If one of your old systems can have Windows fresh installed on it, you can install Win11 on it with a Rufus created USB. It's the easiest, most painless way.
If one of your old systems can have Windows fresh installed on it, you can install Win11 on it with a Rufus created USB. It's the easiest, most painless way.I just can't upgrade to Win 11.
Kinda same but with mostly FPS games. Third person action adventure, fighting, racing, pointnclick adventure and arcade-y games still pull me in.But I've sort of lost interest in gaming, without entirely letting go of it.
Given the way Microsoft has been insistent on eliminating the workarounds, at some point they are gonna include code in a feature update that refuses to install if the requirements are not met. Only a matter of time.If one of your old systems can have Windows fresh installed on it, you can install Win11 on it with a Rufus created USB. It's the easiest, most painless way.
Not too soon though. Maybe after October 2025? Win11 marketshare vs. that of Win10 has been shrinking as it is.Given the way Microsoft has been insistent on eliminating the workarounds, at some point they are gonna include code in a feature update that refuses to install if the requirements are not met. Only a matter of time.
True. The Win11 restrictions were of course Microsoft's attempt to begin to recreate Apple's "walled garden". However, it hasn't worked so far for them. Mainly because Windows 11 just plain sucks and they are too stupid to see it.Not too soon though. Maybe after October 2025? Win11 marketshare vs. that of Win10 has been shrinking as it is.
I suspect more like 2025: Hacker armageddon .It'll be glorious. 2025: The year of desktop Linux
This usually works great: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/macrium_reflect_free_edition.htmlShe wants to "clone her hard disk" because she's worried that it might go south or something.
A wife is serious business and most people don't replace those even when past their primeI just personally believe that a 10 -year-old system used for anything serious needs to be replaced.
Our nuclear ICBMs run on very ancient tech. Up until about 6 or 7 years ago, they were still using 8-inch floppy disks. I've never seen those 1970s diskettes before, and I doubt that @igor_kavinski ever has?I have friends who got their BS in computer science, doing consulting work for the last couple decades in the field. One in particular is still using a system she bought off the shelf in 2014. She wants to "clone her hard disk" because she's worried that it might go south or something.
I just personally believe that a 10 -year-old system used for anything serious needs to be replaced. I suppose if I need to do so, however, I can continue using Windows 10 for another couple years.
Capitulation.A wife is serious business and most people don't replace those even when past their prime
The free version of DiskGenius is also very, very good for cloning drives, especially to SSDs. It worked on one system that I had that neither Macrium or Acronis could clone despite many, many tries.This usually works great: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/macrium_reflect_free_edition.html
Our nuclear ICBMs run on very ancient tech. Up until about 6 or 7 years ago, they were still using 8-inch floppy disks. I've never seen those 1970s diskettes before, and I doubt that @igor_kavinski ever has?
I'm old enough to admit my first PC in the mid 1980s did use 5.25 inch floppies. I was lucky enough to have a 10MB "Winchester" hard drive.
Capitulation.
I was a federal civil servant for nearly 30 years. I cannot believe -- but I accept your story -- that Social Security Administration didn't upgrade to PCs by the late 1980s. I was with US Dept of Education, and by around 1992, most of the workers in my office had their own PC connected to the department LAN. My PC was upgraded twice over the next 8 years before I retired.The first 6-7 years I worked for Social Security (early/mid 1990's), we (the entire agency, that is) were still using IBM 3270/5250 tap terminals. I think some of them were literally obtained as discontinued military surplus.
The main unit in the secure data room had an 8" floppy drive in it, and there was a blank box of 3M 8" floppies in the bottom of the unit. Those things were huge. To this day, I wish I had saved them when they threw the stuff out.
Worst part about it? The first LAN they set up for us (I believe it was like 1998?) used computers that were so slow and storage limited that I wished on more than one occasion they would just give us back the tap terminals....
Hey, I had the pleasure of using these 360K/1.2MB disks too. Loved the sound that the drive made while reading that disk. It was better than the 3.5 inch disk reading sound.I'm old enough to admit my first PC in the mid 1980s did use 5.25 inch floppies.
I remember punching new write holes on 180k Commodore PET disks in high school so we could use them as "flippies" to write on both sides of them (worked about half the time). And, I had a software utility that I paid for one time that let you write extra tracks on a 720k/1.2MB floppy to squeeze more data on them. Probably even still have a copy of that somewhere (that is, if the disk is still readable...).Hey, I had the pleasure of using these 360K/1.2MB disks too. Loved the sound that the drive made while reading that disk. It was better than the 3.5 inch disk reading sound.
That would have forced the agency to spend money, while the military surplus hardware was free if you were willing to go get it. To say SSA operated on a shoestring budget back then was an understatement.I was a federal civil servant for nearly 30 years. I cannot believe -- but I accept your story -- that Social Security Administration didn't upgrade to PCs by the late 1980s.
Fun history; Stacker originally used a hardware coprocessor card! 🤣There were some companies back then that used to copyprotect their software by writing something like 1.6MB to 1.44MB disks so they couldn't be copied by normal cloning software.
We have terabytes now and I don't really care about storage space now but back then, man, wasted so much time daydreaming about getting more storage, including all kinds of crazy compression schemes. Using ARJ, PKZIP, Doublespace, Drivespace and the really bad Stacker 4.0 (I lost my entire data thanks to that, mostly games but there was some important personal data that went whoosh from existence and I don't even remember now what it was). I also lossy compressed some MP3s to very low bitrates to save on space and they still sounded better than cassette tapes! Would compress 320 kbps MP3s to 64 kbps ogg vorbis files and delude myself into thinking I was a genius for saving space like that without ANY quality loss! Man, those were the days when being actually stupid felt like being a genius
As long as the agency fulfilled its mission efficiently, nobody can complain. My social security allotment appears every second Wednesday in my bank account, like clockwork.That would have forced the agency to spend money, while the military surplus hardware was free if you were willing to go get it. To say SSA operated on a shoestring budget back then was an understatement.
We did have one single 1983 IBM PC in the office (for management email) and a dot matrix printer to go with it. Amazingly enough, it was still being used for that up until about 1998.
My health seems to be holding up; my willpower to exercise daily has fallen down, but I'm resolved to recover it. I have chosen a "course" of action through next spring on this matter, with a possible switchover in plans from a hopeful Arrow Lake build to Ryzen. But I've acquired initial parts to use already: the case, an ICYDOCK 5.25" bay device for 2x 2.5" HDDs and a Sony "slim" BD burner.Some food for thought.
I put together my first AM5 system this week. By waiting this long pricing was much better, and all of the early adopter issues are resolved. It's stupid fast and is yawning its way through my hardest gaming loads. I am constrained to 1080p until I convince myself to buy the gaming TV and new A/V receiver I've been talking about for the last year or so. I sometimes use super res to make it 1440 or 4k but it uses more power for scant little benefit visually.
Point being, Alder Lake is rock solid, inexpensive, and plenty fast. None of us know when the grim reaper is going to stop standing in the corner either. While you are 20yrs my senior, I already use that as the number one factor in my opportunity cost analysis.
I love this, my first was the TRS80 with the cassette tape device connected via some cable I cannot remember, I had 2 games for it, all text based adventure games.I see I'm among "contemporaries". I had some of those 360/1.2MB 5.25" floppy drives, too.
If some cut their teeth on a Commodore, I got started in 1982 with a Sinclair Z80 -- or the Timex-Sinclair 1000 -- same product.