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How people can be so indifferent to their computers occasionally rebooting on their own is beyond me.
This obnoxious Microsoftism is the reason I've switched from Windows 7 to Linux instead of downgrading to Windows 10.
I absolutely wholeheartedly do not miss Windows.
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obeobe wrote: How people can be so indifferent to their computers occasionally rebooting on their own is beyond me.
Come, come, it's not that bad! Machines might need there own personal time when you aren't around them. Maybe it's a nascent AI wanting to explore the world 
Mircea
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Yeah explore the world when I'm downloading something, uploading something, or running something...
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I tried Windows 8.0 when it came out and within a month had Linux on my main machine. Unfortunately, I still run a Windows VM for the games that won't work under Linux, Affinity Photo (just hate Gimp!) and TurboTax. I've had way fewer issues with Linux than I've had with Windows 10 and 11.
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I have a system here (a physical machine) on Windows 10 that installed, shortly after initial setup, the very first of the monthly Cumulative Updates that was available to it.
Every single one after that has failed. Every month, I keep my fingers crossed that this'll be the one that fixes it, but nope.
Had I known, after the first failure, I would've repaved. But now after X many years of actual use, repaving a machine becomes less and less of a viable option. So I don't. This one machine I have is years behind in its updates.
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I’ve never (or, not yet) had an update mess up my machine or my apps, but I wouldn’t say it can never happen.
Isn’t there a setting for updates that lets you postpone them (see if others get bricked in some way first) or only do them “on demand”?
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MSBassSinger wrote: I’ve never (or, not yet) had an update mess up my machine or my apps, but I wouldn’t say it can never happen.
Quick, another insolent! Off with their heads!
Mircea
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I keep hearing all these issues with VMWare and I keep thinking the same thing:
What is the need for VMWare? Why pay for something that is free from Microsoft.
We support it for third parties that use it for some of our customers, and they have the same issues you mention. Say about 5 VMs Total. They always blame Microsoft, but our stuff just runs. That's the only part that fails.
My machine and server count on Hyper-V is on the 500 Plus and with several iterations of servers and for more than 14 years.
My Hyper-V Stuff has been running from the time of Virtual PC and old as well as new just run.
I even have some virtual DOS 6.22 and XP VMs needed for historical reasons since the software vendors went away.
Again, it just runs fine.
If it fails, you may want to consider and alternative, if it works, why bother changing?
Good luck
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You probably have a point there. In my case, it's a question of habit: I've used VMWare since 20+ years ago and, as I said, I've never run into problems. Maybe I should look into migrating to Hyper-V but it's always hard to leave familiar ground without a proper motivation.
Mircea
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I took me almost 10 years to drop Borland CPP for MS C# and about 30 to drop Unix/Linux for Windows.
I hated doing it, as if I were doing something wrong.
I kept seeing my friends keeping software running for years but I had to keep making changes.
The maintenance was killing me.
I now have other problems and the universe I deal with is bigger, but there is always something already solving my problems in the Microsoft universe.
My last adventures were the Mono Project and the MySQL limit to 2Gbs. By the time I got around their issues MSFT had CS Code behind and MSSQL Express could store 10GB in the main DB and unlimited using Streams.
At my level, which is SMB, that makes it very easy to use.
In those short years are grew 4 times the size.
I share my shame of leaving Unix/Linux for Windows for that reason.
Good luck Sir!
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That "terrible rap video" from this morning's CP newsletter. If you're subscribed, you know the one. I won't even link to it.
I tried to sit through it, I honestly did. Two and a half minutes into it, I just had to stop. If the cringe factor was something that could be detected with some sort of device, it would've exploded.
I mean, yikes, I've seen some old, bad internal Microsoft videos, but this one's in a category of its own.
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that was hmmmm interesting. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the backup singers in red and what that probably did to their collective careers. They had to be trying to hide this video.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Agree. This vid was cringe at its best. Awful it means.
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I'll readily admit there are some things that are "so bad, it's good", but no, I think this one is on its own.
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Ah retirement, the golden years... I'm approaching fts (I'll let you figure out what that means).
I still have a lot of stuff to do around the house, and it should keep me busy and away from my SO who is trying to adapt to retirement as well. But wow.
I just deleted the rest of my rant. If you are close to this, I would strongly suggest an early trial period if you are married or in a relationship. I'm going bat $hit crazy. Being under the microscope and being hovered over is tasking me. Toss in an 86 yo demented MIL that broke her hip 2 weeks ago, an 88 yo FIL who is showing signs...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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If I live to be old enough to get away with it I'm just going to start biting people.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Funny, but seriously don't. They'll put you on meds and you'll be sleeping the rest of your life away.
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dandy72 wrote: They'll put you on meds and you'll be sleeping the rest of your life away.
Some days that doesn't sound so bad.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Agreed!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, you can joke about this until they do it to your helpless grandmother, and then your mother decades later. And the workers there think nothing of it.
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I meant nothing personal; I apologize if that struck too close to home. I had no idea you were speaking from personal experience.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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S'all good. Just saying that sort of thing happens.
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I paid too much money for these implants to risk them, but I have been considering taking up randomly humping legs. It might not be as much fun as it sounds, but it's likely to score me a private room at the nursing home! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Two months into it myself. SO has been a work from home controller for a couple small companies and is the bread winner. So I'm adapting to being a "house boy" and doing everything I can to not annoy her. We have been together since high school.
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Same here, high school sweet heart. But MIL is about 70% the way down the dementia curve. So, the more she reads, now she hands me paper and says, "You need to read this, you are showing early signs..." <sigh>
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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