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This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

Started byLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
First post2024-12-31 19:08 +0000
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  This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-31 19:08 +0000
    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 15:19 -0500
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-12-31 15:41 -0500
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-31 21:09 +0000
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-31 21:40 -0500
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 22:14 -0500
          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-31 22:16 -0500
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 22:46 -0500
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-01 07:50 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-01 08:37 -0500
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-01 09:20 -0500
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-01 10:06 -0500
                      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 23:31 +0000
                        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-01 19:26 -0500
                          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-02 19:14 +0000
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-01 09:38 -0600
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Gregg Fowler <totsob@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-01 14:45 +0000
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-01 10:20 -0500
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 11:42 -0500
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-01 19:28 +0000
          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 14:34 -0500
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-01 18:17 -0500
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 18:30 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-01 19:23 -0500
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 20:10 -0500
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-02 08:32 -0500
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-02 19:00 +0000
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-02 15:04 -0500
                      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 15:18 +0000
                        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-04 20:10 -0500
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-01 23:46 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 00:15 -0500
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-02 08:58 -0500
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 12:11 -0500
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 23:38 +0000
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 18:54 -0500
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-01 19:28 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-01 23:59 -0500
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 00:16 -0500
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-02 05:31 +0000
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-02 18:21 +0000
                      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-02 21:55 +0000
                        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 10:18 +0000
                          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-03 21:25 +0000
                            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-04 13:06 +0000
                              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-04 09:48 -0500
                                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-05 00:28 +0000
                                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-04 21:16 -0500
                                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-05 02:44 +0000
                              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-04 13:29 -0700
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-02 08:55 -0500
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-02 19:22 +0000
                      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-02 15:04 -0500
                        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-03 01:58 +0000
                          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-02 22:12 -0500
                            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-03 08:41 +0000
                            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-03 07:16 -0500
                              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-03 20:24 +0000
                                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-03 15:38 -0500
                          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-02 22:36 -0500
                      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 11:26 +0000
                        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-03 06:13 -0600
                          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 13:47 +0000
                            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-03 21:26 +0000
                              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-03 20:24 -0500
                                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-04 06:43 -0600
                                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-04 10:20 -0500
                                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-04 13:47 +0000
                              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-04 13:16 +0000
                                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-05 00:26 +0000
                                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-05 14:35 +0000
                                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-06 00:15 +0000
                                      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-06 14:47 +0000
                                        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-06 20:20 +0000
                                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-04 20:21 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-02 18:50 +0000
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-02 21:57 +0000
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-02 22:41 -0500
                      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 10:37 +0000
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 10:28 +0000
          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-01 20:19 +0000
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 15:24 -0500
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-01 21:14 +0000
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-01 17:10 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-02 00:19 +0000
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-01 22:12 -0500
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-02 19:26 +0000
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 23:53 +0000
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-01 21:54 +0000
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-01 22:42 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-02 05:29 +0000
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-02 18:39 +0000
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-02 21:56 +0000
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 10:18 +0000
                    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-03 21:27 +0000
          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-26 19:07 +1100
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-27 17:14 -0500
    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-12-31 20:45 +0000
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 01:27 +0000
    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-31 21:33 -0500
    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-01 13:45 -0500
    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-01-02 13:50 +0100
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-02 09:47 -0500
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If  Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-02 10:37 -0500
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-03 05:20 -0500
          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-03 16:48 -0500
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-04 20:32 -0500
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-01-05 01:39 +0000
    Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-05 00:43 +0000
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-05 02:45 +0000
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-08 00:00 +0000
      Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-05 14:14 +0000
        Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-06 00:15 +0000
          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-05 22:29 -0500
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-06 06:29 +0000
              Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-08 00:09 +0000
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-08 02:24 +0000
                  Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-07 22:44 -0500
                Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 09:02 -0700
          Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-06 14:48 +0000
            Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-07 02:07 +0000

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#15903 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromPaul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Date2025-01-01 13:45 -0500
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vl42gu$2t6t2$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#15848
On Tue, 12/31/2024 2:08 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Yet another
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-windows-11-24h2-bug-could-block-future-security-updates-see-whos-affected/>
> in the ongoing stream of bugs from Microsoft resulting from the
> Windows update process itself. This one breaks the ability to receive
> further security updates. So once you get it, how do you get an update
> to fix it? Particularly when there have already been updates that kept
> introducing their own new bugs?
> 

Wow, you take two minutes to have a piss and this happens :-)
I had trouble spotting the byline, and using archive.org and
the mess that makes of the screen, made it stand out better.

