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  • A refreshed New Tab layout is being rolled out to users in the US and Canada, featuring a repositioned logo and weather widget to prioritize Web Search, Shortcuts, and Recommended Stories at the top.

    before anyone starts complaining, yes I know several people in close proximity that use the news&weather windows taskbar thing, so this probably has a reason to exist










  • I’m pretty sure UEFI systems don’t make use of a boot sector anymore. They look for the bootloader in the form of an .efi file in the ESP or EFI System Partition, of each sata drive (maybe other block devices too).

    also, the disk it uses is not necessarily “/dev/sda”. first because it can be on any of the disks, second because that’s not a persistent ID but something that depends on detection order

    Especially with software being called firmware and not being called motherbootware or pre-bootware or anything that indicates that this piece of software is the very first thing that starts running during boot.

    firmware is a pretty common term for things like this (code on chip that manages low level startup)