Better known as "Windows NSA Edition" or "Windows CTD Edition", CTD being "Computer-Transmitted Disease"... Having escaped the Microsoft ecosystem about 6 years ago, I sit back and laugh my ass off at the crap people who still use MS products have to put up with... So damn glad it isn't me anymore....
The super-annoying part about these integrated navigation/entertainment systems, is that if they're crap (like the "sync by microsoft" crap we have in our 2012 Ford Escape) you're stuck with it.. Can't yank the crap out and go to a store and buy an aftermarket system like you could in the past...
This seems to be the norm for Ford.. Wife and I have a 2012 Escape, which has a "Sync by Microsoft" entertainment system (SirusXM/am-fm/Cd/Bluetooth Handsfree).. We've had the car since 2012, and right after we bought it, the sat radio would get "no signal" dropouts at almost every street intersection, no matter what sat channel you were on.. Once you cleared the intersection, signal would return, only to go out again at the next light.. Went back to the dealer and bugged them about it, they said "We'll take a look if you can leave the car for at least a week"... ???? WTF?? That AINT happening... Anyway we've just lived with it.. And not to mention the total of FIVE different Android smartphones we've tried to pair with the hands-free system.. None of which will pair.. I guess I should have realized when we were shopping for an SUV that ANYthing with parts with Microsoft's name on them would be a piece of shit...
Where you *should* have gone is a credit union. I was screwed big-time by Bank of America back in the late 70s, and since then all of my personal/family accounts are with a federally chartered credit union. In fact, our current credit union has as its motto, "The bank that you own"... Every year, regular as clockwork, we get a varying size dividend deposit, based on how well the credit union did that year. Its varied, but usually between $100 and $200.. We've overdrawn our checking a time or two, and all they do is pull from our share account, with no penalties/fees.. Their car loans always beat anything you'd ever get from a bank or god forbid, the dealer financing..
No Shit Sherlock.... I retired in 2010 after nearly 20 years of supporting/using MS products. Around 2011, I decided I was done messing with MS products, and deleted the Windows 7 dualboot-ness of all of my systems back to 100% Linux. Since then, I've been sitting back and watching the shitstorm surrounding the "turd_in_the_punchbowl" that is Windows 10, and how desparate MS seems to be in forcing Windows 10 onto every machine they can. Watching from the sidelines, it occurs to me that Windows 10 itself *is* malware.. Think about it.. It uses the same obfuscation techniques to get itself onto a machine as malware, it sends everything you do on *your* computer to MS. There are endless cases of people who don't want it, but have it forced onto their systems anyway.. Frankly, I have a lot of sympathy for those who either *must* use MS products OR, due to ignorance of alternatives, simply *think* they have to use MS products. Sooooo glad I don't..........
Windows 10 IS malware... The tricks MS used to infiltrate it on to everybody's pc that was still running an MS OS, ARE the textbook description of malware distribution methods. Then if you take the fact that EVERYTHING you do on *your* machine is hoovered off to MS, Windows 10 becomes even MORE the textbook description of malware... So glad all of my families systems are on Linux...
OR do like some of us, who gave up getting fucked by proprietary operating systems quite a while ago, and now only use Linux, and some who are laughing their asses off at all the sheep who still use ANY MS product, and some others who pity those same sheep, who either MUST use MS products OR *think* they have to use MS products.. Protip: You DON'T....
Regardless of my feeling toward Meg Whitman and destruction of HP...
Unless you switched in mid-stream to talking about eBay, I do believe it was Carly Fiorina that fucked HP into the ground...Both of those ladies did a bang-up job on their respective corporations...
I think the shit-storm that is Windows 10 has done more for Linux than any other thing... I used/supported MS products for close to 20 years in my working career but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with MS, and since I am retired, I have become the defacto "tech support" for my church and neighbor, and if I had the business acumen to start a business, I believe I could make a profitable go of moving disgruntled Windows users over to Linux. Since Windows started shipping, I've done over 20 friends/neighbors over to Linux, and I keep getting others wanting to move over.. Hey, I'm retired, I wanna rest..
hehe Windows 10 *is* a computer version of an STD, as in a CTD (Computer Transmitted Disease).. Soooooo flippin' glad I've been MS-free since 2010, even though before that, I used/supported that crap for close to 20 years.. (shudders)
You're nuts if you even consider Lenovo after the crapstorm they were caught doing on their systems. I spent the last 10 years of my sysadmin career supporting Dell corporate systems and now that I'm retired, thats is ALL I will buy/recommend.. Lenovo/HP/Asus all suck donkey balls.