   Written by Lance Whitney, Contributor
   Dec. 30, 2024 at 11:04 a.m. PT

Someone reported a Windows Update failure, where a Windows Update
"complained it could not find the manifest of a previous update".

This is not how Windows Update is supposed to work. Remember that
the word "Cumulative", a little-understood English word, no longer
means "Cumulative". It means "whatever-we-want-it-to-mean".
Your updates aren't stateless, after all.

In fact, your machine has a *number* of state-machine related
failure conditions (such as properly fixing BlackLotus, sometime
after the Windows-Update-mediated method did it).

The OS has some items, that need to be repaired if your
machine suffers a related calamity. Say for example, your
little brother does a factory reset on the UEFI security
materials. Does Windows "measure" the fucking mess and fix it?
No. Of course not. There could be portions of that which remain
broken.

*******

The way to cover off some Windows issues of this sort, is the

   Repair Install

which is a procedure that ordinary users can handle
without hair loss. But it does not "guarantee" much of anything,
it's merely a "best effort" from the user community, to help you.

For example, the Windows installer media *still* does not handle
the SafeOS feature properly. The partition still isn't the right
size, defensively designed for the next shit-show.

For a company that is to "Do Security", um, what are you doing ??? Exactly ?

Yes, out here, we can whack at it, like it was a mole. Whack-a-mole.

I would say all the good staff are working on <cough> Windows 12.
Which will come with AI ash trays.

   Paul

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#15965

From"s|b" <me@privacy.invalid>
Date2025-01-02 13:50 +0100
Message-ID<ltngcqFous6U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#15848
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy

OS WAR! <G>

-- 
s|b

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#15969 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromAndrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch>
Date2025-01-02 09:47 -0500
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<8GxdP.49137$HxS1.12495@fx39.iad>
In reply to#15965
On 2025-01-02 07:50, s|b wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
> 
> OS WAR! <G>

Nah, I don't think there's a war. A lot of the people using Linux now 
are people who know very well what Windows has to offer and calmly 
decided to leave. They don't care if anyone else uses it, they just 
don't see how it is going to be advantageous to their own lives or uses.

-- 
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
Telegram: @AndrzejMatuch
Zephyrus G14 GA401QM on Fedora 41
KDE supporting member

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#15971

FromJoel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
Date2025-01-02 10:37 -0500
Message-ID<rhcdnj1ug8gi5g0vtb48fci7k8pu5rble7@4ax.com>
In reply to#15965
"s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>
>OS WAR! <G>


I frequently talk to Copilot in a Linux Web app about how sleek Linux
is compared to Winblows, and it agrees with me.  M$ is laughing at the
people using their products on aging hardware.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

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#16025 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromPaul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Date2025-01-03 05:20 -0500
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vl8dl0$3rtkg$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#15971
On Thu, 1/2/2025 10:37 AM, Joel wrote:
> "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>
>> OS WAR! <G>
> 
> 
> I frequently talk to Copilot in a Linux Web app about how sleek Linux
> is compared to Winblows, and it agrees with me.  M$ is laughing at the
> people using their products on aging hardware.
> 

Exciting I guess.

Session Log:

<Joel>  Is it snowing where you are ?
<AI>    Where am I ? I tried to look at my feet, but I don't have any.
<Joel>  I'm 73 years old. How old are you, anyway ?
<AI>    I'm either 39 or 93, let me check my coin flipper...
<Joel>  So how about that Linux, good or what ?
<AI>    Of course, Linux is a toilet paper, which does not scratch your bum [Ref.1]
        [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bnkct/forget_the_flakes_cola_and_wine_meet_the_linux/
<Joel>  Yes, it's very sleek.

   Paul

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#16053 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromJoel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
Date2025-01-03 16:48 -0500
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<2lmgnjhhe7k3p73rcku6vkb41fgm8fkp2d@4ax.com>
In reply to#16025
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 1/2/2025 10:37 AM, Joel wrote:
>> "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>>
>>> OS WAR! <G>
>> 
>> I frequently talk to Copilot in a Linux Web app about how sleek Linux
>> is compared to Winblows, and it agrees with me.  M$ is laughing at the
>> people using their products on aging hardware.
>
>Exciting I guess.
>
>Session Log:
>
><Joel>  Is it snowing where you are ?
><AI>    Where am I ? I tried to look at my feet, but I don't have any.
><Joel>  I'm 73 years old. How old are you, anyway ?
><AI>    I'm either 39 or 93, let me check my coin flipper...
><Joel>  So how about that Linux, good or what ?
><AI>    Of course, Linux is a toilet paper, which does not scratch your bum [Ref.1]
>        [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bnkct/forget_the_flakes_cola_and_wine_meet_the_linux/
><Joel>  Yes, it's very sleek.


