You CAN opt out of shovelware. Just because TFA has no idea about the setting "Occasionally show suggestions in start" doesn't mean it isn't there. No need for registry or group policy or any of the other garbage the clueless author is on about.
The first thing you need to do in any windows 10 installation is turn off Settings > Personalisation > Start > "Occasionally show suggestions in start".
There is documented behavior of Windows 10 installing apps. But you don't need some stupid registry hack to stop it. Just Settings > Personalisation > Start > "Occasionally show suggestions in start"
Untick that one and you're golden. It also stops Edge from announcing it's superiority over Chrome, and Onedrive from insisting you absolutely just have to have Onedrive.
Today (Feb 15th 2018) is the day Microsoft has been telling me they are going to remove the PDF reader and I should use 'edge' instead. The singularity of stupid has arrived.
To be fair Edge is far better at reading PDFs than any of the other shit that comes on Windows 10..... It's actually also the only thing I use Edge for because god knows it's a frigging worthless browser. But at least for PDFs it has pen support built in so I can hand-markup and save PDFs. This is something even Acrobat Pro fails miserably at.
TFA is pointless. Windows 10 doesn't install any apps without your request if you turn off the settings "Occasionally show suggestions in Start" under the taskbar settings. Additionally the package responsible for installing these "suggestions" is called App Installer which you can simply uninstall and gone. You don't need any fancy educational or enterprise thing for it.
The thing is if you do a search on this problem you'll find 100 different people suggest 100 different registry edits or group policy edits and 100 different people complaining that it doesn't work. Frankly I've given up on any article claiming you can't turn it off.
Incidentally this single setting is also responsible for the suggestions to use Edge when you use Chrome, and also responsible for one of the two nagging OneDrive adverts.
Oh you're getting forced reboots during your code compiling? I'm genuinely impressed you can get any code to compile at all if you can't even change you settings to prevent the scenario you describe.
I can recommend a good book for programmers: "How to change windows settings for dummies".
but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past
It's not been impossible. It's just been completely irrelevant. Chalk up another feature I'll never turn on because a 1% boost in performance isn't worth the battery life hit.
As for being a realtime OS, you're right it never was, never will be and is not even remotely a design consideration. The same can be said about all desktop OSes except for those specifically designed for the purpose.
While you're at it remember that overloading users with choices is precisely how Linux got its unfriendly reputation in the first place. Someone making choices for users is precisely why Ubuntu is so usable to newbies in the first place.
I fundamentally fail to see the problem with this providing the option isn't in any way hidden and is part of a standard setup screen. People don't just gloss over the installation of their OS without seeing which options are checked.
People who care will Opt Out People who don't care will participate.
I see no problem collecting data about people who don't care about it.
This is quite different from e.g. the Windows 10 installer which actively hides the options to opt-out of various data collection option.
No. They could stop burning coal, but not "just" stop burning coal.
Coal is a pollutant but it isn't the only one and you can't solve the world's problems by "just" not burning coal. Additionally many European cities are battling with localised inner city pollution of which coal contributes almost zero.
Also you may have been living under a rock for the past few years but they ARE stopping the burning of coal. There has been a year on year reduction in coal consumption in Germany for pretty much most of this decade.
Death by hobo and death by car crash are both very very very low probability events. If one is ten or a hundred times more likely than the other, they're both still inconsequential.
Classic case of not understanding risk. Risk is a frequency of event compounded by the severity of it. Death is as severe as it gets, so let's look at frequency. The frequency of a population is quite low. However that is largely thanks to the many people who take themselves out of the risk pool by not driving causing that statistic to be driven down. The worst thing you can do is compound your time at risk increasing the probability that you will be involved in an accident.
You think it's low probability, yes it may be, but likewise driving is also the single most dangerous activity I will do today, and I'm typing this while sitting in a major hazard facility.
What kind of idiot would give their phone number to Facebook?
Why wouldn't you? Ever heard of a phone book? I think my phone number is plastered pretty much all over the internet. That's generally how a communications medium like a phone works.
Upper class has nothing to do with it. Of course they are going to side with the property owner in a case of a device whose soul purpose for existing is to infringe on copyright of property. VLC would definitely fall under this ruling, but they don't do that. Even Kodi themselves don't do anything that runs afoul of this ruling which essentially requires companies not to officially sanction plugins that exist for the soul purpose of copyright infringement.
Cooking is hard, but it is also something that is easily learnt. However you seem to be battling with some exceptionally crappy equipment. That is a problem for some but certainly doesn't cover the >50% of families in the UK figure that is in the summary.
In 40 minutes I could whip up a phenomenal meal. For a long time I used to make bacon and egg crepes every single day for breakfast. That took me less than 15min including making the crepe batter from scratch.
I can only suggest that you counter some of the negative effects of equipment with more positive ones. Buy yourself one or two nice heavy bottom pans. That will even out the temperature cooking surface. It will also mean you can start washing basically as soon as you finished eating since they won't warp.
