Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

After a reportedly successful migration, the Windows 11 desktop's icons are now blinking, cycling between generic icons and proper icons, like a VCR blinking 12:00.

Microsoft's answer was to delete %userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db (migrated over) & force-restart Windows Explorer. It worked. For a few seconds.

softing Microfuck.

Windows Backup will let you migrate from a win10 PC to a win11 PC, but only if your primary account on both are Microsoft accounts signed into the same OneDrive account.

Dell SupportAssist will let you migrate without a Microsoft account if both PCs are Dells, but it will automatically nuke the old PC's data before you have a chance to verify the migration's success.

Why does Microsoft not have a PC migration tool even half as good as Windows XP's Files and Settings Transfer Wizard anymore?

Three hours until the spookiest World Series game.

Well, Yamamoto might make the final tally 4 games to 3. Or the Jays' entire lineup finally shake him up like they've done the rest of the Dodgers' pitchers. We'll see.

The difference between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays:

The Dodgers are a team of great players.

The Blue Jays are a great team of players.

This #WorldSeries is going to end with the team representing another country again winning 4 games to 2. #MLB

The kde-www mailing list via KDE.org, thread "No X under social media.", reply by Paul Brown on Tue Oct 28 10:22:52 GMT 2025: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www/2025-October/009275.html

TLDR: KDE quit Twitter & refuse to go back because it became a brand "X" nazi bar & huge liability to KDE's community.

Hypothesis: Copilot told a vibe-coding employee to FORMAT C: /Y on the Azure servers and convinced the poor sod's vibe-working manager to sign off on it.

If your government's legislature can't vote because a third-party commercial ~~cloud~~ somebody-else's-computer is down, then your government needs to ditch it for an on-prem solution pronto.

The Scotsman, "Scottish Parliament suspends voting over ongoing Microsoft outage": https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/scottish-parliament-microsoft-outage-voting-5380855

The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

Today it's Microsoft's turn to be the somebody else's computer that goes down worldwide. News is saying Azure and 365 were down and are starting to come back up, but Microsoft's support website (support.microsoft.com) is still down for me as I post.