What Is ReFS (the Resilient File System) on Windows?

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Former Surgeon General: Avoid Overuse of Facebook On the basic social disconnection that underlies addiction [The Atlantic] Crash Bandicoot: An oral history A deep look back at PlayStation's blockbuster 1996 platformer, as told by those who were there. [Polygon] Roundup: The best "escape room" games for a breakout party Bring "escape room" magic home with these new titles. [ArsTechnica] What Is Intel’s New Core i9 CPU Series? For years, Intel’s flagship Core processor series has had three performance tiers: i3, i5, and the top-of-the-line i7. But after several disappointingly small performance iterations and the looming specter of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processor, Intel announced a new king of the CPU hill: the Core i9. Read This Article → How to Prioritize Your Preferred Wi-Fi Networks on a Chromebook Your Chromebook automatically connects to Wi-Fi networks you’ve previously connected to. But, if multiple known Wi-Fi networks are in range, you might want to configure which one gets priority. For example, you can prioritize your home network over your neighbor’s network, which is nearby but faint. Read This Article → How to Stop Facebook from Automatically Translating Posts Facebook is an international social network. There are hundreds of millions of users who don't speak English as their first language. You might end up friends with some of them, whether it's because you meet travelling, or they're distant family, or for any of a million other reasons. To help make life easier for you, Facebook will, by default, translate their posts for you. Read This Article → What Is ReFS (the Resilient File System) on Windows? Microsoft’s new ReFS file system was originally introduced on Windows Server 2012. It’s included on Windows 10, where it can only be used as part of the drive-pooling Storage Spaces feature. ReFS will be improved in Windows Server 2016, and a leak from Microsoft indicates that it will be part of a new edition of Windows 10, named Windows 10 Pro for Advanced PCs. Read This Article → How to Clean and Renovate a Used Model M Keyboard The venerable Model M, first manufactured by IBM in the 1980s (and then licensed and sold to other companies), enjoys a hallowed space in the hearts and minds of keyboard enthusiasts. Its relatively simple-but-durable buckling spring switch mechanism has stood the test of time, literally: many keyboards from the original production runs are still functioning and being used by those who love the old-fashioned construction and feel. Read This Article → How to Turn Your iPhone or iPad Into the Ultimate Gaming Machine Gaming PCs are great, but sitting at a desk after an entire day of work isn’t the most comfortable thing in the world. You could game on your TV, but what if your spouse or kids are hogging it? No worries: With the right stuff, you can turn your iPhone or iPad into the ultimate portable gaming machine. Read This Article → How to Set Apple Maps to Avoid Tolls and Highways If Apple Maps is your navigation tool of choice and you prefer avoiding toll roads, staying off the highways, or both, it’s easy to tweak Apple Maps to meet your needs. Read This Article → How Nightstand Mode Works on the Apple Watch Did you know your Apple Watch can double as a bedside clock while it’s charging? It’s called Nightstand mode, but there are some caveats you should know about before you get rid of your traditional alarm clock. Read This Article → How to Force Quit Applications on Your Mac When They’re Not Responding Macs are very stable, but not every Mac application is. Every once in a while, something you’re using is going to crash. Sometimes this means the spinning beach ball of death, sometimes this means clicking an open window doesn’t do anything, no matter what you try. Sometimes the Dock indicates an application is open, but you can’t seem to find or open any windows. Read This Article → How to Delete a Trackr Device From Your Account Trackr is a keychain-sized Bluetooth device you can use to find your keys, wallet, or anything else you frequently lose. If you need to replace your Trackr, troubleshoot its connection, or just get rid of it entirely, you can easily delete a Trackr from your account. Read This Article → How to Change the Colors of Directories and Files in the ls Command If you’ve run the ls command in Bash, you’ll notice that the directories and files you see are colorized according to their type. You can customize your own color scheme to choose different text colors, background colors, and formatting like bold and underline. Read This Article → How to Mirror your Mac, iPhone, or iPad Screen on Your Apple TV You can beam all kinds of music and video to your TV with an Apple TV, but did you know you can also mirror the screen of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac on the big screen? Here’s how. Read This Article → How to Stop Seeing Twitter's “Best Tweets” at the Top of Your Timeline Not many people are big fan's of Facebook's algorithm, but they claim it drives user engagement. It's no surprise then that Twitter has implemented a similar feature called Best Tweets. Read This Article → How to Always Start Any Browser in Private Browsing Mode Private browsing mode doesn't offer complete privacy, but it does prevent your browser from saving your history, searches, cookies, and other private data between browsing sessions. You can have your browser always start in private browsing mode if you prefer it. 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