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[Byron]

Also, HiPoyion! How are you feeling these days? I was just thinking like dang haven’t heard from you in a while.

I'm alive. I've been sleeping a LOT
It feels like any bit of sleep I lost at any point in my life is being made up now.

I've got a lot of college work to do.

Thanks for asking.

 

[ZenVirZan]

windows garbage, but windows 10 is something else holy fucking shit

ive been building a pc for my brother's friend and i bought a 7th gen cpu and of course microsoft has blocked updates on 8.1 because "fuck you" so i needed to get win 10 for the new machine and move on from 8.1

this atrocity of an os has taken down the net in our household for the last few hours. "delivery optimisation service" has maxed out our bandwith nonstop. not BITS, i know that shit is for updates. i checked windows update and it hasnt even checked for updates yet

what the fuck is it doing
did anyone test this
what the fuck
how is this ok
how are people okay with this
does literally the entire world have fibre and not notice this shit
what the fuck
not everyone is made of money and can afford to have each fucking computer on your network leech bandwidth for absolutely no fucking reason holy shit im so mad

EDIT: I WOULD GOOGLE WHAT THE FUCK DELIVERY SERVICE IS MEANT TO DO BUT MY NET IS FUCKING DEAD REEEEEEEEEEEEE

EDIT2: ok so it appears to be related to local network updates but this is the only pc with win 10 so wtf i checked windows update and it hasnt even checked for updates yet

Spoiler: EDIT3: kill me

 

[Xilef]

Only issues I had with Win10 was when it was very first released and decided to replace my graphics drivers with the shitty Microsoft compatibility driver and it took me a few hours to remove the original drivers AND the Microsoft shit ones just to be able to re-install the original drivers.

I think Windows 10 collectively got a bad name because of the adverts and data tracking (stuff I turned off immediately) and at the moment any issues with Windows 10 are just added to the bucket, even if they're issues that are not very common and are happening in exceptional circumstances.

I still prefer Windows 8.1 (AKA; Windows apology edition) because I had customised that system to be ideal for my needs (I even added a custom Start Menu) and it had far less bloat than Windows 10, but at this point in time I think there's little reason to stick with 8.1 beyond irrational stubbornness.

 

[ZenVirZan]

ok im calm rage over

yeah its mainly the initial install experience that i hate. the fact that you don't know whats going on is the shittiest thing ever

im the same - my main windows install is 8.1 with classic start.

EDIT: i just realised this whole time its been downloading fucking phone games
thats what it was doing
i ha ve n o wor ds

 

[Mega Flare]

I saw Star wars last night. Ask me anything

 

[Ellie]

What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?

 

[Mega Flare]

What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?

Cats

 

[Nathaniel3W]

In searching for ways to roll back Windows updates, I came across an article that politely called the Creators Update rollout an unpaid beta test. I had to roll back Windows 10 Creators Update twice because both times they sent me a build that completely did not work with Unreal Engine 3. I literally could not even save a level. This is my job now and both times my computer updated I lost most of a day's worth of work. With anything short of the enterprise edition, they don't even let you opt out of updates. At best you can only delay their installation 24 hours at a time.

 

[aphadeon]

(stuff I turned off immediately)

You probably meant "stuff i set to only basic data collection".
Even with registry hacks, hostfile edits, you cannot turn off basic data collection, which reportedly still includes keyboard input and mouse clicks (I haven't tested the packets myself, so I'm trusting other people that claim to have).

If I'm wrong, please share instructions. Win10 bypasses hosts file for most Microsoft stuff. I added the suggested list anyway. I've set my connection to metered, I've tightened every option available in privacy (including setting data collection to Basic Data, which is the lowest option in Pro, at least). I used group policy editor to defer updates, so I only get them every 90 days, and thanks to the metered connection flag I only get critical updates.

I do have the tool to block specific updates, so I suppose I could go in every day-before-90-days and block them all, but... that's kind of a pain.

Don't get me wrong - I absolutely love Windows 10 as an OS - beautiful interface, software compatibility, control panel. But the whole "OS as a service" thing, not cool. I waited a year just to upgrade because I find it so uncool. I don't like having the possibility of turning my computer on one day to be denied service because I broke a rule (which probably includes stuff like no custom themes that I didnt buy from M$, no blocking updates, no reverse engineering anything, etc). In practice, it will likely not play out that way. But I'm not a fan of leaving that possibility open.

I guess the simplest way to put it is that I love the product, Windows (with a couple excepted gripes about Win10), but not a big fan of the company behind it.


If there's a way to turn off the last critical updates and "basic" data collection, I'd be very happy. I really, really want to be wrong on this one, please prove me wrong lol

 

[coyotecraft]

Got my presents wrapped and under the tree.

 

[Ellie]

Hey so guys um yeah if anyone has any like um ideas for how to you know improve the site or anything like that what is good and that could happen to be thinking about alluding to a process which may or may not but perhaps would make things generally better that would be you know um useful and stuff.

Also I have modded aphadeon because we're kinda at risk of our mod team dying out.

 

[Mega Flare]

I should of been mod! I have to oldest active account!

 

[Xilef]

It's literally signing up to be on the spam cleaning crew

 

[Fayte]

Got my presents wrapped and under the tree.

read that as “got my parents wrapped under the tree”

I was about to shut my internet off for the day.

 

[Mega Flare]

I remember the time I was an admin for a bit. Good times

 

[bacon]

Hey so guys um yeah if anyone has any like um ideas for how to you know improve the site or anything like that what is good and that could happen to be thinking about alluding to a process which may or may not but perhaps would make things generally better that would be you know um useful and stuff.

Also I have modded aphadeon because we're kinda at risk of our mod team dying out.

We are at risk for the site dying out

 

[bacon]

I should of been mod! I have to oldest active account!

After dadevster, we swore we would never have one of you god damn Canadians on our mod team EVER again. We learned our lesson

 

[bacon]

I saw Star wars last night. Ask me anything

What did you think? Opinions? Its really got a lot of people split

 

[ZenVirZan]

I saw Star wars last night. Ask me anything

What did you think? Opinions? Its really got a lot of people split

i know this wasnt directed at me, but i saw it on opening weekend and really enjoyed it

im aware im a really shit judge of movie due to how few i watch but i super enjoyed what i saw

 

[Mega Flare]

I saw Star wars last night. Ask me anything

What did you think? Opinions? Its really got a lot of people split

I enjoyed it. The internet is just whinny bitches