But there's one thing I will call you out on. There have been countless studies by consumer groups that show buying fresh food and cooking from scratch, and above all cooking healthy is far better for your wallet then buying pre-packaged stuff. A lot of people get disenchanted when they first start and realise that Spag-Bol cost them $25 to make, but then they don't take into account that herbs and spices will last them the best part of 3 months, the pasta will cover maybe 8 meals, and ultimately if you use up all the ingredients you come down to a fraction of the cost of a prepackaged spaghetti bolognese. If you reach for the pre-packaged salad it may look cheaper. If you reach for all the ingredients you get to divide the cost by the number of salads they make.
The only time this doesn't work out in your favour is if you live by yourself without a fridge.
You cannot imagine a situation where 1,000,000 users of Huawei phones could result in an impact on the telecom infrastructure?
I can. And I can also imagine a situation where if you control the telecom infrastructure that you can manage this. However if you don't control the infrastructure then you're well and truly up shit creek.
Can you easily differentiate the millions of users with Nest thermostats, internet controlled lighting, etc, from a potential botnet using IoT devices?
If they are doing something abnormal that is screwing with the infrastructure then yes you can differentiate them. Infrastructure has quality of service built in on many different levels. Worst case scenario from a terminal perspective is a very localised denial of service through the pollution of spectrum. Everything else can be managed by infrastructure and the protocols. Heck 3GPP-R12 introduced device level pre-emption in 2013 for towers to free up spectrum and boot off chatty devices when needed.
Now I could see if maybe the standard had a bug and some vendor then loads software onto devices that exploit this bug, but then the risks of that are far lower than say a manufacturer controlling the infrastructure.
Why would it? You're not paying it for royalties, you're paying it for unlocking Broadcom's locked down product. What really will happen now is that Broadcom's profit margin will go up when you pay the fee.
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Cool. That makes you part of the 0.001% of the population who gives a damn.
You CAN opt out of shovelware. Just because TFA has no idea about the setting "Occasionally show suggestions in start" doesn't mean it isn't there. No need for registry or group policy or any of the other garbage the clueless author is on about.
The first thing you need to do in any windows 10 installation is turn off Settings > Personalisation > Start > "Occasionally show suggestions in start".
That controls the installation of suggested apps.
Just turn off Settings > Personalisation > Start > "Occasionally show suggestions in start"
There is documented behavior of Windows 10 installing apps. But you don't need some stupid registry hack to stop it. Just Settings > Personalisation > Start > "Occasionally show suggestions in start"
Untick that one and you're golden. It also stops Edge from announcing it's superiority over Chrome, and Onedrive from insisting you absolutely just have to have Onedrive.
Today (Feb 15th 2018) is the day Microsoft has been telling me they are going to remove the PDF reader and I should use 'edge' instead. The singularity of stupid has arrived.
To be fair Edge is far better at reading PDFs than any of the other shit that comes on Windows 10. .... It's actually also the only thing I use Edge for because god knows it's a frigging worthless browser. But at least for PDFs it has pen support built in so I can hand-markup and save PDFs. This is something even Acrobat Pro fails miserably at.
TFA is pointless. Windows 10 doesn't install any apps without your request if you turn off the settings "Occasionally show suggestions in Start" under the taskbar settings. Additionally the package responsible for installing these "suggestions" is called App Installer which you can simply uninstall and gone. You don't need any fancy educational or enterprise thing for it.
The thing is if you do a search on this problem you'll find 100 different people suggest 100 different registry edits or group policy edits and 100 different people complaining that it doesn't work. Frankly I've given up on any article claiming you can't turn it off.
Incidentally this single setting is also responsible for the suggestions to use Edge when you use Chrome, and also responsible for one of the two nagging OneDrive adverts.
Oh you're getting forced reboots during your code compiling? I'm genuinely impressed you can get any code to compile at all if you can't even change you settings to prevent the scenario you describe.
I can recommend a good book for programmers: "How to change windows settings for dummies".
but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past
It's not been impossible. It's just been completely irrelevant. Chalk up another feature I'll never turn on because a 1% boost in performance isn't worth the battery life hit.
As for being a realtime OS, you're right it never was, never will be and is not even remotely a design consideration. The same can be said about all desktop OSes except for those specifically designed for the purpose.
Except the meltdown patch just hit even worst case users by a fraction of that. 2% for many workloads is a significant portion of the meltdown dramas.
What coffin?
While you're at it remember that overloading users with choices is precisely how Linux got its unfriendly reputation in the first place. Someone making choices for users is precisely why Ubuntu is so usable to newbies in the first place.
Security implications of random system configs with no user identifiable information, not even IPs? I'm quaking in my boots.
The fact you remotely compare this to Windows just shows you have completely lost grip on reality.
