You can't have sh*t in Redmond anymore!
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I have a 3TB HDD that's basically just adding weight to my machine, but I don't want to dig it out. Windows is like: "I see you clicked build on a project that runs entirely off your NVMe system drive, let me just make you take a shower/make a sandwich while I spin up your HDD for no reason." "Oh I see you want to extract a file from a zip in your C: download directory? Let me spin up D and make you wait, while you hear it just to make you mad." I thinks it's ext4, not even NTFS, but i'm not sure because the only time it gets used is when windows randomly decides to pause everything while it wakes it up. I keep it in there mostly on the off chance VMs (see my prior posts about VM woes) aren't going to do the job and I need to dual boot, but Windows is hurling it like a brick straight through my workflow. So now I have to dig it out, because in their infinite wisdom Windows designers thought that spinning up the drive during unrelated operations would be some kind of win.
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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I have a 3TB HDD that's basically just adding weight to my machine, but I don't want to dig it out. Windows is like: "I see you clicked build on a project that runs entirely off your NVMe system drive, let me just make you take a shower/make a sandwich while I spin up your HDD for no reason." "Oh I see you want to extract a file from a zip in your C: download directory? Let me spin up D and make you wait, while you hear it just to make you mad." I thinks it's ext4, not even NTFS, but i'm not sure because the only time it gets used is when windows randomly decides to pause everything while it wakes it up. I keep it in there mostly on the off chance VMs (see my prior posts about VM woes) aren't going to do the job and I need to dual boot, but Windows is hurling it like a brick straight through my workflow. So now I have to dig it out, because in their infinite wisdom Windows designers thought that spinning up the drive during unrelated operations would be some kind of win.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Just wait till they 'cloud'-ify everything in the next iteration of Windows - it will be SO MUCH BETTER!!! X| X| X| X| Their hubris is almost unbearable. How many years has it been, and you still can't place the start menu on the right or left sides of the screen, like you could in Win10? It's going to get worse...
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Just wait till they 'cloud'-ify everything in the next iteration of Windows - it will be SO MUCH BETTER!!! X| X| X| X| Their hubris is almost unbearable. How many years has it been, and you still can't place the start menu on the right or left sides of the screen, like you could in Win10? It's going to get worse...
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I actually appreciate them moving the Start menu more to the center, because my screen is GIGANTIC, and I don't want it in my peripheral vision area.
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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I have a 3TB HDD that's basically just adding weight to my machine, but I don't want to dig it out. Windows is like: "I see you clicked build on a project that runs entirely off your NVMe system drive, let me just make you take a shower/make a sandwich while I spin up your HDD for no reason." "Oh I see you want to extract a file from a zip in your C: download directory? Let me spin up D and make you wait, while you hear it just to make you mad." I thinks it's ext4, not even NTFS, but i'm not sure because the only time it gets used is when windows randomly decides to pause everything while it wakes it up. I keep it in there mostly on the off chance VMs (see my prior posts about VM woes) aren't going to do the job and I need to dual boot, but Windows is hurling it like a brick straight through my workflow. So now I have to dig it out, because in their infinite wisdom Windows designers thought that spinning up the drive during unrelated operations would be some kind of win.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Must be your Copilot giving you a helping hand? :)
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Must be your Copilot giving you a helping hand? :)
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Except windows did this before copilot too, although it does seem to do it more now.
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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I actually appreciate them moving the Start menu more to the center, because my screen is GIGANTIC, and I don't want it in my peripheral vision area.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
I was talking about the option to dock left or right. They could have just added an option to the old menu to center it as you like, and improved the menu that way. But doing so wouldn't have satisfied their hubris, I guess...
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I have a 3TB HDD that's basically just adding weight to my machine, but I don't want to dig it out. Windows is like: "I see you clicked build on a project that runs entirely off your NVMe system drive, let me just make you take a shower/make a sandwich while I spin up your HDD for no reason." "Oh I see you want to extract a file from a zip in your C: download directory? Let me spin up D and make you wait, while you hear it just to make you mad." I thinks it's ext4, not even NTFS, but i'm not sure because the only time it gets used is when windows randomly decides to pause everything while it wakes it up. I keep it in there mostly on the off chance VMs (see my prior posts about VM woes) aren't going to do the job and I need to dual boot, but Windows is hurling it like a brick straight through my workflow. So now I have to dig it out, because in their infinite wisdom Windows designers thought that spinning up the drive during unrelated operations would be some kind of win.
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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I have a 3TB HDD that's basically just adding weight to my machine, but I don't want to dig it out. Windows is like: "I see you clicked build on a project that runs entirely off your NVMe system drive, let me just make you take a shower/make a sandwich while I spin up your HDD for no reason." "Oh I see you want to extract a file from a zip in your C: download directory? Let me spin up D and make you wait, while you hear it just to make you mad." I thinks it's ext4, not even NTFS, but i'm not sure because the only time it gets used is when windows randomly decides to pause everything while it wakes it up. I keep it in there mostly on the off chance VMs (see my prior posts about VM woes) aren't going to do the job and I need to dual boot, but Windows is hurling it like a brick straight through my workflow. So now I have to dig it out, because in their infinite wisdom Windows designers thought that spinning up the drive during unrelated operations would be some kind of win.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
seems to me that I can disable drives in BIOS (or whatever Dell calls it these days), under the heading "Drives". YMMV
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Is this because windows is using it as virtual memory to save writes to the NVMe drive? That would at least make some sense, even if it is not quite what you want.
No.
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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seems to me that I can disable drives in BIOS (or whatever Dell calls it these days), under the heading "Drives". YMMV
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
I couldn't find the option to actually disable it in my bios settings. And yeah, I tried advanced mode. It lets me reorder them, and even SMART scan them, but disabling is apparently a league too far.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix