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Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by simplyinfinity »

specktr wrote: post #27
simplyinfinity wrote: post #3

The guy probably has infected machine... which is far more likely than MS runing ad farm

Have you used windows 10 recently? I didn't realize how bad it was until I installed a fresh copy of windows 10. My backup windows machine has so many registry patches to disable the crapware that I didn't recall how bad it truly is by default.

every day on my laptop and my desktop pc. all runing without disabling the telemetry. laptop has 5hrs of battery daily, pc is runing fine. Except when i open chrome... chrome eats my ram

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by cjaybo »

freehunter wrote: post #25
jchw wrote: post #2

The duality of modern Microsoft is absolutely astounding. How they can simultaneously do incredible things for Github, and open source Windows components, while continuing to not fix the most user hostile Windows ever produced, is completely bonkers. My litmus test for whether Windows is finally fixed is whether of not it’s possible to install it without Candy Crush, but unfortunately without killing the network and…

Honest question and I am absolutely not starting an argument, but what have they done for Github? All I'm aware of is making private repos free, but I haven't seen anything beyond that. I must be out of the loop.

The latest development that I'm aware of is the package registry they are launching: https://github.com/features/package-registry

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by SamuelAdams »

skrebbel wrote: post #23

So the objection is that Internet Explorer has msn.com as its default homepage. This is fair, it's ridiculous and a relic from a long gone age. But so is Internet Explorer. What kind of super old Windows version were these people running? What caused IE to open out of the blue? Windows has plenty flaws but randomly open browsers is not one I'm familiar with.

Right? Is it so hard to change the default homepage / new tab page to do nothing?

The default settings for IE are for the masses - they want to see a search bar / news site as soon as they open the web browser. If the browser did nothing, a lot of non-technical people would think their internet / device isn't working.

Technical users probably don't want to see msn.com, and are OK with opening a blank window. So just change the settings! It's on the first tab!

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by freehunter »

jenscow wrote: post #20
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are ludicrously incorrect, just as everyone for the past 2 decades has been when they have predicted the year of the Linux Desktop. This trend will continue until Linux Desktop people stop underestimating what users actually do with computers.

Nothing. They moved to mobile instead

This is the correct answer. Even Ubuntu's famous bug #1 (Microsoft has a majority marketshare) was closed many years ago [1] as PC operating systems have declined in importance. Steve Jobs's comment about PCs being "trucks" has also come true. Almost all leisure computing has moved either to mobile devices (phones and tablets) and/or to the web (which overlaps mobile devices), making the OS less and less important. Gaming is about the only leisure activity left where desktop OS matters, but that's a relatively small marketshare comparatively.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by ctrl-j »

Razengan wrote: post #12

Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows. Not just the issue in TFA/post, which may seem trivial, but the overall “telemetry” debacle and experiences like jtdev’s comment. For all their claims of having reformed, Microsoft will always be that ex you don’t want to do anything with ever again. There are worse horrors than the lack of a physical Escape key, waiting on the other side of…

I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices.

Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card)

Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to mention the charging port location. I actually replaced it with a logitech because it's pretty much unusable for any precision work.

Heck, I bought an eGPU enclosure recently because I had a set of nvidia cards lying around.. I can only use it in bootcamp though, because of course macs only support AMD cards...

Microsoft may be an abusive ex, but apple is pretty much the same melody with different lyrics.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by agumonkey »

umvi wrote: post #8
jchw wrote: post #2

The duality of modern Microsoft is absolutely astounding. How they can simultaneously do incredible things for Github, and open source Windows components, while continuing to not fix the most user hostile Windows ever produced, is completely bonkers. My litmus test for whether Windows is finally fixed is whether of not it’s possible to install it without Candy Crush, but unfortunately without killing the network and…

> The duality of modern Microsoft is absolutely astounding. See: http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts I don't work there, but I've heard Microsoft is more like a federation of organizations than one giant consistent, cohesive team.

So are most big corps methinks. Here about Nokia death caused by internal tension between depts ? Sony sub-units more or less completely independent (selling cd and cd-burners).

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by css »

nathankunicki wrote: post #30
skrebbel wrote: post #23

So the objection is that Internet Explorer has msn.com as its default homepage. This is fair, it's ridiculous and a relic from a long gone age. But so is Internet Explorer. What kind of super old Windows version were these people running? What caused IE to open out of the blue? Windows has plenty flaws but randomly open browsers is not one I'm familiar with.

The comment on randomly opening windows is fair (I don't see what caused it either), but this was a build VM, not a workstation - there is no reason to upgrade the browser. A more pertinent question is why are MS still shipping IE by default.

A lot of enterprise software from Oracle still requires Java 6 and a J2SE plug-in, which only run in IE for whatever reason.

Re: Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

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Post by iforgotpassword »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #10
jimbob45 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to me that DirectX is the last remaining barrier to finally getting the majority of the Windows user base to migrate to Linux. That and driver support.

You are ludicrously incorrect, just as everyone for the past 2 decades has been when they have predicted the year of the Linux Desktop. This trend will continue until Linux Desktop people stop underestimating what users actually do with computers.

> This trend will continue until Linux Desktop people stop underestimating what users actually do with computers.

Nothing. They use apps on their Linux phones, or happily use any OS that runs a browser since everything is web based today. Oh and for gaming there is consoles of course, which crushes the PC gaming market in pretty much any discipline.

The only people remaining dependent on desktops (or laptops) will be office workers, and I'm pretty sure they don't care about DirectX so much, so replacing those with Linux seems very doable, it's just the question if companies care enough. Last I checked, even office 365 worked on Linux.

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