MS: 1, Laptop battery: 0 => reversion to 8.1
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Last week, MS wanted to update my laptop. It was late, so I hibernated it instead, figuring it would save the state and I could complete it the next evening. The next evening, when I went to do that, I found that MS had turned my laptop on so they could do their update, and then left it on once they were done. Good thing I make a habit of leaving it plugged in when its not in use. Clearly MS has decided that when they want to do an update, the only thing that will stop them is if the laptop battery dies in the middle of it. A week later, last night, they updated again, this time whacking the mouse settings into unusability and forcing me to uninstall the mouse driver before they would allow the mouse settings dialog to run. After two botched updates in two weeks, I've given up on Windows 10 and have reverted my laptop back to 8.1. Anyone else giving up on Win10?
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Nope. Moved from win8 to win 10 and haven't had any problems. Probably helps having HP kit which is pretty stock standard.b
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Last week, MS wanted to update my laptop. It was late, so I hibernated it instead, figuring it would save the state and I could complete it the next evening. The next evening, when I went to do that, I found that MS had turned my laptop on so they could do their update, and then left it on once they were done. Good thing I make a habit of leaving it plugged in when its not in use. Clearly MS has decided that when they want to do an update, the only thing that will stop them is if the laptop battery dies in the middle of it. A week later, last night, they updated again, this time whacking the mouse settings into unusability and forcing me to uninstall the mouse driver before they would allow the mouse settings dialog to run. After two botched updates in two weeks, I've given up on Windows 10 and have reverted my laptop back to 8.1. Anyone else giving up on Win10?
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
Nope, but I'm always hesitant to upgrade any laptop to any OS. On the other hand, my oldest upgraded her Windows 7 laptop to Windows 10 without asking me and it runs just fine (okay, it still has a spinning drive which is horribly slow. I thought about swapping it out for an SSD, but this is a Dell which requires you take apart the entire laptop to get to the HDD.)
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Last week, MS wanted to update my laptop. It was late, so I hibernated it instead, figuring it would save the state and I could complete it the next evening. The next evening, when I went to do that, I found that MS had turned my laptop on so they could do their update, and then left it on once they were done. Good thing I make a habit of leaving it plugged in when its not in use. Clearly MS has decided that when they want to do an update, the only thing that will stop them is if the laptop battery dies in the middle of it. A week later, last night, they updated again, this time whacking the mouse settings into unusability and forcing me to uninstall the mouse driver before they would allow the mouse settings dialog to run. After two botched updates in two weeks, I've given up on Windows 10 and have reverted my laptop back to 8.1. Anyone else giving up on Win10?
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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patbob wrote:
Anyone else giving up on Win10?
I haven't even moved to Win 8. :) /ravi
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Last week, MS wanted to update my laptop. It was late, so I hibernated it instead, figuring it would save the state and I could complete it the next evening. The next evening, when I went to do that, I found that MS had turned my laptop on so they could do their update, and then left it on once they were done. Good thing I make a habit of leaving it plugged in when its not in use. Clearly MS has decided that when they want to do an update, the only thing that will stop them is if the laptop battery dies in the middle of it. A week later, last night, they updated again, this time whacking the mouse settings into unusability and forcing me to uninstall the mouse driver before they would allow the mouse settings dialog to run. After two botched updates in two weeks, I've given up on Windows 10 and have reverted my laptop back to 8.1. Anyone else giving up on Win10?
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
patbob wrote:
Clearly MS has decided that when they want to do an update, the only thing that will stop them is if the laptop battery dies in the middle of it.
Actually, I believe they check for a power supply, because wupdate has a couple of times told me to plug a lappie in for updates to continue. [edit] Unless, of course, that's yet another of the genuinely useful features they decided to break or exclude from winio [/edit] I only have winio on one device, which came with it installed. I blocked the update on all others, so I'm mostly weven + 1 w8 device.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Last week, MS wanted to update my laptop. It was late, so I hibernated it instead, figuring it would save the state and I could complete it the next evening. The next evening, when I went to do that, I found that MS had turned my laptop on so they could do their update, and then left it on once they were done. Good thing I make a habit of leaving it plugged in when its not in use. Clearly MS has decided that when they want to do an update, the only thing that will stop them is if the laptop battery dies in the middle of it. A week later, last night, they updated again, this time whacking the mouse settings into unusability and forcing me to uninstall the mouse driver before they would allow the mouse settings dialog to run. After two botched updates in two weeks, I've given up on Windows 10 and have reverted my laptop back to 8.1. Anyone else giving up on Win10?
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
I have avoided the update and will hold onto Win7 as long as it works. After that, I'm sure that my next 'Windows' will be called Ubuntu or Fedora. If, let's say the manufacturer of my car, came along and hijacked my car every week, I would certainly get a little angry. No, we are not going to your appointment. We will go to the Mickeysoft garage and do some updates on your car. Just a few hours and then you (hopefully) can go where you want. Please make sure we have enough gas for the little trip. Many years ago I saw a bumper sticker which read 'Honking is useless. Driver is remote controlled from Moscow.' Forget Moscow and don't let Mickeysoft near any car software.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
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patbob wrote:
Clearly MS has decided that when they want to do an update, the only thing that will stop them is if the laptop battery dies in the middle of it.
Actually, I believe they check for a power supply, because wupdate has a couple of times told me to plug a lappie in for updates to continue. [edit] Unless, of course, that's yet another of the genuinely useful features they decided to break or exclude from winio [/edit] I only have winio on one device, which came with it installed. I blocked the update on all others, so I'm mostly weven + 1 w8 device.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Actually, I believe they check for a power supply,
And how exactly do they do that when the system is off? Obviously, they have to turn it on. Now that they've done that, what do you think they're going to do? Certainly not re-hibernate it for you. I even doubt they'll shut the system down for you.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I have avoided the update and will hold onto Win7 as long as it works. After that, I'm sure that my next 'Windows' will be called Ubuntu or Fedora. If, let's say the manufacturer of my car, came along and hijacked my car every week, I would certainly get a little angry. No, we are not going to your appointment. We will go to the Mickeysoft garage and do some updates on your car. Just a few hours and then you (hopefully) can go where you want. Please make sure we have enough gas for the little trip. Many years ago I saw a bumper sticker which read 'Honking is useless. Driver is remote controlled from Moscow.' Forget Moscow and don't let Mickeysoft near any car software.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.CDP1802 wrote:
No, we are not going to your appointment. We will go to the Mickeysoft garage and do some updates on your car. Just a few hours and then you (hopefully) can go where you want. Please make sure we have enough gas for the little trip.
Your comment collided in my head with all this hubbub about self-driving cars. Wonder how long it'll take before they make them do that :)
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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CDP1802 wrote:
No, we are not going to your appointment. We will go to the Mickeysoft garage and do some updates on your car. Just a few hours and then you (hopefully) can go where you want. Please make sure we have enough gas for the little trip.
Your comment collided in my head with all this hubbub about self-driving cars. Wonder how long it'll take before they make them do that :)
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
At least you can then take 'blue screen of death' literally.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
