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In a nurse/patient context, I'd say around these parts we'd call them "those on strike" and "those left to fend for themselves". :-/

(just an observation...seems to almost be an annual thing)

Great. "Those on strike" in what context the word "strike" is used here? Just trying to figure out the etymology.

noun

noun: strike; plural noun: strikes

1. a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

Meal ticket?

At the relay for life they are designated as SURVIVORS AND CAREGIVERS[^]

But I never wave bye bye

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Last night I updated my main desktop from W10 1803 to 1903. The update finished a bit after midnight. When I got to the desktop afterwards problems were immediately apparent; the whole system was lagging badly.

I fiddled around a bit before going to bed without any idea what the problem was. I continued this morning, and found the root cause right before I had to stop and head to work. Windows Defender AV was running and hogging two cores. OMG | :OMG:

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. Eventually I cut my losses and bought an F-Secure license (free versions of commercial AV are too nagy, I'm willing to pay not to be bothered); and everything had been working well until the update.

I only had a minute or two of time at that point; but the AV Settings page is showing my AV as F-Secure and "Run occasional Defender scans as a second check" is off. The registry key that's also supposed to serve as an off switch was set but obviously not working.

Agenda for when I'm home is to try a reboot (just because it's an easy thing to try), and then go through a turn off/back on cycle with F-Secure to see if that prods Defender into turning itself off. If that doesn't work I'll probably resume ranting here while trying other things. Mad | :mad:

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

A couple of months back, found W10 to be painfully slow. I did not looked up if it is hardware or OS or some other software. I made the computer dual boot with Linux. Speaker volume is low on ubuntu but everything else is fine. Now I do not face any of these issues.

I still use W10 at work though and apart from BSODs it is OK.

"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

I use Win10 at home and at work, great performance on both, no BSOD etc. Suggesting that Win10 performs badly and has BSODs is a little silly, no?

F-ES Sitecore wrote:
I use Win10 at home and at work, great performance on both, no BSOD etc. Suggesting that Win10 performs badly and has BSODs is a little silly, no?

well from what I read he is only reporting what he actually sees.
calling actual experiences "suggestions" is ~~a little silly~~ just plain wrong no? What color is the sky where you live?

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lopatir wrote:
well from what I read he is only reporting what he actually sees.

As am I. Same product, different observations so maybe it isn't the product where the issue lies?

sooooo, he is silly for reporting what he sees, and you're not.
well that's fair. Not.

and BTW: he did say "the whole system was lagging badly ... defender is using lots of CPU" - it's you that's pinning it on win10 (in fact later he names his antivirus app suggesting the problem may lie between it and win10, not just win10 on it's own).

different people have different experiences,
why take it so personally to the point of calling people "silly" (it's a gentle word but abuse is abuse) just because people have a different experience than you? that IS silly.

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lopatir wrote:
sooooo, he is silly for reporting what he sees, and you're not.

No, he is silly for implying that his personal observation was the norm.

As for the rest of your comments, my post was in response to lw@zi, not the OP, so there is no point responding to them.

F-ES Sitecore wrote:
Suggesting that Win10 performs badly and has BSODs is a little silly, no?

Not unless it is performing badly and has BSODs. Then it would be factual.

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Factual, but a useless observation trying to promote false equivalence.

Windows Defender is hogging CPU because it's trying to resolve the "Windows is the virus" paradox.

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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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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

Linux fanboi's are more annoying than Apple fanbois these days.

Dead | X|

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

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.

If you think that's annoying you can't claim to have met actual Apple fanbois.

But there's a new level today, Tesla fanbois. Same as Apple, but add two zeroes to the price tag.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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.

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.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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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