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Win11 upgrade
You mean going from 10 to 11?
You mean going from 10 to 11?
That is a downgrade, an upgrade is going from 10 to 7, or better still, Linux.
You do know what is THE MOST superior OS? The one nobody uses. The second most superior OS is the one that does the least.
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I have non-licked Mint running in a virtual machine but need Windows for CAD and point cloud processing. My fast, new Alder Lake machine supposedley can take advantage of priority processing (Thread Director or something) but only with Windows 11.
I won’t trade reliability for a bit of additional speed though, so I’m interested in experiences with Windows 11.
Have installed 11 on on test machine in work. It hasn’t broken anything we need, but to be fair we mostly need to access remote systems on Citrix or some sort of remote desktop… these all still work, with no more than expected poking. All the 10 boxen have felt slow for a while, which I am only half jokingly describing as a push to move them to 11.
Huh?
For people whose politics is a kind of jewellery. For display purposes.
I won’t trade reliability for a bit of additional speed though,
Smart man.
it seems chiefly to be a visual refresh more than anything hefty
It is. People get their panties in a twist whenever Microsoft changes the desktop shell in any way, but the shell is the most trivial part of the OS and the easiest to swap out for something more to one’s liking. Win11 is mostly about support for newer hardware, like the mixed core CPU chips coming out. Stuff you won’t see and won’t notice. It’s only called “Windows 11” because they changed the shell; under the hood it’s just another semi-annual feature update.
That is a downgrade, an upgrade is going from 10 to 7, or better still, Linux.
Tell me you’ve never been paid to maintain a computer without telling me you’ve never been paid to maintain a computer.
You do know what is THE MOST superior OS? The one nobody uses. The second most superior OS is the one that does the least.
So FreeBSD and OS X then, respectively.
Huh?
Lianna – the browner version of Pat from the old Saturday Night Live TV show. Definitely for politics as jewelry types, as David said, because that first ad panel has zero to do with the NYT unless you’re just massively virtue signalling that you’re one of the Good people with all the correct thoughts.
People get their panties in a twist whenever Microsoft changes the desktop shell in any way
With good reason: A new interface means lots of re-learning. All the old reflexes may no longer work. They may occupy new places in radically rearranged menus and screens, and they may have new names too. Learning a new interface takes me longer today than when I was younger, and I dread what it will be like when I’m ten years older. Not that the dorks at Microsoft give a rat’s ass about people like me. I’m only thankful that auto manufacturers do not redesign interfaces as radically as computer software manufacturers do.
under the hood it’s just another semi-annual feature update.
Don’t we have to have some hardware switch flipped? I just checked my box I built through PCPartspicker (AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core processor) and W11 won’t work on it.
Win11 is mostly about support for newer hardware, like the mixed core CPU chips coming out. Stuff you won’t see and won’t notice….
I have heard that it drops support for some older hardware–that is, there are Win10 machines which cannot be upgraded to Win11.
I won’t trade reliability for a bit of additional speed though
Every new version of every software product runs slower and requires more memory. No matter how well built your computer, eventually it will be unable to run your apps. And then there is the tendency for new versions of apps to depend on new OS features and libraries, so that they cannot run at all on older versions of the OS.
“auto manufacturers do not redesign interfaces as radically”
Recently drove an Audi, BMW, Ford, and Tesla in a 3 day span. Couldn’t wait to get back in 5 spd…
Recently drove an Audi, BMW, Ford, and Tesla in a 3 day span. Couldn’t wait to get back in 5 spd…
Hey, my BMW is a 5 spd. It is 20 years old though.
Recently drove an Audi, BMW, Ford, and Tesla in a 3 day span. Couldn’t wait to get back in 5 spd…
Slightly funny, but not relevant: We’ve had manual- and automatic-transmission cars for a long time. It’s not like manufacturers are rearranging the floor pedals and the positions on the gearshifts. Or, to get really crazy a la Silicon Valley, eliminating pedals and steering wheels and replacing them with trackballs.
“and the positions on the gearshift”
Ahem. Where’s “park” again?
Ahem. Where’s “park” again?
Um, I don’t think that manual cars have a “park”; you put it in neutral and put engage the brake. But what is your point? Please don’t try to be witty; just state your case.
Ahem. Where’s “park” again?
I’ve never owned a car built past 1989. A couple months ago I drove my uncle’s (2017?) work van for the first time. I went to put it into gear and instead turned the windshield wipers on.
I went to put it into gear and instead turned the windshield wipers on.
Was a different make, right?
