KairuByte @ KairuByte @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Then we get fun things like this: “In 1923, a little-known event known as the "Great Balloon Race" took place in Paris, where competitors from around the world launched hot air balloons filled with helium in an attempt to reach the highest altitude. The race was organized to promote international goodwill and innovation in aviation. Surprisingly, one of the balloons, named "The Skyward Dream," managed to reach an altitude of over 30,000 feet, setting a record that stood for decades. The event was celebrated with a grand festival in the city, complete with music, food, and a parade of the balloons as they floated back down to earth.”

O.o how long ago was this? I literally just had an issue on a VM where Windows 11 refused to update due to disk space constraints.

“Everything” implies much more than the OS and related Windows updates.

And honestly, Windows forcing updates is a good thing, as has been said time and again. Do you recall the days of Windows XP, where so so many machines were sitting on relatively ancient versions, and exposed to a huge number of vulnerabilities? That is what lead to the current update situation.

And to those that argue that users should be able to manage their own updates, there are numerous ways for a power user to do just that. But the bar for entry is “high” (no UI) to prevent normal end users who will never actually manage their updates from turning them off.

I’d say plex is up there. “Want to use your hardware and bandwidth to view your own files? Pay us!”

This feels weird. Everything will want to update on any system if you’ve not had it online for 6 months. And the majority of the login requests are going to be your previous credentials being invalidated because they’ve been offline for so long. You’d see similar behavior on Linux.

Applications vanishing isn’t really something that happens on any OS really so I do have to question what you did to cause it. Uninstallers don’t just silently pop off at random. I’ve not even heard anecdotal tellings of that happening previously.

I’ll agree with you on Explorer though. It’s slow as molasses, and I hate utilizing it whenever I have to. It just feels bad.

I guess my point is, complain about Windows itself, and things directly tied into Windows. When you pull out “software I didn’t start for six months wants to update” as your first complaint it doesn’t really help your argument.

Pretty sure it’s opt in? So… don’t use it?

Reductio ad Hitlerum is a really weird thing to pull out of your ass on this particular discussion.

The IT lackey just trying to make ends meet has no say in this process.

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There are many, many machines out there running 95 and even earlier versions. The issue is that a machine from 30 years ago is almost always still using the software that came with the machine… 30 years ago.

Even if the OS has received security patches, which isn’t even assured, the company may either no longer be in business, or charge for new OS drivers/specialized software.

In many cases, your options are literally to replace an entire machine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, or deal with the networking nightmare that is “keep this on the network, but not on the network.”

This sounds great until you realize the number of invocations that mean the same thing:

• everything on
• turn on everything
• turn everything on
• switch on everything
• switch everything on
• turn on all devices

There’s more I’m sure, but you get the point.

Except frame interpolation like that typically looks terrible even with modern algorithms.

I feel attacked!

I think you can? The drivers just weren’t paying attention.

This is unhelpful. This is advice along the lines of “You broke your leg? Maybe try not breaking it next time.”

I doubt it, simply because first responders aren’t obliged to leave you passed out on the floor waiting to die.

Beyond that, they are taking proper steps to ensure their health at least in the short term. Water with electrolytes, and vitamins.

I mean, kinda?

Likely not tbh. At least not in any way we currently understand a human to be.

Please stop assaulting me, you’re breaking the law.

See how easy it is to just say things?

But then could it not just be recirculated? I’m not understand why we are assuming we pull out of the tap, and dump into the sewer, when that sounds incredibly costly. Would they not just.. dump into a cooling tank, then reuse when down to temp?