the war on computation
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The worst thing is the past few years android updates brought fuckall exciting new stuff and just more spyware and worse performance .
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I actually use Cakewalk Sonar X2 mostly. Cakewalk went out of business and has been bought-and-sold and resurrected multiple times since I bought it back around 2014-ish. Whenever I built my desktop in 2019 it was kind of a miracle I was able to get the license activated- I forget what ended up working but I remember having to do a bunch of online searching through forum discussions to get it done.
I downloaded the trial version of Reaper on my Linux Mint machine and it's... Okay. And to be fair at $60 it's a lot cheaper than the $150 or so that I paid for Cakewalk. Considering I'm not doing anything professional that's probably what I will go to eventually.
Sometimes I look at the pace of technological progress and think that humanity is moving too fast for its own good. There's constantly new companies and new products starting up and then going bankrupt and obsolete in a couple of years. The Cakewall software I have is perfectly fine- it could run just fine on far weaker hardware, there aren't any features in other modern software that I feel like I'm missing. It just feels so wasteful to have to spend time, energy, and money to switch to a new platform because capitalism dictates I must.
Check out Ardour as well!
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These criminals know that the updates will negatively impact functionality thus forcing you to upgrade. It's theft.
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I have a desktop I built in 2019 with no TPM running. Windows 10.
Starting a couple of months ago, occasionally when it boots it will automatically open a full-screen ad for Windows 11.
It's extremely disruptive because of my setup. I use my monitors and keyboard for my work laptop and have a KVM to switch between the two, and since I use that space for work I don't like to spend much time there for recreation. So I often turn my desktop on and run it headless whenever I'm done with work, and don't see the ad, which then messes up my attempts at streaming. So I need to walk back upstairs to switch the KVM and close out of it manually.
No matter how many different "permanent" solutions I can find on the internet it keeps finding a way to do it again every couple of weeks. I've moved to Linux on most of the rest of my personal machines, but this desktop has all my old music production software that needs Windows. I'm getting pretty close to just investing in a different music production platform that works with Mint though.
Have you tried GRC’s InControl? Supposedly helps prevent the win11 update attempts.
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oneUI or whatever really made it worse
I went from an s9+ to an s23. it felt great
then I got a forced OS update and it feels like I went halfway back to the beat to shit s9 again
The "time to buy a new phone" update, happened to my zenphone 9 too, made the battery life much worse
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At some point it annoys me so much I just hit accept. It's probably nothing anyway.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's what they want, so spite fuels my resolve to reject it repeatedly
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I have a desktop I built in 2019 with no TPM running. Windows 10.
Starting a couple of months ago, occasionally when it boots it will automatically open a full-screen ad for Windows 11.
It's extremely disruptive because of my setup. I use my monitors and keyboard for my work laptop and have a KVM to switch between the two, and since I use that space for work I don't like to spend much time there for recreation. So I often turn my desktop on and run it headless whenever I'm done with work, and don't see the ad, which then messes up my attempts at streaming. So I need to walk back upstairs to switch the KVM and close out of it manually.
No matter how many different "permanent" solutions I can find on the internet it keeps finding a way to do it again every couple of weeks. I've moved to Linux on most of the rest of my personal machines, but this desktop has all my old music production software that needs Windows. I'm getting pretty close to just investing in a different music production platform that works with Mint though.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yea, that's a Windows Home thing.
Upgrade to pro, where that stuff doesn't exist.
Not to justify it, but the thinking by MS is "this OS is free, so you get ads", like commercial TV or the rest of the nonsense on the internet.
Also, I've run Windows with updates disabled since Windows XP, and have rarely run into problems. I say this as someone who's been in IT since the early 90's. I've seen 10x more problems caused by updates at work than anything else.
At home I enable updates every 6 months, then go manually grab the updates I need, or else it'll update things that will break my system.
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yeah mine's been sucking down battery noticably more since
Is it a pixel 6a? There's something wrong with their batteries so they updated them so they don't get set on fire. They're giving a free battery replacement, and I heard you might also be able to get cash out of it.
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The worst thing is the past few years android updates brought fuckall exciting new stuff and just more spyware and worse performance .
Thank God for the Bixby button though.
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As a security and privacy minded person im glad i CAN keep automatic updates enabled on GrapheneOS without having to worry about some crappy forced features being added.
