Thoughts
Win
- Last Updated: Thursday, 19 September 2024
or loose?
In my opinion, this is not a win for IT technicians.
I am not writing about the many problems Windows has, just one. Updates...
There is no other operating system that I know of that puts itself above the user experience.
The following situation. I need a computer quickly, in this case a NUC, but never mind. The computer was freshly installed two weeks ago and has been sitting on a desk ever since. I should point out that it was installed with all the latest drivers and updates.
So I grep it and turn it on and it starts saying. I need to restart for updates. Since I want to make sure the damn thing works, sure, let's reboot.
Updates are taking place, please don't turn off the computer 3% - reboot - same message 9% - reboot. The whole process repeats itself about 4 times before I can finally log in.
Quickly create a new local user with no privileges and log in.
HI... Your computer is being prepared.
With any other operating system, I can take a computer that has been off for a year, turn it on and use it. There will be a message about available updates, but I can choose when to do it without fear of the system rebooting in a situation where I need it.
I needed this computer urgently and the whole process took me 20 minutes instead of zero.
Network recognition
- Last Updated: Friday, 24 November 2023
Look, I see why you want to make sure that people who are, normal, like my grandmother, have a network connection. Everytime!
The otherside is, I know what I do. My network is established. Your "make a request to ensure we have network request" is blocked in my network. The reason for this is that I don't want you to know when an where I connect to what network.
So, MY device is connected to MY network. But because it can't reach your f...ing survailance server it tells me, I'M NOT CONNECTED.
F.O.
I will not take your article seriously
- Last Updated: Friday, 22 September 2023
if there is no date when the content was created.
These days, if you are looking for technical information and there is no date on an article or comment, it is probably out of date and there are better solutions.
Also, I generally block all JavaScript with NoScript, so if I open your page and it doesn't show any content without JS enabled, I'll close it.
The next step in this regard is if I enable JS just because your domain has a feature that requires JS and then the page goes blank, I never come back.
Just a thought...