But this guy was appointed to the FCC board by the previous administration. We shouldn't forget that fact.
I see - So it is O'Blama's fault obviously. He colluded with Trump to appoint Pai, after using the Pizzagate time machine to sneak back and forth in time and told Pai that he had to pretend the FCC site was hacked in order to implement a policy that after implementation, O'Blama is getting billions from the people who will profit from this. He is going to split it 50/50 with succubus Hillary Clinton in thier secret fake moon landing quonset hut and chemtrail storage facility in Area 51.
Perhaps O'Blama, the man who is responsible for everything including the attack on Pearl Harbor, when he colluded with that fucking commie FDR, should be the one that Dear Leader Trump should be putting in jail, amirite?
As tempting it would be to blame the magic Negro and salve the conciences of god fearing and superior white people everywhere, Blaming the Kenyan Terror baby for Pai would be the same as blaming President Ford for Paul Manafort.
The litmus test is what does the major prepare you for? If it only prepares you to get employment as a professor of the field you are studying, then it probably doesn't have much application to the world at large.
To wit:
...
English - Not so much
...
If you don't know that English can be used to make money outside of the academic environment, my advice, CONTROL-SHIFT-A BACKSPACE
I'll bite - what are the career paths for English majors?
I would rather spend my time listening to (and critically evaluating) the opinions of someone with some actual qualifications than an Internet comment section. It doesn't matter if that someone is Noam Chomsky or Jordan Peterson.
See, this is why liberal arts and the humanities are so important. If you'd studied them, you might have thought to check the motherfucking article before spouting off about how this guy is just some liberal arts loser.
I think I'm an example of the melding of the two. As I noted in a post above I'm a combo of Art major with Electronics technology.
I've seen that a combination of technology and appreciation of issues other than just the technology makes for better outcomes. It certainly made me more valuable.
I think where the issue lies is that what exact liberal arts are included. It's a pretty big grouping, including some "fields" that are pretty much just giving your opinion, as imprinted by the professor. note, there are some that are the opposite, where the professor wants you to be arbitrary.
The litmus test is what does the major prepare you for? If it only prepares you to get employment as a professor of the field you are studying, then it probably doesn't have much application to the world at large.
To wit:
Art - You can make a living outside the academic environment.
Anthropology - You can make a living outside
English - Not so much
Philosophy - not so much
Gender studies - Not so much
The Natural Sciences - A lot of people probably never think of these as liberal arts - lots of employment opportunities.
But it isn't all about employment.
But my point is that my combination of technical acumen with artistic sensibilities made me very valuable.
If I were say a double of Technical acumen and English or Gender studies, it might have prepared me to write proper technical manuals or angry technical manuals, but not much else.
For simple proof, just look at many of the posters right here in this thread. They can be geeks & nerds and total asshats simultaneously.
Strat
In support of your argument, I am an art major with minor in Illustration. Plus electronic technology in post secondary. My whole career has been a melding of the two. I might be bit of an outlier by virtue of adaptability, but there it is.
And I'm a pretty proficient asshole to boot!
Anyhow, seeing your background from your post, your nom de plume "BlueStrat" is very appropriate.
and when pressed they'll admit it's basically gambling that they can get out of the market and leave someone else holding the bag.
Oh, I'm certain they will. Or maybe not. There is a well known phenomenon there of investment greed based optimism. Problem is those who invest in CC are likely to be marks. Regular stock market dilettantes get hit a lot. Buy because it's going grazy, then refuse to sell at the first sign of a drop-off, then ride it the whole way to the bottom. Buy high and sell low is a real phenomenon.
It's not like some folks got together and decided on a scheme for people to give them their money then after they get the money, crash the funny money in a few hours and then have the real money for themselves.
Who could have possibly anticipated that a virtual "monetary system", which has absolutely no controls or laws governing it, by design, could be manipulated in the simplest way possible, just so someone could make a few million dollars?
Greed. Pure and simple. The greed of the manipulators, married to the greed of their marks.
The same greed that drives con men and Ponzi schemes. The concept that the mark can make the big bucks.
If cryptocurrency was so great, then they wouldn't take dollars - or any other currency for it at all, because any currency they would take for it would lose value while the Crypto was increasing in value at incredible rates. Why would the crypto traders want to get currency that is losing value at the same rate CC gains it??
Jonathan Edwards has been programming since 1969 (starting on a PDP-11/20). "Programming today," he writes, "is exactly what you'd expect to get by paying an isolated subculture of women to entertain themselves for fifty years.