I see windows users have to disable them too, its so crazy to me that people tollerate this stuff instead of just switching... Like yeah automatic updates that break things are annoying but "linux is too complicated", so instead of learning to adapt to a new system, you adapt to just accepting that you dont fully get to control your devices a they will get progressively worse until eventually you have to get a whole new device. SMH
“linux is too complicated”
The worst part of this is that it's no longer true. Windows is WAY more complicated than Linux (can be) at this point.
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Yea, that's a Windows Home thing.
Upgrade to pro, where that stuff doesn't exist.
Not to justify it, but the thinking by MS is "this OS is free, so you get ads", like commercial TV or the rest of the nonsense on the internet.
Also, I've run Windows with updates disabled since Windows XP, and have rarely run into problems. I say this as someone who's been in IT since the early 90's. I've seen 10x more problems caused by updates at work than anything else.
At home I enable updates every 6 months, then go manually grab the updates I need, or else it'll update things that will break my system.
Is Windows Home free? I’ve certainly never seen it be free. I’m ok with free stuff needing to make money somehow, within reason, but the second they start asking for creditcard information that shit better be clean as a fucking whistle.
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Alas, I am running the Home version. I did find in my research posts from sysadmins running the Enterprise version who seemed to have more luck permanently disabling it than I did.
if you wanna switch to the pro version, which should also be better in this regard, here's a handy link:
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
turns out the windows activation is extremely insecure and easy to fool
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They want us straight into shackles. One could say that their behavior is downright rapey, and they will probably do that as well.
The solutions to such lawlessness is obvious.
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Yea, that's a Windows Home thing.
Upgrade to pro, where that stuff doesn't exist.
Not to justify it, but the thinking by MS is "this OS is free, so you get ads", like commercial TV or the rest of the nonsense on the internet.
Also, I've run Windows with updates disabled since Windows XP, and have rarely run into problems. I say this as someone who's been in IT since the early 90's. I've seen 10x more problems caused by updates at work than anything else.
At home I enable updates every 6 months, then go manually grab the updates I need, or else it'll update things that will break my system.
Windows Home isn't free, though.
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Yea, that's a Windows Home thing.
Upgrade to pro, where that stuff doesn't exist.
Not to justify it, but the thinking by MS is "this OS is free, so you get ads", like commercial TV or the rest of the nonsense on the internet.
Also, I've run Windows with updates disabled since Windows XP, and have rarely run into problems. I say this as someone who's been in IT since the early 90's. I've seen 10x more problems caused by updates at work than anything else.
At home I enable updates every 6 months, then go manually grab the updates I need, or else it'll update things that will break my system.
I paid for my Windows license already, I think it was like $110. I'm not really interested in giving Microsoft any more money to continuing to use a product which is worse than the one I already paid for.
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Have you tried GRC’s InControl? Supposedly helps prevent the win11 update attempts.
Oh thanks I'll have to give that a shot later!
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Is Windows Home free? I’ve certainly never seen it be free. I’m ok with free stuff needing to make money somehow, within reason, but the second they start asking for creditcard information that shit better be clean as a fucking whistle.
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“linux is too complicated”
The worst part of this is that it's no longer true. Windows is WAY more complicated than Linux (can be) at this point.
I feel Windows 10 and 11, which I am forced to use on various work computers, represent a new era of impossible to predict UI behavior. Like, hats off if that was intended, they succeeded. I can't make heads or tails of anything anymore, and the things I want are several options deep now.
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oneUI or whatever really made it worse
I went from an s9+ to an s23. it felt great
then I got a forced OS update and it feels like I went halfway back to the beat to shit s9 again
Gods above, I wish I could go back to before this stupid update. I was denying the update for months and then it went ahead and still updated in my sleep. I hate this update. Such a downgrade in so many ways.
If I understood it better, I'd change my OS at this point.
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As a security and privacy minded person im glad i CAN keep automatic updates enabled on GrapheneOS without having to worry about some crappy forced features being added.
I see windows users have to disable them too, its so crazy to me that people tollerate this stuff instead of just switching... Like yeah automatic updates that break things are annoying but "linux is too complicated", so instead of learning to adapt to a new system, you adapt to just accepting that you dont fully get to control your devices a they will get progressively worse until eventually you have to get a whole new device. SMH
wrote last edited by [email protected]Good luck keeping root access with your GrapheneOS auto-update.
