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#Carp in #Waterfall Taki ni koi zu 滝に鯉図 Kano Toshu Yoshiaki latter half of the 18th century.

Users with hopelessly borked Windows devices have a new avenue of recovery in the form of point-in-time restore for Windows 11. The service is designed to restore a Windows 11 PC to its exact state at an earlier point in time and is accessed through the Troubleshoot menu in the Windows Recovery Environment. According to Microsoft, each restore point covers the operating system, apps, settings, and local files. It is stored locally and automatically deleted after 72 hours or when free disk space falls below 20 GB. New points are created approximately every 24 hours by default, although the interval can be configured. Like the existing System Restore functionality, point-in-time restore uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to get a device back to a previous state. However, there are differences. Point-in-time restores are scheduled, whereas System Restore requires an event or manual intervention to trigger a restore point. Point-in-time restore mitigates storage impact by using reserved storage and also has a maximum retention period of 72 hours for each restore point. Point-in-time restore is on by default on devices with an OS volume size of 200 GB or greater and not under enterprise management, such as Windows Home and Pro. It'll be off by default on managed systems until Windows 11 26H2 arrives. There are some downsides. A restore can only be triggered locally, although Microsoft plans to add remote initiation via Intune in the future. The upshot is that it has limited utility for administrators. There is also the potential for problems with Outlook, where a data file (.ost) mismatch might occur after a restore, necessitating the deletion or renaming of files, and Windows Recall may be disabled after a restore. Some might argue the latter is more of a feature than a known issue. "Point‑in‑time restore is an important foundation for the future of Windows recovery," Microsoft said, labeling it part of the company's Windows resiliency initiative. It's been in public preview for some time and is enabled on more than two million devices. However, nagging questions remain. Why has it taken so long to add this capability to Windows, and why does the operating system allow updates that can leave users needing to restore their PCs in the first place? ®

HOUSTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De activiteiten van het Amerikaanse olie- en gasconcern Chevron in Venezuela gaan door ondanks de verwoestende aardbevingen in het Zuid-Amerikaanse land. Ook zijn alle ongeveer 3000 werknemers van het bedrijf in het land ongedeerd, aldus Chevron.

"Als een langdurige werkgever en partner in Venezuela zijn we solidair met het land en zijn bevolking in deze moeilijke tijd", aldus een verklaring. "We blijven toegewijd bij het ondersteunen van onze werknemers en de gemeenschappen rond onze faciliteiten en het aanhoudend veilig uitvoeren van onze operaties."

Chevron werkt in het land samen met het Venezolaanse staatsolieconcern PDVSA. Het staatsbedrijf zou wel schade onderzoeken aan petrochemische faciliteiten in de buurt van het epicentrum van de aardbevingen ten westen van Caracas. Bij raffinaderijen en een exportterminal is er geen schade.

Venezuela heeft de grootste olievoorraden ter wereld, maar de olie-infrastructuur is veelal verouderd door te weinig onderhoud en gebrek aan investeringen.

Apple raised their prices on their laptops, iMacs, and iPads today due to the high cost of memory (driven by AI demand). The Macbook Neo’s price went up $100 with most other machines getting a $200-500 bump.

But those prices have yet to take effect at Amazon, where Apple computers are still cheaper than the old prices. Macbook Neo for $590, MacBook Air M5 for $1150, and the M4 iMac for $1150. You can check other models (MacBook Pros, etc.) and their pricing here. Not sure when RAM costs are going to come down…these might be the lowest prices you see on Apple machines for quite awhile.

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Emma Raducanu is facing a race to be fit for Wimbledon after missing training on Thursday.

The British number one has not played a match since reaching the final of the HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club a week and a half ago, choosing not to play in Nottingham or Eastbourne.

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Draft bill to ban abusive practices that aim to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity in England and Wales hailed as ‘historic’

Perpetrators of “conversion therapy” against LGBTQ+ people could face up to five years in prison under proposals hailed as a “historic and long overdue” milestone by campaigners.

The government has published its draft conversion practices bill, which would ban abusive practices that aim to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity in England and Wales.

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Jury clears 16-year-old of murder and manslaughter over the death of Aria, who died from a single stab wound

A 16-year-old boy has been found not guilty of the murder of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe, who died after being stabbed with a kitchen knife.

Aria sustained a deep wound to her chest at her home in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, on 15 December last year.

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Het KNMI geeft voor vrijdag in grote delen van het land code rood af vanwege de extreme hitte. Het is voor het eerst dat het hoogste weeralarm voor „gevaarlijk weer” in Nederland…