Johnathan Edwards, yuou have outed yourself as a sexist bigot. Gotta remember my good sexist, if you Exchange "women" for "men", and it is considered sexist, the original statement was as well. I mean, it is politically accptable to blame matters on people by the basis of them having a penis, but that's their sex.
Now suddenly, there is a bunch of people who simply cannot plug their music. Those with the "courageous" iPhones, or with the Chinese copycats that decided to follow the trend without muxh thinking.
Explain. I could plug into my iphone directly. If I wanted to.
Now its fumbling around to find the adequate dongle (Lightning, USB-C) to plug into (and hope the device still has enough battery).
So you are the person in all of those infomercials that can't do anything, and needs some hot new product.
But perhaps I am being cruel. In professional and high end audio, where what y'all call "Dongles" are actualy adapters, said adapter is roughly as troublesome as putting socks on in the morning.
My compatriots and I have plastic divider boxes with all manner of adapters.
tl;dr for that paragraph - First order first world problem.
Or trying to find which service o use to share the music (oh, you're using Spotify? But I have all my playlist on Apple music / ad youtube playlists).
Um, wouldn't the music source be figured out by the device that is playing the music?
Or you need to buy a cheap BT receiver module, except you don't want to pay 500â for it, so you get it from aliexpress and now need to hope that it will work as intended.
SRSLY? Dude, your bridge too far list is beginning to sound ridiculous.
Or you need to buy a new set of speakers with built in Bluetooth receiver, that will cost more and be less durable and shittier than the one you have.
(and then hope that the Bluetooth connection will work as intended).
Um... yeah, right.
I have a couple of BT receiver/speakers, one for the wife and one for me. They were mid-range, not the cheapest, but not the most expensive by far.
Pairing is ridiculously easy. My wife, who is one of the least technically proficient people I know, easily pairs hers with her laptop, smartphone, or tablet, depending on what she wants to use at the moment. Takes maybe 5 seconds. they even sound okay. Nothing special, but they aren't designed for sound studio use.
But it is too hard for you?
Reading what you write, I suspect that you are forming your opinions based on some of the cheapest stuff around, as well as listening to people who simply hate anything new and their righteous hatred justifies simply making shit up.
If you don't want an iphone - don't get one. If you want to use the 5 dollar headset from Big Lots, or a studio headset, by all means do - warning, you'll need an adapter - or dongle as you call them for most studio quality headphones.
But your infomercial style list is simply laughable - stick to real facts, not bizzare problems like where the music provider comes from.
I do want to ask the editors of Slashdot whether their knees are sore from so much worshipping of that egomaniac Elon Musk. Or maybe the editors use knee pads ?
The reason is nothing of the sort.
Te reason is that the mention of "Tesla" is sufficient to send many Slashdotters into a white hot rage, then proceed to vent that rage.Assured posting traffic.
and more importantly, how "secure" will the grid be? Will it be Internet connected?
I also wonder if Tesla will be selling user power concumption stats to advertisers?/s
Why would they? If we have learned anything from Slashdot, the only power production that works is Nuclear or coal. Nothing else. So there isn't much use Tesla selling his made up figures. They are as fictitious, as Solar is dead and always will be.
Dead Steve gave them what Dead Steve wanted, nothing more. Which is why in the 90's companies gave up on Apple because they could not get Dead Steve to let them in on what was going to be produced during the next year. MS and other companies enlisted external companies to help determine what the external companies wanted. Dead Steve only cared about Dead Steve.
Long Live Dead Steve - It is just to bad that he took so long to die.
Dood! Bad trip, Dood? You worry us when you talk like this, Dood!
There are only so many times you can make an abusive spouse analogy before it starts to look like a cry for help. Blink twice if you need assistance.
Hehe, no I'm cool. Sometimes she lets me pick out my own meals and clothes..... And she hardly ever hits me any more, only when I deserve it. Its for my own good you know.....
On my 5 Windows 10 Pro devices I have never had an update fail because of USB connected devices. So I put my anecdote up against yours and I win.
Har! Sorry, but I only mentioned a few. Its wonderful that you have had not one problem related to Windows 10.
So this is wonderful wonderful - do you want a job? You are easily worth 7 figures if you can translate your perfect record to others. This is indeed your lucky day, when you can turn your perfection into enough money to grease the skids enough that you will be able to demand almost any level pay.
Hm. Steve has done that almost all his life and look where Apple is now.
