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Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

mystes posted:

Didn't they say they were changing feature updates to make them faster or something? Did that never happen?

They changed fall 2019 to install as a normal update, and they're doing the same with fall 2020. So far the spring updates are still reinstalls.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2020 12:25

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 09:56

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

doctorfrog posted:

Standby for tinfoil.

I object to any amount of telemetry collected on any device, without my consent, that I own or have in my home. I object to being opted-in to any telemetry by default. If a signal is being sent somewhere without your consent or control, it's wrong.

Further, I don't need to cite anything to justify my suspicions, a tech company should actively seek to earn my trust before collecting any information. Any opt-in gathering of information from a device I own is itself untrustworthy. I should not have to seek out the information collected about me and evaluate it for whether or not I approve of it; the fact that it is collected at all without my express approval and permission is objectionable enough.

Yes, I live in the real world. Yes, I use products all the time that do this. But just because it's everywhere, done by everyone, and is or is not benign is not justification for opt-in collection of information. I should be asked permission, it should be turned off by default, and I should have the ability to fully use the product I paid for with information collection turned off.

I think you mean opt-out? But agreed.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 04:47

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Flip Yr Wig posted:

So I had assumed that I had access to a student discount from my school when I built a new PC. It's looking like that will be more complicated than I expected and might take a while to sort out. I went ahead and installed Windows without a license in the meanwhile. If I activate it later, will Windows need to reinstall, or will it just accept it as registered and unlock the relevant features?

For activation, you just have to enter the key and you'll be done.

But what relevant features? If you mean the wallpaper being locked and similar, because it's unregistered, that's all you need to worry about. But if you're talking about Home vs. Pro you can switch over without activating. Just go into airplane mode and enter the generic key for Windows 10 Pro (VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T) under Start Menu > Settings > Update & security > Activation > Change the product key.

Changing version requires a reboot, but shouldn't disrupt anything.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2020 03:47

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

THF13 posted:

[*]Install game software like Steam in custom directory like C:\Games to keep game installs out of Program Files. Makes modding games avoid issues with Windows security settings

Steam sets custom loose permissions on the game data folder, is that not enough for modding tools to be happy?

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 10:03

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

There's plenty of perfectly good syncing software out there. I don't know why you'd use backup software and manual syncing.

Try https://freefilesync.org/ in two way mode.

Dylan16807 fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Feb 13, 2021

# ¿ Feb 13, 2021 02:47

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

The Lord Bude posted:

I feel like the real problem with eye strain here is people sitting in the dark. I get having a night mode on your phone that you might glance at in bed but when you're at your computer why not just have the lights on? sitting in the dark is so gloomy. I never watch TV or use my computer in the dark; and I've never had an issue with eye strain despite spending most of my spare time in front of a screen and basically being nocturnal.

Lighting up the whole room will take care of eye strain but it sure won't help sleep rhythms.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2021 16:05

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Internet Explorer posted:

Infosec is all about layers. A firewall that you expect to solve all of your problems is the exact opposite of a modern security approach.

Running an extra minimal number of background processes is probably better defense in depth than having two firewalls.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 01:35

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

Wow thank you for the explanation. I thought I was going crazy.

I added the solder to the bottom part of the motherboard, where the capacitor legs barely show up. Is this what you're referring to? I don't think I'd be able to get solder on the other parts of the legs as there's really no room under the capacitor for the iron.

The funny thing too is I never really looked at what a capacitor is doing in general and I still kind of can't tell (I know they like store power or something). I was checking continuity and I noticed all these capacitors are kind of all just connected together on the same metal "plane". I actually don't even know why polarity matters! It looks like everything is just all connected to one common ground spot on the motherboard or something! (I know this is going well beyond the scope of the thread by the way!)

The voltage converter that powers the cpu outputs little bursts of power, so capacitors are used to stabilize the voltage and average it out over a fraction of a second.

They are like batteries but much much faster to absorb and release power, and much much lower capacity.