So FreeBSD and OS X then, respectively.
Well, exactly. Demand for fixes/patches is inversely proportional to the number of new bugs introduced.
I saw this day coming decades ago. The multiplicity of OS’s and their versions piled on top of the multiple versions of the multiple platforms an sub platforms increasingly complexity pretty much exponentially. Even before I somehow got cornered into being the company’s product expert on third party tools. I’m not one for literally interpreting the Bible, nor even its predictive powers, but I’ve always suspected that there was much more than metaphor in the Tower of Babel story.
A new interface means lots of re-learning.
Yes, I really appreciate software that allows keyboard commands (even better is the ability to assign custom command aliases).
I find ribbon-type menus that change depending on context harder to use.
Do you know what annoys me aside from shitty kerning, YouTubers pronouncing the letter ‘s’ as ‘sh’ (a la Sean Connery) and software ribbon interfaces?
People who say words like “mistakingly” instead of “mistakenly”, presumably because they think people who say “mistaken” are actually mistaken and are wrongly saying “mistakin” by dropping the ‘g’ sound.
So they verbally “correct” the word to a word that doesn’t even exist and think they’re speaking proper English, not like those dummies saying “mistakin”.
YouTubers pronouncing the letter ‘s’ as ‘sh’ (a la Sean Connery)
You’ve got me there: Isn’t Sean supposed to be pronounced that way? Did you perhaps have other examples in mind?
Bad kerning doesn’t bother me too much, maybe because I grew up with fixed-pitch typewriters and mainframe/minicomputer terminals and printers. More annoying and frustrating are fonts which are just hard to read. I recently had to use a government website where any text I entered was in a font was in a font which was hard to read because it was composed of very narrow strokes. (What’s the opposite of Bold? Shy? Cowardly?) And then there are the dorks who, on their personal web pages, choose combinations of font color and background color which are very hard to read. (Dark blue on black? Yellow on orange? Pale green on white? Cringe.)
“I went to put it into gear and instead turned the windshield wipers on.”
Or worse, Benz’s new habit of making “park” a press (towards the steering column) of the right hand stalk. ‘Tis weird, that. Point is that some automakers have departed from the PRNDL design, making the basics of engaging/disengaging drive a learning curve.
The human interface problem I encounter most often is over-use of keyboard shortcuts: Some software geeks just love to implement them for just about every purpose you can think of, many of which will be used so infrequently that the user might just as well select the action from the menu. And none of the apps I use have a “disable all but the most frequently used shortcuts” option. The result is that I frequently make a typo and something surprising happens–a pane disappears, the window closes, and so on. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out how to un-do what happened, and sometimes it cannot be undone. Young software geeks tend to not understand this: I have had face-to-face conversations with these assholes whose response is little more than a smirk. (Fortunately I am now retired and do not have to deal with them on a day-to-day basis; only with their products.)
Canada now proving that when government suspends rights for “emergency situations” or “extraordinary times”, they aren’t just loathe to give them up, but move to make them permanent.
Hitler issued an emergency decree as a result of the Reichstag fire (supposedly by communists) and this allowed him to consolidate power. I bet trudeau will not suspend it once the truckers are gone. This is the flimsiest pretext for tyranny I’ve ever seen: some horn honking. The news today in the US reported it as a “siege” of the capitol. They are now proceeding to seize bank accounts, based on the protest being “illegal”. Ruining people over a misdemeanor, sure, totally reasonable.
Ha! Similar to the way Sean Connery often pronounced the letter ‘s’, not how the name ‘Sean’ is pronounced.
They are now proceeding to seize bank accounts…
Freeze, not seize, I believe. But that is bad enough.
What’s more: They have not been freezing the bank accounts/suspending the insurance/etc of Antifa and BLM thugs, anti-logging and anti-pipeline terrorists and saboteurs, etc. A very telling.
Atheists and Neopagans Posting their L’s
Point is that some automakers have departed from the PRNDL design, making the basics of engaging/disengaging drive a learning curve.
Maybe 20 years ago or so I rented a French made car (forget the manufacturer) somewhere over yonder, I think the UK. A standard transmission with some weird quirk where in order to put it in reverse you had to pull up on some additional ring/collar device in the stick shift in addition to shifting. Actually recall now it was the UK back in 2002. It was so bloody awkward, especially as y’all reverse everything over there thus I’m shifting with my right hand and I had somewhat recently bought my first automatic in years and initially needed to relearn the process. None of that would normally be a big deal but throwing this stupid “safety” feature on top of things was not helpful…nor “safe”. Any idea whose idea that was? Was it a UK requirement? Did it go away? About 6 years ago I rented a car in Italy (don’t recall the manufacturer) and it did not have that silly device. At least I don’t remember it. Nor on the one I rented 12 years ago in Ireland.