Nope - Apple is generally giving it's customers what they want. You probably just don't agree with what their customers want. I want my computer to work after an update. When my computer doesn't work, I don't.
My Apple computers work after updates. It's a pleasant surprise when my Windows machines do. Which is not to say that using my Windows 10 computer is a pleasant experience.
I've never once had rolling back to a restore point help. It seems like a great idea, but the implementation is lacking.
This! Microsoft restores are as helpful as Microsoft troubleshooting.
Amusing story - I had a trouble call for a virtual Audio driver problem. I knew the answer because it is common. But the person who had the problem insisted the fix was not the fix, because he had run the audio troubleshooter and it told him everything was okay. He ended up getting pissed at me and yelling and swearing at me.
Finally I just told him try the solution, because nothing he had done before had fixed it. I walked him through it, and then had him reboot. Next words out of his mouth were "Oh", then 5 seconds of silence, then "Looks like I owe you an apology."
Microsoft restore, Microsoft troubleshooting all mostly worthless. My experience is they get in the way more than help.
ANYONE still using Windows 10 is getting exactly what they deserve.
And by that, of course, you mean anyone who has wanted to purchase new hardware for their organization in the last several years?
It's the pretentious sanctimony and dunning-kruger arrogance that lets me know it's still/.
I'll trade Dunning-Kruger for your Stockholm syndrome. You're putting up with Microsoft's shit because it is what you will put up with. And act like there is no other alternative. Enjoy your Operating System - it's the best, and always will be, because the only possible solutions are From Microsoft, world without end, amen.
LibreOffice / OpenOffice are fine applications but they are not able to interact well with complex MS office docs.
Microsoft Office doesn't interact well with complex MS office docs. I've had some older documents that I've had to use OO to open.
But now that you will soon be using Microsoft's Operating systemm on a rental basis, realize that it is a shit test - you will have ot take as much shit as you are willing to put up with.
And the second you don't pay their ransom? What happens then - you going to be able to open and work on your documents? How much are you willing to pay for that permanent lock-in?
I have a surface tablet that I got as a gift. The last couple of months it will download updates, fail to install them, and then redownload them. I only use it for watching shows so I really don't care what happens on it but it's already used 20 gigs of storage in the windows update folder (I forget the exact directory).
Change it to "do not download updates on a metered connection" That will protect you a little - I have had Windows update ignore that a few times, but it helps.
I've had more issues with patches in the last few years than I ever remember having in the previous decade or so. So, yeah, count me as being pretty unhappy about the lack of quality control in the patching process. Before a couple of years ago, that wouldn't have even made my top ten complaints.
I've had update problems for years - back in XP days even. I think that Windows update has more problems the more hardware and software installed on the machine in the past, and now has problems with regular everyday things as well. That's a guess based on the plethora of failures.
I do know that it has a lot of problems with audio, especially with virtual audio devices. But I have had no less than 3 mouse caused update failures this year. I know that mouses were only invented in March of 2018, but srsly?
And remember how BSOD's were a thing of the past? I'm beginning to believe the only way Microsoft can get rid of the Blue Screen of Death is by changing the color.
...like the Windows Update that kept trying to install itself over the last couple of months, failing each time after multiple restarts, then defaulting back to the old installation, no matter what I did.
Finally, I downloaded the most recent one (bypassing the older version), and it still had problems. Until I unplugged all of my USB devices except my mouse and keyboard. THEN it installed.
No problem at all.
You know the zealots will pounce on this, saying it was your fault instead of Windows. My Mac has 8 USB devices plugged in with nary a problem on updates. My sole Windows machine has 3, yet half the updates fail unless I unlplug everything - weird that Windows can't handle a USB mouse any more.
It's not that easy. I need to use Windows for development work. All the customers run Windows.
Well there ya go. I suppose it's like having an abusive spouse, but you don't leave.
It isn't easy to leave Windows. But except for that one program I have to use, I've migrated to Operating systems that are more stable. And that one computer takes up 90 percent of my troubleshooting time, other than the support I do for others. I just count that time as a humanitarian service.
Just like finally leaving an abusive spouse, you end up wondering why you didn't do it much sooner.
I'm a fan of Ubuntu Mate myself, but that's why we have all of the distros. A desktop with the interface you like, but the underlying programs just work.
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But this guy was appointed to the FCC board by the previous administration. We shouldn't forget that fact.
