it meant that the management of the company was basically required to take an editorial slant. That effectively wrecked the image of the social media companies. And because Twitter’s editorial slant leaned slightly left-of-center, this made conservatives especially mad. Facebook, realizing the impossibility of the task, finally just decided to move its feed away from news entirely; Twitter, of course, couldn’t do this.
The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
noahpinion.substack.com
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