I don't agree.. I have a Brother HL-2240 laser printer I bought nearly 3 years ago, to replace a dead HP printer. I run 100% Linux and the Brother printer works perfectly under Linux. Oh and by the way, I'm still on the original toner cartridge, though I'm now getting the "low toner" warning... HP? NEVER again.. Brother? Always...
It wasn't just HP that got nailed by the bad Nvidia chips.. Dell got hit pretty good too.. I had a Dell Vostro 1400 with Nvidia GeForce8400M video. I especially wanted the Nvidia video as I ran a Linux OpenGL program that wouldn't work for crap on Intel or ATI/AMD video. The laptop ran fine during the standard warantee period but after about 6 months out of warantee, the video shit the bed. I then heard about a class action lawsuit regarding this very thing, and the fact that Nvidia KNEW the chips were bad but shipped them to HP/Dell/Apple and others. I shipped the laptop back to Dell and they fixed the unit under a special limited warantee, which lasted about another six months before it crapped out again with the same problem. I wound up parting the machine out on eBay...
God Lord, you're REALLY a sucker if you believe ANYthing a "Microsoft rep" tells you.... Of course, you're an AC, therefore a troll, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised at your comment...
When I read about the game, it sounded like a LOT of fun, so I checked into Steam to see if it was one of the ever-growing number of titles that run on Linux.. Alas, I was to find it was not.. Since I don't/won't run Windows on any of my computers, and use the Linux Steam client, I found that I was not going to be able to play *this* game.. After reading this article, It seems I dodged a bullet, both due to the lies AND the fact that Sony is behind this... Microsoft and Sony are on the "dead_to_me" list.... Large caliber bullet successfully dodged...
I spent close to 20 years supporting MS products. I retired in 2010, and soon decided I was through with anything MS.. All of my home systems are 100% Linux, *however* its great to see an OS that likely allow one to run a Windows program that, for whatever reason, won't work in Wine. I don't expect to have this happen, but one never knows.. After seeing what a shitshow Windows 10 is, privacy-wise and MS a bang-up job of using just about every malware vector to get their shitshow on everybody's computer, I couldn't be happier to have left MS in the dirt....
I read where MS "opensourced" PowerShell and are gonna provide it for Linux.. Geez.. Keep that MS garbage off my computer.. I dumped Windows about 6 years ago for 100% Linux, and it will be a sub-zero day in hell before ANYthing MS writes goes on ANY machine *I* control..... (shudders)
* Price per mile is very similar, compared to other modes of transport such as bus or train.
At least here in Las Vegas, it ain't so... For example: A taxi from my house on the east side of Las Vegas to McCarran airport is gonna cost me right around $47, whereas an Uber trip from home to the airport is around $20, not to mention the fact that the last time I took a trip to the airport via Uber, I rode in a very nice, well kept SUV, and the driver was very personable. Whereas, the last time I took a cab to the airport, before Lyft/Uber came on the scene, I swore I'd walk before taking another cab in this town.. Overpriced, rude drivers, often don't show up when you call.... We NEED something like Uber/Lyft to provide some competition to taxicabs...
I have Cox HSI in Las Vegas. Prior to Cox turning their native ipv6 on a few months ago, I had a Hurricane Electric 6to4 tunnel. When Cox enabled ipv6 here, I tried 5 different times to switch to their DHCP6-PD configuration. The connection would work fine for a few days, then I'd lose v6 connectivity. Usually a reboot of the router would bring it back for a while, it would drop out again.. I tried pinging their tech-support but their first-line support is totally useless for advanced issues like this, and they balk at escalating to tier2. I finally said "fuck it" and went back to the HE tunnel, which *just works*......
ANYbody who uses that brain-dead piece of shit called PowerHell on Linux needs to have his head examined, or better yet committed to an insane asylum...
I sure the hell think you forgot the/s there, Sparky.. You seem to have forgotten that those computers fucked up by updates are NOT MS's computers, they belong to the USER (or his company).. Microsoft has every right to go right out and FUCK ITSELF.... Of course, you're an AC.. I shouldn't be surprised that you're a shill for MS...
I did, about 6 years ago.. Used/supported MS products for nearly 20 years as a sysadmin.. Decided that when I retired, I was *done* with MS.. After seeing the "Windows NSA Edition" shit-show, I couldn't be happier....
