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The last time I did a Windows update, it was to replace it with Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It has been a while since I saw that sort of signature:
Driven into the arms of Linux by Windows
Anyway, these days you don't have to be a fanboi of anything to run away from Mickeysoft.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If you think that's annoying you can't claim to have met actual Apple fanbois.
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But there's a new level today, Tesla fanbois. Same as Apple, but add two zeroes to the price tag.
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Good observation.
Unlike Apple, I like what Tesla is doing (or trying to do), but they really need to take their claims down a notch. For one, "auto-pilot" is nowhere near what they make it out to be. That annoys me, and this is the sort of thing fanboy-ism is built around - so it's not deserved.
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dandy72 wrote: For one, "auto-pilot" is nowhere near what they make it out to be
And it never will be, well maybe i California. But I live in a country where the roads are full of sleet and slush half the year. Those cameras doesn't work properly half the year.
dandy72 wrote: I like what Tesla is doing (or trying to do)
I don't actually.
I don't believe putting half a ton of batteries in a car is the way forward, it's rather a dead end.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But I live in a country where the roads are full of sleet and slush half the year. Those cameras doesn't work properly half the year.
I'm in Canada. Draw your own conclusions.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I don't believe putting half a ton of batteries in a car is the way forward, it's rather a dead end.
I don't have a counterargument. But you'd better let the other car companies know; it seems they're all headed down that road (no pun intended).
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I believe the future lies in Hydrogen.
Wind power is cheap, on the paper, but it's not always windy. So make hydrogen when the wind blows.
The drawback with fuel cells is that they are not very high power, and they also aren't responsive. So you'll need a small battery pack, or a super capacitor.
System efficiency is pretty high though.
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I could've sworn hydrogen had been tried before, and essentially never took off because of a myriad of problems.
But hey, I'm all for diversification.
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Well, electric cars didn't take off for a hundred years.
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Many parties are to blame for that.
I dare say, the situation is rather different nowadays. Especially when you have government (from many nations) buy-in.
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I'm not a fan boi, but I cannot in good conscience advocate that someone use Windows (at least, anything newer then Win7). I will always suggest Linux at the start of a conversation, but I won't brow-beat anyone if they choose Windows. Afterall, it ain't my machine.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I will always suggest Linux at the start of a conversation, but I won't brow-beat anyone if they choose Windows. Afterall, it ain't my machine.
Even for the type you know will come to you when they encounter problems, because editing a configuration file is beyond their comprehension?
I haven't reached that point yet. I kinda wish I did. I can fiddle with my own hardware for hours (if not entire evenings or weekends), but for other people...not so much.
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#realJSOP wrote: The last time I did a Windows update, it was to replace it with Linux.
I did the same thing a few years ago. Biggest mistake of my computer life. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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"Years"?
Give it another whirl. Linux has evolved. For the better. Which I can't honestly say about Windows.
Not that I'm a Linux fanboi by any stretch.
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dandy72 wrote: "Years"?
3 or 4. Not that long ago.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That's still a relatively long time, in this industry.
Maybe it's because I tend to run Linux in VMs, and various distributions nowadays tend to know Hyper-V's virtualized hardware really well and is well supported.
That being said, I also have Linux running directly on a few laptops and the hardware support is generally working out better than Windows...for example, Windows typically needs additional drivers, whereas things on Linux tend to work out of the box. But I would still agree that if something isn't recognized from the get-go, then I will generally have a harder time getting it to work on Linux than on Windows...but that's just because I'm much more familiar with Windows than Linux, if I want to be fair.
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dandy72 wrote: Windows typically needs additional drivers, whereas things on Linux tend to work out of the box.
Are you sure about that? It has always been the opposite.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That's where your "3 or 4 years" probably start to matter.
Honestly, as a long-time Windows user, I've had to manually hunt down a lot more Windows drivers than Linux ones. I've actually been downright impressed a number of times, and software doesn't impress me easily these days.
But again, the caveat is, if I have to look for Linux drivers, then all bets are off.
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dandy72 wrote: That's where your "3 or 4 years" probably start to matter.
Really? So for 20 years driver manufacturers targeted Microsoft but in the last couple of years they are targeting linux?
Whatever. Clearly your experience and mine have been completely opposite.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I tried getting (Linux) wireless to work on a pair of old laptops, but nothing worked. Turns out I can add a wireless dongle for abut $15, but it's not really important for me.
Within the last year or so, Motherboard manufacturers have started making their drivers for linux. The ecosystem is much better than it was 3 or 4 years ago. I went wholesale Linux at home, but run Windows 7 in VMs on two boxes for dev purposes. Other than that, all 13 of my machines at home have either been upgraded to Linux, or started out their existance with with it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Um, manufacturers don't have to decide whether to support one or the other, they can support both. Most still don't give much of a crap about Linux. Especially those targeting mostly consumers.
But I would make the claim that there's an awful lot of Linux devs over the last few years who have picked up the slack and have made drivers for hardware that OEMs don't care to support on Linux.
My primary point was that nowadays, there's plenty of distributions that will work, out of the box, with random hardware that, on Windows, require additional drivers to be hunted down and installed. Random wifi chipsets, wireless printers, and things for example like volume and screen brightness that are controlled with buttons on the keyboard. Webcams that--as far as Windows is concerned--are dead products...Wireless printer setup has always been a crapshoot for me on Windows - the few I've installed on Linux have been as painless as installing a local printer. I've been a Linux hater for quite a while. These days as far as hardware support is concerned, I'm starting to feel like Windows is falling behind.
You're free to make of that what you will. I'm just relaying my experience.
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But let me re-iterate again--if it's supported out of the box, then great, you're golden. But if it's not...then getting things going is still more of a pain than on Windows (but probably, again, because I'm more familiar with Windows as far as that goes).
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Dan Neely wrote: As a few of you might remember, a bit over a year ago Defender blew up on my desktop and despite trouble shooting help from a few people here I was never able to get it to go back to using a tiny sliver of CPU time like it's supposed to.
It was probably me that helped you. You can throttle Windows Defender to only use 5% of your CPU with the Windows Defender powershell cmdlet.
You are probably looking for:
Set-MpPreference -ScanAvgCPULoadFactor 5
Documentation is here[^]
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I'll give that a shot later.
Should be interesting to see if choking off its CPU use makes my system run better because it's freeing resources, or gets worse because the WTFery it's doing before passing a link from one application to the next or etc ends up taking several times longer to complete.
My end goal is still to shut it down entirely in favor of just a 3rd party scanner. That defender is malfunctioning in one way leaves me unable to trust that it's actually working at all.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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