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  • kadup@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.world•I just discovered drop down terminals and I love themEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I’m glad to share this! I too didn’t know about these floating terminals.

    I don’t have two monitors to test, but the terminal appears on whatever virtual desktop I’m using, I assume whichever monitor is currently in focus will spawn the terminal… let me know when you test it.

    You can enable tabs at the settings and it will let you have many terminals at the same time, you press the tabs and they change inside that window.

  • kadup@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.world•Linux removing an outdated, insecure Microsoft USB network protocol that's still on WindowsEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Those systems are running frozen versions of Windows, they’re not being updated. Microsoft could introduce a patch for Windows 10 and 11 that removes the vulnerability and people running old software on XP would still be able to run it. Or, at the very least, make it disabled by default but let advanced users and sysadmins re-enable the vulnerable code.

    That’s what they did with SMB 1.0, for instance. It’s disabled on any modern Windows install, even though a lot of universities and companies still have infrastructure based on it. If you browse the “advanced system features” options you can re-enable it manually, with the knowledge that you’re voluntarily opening up your system to well known dangerous exploits in exchange for backwards compatibility.

    EDIT: So further reading that’s exactly what they’re doing. The drivers aren’t loaded by default on Windows 10 and 11, they need to be enabled after plugging a legacy device type requiring it.

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