BearOfaTime

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BearOfaTime,

Yea, it’s really shitty.

Enterprise folks don’t have this problem because they use the WAIK (or whatever it’s called now) to customize the installer.

Anyone can use it, and from what I’ve read, the Win10 generation of the kit is much easier to use than previous versions (which were pretty bad).

But yea, this stuff is awful.

Checkout things like WinDebloat, Privatezilla, Winaero Tweaker, and LoveWindowsAgain. There’s some overlap between them (as they were built for different purposes), but they all pretty much kill telemetry at the service or installed level (as in remove the components providing telemetry).

Yea, it’s BS you have to do this. And screw MS for this crap.

BearOfaTime,

“Fuck the landing gear, fuck the prop, get on the ground!”

Damn fine job, pilot! (And I mean that in all seriousness. Landing gear and prop can be replaced).

BearOfaTime,

Roku has patented a way to ensure I will never own one of their devices, and I’ll do my best to ensure no family or friends do either.

BearOfaTime,

I bought about 20 Cree bulbs 5 years ago, 15 are on about 15 hours a day. I’ve had 2 fail in that time.

Not a bad record in my book.

Even the off brands, IKEA, Amazon, etc, seem to last as long. They’re all in open fixtures, so no cooling issues.

BearOfaTime,

A car shouldn’t just have a life span of 6-10 years.

They don’t.

My current daily driver is 18 years old. I expect at least another 10 barring an accident, maybe 30 more years as a spare vehicle. It got a new transmission at 200,000 miles. Engine seems like it’ll make it to at least 400k. A replacement is $1500, far less than a new car.

Most cars in my family (approximately 30 cars) are between ten and thirty years old.

I’ve had 3 cars since 1996, all bought used, and I traveled for work with one. One car I sold to a family member, and it’s still being driven.

It’s people that choose to not drive cars this long.

BearOfaTime,

I’ve never paid more than $150 for a phone, and that’s recently for a 2 year old pixel.

I can keep multiple spares around for the price of a new phone.

BearOfaTime,

Wait, are you saying my phone should last less time than it does?

My current phone is from 2017.

BearOfaTime,

It’s easy to do, and engines don’t cost much on ebay.

Fortunately Honda makes vehicles that are very durable, so it’s not like everything dies at the same age of the engine.

BearOfaTime,

Having worked on and had every major brand (and some obscure ones) in my family, there’s a reason Japanese cars are considered the most durable.

We’ve driven numerous Toyotas and Hondas 300k+. Some we still have, 30 years old or more.

Working on Toyota and Honda is generally much easier and far less frequent than other brands.

You can see how American car companies enshittify things when there’s a joint platform (Ford/Mazda, GM/Toyota, Chrysler/Mitsubishi). Invariably the American version is inferior, and even the Japanese company version often suffers with some of the same shitty design/engineering choices.

I refuse to ever again own an American vehicle, or even one of the joint platforms. I’ve had both - they suck to work on, require more frequent repairs, sometimes to things that just never fail on Japanese cars (especially electronics and control systems… Looking at *you" Jeep/Chrysler).

BearOfaTime, (edited )

I think the big part with cars is people want the new shiny thing.

The only people I’ve ever met who didn’t trade in a for shiny and new were my fellow cheap bastardin’ mechanin’ types who just don’t care.

Plus, too many people think cars must be serviced at “stealerships”, and I’ve seen what those lying bastards tell people their cars need. Like a 2 year old Toyota with 25,000 miles needing $4000 of engine leak repairs. On an engine that Toyota has manufactured since the 80’s…they don’t leak, they don’t even die. Hell, they still use a timing chain rather than a belt, so that’s maintenance it’ll never need.

Csrs don’t need replacing anywhere near as often as most people replace them. As I said elsewhere - my current daily driver is 18 years old, everything still works. It’s required very little regular maintenance over its life. Transmission was replaced at 200,000 only because a cooling line leaked into the transmission, which destroys the clutches eventually (it went 50,000 miles after the line failure, even towed stuff at max load).