The reason big capacitors care about polarity is pretty simple: they are made of very thin layers of very fragile substances, and it's cheaper to design the layers under the assumption that one side is always positive

# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 10:14

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

Yeah it's exactly everything you just mentioned. Plus I needed a good desoldering tool anyway because like I previously mentioned, I have and own arcade cabinet monitors I want to fix.

Cool to know! Thank you! I am familiar with resistors and their purposes, it just seemed confusing that capacitors are all connected to one another and I couldn't figure out their exact purpose!

The amount of capacitance you need to smooth out a hundred watts is inherently bulky, so the choice is between a bunch of medium-size capacitors all connected together or some really big ones. Medium-size ones are easier to deal with, easier to hook up with lower total resistance, and they let you get better placement.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 19:12

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Or if you do want more battery analogies, consider what might happen if you took a running car, pulled out the battery, and shorted together all the cables that were attached to it.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 08:25

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Deviant posted:

i think they're fixing that soon

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22407995/microsoft-windows-apps-rearranging-sleep-resume-fix-directx-12

I can't find a source right now but I believe that fix will only apply to monitors turning on and off within a few seconds of the computer going to sleep or waking up. If you manually turn just your screens off everything will still go wrong.

# ¿ May 17, 2021 02:46

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Klyith posted:

it's a glorified patch tuesday with almost zero new features.

To emphasize that, this version of windows is 19043, with the 19 meaning it's based on the development branch from 2019.

Effectively we're still on 20H1 (which was 19041).

# ¿ May 19, 2021 23:53

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

Also I just watched a guy on YouTube install Windows 11 on a laptop from 2002 so there really is no need to worry about tpm or cpu or anything.

I do hope it's not a bloated rear end OS though and actually runs faster than 10.

The worry isn't that the perfectly adequate processor will fail, it's that Microsoft will add some kind of lockout that prevents the OS from working right. Like when windows 7 refused to update on certain processors.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2021 06:16

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Not to be that guy, but it's months away from official release, it's going to be very unpolished at this rate. Different story if it's a release product, but sure finding bugs is part of the enjoyment.

Unless you're drunk WattsvilleBlues in 2005 or 2006 installing Windows Vista Beta 2 over XP and waking up to find all my university work consigned to history.

The UI changes aren't even that big, which makes it weird that things are broken all over, and the best estimate is that they only have 3 months left. They could fix it all in time but it's not a great sign.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2021 03:10

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

Klyith posted:

There are a few categories of non-virus software that heuristic scanning frequently has problems with. Hack & piracy tools is one. Demoscene stuff is another:

Look at the date, I just took that screenshot. I only have like 50 demos, but it's so normal for one of them to get a false-positive that all I had to do was remove the ignore for that folder and try it. Generally 50/50 coinflip whether one of them gets picked up.

But let's look at this as a different lesson to learn: having a NAS as a permanently mounted drive with full write permissions across the whole shebang is a bad idea. If you do that it means software or human error can erase your data. Now you need offline backups of all the poo poo on the NAS, because raid isn't a backup.

That guy popped off with the most inflammatory post he could write and spammed reddit because he's pissed that his old keygens that are impossible to find got deleted. Defender's quarantine failed, which sucks, but his setup was such that everything on his NAS had zero resilience. If he actually got hit by malware, his whole NAS would be crypto'd. And he doesn't have backups.

So the lesson is not "turn off defender because MS is deleting piracy tools". The lesson is "don't have fragile setups where one mistake causes lost data, because mistakes happen".

They're both pretty good lessons. Exclusions and quarantine not working is a big deal.

Even with backups, it's a bad idea to use software that deletes your files.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2021 05:26

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 09:56

Dylan16807: May 12, 2010

https://betanews.com/2021/07/28/microsoft-says-it-will-not-be-possible-to-bypass-windows-11-system-requirements/ posted:

That group policy will not enable you to get around the hardware enforcement for Windows 11. We're still going to block you from upgrading your device to an unsupported state since we really want to make sure that your devices stay supported and secure.

Because Windows 10 without TPM 2.0 is going to be more secure than Windows 11 without TPM 2.0, somehow?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2021 01:43

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