If this isn't memed to hell and back by the end of tomorrow I'll be sorely disappointed.
wizardbeard
joined 2 years ago
An OS is like a car or a machine in the sense that it needs regular maintenance. You can ignore that regular maintenance at your own peril, but it's not the car manufacturer's fault if you refuse to change the oil. Or if you decide to camber your tires out to a ridiculous angle and it breaks the wheel bearings.
Stepping back from your analogy, the only way that Windows is going to fail to play your game because you haven't updated is if the game needs to update too. And if it's that important to you, you can disable updates entirely and only re-enable them when it suits you. Only booting up Windows once a month is pretty damn good use case for that. Disable updates, play your game, re-enable them and let it do its thing when you're done.
Windows is definitely not ideal, but there is a lot of people spreading learned helplessness solely for the sake of pushing Linux. Linux is absolutely better, but Windows is not some festering boil that provides the sensory equivalent of nails on chalkboard if you use it correctly/as designed.
Another big thing people complain about is ads in the various system utilities. Hell yes that's disgusting. However, all of those ads are disabled by a single option in the settings menu that doesn't reset itself on update.
Colleges too. Ever wanted to hide behind the projector screen of a 300 seat lecture hall? None of the doors are locked. Found an old rotary telephone and a real film reel projector back there.
Had some wonderful desk chair races around the professor offices floor in one building at nearly midnight.
The tough part is when you no longer have that access after you're used to it when you get a new job.
No! Don't call security! I swear I worked here a decade ago, I'm just absentminded.
No issues on jerboa
I reckom it's an awareness issue. This is the first time I've seen this table posted outside of the dedicated community on lemmy.
I think it's less likely this has anything to do with skill, and more likely this is a company looking for an excuse to cut a highly paid position.
The overwhelming majority of the nags can be disabled permanently with the right configuration, in a way that isn't trampled on by updates.
The main issue is that because Microsoft doesn't have anywhere close to sane defaults, many people believe it isn't possible to configure sanely.
It also doesn't help that Microsoft has crossed the threshold where there's too many people using it who think they know what they're doing well enough to speak authoritatively about its "issues" when they don't. Lots of Dunning Kreuger going on.
And that MS torched a ton of their learning resources for desktop config and admin stuff when they went all in on the cloud and are only now recreating some of them.
And people try to use it outside of the intended use case then get frustrated that things get weird. It's configired to be a daily driver or at least powered on once a week for updates, of course if you only use it every few months things are going to suck. You'd get laughed at if you were using a hammer to drive screws, but Windows is supposed to just work anyway with no rough edges?
Do you somehow think that if you just fake the technical requirement for this .lpf file it will be smooth sailing?
What happens when this gets caught by an actual human being?
A repeated plot point in the novel series Dresden Files. I'm overdue for a re-read.
Not quite directly mind, but there are many many moments of "I cast spell: GUN!"
Sweet! I did similar with backing up my DS carts and saves so I could play them all on 3DS off the SD card with Twilight Menu.
There's a few more from that album, Rock Swings, like Black Hole Sun