KairuByte

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.

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.”

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

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

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?

I’m also confused on how they are “consuming” the water. I’m guessing they aren’t closed loop like most later cooling, but are they just… using it till it evaporates? I legitimately don’t understand where this water goes that it’s just… gone?

Just imagine how utterly fucked this woman’s life is. Gone for 6 weeks. Does she still have her job? Does she still have a place to live? Does she still qualify for her school credits? Not to mention, her name and general location are public knowledge.

I can’t see how her life isn’t utterly fucked.