Windows 11

Semi-Retro Computing Style

After I placed my start menu and icons back in their proper position, I vibe more with the visuals. They me of Web 2.0 Gloss - But you may know it by another name, Frutiger Aero - of the mid 2000s and Vista.

I do miss the active tiles in the Start Menu. I liked pinning images to it

Ain’t No Party Like An S-Mode Party

So I took 11 out of S-Mode to install Firefox...not knowing Firefox was already in the Windows Store. I swear, I searched.

Freeing myself from S-Mode was inevitable anyway - There were many third-party packages to install anyway. After all, chocolatey and Terraform are not in the store.

For people who simply need to type and browse, S-Mode is your best Mode.

Setting Up The Place To Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) downloaded without issue, which is not the case for the AWS CLI through the VS Code Extensions store. The popup did helpfully have a link to where I could download it via Powershell that worked.

Time to re-login to my AWS on VS Code again - wait.

What is this option?

[description: two squares in VS Code. One says ‘Workforce (sign into AWS with single sign-on)’. The other says ‘IAM Credentials’ (store keys for use with AWS CLI tools’). There is no accompanying image.]

We can’t sign in via root user email on VS Code anymore?

Or could we never, because that would be poor security practice, and have always used IAM accounts, and I don’t recall?

Either way is possible, but I regenerate an access + secret key and login is no issue.

BONUS: Downloaded (and used! Pushed to their cloud!) Pulumi, a more flexible form of Terraform. Just getting started there!

Sharing

I want to share things between two laptops, one with 10 and one with 11.

I have to login to my Windows account on 11 to remind it what accounts I use, and see a host of applications that I gave access to my data, some dating back almost 10 years.

There is no easy way to revoke permissions en masse,

I am left to poke through, one by one, defunct applications that proudly touted themselves as the next marketplace for contractors.

In theory, I could send files via Bluetooth, Google Drive, or my 2 T Drive.

Simpler.

Or, one of my favorite tools, Wormhole.

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