I fundamentally fail to see the problem with this providing the option isn't in any way hidden and is part of a standard setup screen. People don't just gloss over the installation of their OS without seeing which options are checked.
People who care will Opt Out
People who don't care will participate.
I see no problem collecting data about people who don't care about it.
This is quite different from e.g. the Windows 10 installer which actively hides the options to opt-out of various data collection option.
I'm glad you think that. There is a checkbox you can uncheck during the install process that will make your machine behave exactly as you want.
There is something very strange about people who care more about philosophy than their computers actually being functional.
No. They could stop burning coal, but not "just" stop burning coal.
Coal is a pollutant but it isn't the only one and you can't solve the world's problems by "just" not burning coal. Additionally many European cities are battling with localised inner city pollution of which coal contributes almost zero.
Also you may have been living under a rock for the past few years but they ARE stopping the burning of coal. There has been a year on year reduction in coal consumption in Germany for pretty much most of this decade.
Death by hobo and death by car crash are both very very very low probability events. If one is ten or a hundred times more likely than the other, they're both still inconsequential.
Classic case of not understanding risk. Risk is a frequency of event compounded by the severity of it. Death is as severe as it gets, so let's look at frequency. The frequency of a population is quite low. However that is largely thanks to the many people who take themselves out of the risk pool by not driving causing that statistic to be driven down. The worst thing you can do is compound your time at risk increasing the probability that you will be involved in an accident.
You think it's low probability, yes it may be, but likewise driving is also the single most dangerous activity I will do today, and I'm typing this while sitting in a major hazard facility.
They could be used to process the incredibly large number of stories on Slashdot to detect dupes instead.
What kind of idiot would give their phone number to Facebook?
Why wouldn't you? Ever heard of a phone book? I think my phone number is plastered pretty much all over the internet. That's generally how a communications medium like a phone works.
Upper class has nothing to do with it. Of course they are going to side with the property owner in a case of a device whose soul purpose for existing is to infringe on copyright of property. VLC would definitely fall under this ruling, but they don't do that. Even Kodi themselves don't do anything that runs afoul of this ruling which essentially requires companies not to officially sanction plugins that exist for the soul purpose of copyright infringement.
Cooking is hard, but it is also something that is easily learnt. However you seem to be battling with some exceptionally crappy equipment. That is a problem for some but certainly doesn't cover the >50% of families in the UK figure that is in the summary.
In 40 minutes I could whip up a phenomenal meal. For a long time I used to make bacon and egg crepes every single day for breakfast. That took me less than 15min including making the crepe batter from scratch.
I can only suggest that you counter some of the negative effects of equipment with more positive ones. Buy yourself one or two nice heavy bottom pans. That will even out the temperature cooking surface. It will also mean you can start washing basically as soon as you finished eating since they won't warp.
But there's one thing I will call you out on. There have been countless studies by consumer groups that show buying fresh food and cooking from scratch, and above all cooking healthy is far better for your wallet then buying pre-packaged stuff. A lot of people get disenchanted when they first start and realise that Spag-Bol cost them $25 to make, but then they don't take into account that herbs and spices will last them the best part of 3 months, the pasta will cover maybe 8 meals, and ultimately if you use up all the ingredients you come down to a fraction of the cost of a prepackaged spaghetti bolognese. If you reach for the pre-packaged salad it may look cheaper. If you reach for all the ingredients you get to divide the cost by the number of salads they make.
The only time this doesn't work out in your favour is if you live by yourself without a fridge.
Deaths from Botulism
You don't need to process food with a laundry list of chemicals to prevent this. Simply cooking it will do.
You cannot imagine a situation where 1,000,000 users of Huawei phones could result in an impact on the telecom infrastructure?
I can. And I can also imagine a situation where if you control the telecom infrastructure that you can manage this. However if you don't control the infrastructure then you're well and truly up shit creek.
Can you easily differentiate the millions of users with Nest thermostats, internet controlled lighting, etc, from a potential botnet using IoT devices?
If they are doing something abnormal that is screwing with the infrastructure then yes you can differentiate them. Infrastructure has quality of service built in on many different levels. Worst case scenario from a terminal perspective is a very localised denial of service through the pollution of spectrum. Everything else can be managed by infrastructure and the protocols. Heck 3GPP-R12 introduced device level pre-emption in 2013 for towers to free up spectrum and boot off chatty devices when needed.
Now I could see if maybe the standard had a bug and some vendor then loads software onto devices that exploit this bug, but then the risks of that are far lower than say a manufacturer controlling the infrastructure.
If it's shiny furniture, it's not oiled.
There's shiny and there's *SHINY*. Oiled wood definitely shines more than many others.
Why would it? You're not paying it for royalties, you're paying it for unlocking Broadcom's locked down product.
What really will happen now is that Broadcom's profit margin will go up when you pay the fee.