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#3416328 19-Sep-2025 12:31

Coming back to my work PC, moving the mouse, and seeing my desktop icons flash up for a moment before the password screen appeared. So the password screen apparently just sits over the top of everything else, and the other windows aren't actually hidden, just obscured?

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#3416340 19-Sep-2025 12:48

When your computer is locked, Windows doesn’t actually unload or hide your desktop and apps. Instead, it just puts the lock screen / password prompt on top of everything else.

I suyspect that's why you briefly saw their desktop icons flash before the lock screen fully faded in. Windows momentarily revealed what’s behind before covering it again.

So the desktop and programs are still running in the background.

The password screen is simply an overlay that prevents you from interacting until you authenticate.

I believe you noticed the quick graphical transition “leak” that showed the desktop for a split second.

You can minimize (though not fully eliminate) that little “flash” when unlocking in Windows.

What you’re seeing is just the transition animation between the desktop and the lock screen overlay.

Go to Settings ... System ... About ... Advanced system settings

In the Performance section, click Settings

Uncheck “Fade or slide menus into view”, “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing”, etc.

Go to Settings ... Personalization ... Lock screen

Disable any animated backgrounds or slideshow, since those add extra transitions.

These should reduces the chance of a fade/flash effect.

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#3417504 22-Sep-2025 18:51

The people need to know! The people demand to know!

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#3417516 22-Sep-2025 19:28

richms:

Yes there is, and they act like being rude on a phone is not something you can do when people call you and try to scam you.

My old aunt was so shocked when I had a scam phone call with her around and told the person what to do to themselves in words that would not work on here.

Apparently to them you can't be rude on the phone even to someone that you think is not telling the truth. Its illegal or some crap. No S sherlock, so is trying to scam people.

I like asking for their staff ID and, if they haven't hung up yet, the details for calling them back.

Then I report it as Kota spam to my phone provider.

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#3417671 23-Sep-2025 09:41

We have two family members who are on holiday overseas and who share their locations.

They are currently on a boat just off the coast of Croatia. For the last few days the Apple 'Find My' app has described their location as 'North Atlantic Ocean, Croatia'.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3417947 23-Sep-2025 15:44

Today was supposed to be Bibical Rapture, where the good get pulled into heaven, and the evil stay behind

But it didn't happen. Or did it? Maybe it was a single Japanese shut-in disappearing yesterday, and no one noticed.

Oh well...

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#3417950 23-Sep-2025 15:48

kingdragonfly: Today was supposed to be Bibical Rapture, where the good get pulled into heaven, and the evil stay behind

But it didn't happen. Or did it? Maybe it was a single Japanese shut-in disappearing yesterday, and no one noticed.

It happened. But all those self-proclaimed Christians expecting go up to heaven today were left behind because they aren't true Christians.

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#3417955 23-Sep-2025 15:58

Is that what happened to me? I wondered.

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#3417956 23-Sep-2025 16:02

Well, everyone is a sinner. Except some Christians, who believe Christ sacrificed himself for all our sins. So I'm not sure how that reconciles with so many sinners around the world.

That must be why so many hating Christian-nationalists think it's ok to hate on other people. They probably think they have been forgiven already.

But I am no theologist, and don't want to be.

"I'm just asking questions!" as some crazies say.

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#3418095 23-Sep-2025 20:29

I was doing working-at-heights training; does that count?

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#3418485 24-Sep-2025 14:05

An article titled "4 steps to [accomplish something]". It has steps 1 and 2, followed by step 2.1, 2.2, 2.3... all the way up to 2.15. It then ends with steps 3, 4, 5, and 5.1. All in all, this "4 step" process has 21 steps.

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#3418487 24-Sep-2025 14:11

That tends to happen to documents modified over time.

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#3418734 25-Sep-2025 15:02

This ad for Starlink, specifically the small print, where it says what the price will be after the promo period.

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#3418799 25-Sep-2025 17:00

This presenter believes the US Secret Service over-stated the threat.

In my ancient job history I worked for company that ran a promotion for Coca-Cola. They aired an ad that had a toll free phone number during the American Super Bowl with a free give-away. We allocated about 1,000 phone numbers which was way too few needed. It overwhelmed a city's phone network and stopped all incoming phone call to the city for about 15 minutes.

Technically, a bank of T1s had been provisioned and treated like analog lines/channels. Once the ad aired the concurrent calls seized virtually every DS0 channel on the trunks. With the trunks saturated, the local exchanges had no spare capacity to carry other inbound calls, so large parts of the city experienced blocked calls and severe degradation of service.

Being Florida, and their terrible infrastructure, no one put two and two together, so it stayed out of the press.

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#3418924 26-Sep-2025 09:26

2 vs. 3

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