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>>> Apple, Google, and Amazon currently So in your world 2 wrongs make a right... because "everyone else" is doing it is a justification for you? See I was taught from a young age that just because my friends did something incredibly stupid, illegal, or immoral that dis not give me license to commit the offense.
So why aren't we complaining about this industry practice? It's purely focused on MS.
Let me be clear to you. If you do not want to put in the "investment and effort to run just so that I can control my computer" required to actually do the job of administering your PC correctly, but still want all the safety features built into consumer Windows turned off for your benefit anyway, STAY OFF THE SAME INTERENET AS ME. You're the electronic equivelent of someone who refuses to vaccinate their kids but sti…
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I see so many people stuck in the gaming situation and there are no practical solutions, the only way out involves an entire industry changing direction together. I'd like to see a video card manufacturer (probably AMD since they seem to be the underdog in a 2 dog fight) start a Linux-first campaign, even if it's only for select cards.
AMD already is making a good open source driver for Linux, and both AMD and nVidia has been making proprietary drivers for Linux for a while. Also AMD seemly releases some "Pro" features for workstation on Linux first. The problem of Linux gaming is not the graphics drivers, in fact this part has been working "ok" for a while now. The problem with Linux gaming is: 1. Audio is still a mess, the fastest audio library s…
This likely won't change (again, for me) because not only would more games need to be released on Linux into the future, but a significant portion of my existing gaming library would need to be ported. I have spent years and considerable money building my gaming library and with minor hiccups almost all of them can be run on modern Windows due to its focus on backwards compatibility along with the efforts of the community.
I suppose there is a breaking point where there are enough newer games being released, older ones ported, and continuing annoyances from Microsoft that I would use Linux as my main gaming OS. I wonder how long that will take? It's frustrating to say the least as gaming is far and away my favorite hobby.
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> You can't turn off Windows Update. It will always end up downloading new updates. Just an idea, I don't know if it would work: there's a setting where you can tell Windows that you are on a "metered connection", which supposedly makes Windows postpone various background tasks until you tell it that you are ready for bandwidth abuse (which never happens). I doubt that this would influence any connections by third pa…
If you have a wired connection, there is no toggle for that setting. There is probably a registry value you can change to do so though.
Thanks, but with "probably" I sense that I'm about to get into what I call "mud wrestling" or hours or days of just throwing wild guesses against a wall to see if any appear to stick. I've only got 365 days a year, and I've given away far too many of them to such mud wrestling. GOD knows I do NOT want to do more of that.
For physical things, say, an alarm clock that won't quit making a noise, often can use a big hammer or an axe to solve the problem. Too often in mud wrestling with sick-o software, I wanted such a hammer or axe.
The EFF OP and this thread have me literally just TERRIFIED that my work with Windows will have me spending a huge fraction of my time that I do NOT have mud wrestling with some version of Windows. Again, GOD knows well I do NOT want mud wrestling.
To Microsoft: I am trying, desperately trying, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, to the limits of strength of my body, to get my software written for my Web site startup. For my software, I have 80,000 lines of typing for the real-time parts and another 20,000 for the off-line parts. I want, desperately NEED, to do the rest of the work of my startup. NO WAY do I have in addition the time, money, strength, and energy to fight Microsoft software for no good reason. I want NO updates, NO changes, without my well informed, explicit permission. I want NO data sent from my computer elsewhere without my well informed, explicit permission.
Cortana or whatever it is called? I wouldn't hit a hog in the butt with all the copies of Cortana on the planet. To me the work and objectives of Cortana are insulting, outrageous, patronizing, demeaning, intrusive, and worse. I don't want it.
What do I want from Microsoft? (1) Fix the outrageous security problems Microsoft has been struggling with back at least to XP. (2) Do much better technical writing in technical documentation of Microsoft software.
Then I want to finish my startup with no more attention to anything from Microsoft.
Gb abbreviates gigabit or gigabyte? What does GB abbreviate? ===================== In update: PLEASE stop down voting me for my simple, nice, courteous reminder to the person who wrote the post I replied to. I was NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT ignorant of the meanings of Gb versus GB and was NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT asking for a tutorial on the difference. I am not an ignorant newby on HN knowing too little to be posting here. Just w…
I upgraded willingly so the deceptive upgrade practices, while deplorable, didn't really affect me. What does affect me is that Microsoft refuses to let me control my computer. - If you turn off Windows Defender Real Time Protection it explicitly tells you "You can turn this off, but if it's off for a while we'll turn it back on". It turns itself on upon next reboot, it seems. - You can't turn off Windows Update. It…
What is UWP?
I upgraded willingly so the deceptive upgrade practices, while deplorable, didn't really affect me. What does affect me is that Microsoft refuses to let me control my computer. - If you turn off Windows Defender Real Time Protection it explicitly tells you "You can turn this off, but if it's off for a while we'll turn it back on". It turns itself on upon next reboot, it seems. - You can't turn off Windows Update. It…
What is UWP?
[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/wha...
[2]: http://www.pcgamer.com/epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-pummels-microsof...
Gb abbreviates gigabit or gigabyte? What does GB abbreviate? ===================== In update: PLEASE stop down voting me for my simple, nice, courteous reminder to the person who wrote the post I replied to. I was NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT ignorant of the meanings of Gb versus GB and was NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT asking for a tutorial on the difference. I am not an ignorant newby on HN knowing too little to be posting here. Just w…
the small b stands for bit, which is an eighth of a byte. a big B stands for byte.
So a GB is exactly 1000 bytes, or 8000 bit
I have lost work on Windows 10 because it doesnt seem possible to not have it restart after an update. This behavior being a default from the Windows "Professional Edition" boggles my mind.