You're not missing much. A few modern file types are zips with expected folder structures, especially MSOffice files. But this is nowhere near universally true.

You can open a file in your text editor of choice and if you see it start with PK (for Phil Katz the creator of the format and the original PKZIP/PKUNZIP programs) then it's probably a zip.

Also, by the logic of the OP, all DLLs are EXEs.

The FTC actions at least are because of Lina Khan and we better protect her. The billionaires are actively trying to get Kamala to drop her.

While private prisons are abhorrent and unconscionable, they aren't even close to the root cause of our prison problem. Hint: it's systemic racism and our militarized police culture.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/private-prisons-in-the-united-states/

Louisiana, the #1 on the list supposedly had 0 private prison inmates in 2021. Blaming private prisons at this point almost feels like deflecting from the real issues.

This was exactly my thought. Everyone up in here like she's gonna make Marge secretary of education.

Yes! Basic Training in 3-2-1 Contact.

I've been using Droid48 forever. It's perfect.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48

https://github.com/shagr4th/droid48

Look man, this is just exhausting. I'm well aware of that security policy. I have enabled it at some of my clients. But it's not a default setting and would never be on a random non-enterprise PC. This is what I mean when I say the only people who are getting locked out this way were screwing with their computers in ways they don't understand, installing random garbage and following bad advice on the internet.

From your link:

If you set the value to 0, or leave blank, the computer or device will never be locked as a result of this policy setting.

I don't care what you think. I'm playing chess with a pigeon here. Test it yourself.

Edit: And sorry for being a jerk. Back to my original point, I'm pretty much fed up with the "technical" communities of Lemmy where correct information is downvote to oblivion and blatantly wrong information is lionized as absolute truth. And when I have tried to actually help and provide useful information I get met with the hordes of confidently incorrect people trying to discredit me.

That's the BitLocker PIN, not the OS PIN. Go away.

Bitlocker activates when you enter an incorrect OS password too many times.

This is completely false. Please stop spreading misinformation. You clearly have no idea how BitLocker works, nor Secure Boot, BCD, TPM, or PCRs. Or anything really.

Maybe you should stick to an iPad. I'm done replying to this blithering nonsense.

Yeah I get what you mean now. The SEO spamming AI garbage sites predate LLMs and are one of the worst things about the modern web. It's a legitimately necessary skill to identify and filter them out. I actually think they probably contributed to some of reddit's recent rise since everyone started adding "reddit" to their queries just to bypass that garbage.

I'm actually 46.

Here's a cookie:

First sentence, emphasis mine:

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban marketers from using fake reviews, such as those generated with AI technology, and other misleading practices to promote their products and services.

Just being cheeky though. I don't always read the articles either. But Lina Kahn has been on fire lately.

Bitlocker activated because of an OS update

This did not happen. You did something to enable it.

I don't have an MS account, because I have no need to give MS all of my data

If you had one, all of your data would have been safe in OneDrive and easily recoverable. But I'm sure the irony is completely lost on all the anti-MS people here. Nah, it must be Microsoft's fault you didn't have backups when you broke your tablet.

Do you really want me to count the number of times I've switched default browsers away from Edge, only to have it reverted back?

So you suck at managing computers. Got it. This has never happened to me, but I also don't install every third party app under the sun trying to fight how Windows is designed to work. I bet you have some shady custom start menu app and run CCleaner and defrag on a schedule.

I've used MS OSes since MS-DOS 3.0.

Ooh, big flex. I can go back even further but it doesn't matter because only one of us here seems to know how to use MS OSes without everything randomly changing on them due to *checks notes* "dark patterns."

They're not dark patterns. You kids love throwing that term at everything. They're simply secure defaults because the average user doesn't change defaults. And "continuously?" Please. 🙄

I'm rocking a 12-year-old 3930k with BitLocker on all drives and it's perfectly fine.

Agreed. The immature iamsosmart user base is making me strongly consider leaving Lemmy for good. There just aren't enough actual professionals here for any serious discussion in a technical community. It's just a bunch of 20-year-olds who think they have the world figured out. And they all downvote based on emotion rather than facts (which I am quite prepared for).

Microsoft accounts, OneDrive, and BitLocker are absolutely great features for the average user providing SSO, cloud storage with ransomware-proof backups, and seamless full-disk encryption.

I love Linux too, but there seems to be no room for nuance on Lemmy. These children are insufferable.