@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just finished collimating my telescope. It needed done badly now that I got a new mount and tri-pier.

I've been meaning to ask how your setup is going.
Have you been able to get out with it lately?

It's going well now. My main interest is astrophotography, and with what I had, my biggest limiting factor was tracking (mount/tripod). I don't have a big aperture scope, so of course that doesn't help, but it's way more than enough to fulfill my needs with the proper foundation.

The camera I have is absolutely amazing, I'd get it again. The downside is compatibility with numerous astrophotography tools (as well as the fact it's not a dedicated astrophotography camera). It's working mostly fine on Linux (Astroberry rPi), thankfully, but still has it quirks. We use the camera for regular photography all the time so it's definitely worth it aside from that. Maybe I'll get a cheap ZWO sometime in the future.

But yeah, it's going well now... has been cloudy literally for the past few weeks straight until clear two nights ago and tonight, maybe tomorrow night will be okay (we'll see), but after that more clouds. Not exactly normal for here at this time, but whatever. I'll make the best of it one way or another.

Just finished collimating my telescope. It needed done badly now that I got a new mount and tri-pier.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 11 versus 10:

In the Linux world you have heavy workflow innovation with new workspace and interaction design taking the lead with experimentation and improvements in how people work with their operating systems.

The Windows world has that too, but we don't say Windows has improved because Adobe Reader improved, versus saying Linux improved because Gnome improved... or are you just referring to the Linux kernel?

@JaredBusch I figured it out after creating a WIn10 VM (same issue in Win10 22H2 by the way)

Edition	Windows 10 Pro
Version	22H2
Installed on	‎10/‎22/‎2022
OS build	19045.2006
Experience	Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0

Get-ChildItem -Path ~\Documents -Hidden | ForEach-Object { (Get-Item -Path $PSItem.FullName -Force).Delete() }

Maybe you can shorten it:

Get-ChildItem -Path ~\Documents -Hidden -Recurse | ForEach-Object { $PSItem.Delete() }

@JaredBusch said in How can I remove these items with powershell?:

What version of powershell did you have on your test?
The system I just tried it on was a clean new install of Windows 10 21H2.

PowerShell:

Name                           Value                                                                                                                           
----                           -----                                                                                                                           
PSVersion                      5.1.22000.832                                                                                                                   
PSEdition                      Desktop                                                                                                                         
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                                                         
BuildVersion                   10.0.22000.832                                                                                                                  
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000                                                                                                                 
WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                                                                             
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                                                             
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Windows:

Edition	Windows 11 Enterprise
Version	21H2
Installed on	‎10/‎19/‎2022
OS build	22000.856
Experience	Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.856.0

@JaredBusch I did not use an elevated ISE window:

And it worked for me:

@JaredBusch Are you sure it was with just using Remove-Item like in your example, and not doing anything else first?

@JaredBusch If it throws a UAC prompt when doing through Windows Explorer GUI, then the script may need elevation. If you run it from an elevated PowerShell window, does it work then?

@WrCombs said in Blue Stacks:

@JaredBusch said in Blue Stacks:

@WrCombs said in Blue Stacks:

Anyone use Blue Stacks for gaming?

https://www.bluestacks.com/

I use it for work but was looking to get into some more gaming in my free time.

Never used it for gaming. Only for getting android apps on a computer

thats my current use for it - but I see games are available and was wondering how the games play.

I've used it for Billiards in the past because it made aiming a whole lot easier than with my finger on a small phone screen. It works just like it does on a phone, but you can use your mouse and keyboard. It works well.

I also use it for a few non-game apps and works well.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Jaja, yay I got sort of referenced

The "weird systems users": hobbyists who offer virtualization to non-profit and charity users, using old, out-of-maintenance hardware that had been inherited or passed on to them. Enthusiast users, with no funds to buy licenses?

@scottalanmiller said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

--user '[email protected]:password'

Might not want to put username & password in a script if scripting this. At least put them as environment variables if nothing else. Also not a great option, but better than plain text in script.

@gjacobse said in PS ISE: Unsaved Projects:

Right now, I'll have to pencil GIT onto the project list. I just don't have the bandwidth to investigate it right now. If the unsaved scripts are lost,... they are lost - my own fault and I recognize that. I had some hope that I could recover them.

I just have to much going on to take on another project I can't truly invest time into. If I start something, I'll just have to ensure I save it - I think I saw something about making PS:ISE autosave....

Thank you for the suggestions and recommendations.

Just use vscode. Hell, even notepad++ does autosave more reliably than ISE. But I've never lost anything I didn't save while working in vscode.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Uber Breach 2022

The critical vulnerability that granted the attacker such high levels of access was hardcoded credentials in a PowerShell script

Argh, why the heck is there Windows development on a platform like Uber? And who approved THAT GIT checkin?

No idea. Android and ios only AFAIK. No need for Windows. But I have a feeling that one who bakes credentials into scripts would do it in any scripting language. You'd also think a vulnerability like that would have been found during scanning. They must not have any devsecops or code scanning tools in place.

@gjacobse

choco install git vscode /y

or if you prefer
winget install git.git
winget install vscode

@ElecEng I used Dell tape drives a lot in the last decade and never had issues.

Uber Breach 2022

The critical vulnerability that granted the attacker such high levels of access was hardcoded credentials in a PowerShell script

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I just needed to reinstall the OS on two personal devices, one Windows and one Ubuntu. I did them at the same time and Windows 11 installs SO MUCH FASTER than Ubuntu now. Nearly twice as fast. Since when did that happen? The Ubuntu device hardware is much better too...

Did you do minimal or normal on Ubuntu? Ubuntu is massive compared to Windows in default applications. Basically one is full of apps and one has none. So if you do default installs, to do apples to oranges, you'd need to also install MS Office and loads of other tools onto Windows to be a comparison.

I did each install using default settings.

Doing a minimal install with Ubuntu would suck so much, yeah it'd be faster, but then I'd spend hours installing crap+drivers that "should just be there and work" with a Desktop OS like it is with Windows 11. (with the exception of Office, but that's a fast install, too, if it was needed)

The Ubuntu device was for me, the Windows device was for someone else to run some things that don't work well (without a mega time suck) on a Linux desktop OS.

I just needed to reinstall the OS on two personal devices, one Windows and one Ubuntu. I did them at the same time and Windows 11 installs SO MUCH FASTER than Ubuntu now. Nearly twice as fast. Since when did that happen? The Ubuntu device hardware is much better too...

@JasGot ok cool, gotcha, it seemed the other way and just wanted to clarify.

@JasGot said in bitlocker suddenly enabled:

I just ran into this three days ago. User said he approved an update to Windows 11 and after reboot. It was bitlockered.

I wrote it off as the user just clicking through and not knowing what he clicked on.

Now I wonder....... what really happened.

Windows Updates causing the BitLocker recovery screen after an update doesn't mean the update turned on BitLocker. That just means the end user didn't know bitlocker was already enabled prior to the update. It's not a rare thing for some updates to change things, such as a bios update, which might cause it. I know recently some non-driver non-firmware Windows updates caused the BitLocker recovery screen to appear next boot... But the updates themselves did not turn on BitLocker.