I see - So it is O'Blama's fault obviously. He colluded with Trump to appoint Pai, after using the Pizzagate time machine to sneak back and forth in time and told Pai that he had to pretend the FCC site was hacked in order to implement a policy that after implementation, O'Blama is getting billions from the people who will profit from this. He is going to split it 50/50 with succubus Hillary Clinton in thier secret fake moon landing quonset hut and chemtrail storage facility in Area 51.
Perhaps O'Blama, the man who is responsible for everything including the attack on Pearl Harbor, when he colluded with that fucking commie FDR, should be the one that Dear Leader Trump should be putting in jail, amirite?
As tempting it would be to blame the magic Negro and salve the conciences of god fearing and superior white people everywhere, Blaming the Kenyan Terror baby for Pai would be the same as blaming President Ford for Paul Manafort.
Keep in mind that the political left heavily supports the idea of unionization.
Infowars called - they want you back
The litmus test is what does the major prepare you for? If it only prepares you to get employment as a professor of the field you are studying, then it probably doesn't have much application to the world at large.
To wit:
If you don't know that English can be used to make money outside of the academic environment, my advice, CONTROL-SHIFT-A BACKSPACE
I'll bite - what are the career paths for English majors?
I would rather spend my time listening to (and critically evaluating) the opinions of someone with some actual qualifications than an Internet comment section. It doesn't matter if that someone is Noam Chomsky or Jordan Peterson.
But here you are!
See, this is why liberal arts and the humanities are so important. If you'd studied them, you might have thought to check the motherfucking article before spouting off about how this guy is just some liberal arts loser.
I think I'm an example of the melding of the two. As I noted in a post above I'm a combo of Art major with Electronics technology.
I've seen that a combination of technology and appreciation of issues other than just the technology makes for better outcomes. It certainly made me more valuable.
I think where the issue lies is that what exact liberal arts are included. It's a pretty big grouping, including some "fields" that are pretty much just giving your opinion, as imprinted by the professor. note, there are some that are the opposite, where the professor wants you to be arbitrary.
The litmus test is what does the major prepare you for? If it only prepares you to get employment as a professor of the field you are studying, then it probably doesn't have much application to the world at large.
To wit:
Art - You can make a living outside the academic environment.
Anthropology - You can make a living outside
English - Not so much
Philosophy - not so much
Gender studies - Not so much
The Natural Sciences - A lot of people probably never think of these as liberal arts - lots of employment opportunities.
But it isn't all about employment.
But my point is that my combination of technical acumen with artistic sensibilities made me very valuable.
If I were say a double of Technical acumen and English or Gender studies, it might have prepared me to write proper technical manuals or angry technical manuals, but not much else.
People are not single-dimension beings.
For simple proof, just look at many of the posters right here in this thread. They can be geeks & nerds and total asshats simultaneously.
Strat
In support of your argument, I am an art major with minor in Illustration. Plus electronic technology in post secondary. My whole career has been a melding of the two. I might be bit of an outlier by virtue of adaptability, but there it is.
And I'm a pretty proficient asshole to boot!
Anyhow, seeing your background from your post, your nom de plume "BlueStrat" is very appropriate.
and when pressed they'll admit it's basically gambling that they can get out of the market and leave someone else holding the bag.
Oh, I'm certain they will. Or maybe not. There is a well known phenomenon there of investment greed based optimism. Problem is those who invest in CC are likely to be marks. Regular stock market dilettantes get hit a lot. Buy because it's going grazy, then refuse to sell at the first sign of a drop-off, then ride it the whole way to the bottom. Buy high and sell low is a real phenomenon.
It's not like some folks got together and decided on a scheme for people to give them their money then after they get the money, crash the funny money in a few hours and then have the real money for themselves.
Not to be overly harsh, but...
Who could have possibly anticipated that a virtual "monetary system", which has absolutely no controls or laws governing it, by design, could be manipulated in the simplest way possible, just so someone could make a few million dollars?
Greed. Pure and simple. The greed of the manipulators, married to the greed of their marks.
The same greed that drives con men and Ponzi schemes. The concept that the mark can make the big bucks.
If cryptocurrency was so great, then they wouldn't take dollars - or any other currency for it at all, because any currency they would take for it would lose value while the Crypto was increasing in value at incredible rates. Why would the crypto traders want to get currency that is losing value at the same rate CC gains it??
Jonathan Edwards has been programming since 1969 (starting on a PDP-11/20). "Programming today," he writes, "is exactly what you'd expect to get by paying an isolated subculture of women to entertain themselves for fifty years.
