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September 9

Can't keep track.

I've been using Google bookmarks on windows 10. I can't find a star or watchlist feature anywhere on the Wiki pages I visit. I signed up to edit once but I didn't proceed. Is there an easy way to keep track on Wikipedia itself? I'm a recurring donor. Deanprine (talk) 21:32, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea about Google bookmarks. There is a watchlist feature. In the Wikipedia skin I use it is on the top right corner. The button has three horizontal lines and a star. You can add a page to the list with a star icon on the header of the page. This is probably better explained at Help:Watchlist. --Error (talk) 23:05, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As an aside, I imagine your browser has a History feature: Firefox has History > Show all history, with a search function which shows every Wikpedia page I have visited since 2021. By the way, when you donate through Wikipedia, you are actually giving your money to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), which provides the internet access and servers on which all Wikipedia projects run. The WMF is in no way short of cash. This might sound ungrateful, but we are mostly all entirely unpaid volunteers, and some of us object to WP being used as a front for donations to the WMF, over whose coffers we have no control whatsoever. MinorProphet (talk) 18:53, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 12

Windows 11 24H2

In this page I noticed that 24H2 is released for final users, but I still on 23H2 22631.4169. When 24H2 will be released? Gatto bianco (talk) 14:32, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Windows 11, version 24H2 and don't trust software from random web pages. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 12:33, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NO software in that page and this is NOT random web page, there are all Windows builds catalog! You have visited the page before comment? Gatto bianco (talk) 17:26, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are misreading the comment. Do you have any clue how many people search "Windows 11 24H2 download" and download fake updates from random websites because they can't wait for the official release? Imagine how many saw your question, thought "Wow! New version of Windows! Let me download it from any link I find online because everyone offering free software on the internet is completely honest and has my best interests in mind!" 75.136.148.8 (talk) 22:19, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 16

LaTeX backslash encoding

"The not so short introduction to LaTeX 2e" tells the reader:

LaTeX supports the use of accents and special characters from many languages. Table 2.2 shows all sorts of accents being applied to the letter o. Naturally other letters work too.

The table shows them constructed via backslashes; so for example \"o produces ö. The same Table 2.2 also obligingly describes how to construct several o-irrelevant characters, such as å. But not all. (As an example, I happen to know something not in the table: \th produces þ.) Yes, the introduction goes on to say that now that "modern TEX engines [speak] UTF-8 natively" this cumbersome way of specifying characters can be avoided. Understood. But all the same I'd like to see a more comprehensive list or table of these recipes for single (Roman or Roman-derived) characters. Though we have an article "Percent-encoding", I can't find "backslash-encoding" here; and googling for this brings numerous pages on irrelevancies (notably how to produce backslashes that are just backslashes). Tips? -- Hoary (talk) 09:38, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Does The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List help? --Wrongfilter (talk) 09:53, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blimey, Wrongfilter, I knew that a comprehensive list would be big, but I hadn't imagined that it would be that big. Excellent. This should answer all my questions, plus a few thousand more. -- Hoary (talk) 10:14, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 18

Android move file

I have a file in Downloads that I need to move to a folder used by the relevant app. However samsung's(?) "my files" app doesn't appear able to navigate to that folder.

How do I move the file using the phone itself and WITHOUT using a connected PC? -- 2A00:23CC:D222:4701:9DAE:549F:77B9:C1A3 (talk) 18:39, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you see something called "internal storage"? The folder you want may be in there. If not, a different file manager may help. Card Zero (talk) 19:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"My Files" doesn't defaultedly list the desired destination, even though it lists internal storage.. -- SGBailey (talk) 21:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC) (I post logged on on PC and logged off on phone.)[reply]

try Ghost Commander. I can get to /storage/emulated/0/Download through there. Some other open source ones here Komonzia (talk) 00:09, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 20

Windows Encrypted Drive

When Windows automatically encrypts the Windows partition on a laptop drive, my research makes me think it uses Bitlocker by default. Assuming that is true, where is the key it uses to decrypt? Is it elsewhere on the hard drive? Is it in the BIOS? Is it on a device somewhere in the computer? I am thinking of this scenario: A laptop is run over and crushed. The hard drive still works. You put it in another computer to get the files off it. How does Windows know how to unlock the drive? 75.136.148.8 (talk) 18:47, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ask google 69.181.17.113 (talk) 20:06, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems it's stored in the Trusted Platform Module, so in fact Windows wouldn't know how to unlock the drive. Having said that, BitLocker#Encryption_modes mentions some alternatives, such as a USB key, a password, or a recovery key. Card Zero (talk) 20:08, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So, am I correct in assuming that you do not want your hard drive to automatically be "bitlockered" because if anything happens to your computer, your files are encrypted and basically lost. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 21:49, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what the default mode is, but I get the impression that it's usual to opt to keep a recovery key. The 2024 Crowdstrike incident was exacerbated by the difficulty of typing these long keys into herds of machines that wouldn't boot (and thus couldn't unlock themselves). Card Zero (talk) 22:13, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 21