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Better known as "Windows NSA Edition" or "Windows CTD Edition", CTD being "Computer-Transmitted Disease"... Having escaped the Microsoft ecosystem about 6 years ago, I sit back and laugh my ass off at the crap people who still use MS products have to put up with... So damn glad it isn't me anymore....
It died for me with 5.0, I loved 3 and 4... They couldn't leave well enough alone...
The super-annoying part about these integrated navigation/entertainment systems, is that if they're crap (like the "sync by microsoft" crap we have in our 2012 Ford Escape) you're stuck with it.. Can't yank the crap out and go to a store and buy an aftermarket system like you could in the past...
This seems to be the norm for Ford.. Wife and I have a 2012 Escape, which has a "Sync by Microsoft" entertainment system (SirusXM/am-fm/Cd/Bluetooth Handsfree).. We've had the car since 2012, and right after we bought it, the sat radio would get "no signal" dropouts at almost every street intersection, no matter what sat channel you were on.. Once you cleared the intersection, signal would return, only to go out again at the next light.. Went back to the dealer and bugged them about it, they said "We'll take a look if you can leave the car for at least a week"... ???? WTF?? That AINT happening... Anyway we've just lived with it.. And not to mention the total of FIVE different Android smartphones we've tried to pair with the hands-free system.. None of which will pair.. I guess I should have realized when we were shopping for an SUV that ANYthing with parts with Microsoft's name on them would be a piece of shit...
Where you *should* have gone is a credit union. I was screwed big-time by Bank of America back in the late 70s, and since then all of my personal/family accounts are with a federally chartered credit union. In fact, our current credit union has as its motto, "The bank that you own"... Every year, regular as clockwork, we get a varying size dividend deposit, based on how well the credit union did that year. Its varied, but usually between $100 and $200.. We've overdrawn our checking a time or two, and all they do is pull from our share account, with no penalties/fees.. Their car loans always beat anything you'd ever get from a bank or god forbid, the dealer financing..
No Shit Sherlock.... I retired in 2010 after nearly 20 years of supporting/using MS products. Around 2011, I decided I was done messing with MS products, and deleted the Windows 7 dualboot-ness of all of my systems back to 100% Linux. Since then, I've been sitting back and watching the shitstorm surrounding the "turd_in_the_punchbowl" that is Windows 10, and how desparate MS seems to be in forcing Windows 10 onto every machine they can. Watching from the sidelines, it occurs to me that Windows 10 itself *is* malware.. Think about it.. It uses the same obfuscation techniques to get itself onto a machine as malware, it sends everything you do on *your* computer to MS. There are endless cases of people who don't want it, but have it forced onto their systems anyway.. Frankly, I have a lot of sympathy for those who either *must* use MS products OR, due to ignorance of alternatives, simply *think* they have to use MS products. Sooooo glad I don't..........
Windows 10 IS malware... The tricks MS used to infiltrate it on to everybody's pc that was still running an MS OS, ARE the textbook description of malware distribution methods. Then if you take the fact that EVERYTHING you do on *your* machine is hoovered off to MS, Windows 10 becomes even MORE the textbook description of malware... So glad all of my families systems are on Linux...
OR do like some of us, who gave up getting fucked by proprietary operating systems quite a while ago, and now only use Linux, and some who are laughing their asses off at all the sheep who still use ANY MS product, and some others who pity those same sheep, who either MUST use MS products OR *think* they have to use MS products.. Protip: You DON'T....
Regardless of my feeling toward Meg Whitman and destruction of HP...
Unless you switched in mid-stream to talking about eBay, I do believe it was Carly Fiorina that fucked HP into the ground...Both of those ladies did a bang-up job on their respective corporations...
hehe I can hear it now... "My computer was RAPED by Microsoft...."....
I think the shit-storm that is Windows 10 has done more for Linux than any other thing... I used/supported MS products for close to 20 years in my working career but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with MS, and since I am retired, I have become the defacto "tech support" for my church and neighbor, and if I had the business acumen to start a business, I believe I could make a profitable go of moving disgruntled Windows users over to Linux. Since Windows started shipping, I've done over 20 friends/neighbors over to Linux, and I keep getting others wanting to move over.. Hey, I'm retired, I wanna rest..
hehe Windows 10 *is* a computer version of an STD, as in a CTD (Computer Transmitted Disease).. Soooooo flippin' glad I've been MS-free since 2010, even though before that, I used/supported that crap for close to 20 years.. (shudders)
You're nuts if you even consider Lenovo after the crapstorm they were caught doing on their systems. I spent the last 10 years of my sysadmin career supporting Dell corporate systems and now that I'm retired, thats is ALL I will buy/recommend.. Lenovo/HP/Asus all suck donkey balls.
