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Chaotic42

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Something happened to my pawpaw seedling I planted last year. The stick I had next to it disappeared, and it looks like I got stepped on. I did neither. It's bent over and half snapped at the base, so it isn't looking good for it making a comeback, but it ain't over til it's over. I hope something sprouts this spring.
I keep hearing about those, but I've never had one. I miss muscadines up here, but they do have persimmons. Maybe go get one of those little wire plant protector cages? I'd love to plant some fruiting trees, but there is a growing army of very bold deer who live in the woods right outside my house.
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Yesterday my new win10 install decided to upgrade me to 11 without my consent. At least I assume that's what it did, got a message that I have to reboot for "a new version of windows". My PC does not have TDP or whatever that chip is, so the install is probably going to fail half way through and trash the current install. On night shift now so I will deal with that when I'm off. I think there's a way to bypass that with a tool called Rufus so I will have to play with that. I'm a Linux guy now and in telecommunications at work so this windows stuff is foreign to me.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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I don't miss window's bullshit, and it seems like there was less bullshit when I quit windows than there is now. I'm much more forgiving of technical problems than I am problems that exist because some company wants to be a dick. Can't really remember the last technical problem I had on gnu/linux though. Everything works pretty well.

I guess my last problem was probably my system throwing a fit and refusing to boot when I put the drives in a different machine. That had always worked before, but didn't that time. I'm sure it was fixable, but it was more expedient just doing a new install. Not like you have to dick around with activation or asking permission to use it. You just install and get on with life. That was in 2018.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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I don't miss window's bullshit, and it seems like there was less bullshit when I quit windows than there is now. I'm much more forgiving of technical problems than I am problems that exist because some company wants to be a dick. Can't really remember the last technical problem I had on gnu/linux though. Everything works pretty well.

I guess my last problem was probably my system throwing a fit and refusing to boot when I put the drives in a different machine. That had always worked before, but didn't that time. I'm sure it was fixable, but it was more expedient just doing a new install. Not like you have to dick around with activation or asking permission to use it. You just install and get on with life. That was in 2018.
What is the bullshit of Windows? Is it privacy issues? Because mine runs very stable.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Privacy is one. Twiddling knobs on install to prevent spying,and doing it again when you update, and it reverts your settings. Don't want Edge? Yea, we'll just set it as your default browser again to make sure. Install tricks to prevent MS account creation... The system only nominally acts in the user's interest. They try to get away with as much as they can without causing a revolt.

Stability? all the NT windows have been pretty good with stability, factoring in the primitive nature of the earlier versions. It's all the other stuff.
 
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What is the bullshit of Windows?
It's mostly annoying things Windows does, in my case at least.

Some of the very annoying things that pissed me off enough that I wanted to hurt Microsoft:

On my regular Win8.1 laptop mainly used for internet browsing (I open a lot of tabs), sometimes the Windows system process will start thrashing the SSD. It will go on for 10 to 20 minutes. No idea what it's doing. Sometimes, it's the Windows Compatibility process doing that. Other times the Windows telemetry process. It takes so long that it has to be nothing but really bad programming that these processes are not able to finish their tasks in a few minutes. The laptop is otherwise great in everything else I do on it.

On a Win11 PC at work, it takes a 6C/12T Core i5 several minutes for the CPU to get idle. I have no idea why it needs to do so much processing. What exactly is going on is a mystery to me. If I had Win11 on my laptop, it would become pretty much unusable.

Then Win11 has intrusive UI changes. You never know what's gonna happen with the next update. They think everyone is stupid enough to have a dedicated machine running the beta channel of Windows so they know what kind of changes are coming up next and it won't be a rude awakening to them. Things you expected to just work don't anymore. You can't easily turn off updates in Win11 like in previous versions. They force the updates on you unless you do some group policy or registry editing crap.

I generate SHA files as part of transferring financial files to the state central bank. On at least two occasions, I copied the generated SHA file from a network share to the Win11 PC and got a NACK from the bank saying the SHA did not match the contents of the file. Some kind of bitrot happened during the file transfer. I would've immediately reverted the PC back to Win10 if I could except can't coz it's a work PC.

I was trying my hand at coding some stuff and there is an API function Microsoft provides to check if the CPU supports AVX-512. Well, guess what? It doesn't work on Cascade Lake Xeons for some reason. What is the point of even writing an API function if it fails on some hardware despite that hardware having the required features??? That's Microsoft for you.

And oh, you can't use more than 64 cores on Windows if you use the threading functionality of C++. It's a Windows limitation. You need to get deep into some stupid workarounds Microsoft has created to allow processing on more than 64 cores.

While exploring LLMs, I found out that Windows STILL has a 4GB file size limitation for EXE files. So you can't use LLAMA self contained LLMs of more than 4 billion parameters on Windows. Need to run them on Linux. Four billion parameters is maybe Baby Einstein that burps a lot and vomits quite frequently with hallucinations. It's not good enough for practical use.

