Oh goddammit

[marcos@lemmy.world]

Windows users: Windows work just fine, nobody asked you!

And then proceed to make another dozen of memes with problems even more annoying than this.

[supervisor194@lemmy.world]

Never, ever, do what I do because it's very dangerous and always a horrible idea:

Kill Windows Update

[justonepersistentkbinplease@fedia.io]

Windows 10: how to re-enable the actual sleep function on your PC/Laptop. Not the crappy MS one that they can wake up on demand.

Control panel > Hardware and Sound > power options > system settings.
Change settings that are currently unavailable

Disable Sleep
Enable Hibernate
Save changes.

Optionally: change power button to Hibernate

From power options > Change when the computer Sleeps:

Put the computer to sleep: Never.
Click on Change Advanced power plans
Go down to and expand sleep.
Change the hibernate after setting.

[ilinamorato@lemmy.world]

It's worth noting that this only works if you have hardware that supports the correct form of sleep.

[cubitoom@infosec.pub]

Linux (arch BTW) users running windows VMs via qemu: I'll just force shut down the VM.

[kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works]

FFS JUST TURN IT OFF

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

Influx of Linux users.

OH yes, do I have a wall-of-text for you. Lazypasting a relevant comment I made regarding the UI direction windows has taken for the past decade and a half:

Example, if I want to change the thingamajig-ratio of the skoodleblurp, utilizing the brumblebork method:

• Linux: skoodle -s thinga 50 (brumblebork is assumed by default unless something else is explicitly defined via --method=)
• msdos 6.0: skoodleb /thing 50 /brumblebork
• win 3.x and win95: can't do that natively, but the msdos method still works for some reason.
• WinME: Nobody knows how it's done, or even if it's possible. Anyone who wants to adjust this is smart enough to avoid WinME
• win2k: after right clicking my computer and selecting properties, it's a setting hidden somewhere in the hardware tab, provided you're running the latest SP.
• win98: same as win2k, except a reboot is required afterwards
• XP: same as win2k, except a defrag is required afterwards. Also, Teletubbies color schema.
• win vista: back to rebooting. The change may not have been applied. It will not tell you either way.
• win 7: finally they made it functional and easily accessible via the control panel
• win 8: uh oh, the control panel of ye olden days is no more. We have a new thing going, so there are two way of doing it. The newer method isn't quite as flexible as the old control panel, though; you need to regedit for proper brumblebork.
• win 8.1: They fixed the new panel, but you can't fit it on a single screen due to excessive dead space padding. And sometimes you get told to contact the sysadmin. For your computer. That you own.
• Win 10: It fits on one screen now, you just have a million sub-menus to navigate through; control panel -> network -> advanced -> skoodleblurp -> advanced -> thingamajig -> advanced (yep, again) -> ratio slider -> apply -> OK -> submit -> execute -> "are you sure?" -> (three minutes of that nondes ript spinning circle that replaced the hour glass) -> Fuck you, you forgot to check the brumblebork box half an hour ago. At this point it's easier to get WSL up and running and then run
  skoodle -s thinga 50 --method=brumblebork (method not implied. WSL isn't that good)
• Win 11: you have to log in to support.microsoft.com with your Microsoft account, using edge, and hope it has detected that you are running an OS that supports this. Then you can download a service patch that may or may not be relevant. Either way it changes your default search to fucking Bing.

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

Then Windows takes five minutes to start and another fifteen to become stable

[_lilith@lemmy.world]

Had to change the access policy for the windows update file so windows would stop trying to download 11 on my last windows box. Every now and then it still tries to update and shits itself because it's not allowed.

[rin@lemm.ee]

Congrats on opening yourself up to countless vulenerabilities

[sundray@lemmus.org]

Windows: "I need to update!"

20 minutes later

Windows: "Oops, I failed!"

User: "WHY?!"

Windows: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[sundray@lemmus.org]

Windows work just fine

Lol, not at my job. Whatever Microsoft got right, the boss's spyware breaks over its knee.

[sundray@lemmus.org]

Oh, are there Linux users here? Hi, welcome!

I use Manjaro, btw

*ducks*

[owlboi@lemm.ee]

simply presses the restart without updating button

[kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works]

USE AN SSD WHAT THE FUCK MAN IT'S 2025

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

But SSDs don't have the satisfying clicky grindy sounds

[piccolo@sh.itjust.works]

That was before windows start using React for a start menu.

[idew@lemm.ee]

I am aware, but I think I rather stick with an unsafe system than a spying but 'secure' system. New Ameliorated versions accounted that and you can update whenever you like. I just haven't gone through the trouble of a fresh install..

[stephen01king@lemmy.zip]

Why not just turn off TPM in the BIOS?

[skulblaka@sh.itjust.works]

I have never, not once, had this not just immediately begin updating anyway.