You want some action, get the FTC on the case.. FAR FAR better than the BBB....
I don't agree.. I have a Brother HL-2240 laser printer I bought nearly 3 years ago, to replace a dead HP printer. I run 100% Linux and the Brother printer works perfectly under Linux. Oh and by the way, I'm still on the original toner cartridge, though I'm now getting the "low toner" warning... HP? NEVER again.. Brother? Always...
It wasn't just HP that got nailed by the bad Nvidia chips.. Dell got hit pretty good too.. I had a Dell Vostro 1400 with Nvidia GeForce8400M video. I especially wanted the Nvidia video as I ran a Linux OpenGL program that wouldn't work for crap on Intel or ATI/AMD video. The laptop ran fine during the standard warantee period but after about 6 months out of warantee, the video shit the bed. I then heard about a class action lawsuit regarding this very thing, and the fact that Nvidia KNEW the chips were bad but shipped them to HP/Dell/Apple and others. I shipped the laptop back to Dell and they fixed the unit under a special limited warantee, which lasted about another six months before it crapped out again with the same problem. I wound up parting the machine out on eBay...
God Lord, you're REALLY a sucker if you believe ANYthing a "Microsoft rep" tells you.... Of course, you're an AC, therefore a troll, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised at your comment...
When I read about the game, it sounded like a LOT of fun, so I checked into Steam to see if it was one of the ever-growing number of titles that run on Linux.. Alas, I was to find it was not.. Since I don't/won't run Windows on any of my computers, and use the Linux Steam client, I found that I was not going to be able to play *this* game.. After reading this article, It seems I dodged a bullet, both due to the lies AND the fact that Sony is behind this... Microsoft and Sony are on the "dead_to_me" list.... Large caliber bullet successfully dodged...
I spent close to 20 years supporting MS products. I retired in 2010, and soon decided I was through with anything MS.. All of my home systems are 100% Linux, *however* its great to see an OS that likely allow one to run a Windows program that, for whatever reason, won't work in Wine. I don't expect to have this happen, but one never knows.. After seeing what a shitshow Windows 10 is, privacy-wise and MS a bang-up job of using just about every malware vector to get their shitshow on everybody's computer, I couldn't be happier to have left MS in the dirt....
I read where MS "opensourced" PowerShell and are gonna provide it for Linux.. Geez.. Keep that MS garbage off my computer.. I dumped Windows about 6 years ago for 100% Linux, and it will be a sub-zero day in hell before ANYthing MS writes goes on ANY machine *I* control..... (shudders)
* Price per mile is very similar, compared to other modes of transport such as bus or train.
At least here in Las Vegas, it ain't so... For example: A taxi from my house on the east side of Las Vegas to McCarran airport is gonna cost me right around $47, whereas an Uber trip from home to the airport is around $20, not to mention the fact that the last time I took a trip to the airport via Uber, I rode in a very nice, well kept SUV, and the driver was very personable. Whereas, the last time I took a cab to the airport, before Lyft/Uber came on the scene, I swore I'd walk before taking another cab in this town.. Overpriced, rude drivers, often don't show up when you call.... We NEED something like Uber/Lyft to provide some competition to taxicabs...
I have Cox HSI in Las Vegas. Prior to Cox turning their native ipv6 on a few months ago, I had a Hurricane Electric 6to4 tunnel. When Cox enabled ipv6 here, I tried 5 different times to switch to their DHCP6-PD configuration. The connection would work fine for a few days, then I'd lose v6 connectivity. Usually a reboot of the router would bring it back for a while, it would drop out again.. I tried pinging their tech-support but their first-line support is totally useless for advanced issues like this, and they balk at escalating to tier2. I finally said "fuck it" and went back to the HE tunnel, which *just works* ......
ANYbody who uses that brain-dead piece of shit called PowerHell on Linux needs to have his head examined, or better yet committed to an insane asylum...
I sure the hell think you forgot the /s there, Sparky.. You seem to have forgotten that those computers fucked up by updates are NOT MS's computers, they belong to the USER (or his company).. Microsoft has every right to go right out and FUCK ITSELF.... Of course, you're an AC.. I shouldn't be surprised that you're a shill for MS...
Stop using Windows.
I did, about 6 years ago.. Used/supported MS products for nearly 20 years as a sysadmin.. Decided that when I retired, I was *done* with MS.. After seeing the "Windows NSA Edition" shit-show, I couldn't be happier....