Where Are My Files? Windows Search Has No Idea

Content BILLY WTH BILLY! WHAT HAVE You DonE?! I asked a programmer to remove the 'Activate Windows' for me Shoot him again SEGRAFO

So Windows decided that instead of showing "0" like a normal operating system, it would flex its scientific notation skills and display 1.77636e-015 for the volume slider. That's 0.00000000000000177636 if you're keeping track at home. Somewhere in Redmond, a floating-point precision engineer is having an existential crisis. Just round it to zero, Windows. Nobody's ears are sensitive enough to hear 1.77 × 10⁻¹⁵ percent volume. Even dogs would be like "nah, we're good." Classic floating-point shenanigans where the computer insists on being technically correct (the best kind of correct) while being completely useless to actual humans trying to adjust their volume.

That laptop has seen things. Dark, unspeakable things. The kind of security vulnerabilities that make sysadmins wake up in cold sweats at 3 AM. It's either running Windows XP in a nuclear facility, storing the only copy of production credentials, or it's that one machine that somehow still runs the company's legacy COBOL app from 1983 that nobody understands but everyone depends on. The skull and crossbones is basically saying "this machine is one npm install away from causing an international incident." Respect the warning, people.

Content Devs can't pull Project. git on Windows machines because a file is named "Aux". What are our options? Create Linux VMs to SSH into Everyone can use WSL Rename the file?

Linux: free, open-source, no ads. Pretty good, right? MacOS: you drop a grand on the hardware, but at least you get a clean experience without Microsoft shoving ads down your throat. Then there's Windows—you literally paid for the OS (or it came with your expensive laptop), and Microsoft still has the audacity to serve you ads in the Start menu, lock screen, and even File Explorer. It's like paying for a restaurant meal and still getting commercials between bites. The disrespect is real.

Content Graeme Coleman graemecoleman Hello, my name is Graeme, I have a PhD in computing, and I am a senior accessibility consultant, but when I want to type "" on a Windows laptop I go to Beyonc's Wikipedia page and copypaste the letter from there. 9:41 PM 20 Feb 19 Twitter Web Client