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M$ seems to have installed "updates" this morning! Bit-time. I certainly didn't ask it to (nor did it seem to ask me). :grumpy:
Windows10 "Edge" also took over all PDF files and my desktop is now slower than mud. It deleted some stuff too.
I guess this is my fault for using this operating system.
 
"Resistance is futile."
 
Come over to the Dark Side!

CEntOS!!
 
I've been using Fedora that Doc sent me for awhile now and I like it. I find myself using the windows 10 partition less and less.
 
This AM, out of curiosity I opened a terminal window on this box and typed: "uptime." The result was: "up 58 days, 2:26, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.07"

I shut it down about two months ago to change out a noisy case fan. Otherwise it would have been twice that, easily. And that due to a lengthy power outage back during our rainy season.
 
Has anyone used Microsoft's "Cortana?" I'm not even sure what it is... but I'm infected with it. :rapture:
 
Haven't used it, don't want it. BUT! Here's the "Official" description.
 
Cortina= MS's Siri
 
Gliderman8 said:
Cortina= MS's Siri
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Yup. Built into the O/S. IMHO, evil. If it can respond via voice recognition, the Mothership is capable of watching and listening too.

I trust it not.
 
Oh, yuk. Prior "assistants" almost all didn't work out well.
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The ~attitude~ notification:

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Hehehe... I like that one. :excitement:
 
Maybe I'm missing something. If you go to Windows Control Panel, you can turn off updates. Or, set them to update only when you want.

Curmudgeon Tom
 
Thanks Tom... I've really lost track of all the old Control Panel features.
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NutmegCT said:
Maybe I'm missing something. If you go to Windows Control Panel, you can turn off updates. Or, set them to update only when you want.

Curmudgeon Tom
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Don't rely on that always working. On my home Win7 machine I have updates turned off as I want to pick and choose the updates and apply when it is convenient to me. However, it has periodically, without a reboot or crash to maybe trigger it, turned update back on, installed everything it finds and rebooted. So in I go and turn it back off, until it happens again..
 
Some of those "security updates" we allow after having been notified (with the auto updates off) they are "critical" have the tendency to turn auto updates back on. Maddening!
 
It seems to me with each generation they go a step farther in taking over your computer, making it harder to find and change defaults, or maybe I just get tired of relearning how to do things with each new iteration of Windows. If they moved the controls for steering, brakes and throttle with each new generation of Camry or F150 or whatever we would have conniption fits, yet it seems to be accepted that moving around how we do things in Windows with each generation is par for the course. Now that I have been at it for twenty years or so I kind of get tired of relearning things, not that I am ever to old to learn, but it seems like wasted effort. Wish they would put more into behind the scenes performance, and less into changing the look and feel with each generation, but I guess they can't sell the car without new styling.

I do have to say that my switch to Windows 10 has not been traumatic, and the old laptop is running better than it had been with Windows 8, which I thought was an absolute disaster, not so much from initial performance (it started out ok) but how the monkeyed so much with what had at one time been a fairly intuitive user interface. The beautiful thing about old Windows was you didn't need to know commands, you just needed to know how to read icons and words and poke around until it did what oyu wanted. Hidden "charms" and such may make sense on a phone interface where screen real estate is limited, but it was a royal PITA on a laptop with no touchscreen.
 
Windows ten is better than 8 but I am still annoyed by the constant updates.
 
From what I hear, anything is better than 8. Well, maybe except for Vista.
 
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