Oddly enough, I had the simplest experience of installing Windows 11 25H2 on a new ThinkPad just recently. Apparently the Windows ISO doesn't have the WiFi drivers for that specific machine out of the box, so during setup when it couldn't find an internet connection, it simply offered to create a local account.

So I would assume, if there is a way you can temporarily disable networking (e.g. in BIOS), then that would be the easiest way to avoid creating a Microsoft account.

I wonder if that is something new in 25H2 then. My computer also does not have working network drivers out of the box and when I installed 24H2, it just gave me a screen to install the network driver from a flash drive. There was no way to skip or continue without it.

They already have the local account button, they just need to consistently expose it, even if a machine has a working internet connection.

Those fonts look crisp! Is that 2x scaling? I've been considering converting a 27" Retina iMac to achieve something similar.

Yep - 200% scale, 5120x2880 res.

I want to switch to Wayland after all the good things I hear about it and for better scaling on external screens. But I just don't understand how people are able to use it when fractional scaling is so blurry. I feel like in 2024 fractional scaling is everywhere, so that's quite important.

I was really excited for Plasma 6 in that regard, and most of QT6 apps look good. But all webpages in Firefox, Chrome - they all look so bad. Am I missing something?

I have generally been annoyed by the lengthy take off animations in Starfield, but the one thing I find satisfying every time I see one is that crackle of the engines. I can't think of any other game I played that would have this sound, so it immediately struck me as nice attention to detail.

I've recently come across a perfect example of just that: [1]. Just try to slowly move the mouse over any of the round red year marks at the center of the page.

[1]: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/ai-robotics/

I've tried Tailscale recently after reading all the raving reviews here on HN. The service is very easy to install and the apps are nice to use, everything is just very well done.

However, I just don't see much difference from my vanilla Wireguard setup. Granted, my use case is very simple, just connect a few devices at home and in the cloud into a single network and use one of them as an exit node, but I'm still not sure what would make me prefer Tailscale over Wireguard.

So far the biggest difference has been that it makes me use an external identity provider instead of having to manually exchange keys between devices, and I'm not sure I'm very comfortable with that.

NAT and firewall traversal are two other things that Tailscale gives you that you don't easily get with Wireguard alone, FWIW.

The answer here depends on a side by side pair of walkthroughs for setting up and maintaining Tailscale vs plain Wireguard.

I've also switched from a MacBook to a T14 Gen 1 about a year ago and the TrackPoint is the one problem I struggle with on Linux.

On Windows, it's buttery smooth and a joy to use. On Linux, the refresh rate tops out at 80 Hz, and if you so much as lightly touch the touchpad with your palm, it goes further down to ~45 Hz for the next few seconds. All of this makes for a very rough, jerky and imprecise movement.

I really want to use Linux on my T14, but this problem just makes the experience a pain. I really wonder if everybody recommending using TrackPoint and running Linux have somehow solved this issue?

I don't use the trackpad at all so I don't have that problem. :)

You could try playing around with the settings in /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/. The file "sensitivity" or "rate" might be what you're looking for.

Sadly, I've tried it all. It seems that the 80Hz cap is enforced by the kernel PS/2 driver, for whatever reason, and is shared between the touchpad and the TrackPoint since they are on the same bus. I can only imagine drivers under Windows employ some proprietary trickery to get around that limitation.

My thoughts exactly. Not being from exactly a Western culture (I'm Russian) I always saw the X not as a letter but rather as a cross (Russians say "click the cross to close the window"), a sign of deleting or cancelling something by crossing it out. It made perfect sense so I never even thought there could be other explanations. All because in our language there is no X-exit connection.

This is so odd how people can unknowingly create difficulties for someone else. Remapping Caps lock to switching input language has probably been the most useful thing I've done to improve my computing productivity (followed closely by Linux and tiling wms).

What used to require weird combinations like Control-Shift, or worse Shift-Alt (windows default which triggers window's menu half the time) now takes only a quick flick of my left little finger. Typing even the most technical texts with English words in every sentence has been easy and effortless ever since. And now Lenovo is taking this away from me by removing the Caps lock key from what otherwise looks like an absolutely perfect laptop. This is such a shame.