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Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by selfhoster11 »

criddell wrote: post #132
fsflover wrote: post #53

> This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things Aren't people tired of fighting with their own computers? I abandoned Windows, installed Linux and can't be happier now.

Who cares about operating systems any more? That seems like a solved problem and frankly all the major ones are fine these days. Computers are chosen based on applications. If you want to play games, you are probably buying a Windows PC. Developing iOS apps? You want a Mac. If you just need a browser, then a Chrome Book or iPad is probably a good choice. I'd bet a lot of people here use three or more operating system…

First, you have to be able to afford so many different machines for all these different tasks. Good luck if you are from a working class background.

It's unconscionable to suggest that one needs multiple computers for various purposes when they are all general purpose computers on the inside.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by kuratkull »

jcelerier wrote: post #96
shawnz wrote: post #90

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No. Smartscreen is not meant to single-handedly solve the entire problem of malware. It is just meant to warn you when you are running software that isn't commonly used. It is nothing more than an attempt to provide the user with a useful heuristic. It does not make moral judgements about the software you use like you are saying here.

But this is empirically not a good heuristic ?

It usually makes you have a quick rundown about what you are trying to run. If it's some software I got from the projects original GitHub page I make a note of that and proceed. If it's something that should surely not be "rarely used" (eg. A browser,video player,torrent client, etc) I think twice.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by criddell »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #201
criddell wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares about operating systems any more? That seems like a solved problem and frankly all the major ones are fine these days. Computers are chosen based on applications. If you want to play games, you are probably buying a Windows PC. Developing iOS apps? You want a Mac. If you just need a browser, then a Chrome Book or iPad is probably a good choice. I'd bet a lot of people here use three or more operating system…

First, you have to be able to afford so many different machines for all these different tasks. Good luck if you are from a working class background. It's unconscionable to suggest that one needs multiple computers for various purposes when they are all general purpose computers on the inside.

It's no more unconscionable than to suggest that a person may need a pickup truck for their job in construction during the week and a sports car for their racing hobby on the weekend.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by selfhoster11 »

criddell wrote: post #203
selfhoster11 wrote: post #201

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First, you have to be able to afford so many different machines for all these different tasks. Good luck if you are from a working class background. It's unconscionable to suggest that one needs multiple computers for various purposes when they are all general purpose computers on the inside.

It's no more unconscionable than to suggest that a person may need a pickup truck for their job in construction during the week and a sports car for their racing hobby on the weekend.

Except that the very point of a general purpose computer is that, to use your analogy, your car can spontaneously sprout parts and reform the chassis as needed. Aluminium frame with a pair of wings and four jet engines one week for that overseas trip, a heavy duty frame with a winch for the construction job on Friday, a napalm launcher for fighting kudzu in your front yard (a stretched analogy, but you can see where I'm going with this).

All of this is enabled by software, which costs nothing at all to replicate unless it's restricted via copyright law. This is very much unlike every other hobby, where specialised tools cost money to duplicate.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by criddell »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #204
criddell wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's no more unconscionable than to suggest that a person may need a pickup truck for their job in construction during the week and a sports car for their racing hobby on the weekend.

Except that the very point of a general purpose computer is that, to use your analogy, your car can spontaneously sprout parts and reform the chassis as needed. Aluminium frame with a pair of wings and four jet engines one week for that overseas trip, a heavy duty frame with a winch for the construction job on Friday, a napalm launcher for fighting kudzu in your front yard (a stretched analogy, but you can see where…

I wish it were just a matter of software. It would be nice if my iPad could magically have a GPU as good as my gaming PC or my gaming PC could become a 12" tablet with a 10 hour battery life.

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by Ecstatify »

teddyh wrote: post #190
Ecstatify wrote: post #158

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Off the top of my head (Nestlé boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott (Nike boycott) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20... (South Africa boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_Stores_strike Going into the registry is madness, especially when you're purchasing a license for the OS. Personally I'm going to get a new mac when they get the ram up to 64GB with the new p…

The last one of those was a strike , not a boycott. (Also, I don’t think that Irish government altered their import policy because of eleven striking workers at one store.) Concerning the other two, the Nestlé boycott does not seem to have had much, if any, impact, and it’s at least debatable if the Nike one did much, and if it did, then the impact is not due to informed individuals “speaking with their wallet”, but…

They held a strike because they refused to handle south African goods which is essentially a boycott. Their actions led to a lot of publicity in the country and internationally at the time which put pressure on the Government to act.

“We got an awful lot of knocks back. People who we thought would have supported us: the Church, the government – who were all members of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement at the time,” she said.

The Dunnes strikers were given their greatest endorsement when the South African Bishop Desmond Tutu – at the time a vocal and renowned critic of apartheid – asked to meet them as he travelled to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in the December after the strike started.

https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-stores-strike-8-3690382-Nov...

If a boycott gets popular it's eventually going to get media coverage no?

Re: Reclaim Windows10

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Post by rasz »

112233 wrote: post #193
abrookewood wrote: post #186

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Please try Everything if you have never tried it before. It is BLAZINGLY fast. From memory it runs off the File Allocation Table to achieve its speed.

Looks like it still needs to build index of file names for searching. If you need to search local ntfs drive, try https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/ It does not build any indexes, and always shows up to date results (by scanning MFT)

It doesnt, running it in the background to build up cache is optional.
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