And oh, freshly installed Win11 has almost ten times the background threads running on it compared to Windows Server. Probably lots of spyware processes collecting "telemetry" data. I've gotten the best benchmark runs on Windows Server for the same CPU because there is less context switching involved due to lower number of running threads. Why Microsoft insists on bogging down performance for the average user is beyond me. This is also why sometimes games show better fps on Linux.

I'm pretty sure that I could write a book about the Windows related problems I have faced in the past decade if I had documented them. If WINE on Linux worked more reliably, Libre Office duplicated 100% of Excel's common use functionality without any quirks of its own and Linux could be installed without issues on NTFS or exFAT partitions, I would switch to Linux immediately.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Oh god. Hopefully there is a way to disable that. I can't wait for gaming on Linux to get good enough that I can drop Windows completely.

Yeah it has gotten better, but still not 100%, so rather than have some games that sorta work, while some don't, I just decided to stick win10 on the gaming machine so I don't have to deal with trying to get stuff to work. Linux is still the daily driver. I'm also in middle of a firewall upgrade, I need to finish that, then I will add in all the rules to block outgoing connections to MS so that should stop all the spying crap too. I just don't want to do that now because I will have to do it again for the new firewall.

But yeah Windows has way more bullshit to deal with now than it used to. I miss Windows 2000, that was the peak of Windows at least from a UX standpoint.
 
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My PC does not have TDP or whatever that chip is, so the install is probably going to fail half way through and trash the current install.
TPM. I think Microsoft has relaxed that requirement because they are absolutely desperate to get people to leave Win10 behind. You are more likely to have Win11 issues in future if your CPU does not support AVX2 but I'm sure that you have something more recent than Core 4th gen from more than a decade ago.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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Oh god. Hopefully there is a way to disable that. I can't wait for gaming on Linux to get good enough that I can drop Windows completely.
The second that my windows install craps out enough for me to need a reset I'll be trying out a SteamOS install. Looks like all my RGB razer stuff is supported through OpenRazer, and my webcam is supported everything else is pretty standard.
I've heard good things about most of the performance in games, the only thing putting me off is redownloading my steam library on my crappy Internet.
 
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the only thing putting me off is redownloading my steam library on my crappy Internet.
You can just copy the games from the Steam folder onto an external drive or different partition, install Linux and copy the games back into the Linux Steam folder. Supposed to be foolproof (though never tried it myself so far).
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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I just use whatever browser I want no issues. For a while Chrome, and this year Firefox. I don't have any issues. Shit runs stable and I choose what I want to open what and be default what.
 

Stopsignhank

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Mar 1, 2014
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I get allergies really bad and take a generic for it. Never had anything like this before. I go in in about an hour to have him look at it. It's a very disturbing feeling. I'm starting to get a little bit of ringing once in awhile and yea it's throwing off my balance.
Well? Did you live?
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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TPM. I think Microsoft has relaxed that requirement because they are absolutely desperate to get people to leave Win10 behind. You are more likely to have Win11 issues in future if your CPU does not support AVX2 but I'm sure that you have something more recent than Core 4th gen from more than a decade ago.

That's the one, I know it started with T lol. I have a very early gen Ryzen so it's a fairly old machine, probably close to 10 years old now. I find there's hardly a need to upgrade stuff anymore as we reached a point where performance gains are less needed so only upgrade when forced to because of compatibility.
 
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That's the one, I know it started with T lol. I have a very early gen Ryzen so it's a fairly old machine, probably close to 10 years old now.
It's Ryzen so you are in luck. With careful research, you may be able to upgrade that to a cheap Ryzen 5500 or 5600 or even a 5700X3D. The last one would give you buttery smooth gaming performance at 1080p.
 
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Shmee

Memory & Storage, Graphics Cards Mod Elite Member
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It's Ryzen so you are in luck. With careful research, you may be able to upgrade that to a cheap Ryzen 5500 or 5600 or even a 5700X3D. The last one would give you buttery smooth gaming performance at 1080p.
5800XT may be the best deal right now. Assuming his board supports it with BIOS update.
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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I have a 1070 TI so going to stick with that for now. Actually gaming at 4K and don't really have any issues. Although I have not really gotten into super high demanding games yet. Mostly KSP, BeamNG.drive and Minecraft. I've been meaning to try the new MS Flight sim too, maybe that one is going to push things.
 

Shmee

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I have a 1070 TI so going to stick with that for now. Actually gaming at 4K and don't really have any issues. Although I have not really gotten into super high demanding games yet. Mostly KSP, BeamNG.drive and Minecraft. I've been meaning to try the new MS Flight sim too, maybe that one is going to push things.
The parts we were mentioning were CPUs, not GPUs. Given you have board with a BIOS update to support it, you could easily upgrade your existing Ryzen CPU to a newer one of the same socket. You could stay with the GTX 1070 Ti if you wanted, and my understanding is most flight sims are more CPU limited.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Not sure if this is a problem, but I was checking out previous amazon orders, and saw that two cases of MREs were $50 cheaper than when I bought them. I was considering ordering them, but I already have 3.5 cases, and they aren't something I eat every day. I just checked, and they're back to full price. I don't know if this has saved me money or cost me money, but I feel vaguely annoyed.
 
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