BearOfaTime,

get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.

Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.

And you can permanently license it using Microsoft’s own scripts.

Scripts on Gituub.

BearOfaTime,

Virtualbox has awful performance issues though.

Use a distro that has native KVM.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Or, hear me out… Don’t use Twitter?

BearOfaTime,

In the 90’s telcos were exposed as providing a connection for feds to duplicate any and all comms.

BearOfaTime,

Yes

BearOfaTime,

Like they sat on (and still haven’t resolved) the iMessage issues they’ve known about for years.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537444

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Hahahahaha

Unintended consequences - what are they going to do once 90% of connections are encrypted, include use of VPNs and encrypted DNS?

This is what they’re promoting.

Host your own encrypted DNS on a VPS in a non-compliant location, use a VPN to connect to it.

So many ways these idiots are cutting their own throats.

Also, let’s list the companies rather than say “Movie Industry”. Or let that be a link to a Wiki article listing all the companies and their holdings.

Fuck em all at this point. I go to maybe 2 movies a year, at most. And I’m cutting subscription services, down to 2 at this point.

BearOfaTime,

What shitty keyboard cover? I’ve never heard of a keyboard cover with a laptop (and haven’t seen a desktop keyboard cover since about 1995).

Anyway, search for “ultra thin mouse pad” on Amazon. The largest ones are 0.5-1mm thick. Measure 11"x11". They have a tacky back. Cut it to fit.

Is it theoretically possible for Windows 11 to delete pirated content on your PC?

I heard Windows 11 has been updated to take screenshots of your computer. Is it theoretically possible for them to delete content from your PC or external hard drives if they can determine that you have pirated content on them? Can they theoretically report you for it? I know it’s unlikely but is it still possible? I’m...

BearOfaTime,

Right right.

I keep having to say this, as much as I like Linux for certain things, as a desktop it’s still no competition to Windows, even with this awful shit going on.

As some background - I had my first UNIX class in about 1990. I wrote my first Fortran program on a Sperry Rand Univac (punched cards) in about 1985. Cobol was immediately after Fortran (wish I’d stuck with Cobol).

I run a Mint laptop. Power management is a joke. Configured as best as possible, walked in the other day and it was dead - as in battery at zero, won’t even boot. Windows would never do this, unless you went out of your way to config power management to kill the battery (even then, to really kill it you have to boot to BIOS and let it sit, Windows will not let a battery get to zero).

There no way even possible via the GUI to config power management for things like low/critical battery conditions /actions.

There are many reasons why Linux doesn’t compete with Windows on the desktop - this is just one glaring one.

Now let’s look at Office. Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel. Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort. No, I’m not setting up a DB in an open-source competitor to Access. That’s just too much effort for simple sorting and filtering tasks, and isn’t realistically shareable with other people.

Now there’s that print monitor that’s on by default, and can only be shut up by using a command line. Wtf? In the 21st century?

Networking… Yea, samba works, but how do you clear creds you used one time to connect to a share, even though you didn’t say “save creds”? Oh, yea, command line again or go download an app to clear them for for you. Smh.

Someone else said it better than me:

Every time I’ve installed Linux as my main OS (many, many times since I was younger), it gets to an eventual point where every single thing I want to do requires googling around to figure out problems. While it’s gotten much better, I always ended up reinstalling Windows or using my work Mac. Like one day I turn it on and the monitor doesn’t look right. So I installed twenty things, run some arbitrary collection of commands, and it works… only it doesn’t save my preferences.

So then I need to dig into .bashrc or .bash_profile (is bashrc even running? Hey let me investigate that first for 45 minutes) and get the command to run automatically… but that doesn’t work, so now I can’t boot… so I have to research (on my phone now, since the machine deathscreens me once the OS tries to load) how to fix that… then I am writing config lines for my specific monitor so it can access the native resolution… wait, does the config delimit by spaces, or by tabs?? anyway, it’s been four hours, it’s 3:00am and I’m like Bryan Cranston in that clip from Malcolm in the Middle where he has a car engine up in the air all because he tried to change a lightbulb.