Regarding keyboard “features”, I have a bad habit of holding down the shift key for a long time when thinking deeply at a keyboard. This has only happened when coding, never anything else. Well doing so on Windoze it puts you into an accessibility mode (or at least used to) that I could never remember how to get out of. I would have to call a blind friend of mine to remind me what the magic sequence was to get out of it.
it puts you into an accessibility mode (or at least used to) that I could never remember how to get out of.
It’s difficult to look up help for a feature when you don’t know what it’s called. And who can be expected to know the names of features they never use and have never heard of?
Also, this stupid twitter thing. It’s so bloody stupid. I now use a separate browser (Safari) explicitly for reading Scott Adams. But I’ve tired of having to clear cookies etc. (especially the login stuff for blogs, etc. where I don’t GAF about the “security” of my passwords there) on the one I usually use (Brave right now) for every link that unbeknownst to me goes to twitter. Damn thing locks up my iPad screen for 5-10 seconds before it clears.
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along: Jeffrey Epstein’s pimp Jean-Luc Brunel dies in prison ‘suicide’. And there was no security camera.
“[ Nonchalantly licks his Minty Linux installation ]”
I’m as amazed as everyone else that I haven’t mentioned this before. I await chastisement by the Archmages for dereliction of duty.
“Huh?”
Utterly deranged.
“I won’t trade reliability for a bit of additional speed though,”
Did I mention that I… ? Oh yes, just up th~#^%$zzzz000…
Sorry. Browser crashed. But it’s fast.
“They have not been freezing the bank accounts/suspending the insurance/etc of Antifa and BLM thugs, anti-logging and anti-pipeline terrorists and saboteurs, etc.”
Yesterday, at the very same time that the massed forces of various Canadian police jurisdictions were busy smashing up a block party on Parliament Hill.
Brunel: looks like the Left has brought back the gallows.
Or worse, Benz’s new habit of making “park” a press (towards the steering column) of the right hand stalk.
Any electric parking brake, for that matter, though they seem to be all the rage these days as it is impossible to do a proper bootleg turn with one.
However, it gets to the central problem of adding gimmickry for the sake of gimmickry at the expense of durability, reliability, and/or usability, rather than just make incremental improvements where they are needed (cough, MS, cough).
Coastal gaslink: antifa for sure but RCMP won’t catch anyone because the Left wants gas and oil destoyed.
Brunel: looks like the Left has brought back the gallows.
For those whose testimony might inconvenience the ruling class.
Was a different make, right?
Someone decided that a better place for the gear selector would be sticking out of the dashboard.
Someone decided that a better place for the gear selector would be sticking out of the dashboard.
Dashboard or steering wheel?
Steering column, I should have said.
Okay, google tells me that there have been a few cars with the shift lever on the dash!
Coastal gaslink: antifa for sure…
More like a coalition of Anarchists, Antifa and “Native Warriors.”
Oh and natives are conveniently exempted from action under the Emergencies Act being used against the Convoy.
“central problem of adding gimmickry for the sake of gimmickry at the expense of durability, reliability, and/or usability,”
My ’15 F150 – press a button on the steering wheel, and then carry on a 60 second conversation w/the system and presto, change fan speed/temps/heated seats/etc.
Or just lean over and turn the knob…
and then carry on a 60 second conversation w/the system and presto, change fan speed/temps/heated seats/etc.
I wonder how much that adds to the cost of the truck.
Or just lean over and turn the knob.
Which makes you wonder why the hell they put the other crap in there to begin with. Every BMW to the mid ’90s, heater, A/C controlled by knobs, levers, and Bowdin cables, replaced with an electrical unit that fails at around 90,000 miles (time is not a factor) that either has to be replaced with an OEM unit that a dealer has to program (assuming one doesn’t have the right stuff to do it oneself), replaced with one someone else rebuilt, or chase down the bad capacitor and replace it yourself (meanwhile the levers and Bowdin cables on the ’88 work perfectly).
A friend was showing off his new internet connected refrigerator – “I can control the temperature with my phone”, “Can’t you just do that on the control panel?” “Sure, but I can do it with my phone”, “OK, but why would you?”, ” “.
I wonder how much that adds to the cost of the truck.
A lot if you have seen the price of new trucks, or refrigerators, or washers, etc. etc.