Johnathan Edwards, yuou have outed yourself as a sexist bigot. Gotta remember my good sexist, if you Exchange "women" for "men", and it is considered sexist, the original statement was as well. I mean, it is politically accptable to blame matters on people by the basis of them having a penis, but that's their sex.
Now suddenly, there is a bunch of people who simply cannot plug their music. Those with the "courageous" iPhones, or with the Chinese copycats that decided to follow the trend without muxh thinking.
Explain. I could plug into my iphone directly. If I wanted to.
Now its fumbling around to find the adequate dongle (Lightning, USB-C) to plug into (and hope the device still has enough battery).
So you are the person in all of those infomercials that can't do anything, and needs some hot new product.
But perhaps I am being cruel. In professional and high end audio, where what y'all call "Dongles" are actualy adapters, said adapter is roughly as troublesome as putting socks on in the morning.
My compatriots and I have plastic divider boxes with all manner of adapters.
tl;dr for that paragraph - First order first world problem.
Or trying to find which service o use to share the music (oh, you're using Spotify? But I have all my playlist on Apple music / ad youtube playlists).
Um, wouldn't the music source be figured out by the device that is playing the music?
Or you need to buy a cheap BT receiver module, except you don't want to pay 500â for it, so you get it from aliexpress and now need to hope that it will work as intended.
SRSLY? Dude, your bridge too far list is beginning to sound ridiculous.
Or you need to buy a new set of speakers with built in Bluetooth receiver, that will cost more and be less durable and shittier than the one you have.
(and then hope that the Bluetooth connection will work as intended).
Um... yeah, right.
I have a couple of BT receiver/speakers, one for the wife and one for me. They were mid-range, not the cheapest, but not the most expensive by far.
Pairing is ridiculously easy. My wife, who is one of the least technically proficient people I know, easily pairs hers with her laptop, smartphone, or tablet, depending on what she wants to use at the moment. Takes maybe 5 seconds. they even sound okay. Nothing special, but they aren't designed for sound studio use.
But it is too hard for you?
Reading what you write, I suspect that you are forming your opinions based on some of the cheapest stuff around, as well as listening to people who simply hate anything new and their righteous hatred justifies simply making shit up.
If you don't want an iphone - don't get one. If you want to use the 5 dollar headset from Big Lots, or a studio headset, by all means do - warning, you'll need an adapter - or dongle as you call them for most studio quality headphones.
But your infomercial style list is simply laughable - stick to real facts, not bizzare problems like where the music provider comes from.
I do want to ask the editors of Slashdot whether their knees are sore from so much worshipping of that egomaniac Elon Musk. Or maybe the editors use knee pads ?
The reason is nothing of the sort.
Te reason is that the mention of "Tesla" is sufficient to send many Slashdotters into a white hot rage, then proceed to vent that rage.Assured posting traffic.
IOW, they're playin' ya, playa!
and more importantly, how "secure" will the grid be? Will it be Internet connected?
I also wonder if Tesla will be selling user power concumption stats to advertisers? /s
Why would they? If we have learned anything from Slashdot, the only power production that works is Nuclear or coal. Nothing else. So there isn't much use Tesla selling his made up figures. They are as fictitious, as Solar is dead and always will be.
Dead Steve gave them what Dead Steve wanted, nothing more. Which is why in the 90's companies gave up on Apple because they could not get Dead Steve to let them in on what was going to be produced during the next year. MS and other companies enlisted external companies to help determine what the external companies wanted. Dead Steve only cared about Dead Steve.
Long Live Dead Steve - It is just to bad that he took so long to die.
Dood! Bad trip, Dood? You worry us when you talk like this, Dood!
There are only so many times you can make an abusive spouse analogy before it starts to look like a cry for help. Blink twice if you need assistance.
Hehe, no I'm cool. Sometimes she lets me pick out my own meals and clothes..... And she hardly ever hits me any more, only when I deserve it. Its for my own good you know.....
On my 5 Windows 10 Pro devices I have never had an update fail because of USB connected devices. So I put my anecdote up against yours and I win.
Har! Sorry, but I only mentioned a few. Its wonderful that you have had not one problem related to Windows 10.
So this is wonderful wonderful - do you want a job? You are easily worth 7 figures if you can translate your perfect record to others. This is indeed your lucky day, when you can turn your perfection into enough money to grease the skids enough that you will be able to demand almost any level pay.