That is not remotely like what Copilot and I discuss.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

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#16095 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromPaul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Date2025-01-04 20:32 -0500
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlcnfu$n5nl$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16053
On Fri, 1/3/2025 4:48 PM, Joel wrote:
> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>> On Thu, 1/2/2025 10:37 AM, Joel wrote:
>>> "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>>>
>>>> OS WAR! <G>
>>>
>>> I frequently talk to Copilot in a Linux Web app about how sleek Linux
>>> is compared to Winblows, and it agrees with me.  M$ is laughing at the
>>> people using their products on aging hardware.
>>
>> Exciting I guess.
>>
>> Session Log:
>>
>> <Joel>  Is it snowing where you are ?
>> <AI>    Where am I ? I tried to look at my feet, but I don't have any.
>> <Joel>  I'm 73 years old. How old are you, anyway ?
>> <AI>    I'm either 39 or 93, let me check my coin flipper...
>> <Joel>  So how about that Linux, good or what ?
>> <AI>    Of course, Linux is a toilet paper, which does not scratch your bum [Ref.1]
>>        [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bnkct/forget_the_flakes_cola_and_wine_meet_the_linux/
>> <Joel>  Yes, it's very sleek.
> 
> 
> That is not remotely like what Copilot and I discuss.
> 

AI do not have human characteristics at the moment.
They don't have ID, ego, or super-ego.
If you tell them "up is down", they will agree with you.

They have settings similar to NN, such as "temperature"
or some annealing property. Beneath all the flowery text,
there are plumbers adjusting the heat and water flow rate.

I managed to "hang" an AI, and it blew past the safety
timer and kept running. Someone at the other end, eventually
killed it (removed the query). And it did not die in the "thinking" phase.
There seems to be some kind of separate "I/O phase",
that generates the text for a text session. And mine
got really really slow while attempting to output some
characters. About one letter every ten seconds.

It's really a mechanical thing, and it's held together
with bailing wire and binder twine. Imagine if it
was self driving your car, and the I/O section went
into a loop and stopped steering the car. That is the
message here. Humans can fail that way too for various
reasons, they just don't do it as often, and with the
same relish for it.

   Paul

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#16096 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

Frompothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
Date2025-01-05 01:39 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlcns7$n6vj$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16095
On 2025-01-05, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 1/3/2025 4:48 PM, Joel wrote:
>> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 1/2/2025 10:37 AM, Joel wrote:
>>>> "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>>>>
>>>>> OS WAR! <G>
>>>>
>>>> I frequently talk to Copilot in a Linux Web app about how sleek Linux
>>>> is compared to Winblows, and it agrees with me.  M$ is laughing at the
>>>> people using their products on aging hardware.
>>>
>>> Exciting I guess.
>>>
>>> Session Log:
>>>
>>> <Joel>  Is it snowing where you are ?
>>> <AI>    Where am I ? I tried to look at my feet, but I don't have any.
>>> <Joel>  I'm 73 years old. How old are you, anyway ?
>>> <AI>    I'm either 39 or 93, let me check my coin flipper...
>>> <Joel>  So how about that Linux, good or what ?
>>> <AI>    Of course, Linux is a toilet paper, which does not scratch your bum [Ref.1]
>>>        [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bnkct/forget_the_flakes_cola_and_wine_meet_the_linux/
>>> <Joel>  Yes, it's very sleek.
>> 
>> 
>> That is not remotely like what Copilot and I discuss.
>> 
>
> AI do not have human characteristics at the moment.
> They don't have ID, ego, or super-ego.
> If you tell them "up is down", they will agree with you.
>
> They have settings similar to NN, such as "temperature"
> or some annealing property. Beneath all the flowery text,
> there are plumbers adjusting the heat and water flow rate.
>
> I managed to "hang" an AI, and it blew past the safety
> timer and kept running. Someone at the other end, eventually
> killed it (removed the query). And it did not die in the "thinking" phase.
> There seems to be some kind of separate "I/O phase",
> that generates the text for a text session. And mine
> got really really slow while attempting to output some
> characters. About one letter every ten seconds.
>
> It's really a mechanical thing, and it's held together
> with bailing wire and binder twine. Imagine if it
> was self driving your car, and the I/O section went
> into a loop and stopped steering the car. That is the
> message here. Humans can fail that way too for various
> reasons, they just don't do it as often, and with the
> same relish for it.
>
>    Paul

+1
Excellent poast.

