Actually, from what I can tell in my brief 15-minute internet search, every version of Windows since NT has accepted both because DOS 2.0 supported both. The exception to this was Command Prompt. But, these days, it supports both. Not sure when they made that change in Command Prompt, but I think it’s been that way since at least Windows 7.

Technically, Windows understands both / and \. I personally always use / just because it’s easier to type that.

Yeah, I think Firefox’s translation feature is technically still in beta.

Firefox has translation now, too, on both mobile and desktop.

And you can optionally add the Google Translate extension to desktop Firefox if you want. (It really is convenient, isn’t it?)

And you can always just plug in the URL of whatever page you’re trying to translate directly into https://translate.google.com/.

The driver was one installed on the computer by the security company. The driver would look for and block threats incoming via the internet or intranet.

The definitions update included a driver update, and most of the computers the software was used on were configured to automatically restarted to install the update. Unfortunately, the faulty driver update caused computers to BSOD and enter a boot loop.

Because of the boot loop, the driver could only be removed manually by entering Safe Mode. (That’s the thing you saw about deleting that file.) Then the updated driver, the one they released when they discovered the bug, would ideally be able to be installed normally after exiting Safe Mode.

Four days for an update to malware definitions is how computers get infected with malware. But you’re right that they should at least do some sort of simple test. “Does the machine boot, and are its files not getting overzealously deleted?”

Kennel? You mean kernel?

Now where’s that comic…

Ah, found it!

I just call them communities. That’s what I’ve seen others use.

FYI, there was no “conversation so far”. That was the first thing I’ve ever asked “Rufus”.

These days, I only ever use Reddit to find answers and to comment in one small community I probably could not live without. I’ve drastically cut down on my Reddit usage since whole API debacle.

(Don’t ask about trying to move that community to Lemmy. Already had someone ask that repeatedly the last time I mentioned this. They’ve polled their users, and they’re not moving.)

Do you mean New Old Reddit or Old Old Reddit? /hj

No, seriously, they’re apparently working on a New New Reddit to replace their half-baked New Old Reddit (and presumably their still-working-perfectly Old Old Reddit).

They do have an option to enable history, but I have it turned off.

Actually, that “setting” is there just for show. It can’t be turned on. Underneath the setting, it says

Currently this option can not be turned on. Kagi does not save any searches by default. In the future we may add features that will utilize your search history and then we will allow you to enable this.

I’m not quite that young. Netizen is a “citizen of the internet”, IIRC. More specifically, it’s a portmanteau of “internet” and “citizen”.

I had also heard what the meaning of GIF was, though not so often that I could remember it off the top of my head.

I’m not quite as old as the JPG format, but I do still remember using dial-up. I still remember accidentally logging into the internet when my dad was on the phone one day. I could hear his voice through the computer speakers. I immediately closed the browser. It was something that’d, surprisingly, never happened while I was on the computer before.

Yeah, but it’s almost always used for animations. Seeing one that’s not animated just feels… weird.

That’s… a great question. What’s the purpose of a gif with only one frame?

Oh, my bad. It was zed instead of the letter “zee”.

It’s 3am, and I’m exhausted, about to head to bed.

Whenever I hear someone say “zed”, it always throws me for a loop. I follow a Canadian streamer, and they use it in place of “zero” the letter “zee”.

Found it! They have a page on Reddit that links to what seems like all their short stories.