Hm. Steve has done that almost all his life and look where Apple is now.
Nope - Apple is generally giving it's customers what they want. You probably just don't agree with what their customers want. I want my computer to work after an update. When my computer doesn't work, I don't.
My Apple computers work after updates. It's a pleasant surprise when my Windows machines do. Which is not to say that using my Windows 10 computer is a pleasant experience.
I've never once had rolling back to a restore point help. It seems like a great idea, but the implementation is lacking.
This! Microsoft restores are as helpful as Microsoft troubleshooting.
Amusing story - I had a trouble call for a virtual Audio driver problem. I knew the answer because it is common. But the person who had the problem insisted the fix was not the fix, because he had run the audio troubleshooter and it told him everything was okay. He ended up getting pissed at me and yelling and swearing at me.
Finally I just told him try the solution, because nothing he had done before had fixed it. I walked him through it, and then had him reboot. Next words out of his mouth were "Oh", then 5 seconds of silence, then "Looks like I owe you an apology."
Microsoft restore, Microsoft troubleshooting all mostly worthless. My experience is they get in the way more than help.
ANYONE still using Windows 10 is getting exactly what they deserve. And by that, of course, you mean anyone who has wanted to purchase new hardware for their organization in the last several years? It's the pretentious sanctimony and dunning-kruger arrogance that lets me know it's still /.
I'll trade Dunning-Kruger for your Stockholm syndrome. You're putting up with Microsoft's shit because it is what you will put up with. And act like there is no other alternative. Enjoy your Operating System - it's the best, and always will be, because the only possible solutions are From Microsoft, world without end, amen.
LibreOffice / OpenOffice are fine applications but they are not able to interact well with complex MS office docs.
Microsoft Office doesn't interact well with complex MS office docs. I've had some older documents that I've had to use OO to open.
But now that you will soon be using Microsoft's Operating systemm on a rental basis, realize that it is a shit test - you will have ot take as much shit as you are willing to put up with.
And the second you don't pay their ransom? What happens then - you going to be able to open and work on your documents? How much are you willing to pay for that permanent lock-in?
I have a surface tablet that I got as a gift. The last couple of months it will download updates, fail to install them, and then redownload them. I only use it for watching shows so I really don't care what happens on it but it's already used 20 gigs of storage in the windows update folder (I forget the exact directory).
Change it to "do not download updates on a metered connection" That will protect you a little - I have had Windows update ignore that a few times, but it helps.
I've had more issues with patches in the last few years than I ever remember having in the previous decade or so. So, yeah, count me as being pretty unhappy about the lack of quality control in the patching process. Before a couple of years ago, that wouldn't have even made my top ten complaints.
I've had update problems for years - back in XP days even. I think that Windows update has more problems the more hardware and software installed on the machine in the past, and now has problems with regular everyday things as well. That's a guess based on the plethora of failures.
I do know that it has a lot of problems with audio, especially with virtual audio devices. But I have had no less than 3 mouse caused update failures this year. I know that mouses were only invented in March of 2018, but srsly?
And remember how BSOD's were a thing of the past? I'm beginning to believe the only way Microsoft can get rid of the Blue Screen of Death is by changing the color.
...like the Windows Update that kept trying to install itself over the last couple of months, failing each time after multiple restarts, then defaulting back to the old installation, no matter what I did.
Finally, I downloaded the most recent one (bypassing the older version), and it still had problems. Until I unplugged all of my USB devices except my mouse and keyboard. THEN it installed.
No problem at all.
You know the zealots will pounce on this, saying it was your fault instead of Windows. My Mac has 8 USB devices plugged in with nary a problem on updates. My sole Windows machine has 3, yet half the updates fail unless I unlplug everything - weird that Windows can't handle a USB mouse any more.
It's not that easy. I need to use Windows for development work. All the customers run Windows.
Well there ya go. I suppose it's like having an abusive spouse, but you don't leave.
It isn't easy to leave Windows. But except for that one program I have to use, I've migrated to Operating systems that are more stable. And that one computer takes up 90 percent of my troubleshooting time, other than the support I do for others. I just count that time as a humanitarian service.
Just like finally leaving an abusive spouse, you end up wondering why you didn't do it much sooner.
Install Gentoo.
I'm a fan of Ubuntu Mate myself, but that's why we have all of the distros. A desktop with the interface you like, but the underlying programs just work.
And then it is already to late.
And quite consistent. I get phone calls and emails after every update for people needing their computers fixed.