And then I get a new monitor, and it happens all damn over again. Oh shit, I got a new mouse too, and the drivers aren’t supported - great! I finally made it to Friday night and now that I have 12 minutes away from my insane 16 month old, I can’t wait to search for some drivers so I can get the cursor acceleration disabled. Or enabled. Or configured? What was I even trying to do again? What led me to this?

I just can’t do it anymore. People who understand it more than I will downvote and call me an idiot, but you can all kiss my ass because I refuse to do the computing equivalent of building a radio out of coconuts on a deserted island of ancient Linux forum posts because I want to have Spotify open on startup EVERY time and not just one time. I have tried to get into Linux as a main dev environment since 1997 and I’ve loved/liked/loathed it, in that order, every single time.

I respect the shit out of the many people who are far, far smarter than me who a) built this stuff, and 2) spend their free time making Windows/Mac stuff work on a Linux environment, but the part of me who liked to experiment with Linux has been shot and killed and left to rot in a ditch along the interstate.

Now I love Linux for my services: Proxmox, UnRAID, TrueNAS, containers for Syncthing, PiHole, Owncloud/NextCloud, CasaOS/Yuno, etc, etc. I even run a few Windows VM’s on Linux (Proxmox) because that’s better than running Linux VM’s of a Windows server.

Linux is brilliant for this stuff. Just not brilliant for a desktop, let alone in a business environment.

Linux doesn’t even use a common shell (which is a good thing in it’s own way), and that’s a massive barrier for users.

If it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would’ve had a chance to beat MS, even then it would’ve required settling on a single GUI (which is arguably half of why Windows became a standard, the other half being a common API), a common build (so the same tools/utilities are always available), and a commitment to put usability for the inexperienced user first.

These are what MS did in the 1980’s to make Windows attractive to the 3 groups who contend with desktops: developers, business management, end users.

All this without considering the systems management requirements of even an SMB with perhaps a dozen users (let alone an enterprise with tens of thousands).

BearOfaTime,

OP doesn’t know how use the three shells dots everyone!

Yea, that’s a fucked up “feature” on iOS I will never use, too. No way to disable as far as I know.

And it gets in the way all the time.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

It still does.

SMS is sent within unassigned space within management frames.

Cell works kind of like ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode, which unlike packet-switched networks, continually transmits frames (even empty ones), as a means of ensuring stable, performant delivery.

Like ATM, cell kind of does the same thing (that is, when it makes a connection).

Within those frames are segments which are allocated for different purposes, someone got the great idea to transmit bits within a segment that wasn’t yet assigned to anything by the standard.

Those segments can hold… 160 characters (IIRC), and for technical reasons, this became 140 characters (again, IIRC).

So whenever your phone pings a tower, those frames get sent. From a bare transmission perspective, there’s no additional cost. The cost is on the backend hardware that extracts the SMS and the routing of it. So there’s some cost, but at 10 cents per message, there’s got to be 9.9 cents of gross profit (just guessing).

BearOfaTime,

Walmart customer service is some of the worst.

Pulled up to pickup an order, parked in a spot as directed, called number on sign. No answer.

Go inside to ask service, they acted like I was doing something wrong “go see the guy outside”.

Look, ass, I already waited 10 minutes out there, your phone line is down, no one is out there. It’s not MY fucking job to do YOUR job.

First and last time I use the pickup service. Walmart can lick my ass.

Oh, got what I needed for 20% less (car battery) at AutoZone.

BearOfaTime,

Exactly.

Two X in the same office - why are the X in this office this way?

This is called begging the question.

BearOfaTime,

“All cheap smartphones have fingerprint sensors”

That is what’s known as begging the question.

Could also be considered a strawman in this case.

BearOfaTime,

Enterprise /= consumer

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