-- 
pothead

"Give a man a fish and you turn him into a Democrat for life"
"Teach a man to fish and he might become a self-sufficient conservative Republican"
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up,"
---  Barack H. Obama

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#16089 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromBrian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid>
Date2025-01-05 00:43 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<ltu2srFqqt5U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#15848
On 31/12/2024 19:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Yet another
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-windows-11-24h2-bug-could-block-future-security-updates-see-whos-affected/>
> in the ongoing stream of bugs from Microsoft resulting from the
> Windows update process itself. This one breaks the ability to receive
> further security updates. So once you get it, how do you get an update
> to fix it? Particularly when there have already been updates that kept
> introducing their own new bugs?

If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to 
gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those who 
installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates 
slipstreamed into it.

Almost nobody does that.

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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#16105 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2025-01-05 02:45 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlcrob$nnbu$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16089
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 00:43:07 +0000, Brian Gregory wrote:

> On 31/12/2024 19:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Yet another
>> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-windows-11-24h2-bug-could-block-future-security-updates-see-whos-affected/>
>> in the ongoing stream of bugs from Microsoft resulting from the Windows
>> update process itself. This one breaks the ability to receive further
>> security updates. So once you get it, how do you get an update to fix
>> it? Particularly when there have already been updates that kept
>> introducing their own new bugs?
> 
> ... you'd see that it only applies to those who
> installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates
> slipstreamed into it.

Which doesn’t make it any easier to figure out how to fix it, is it?

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#16163 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromBrian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid>
Date2025-01-08 00:00 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<lu5tggF5lutU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#16105
On 05/01/2025 02:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 00:43:07 +0000, Brian Gregory wrote:
> 
>> On 31/12/2024 19:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> Yet another
>>> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-windows-11-24h2-bug-could-block-future-security-updates-see-whos-affected/>
>>> in the ongoing stream of bugs from Microsoft resulting from the Windows
>>> update process itself. This one breaks the ability to receive further
>>> security updates. So once you get it, how do you get an update to fix
>>> it? Particularly when there have already been updates that kept
>>> introducing their own new bugs?
>>
>> ... you'd see that it only applies to those who
>> installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates
>> slipstreamed into it.
> 
> Which doesn’t make it any easier to figure out how to fix it, is it?

If you can figure out the instructions for slipstreaming you're 
definitely a genius who will fix this easily.

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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#16125 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromFrank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Date2025-01-05 14:14 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vle7ko.ib4.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
In reply to#16089
Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
> On 31/12/2024 19:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> > Yet another
> > <https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-windows-11-24h2-bug-could-block-future-security-updates-see-whos-affected/>
> > in the ongoing stream of bugs from Microsoft resulting from the
> > Windows update process itself. This one breaks the ability to receive
> > further security updates. So once you get it, how do you get an update
> > to fix it? Particularly when there have already been updates that kept
> > introducing their own new bugs?
> 
> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to 
> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those who 
> installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates 
> slipstreamed into it.

  Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
into it."

  I.e. the imaginary user did the *wrong* thing and that might have led
to a problem.

  That's what you get for doing things the wrong way, isn't it!? :-)

> Almost nobody does that.

  <firmly sitting on hands>

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#16141 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2025-01-06 00:15 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlf7bu$197h8$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16125
On 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

> Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
>
>> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to
>> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those who
>> installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates
>> slipstreamed into it.
> 
> Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
> into it."

How should that be possible? Don’t Microsoft’s own updaters check for 
applicability before allowing themselves to be installed?

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#16145 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromPaul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Date2025-01-05 22:29 -0500
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlfim6$1eqal$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16141
On Sun, 1/5/2025 7:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 
>> Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to
>>> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those who
>>> installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates
>>> slipstreamed into it.
>>
>> Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
>> into it."
> 
> How should that be possible? Don’t Microsoft’s own updaters check for 
> applicability before allowing themselves to be installed?
> 

Yes.

But even in Linux, if you go around randomly
deleting or installing stuff, if you go outside
the scope or bounds of the automated update system,
yon can break stuff.

For example, if I do this, this is kind of outside the
scope and bounds of any package manager. If you're following
the rules properly, you're not doing any construct
at all like this.

sudo rm -Rf /

   Paul

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#16146 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2025-01-06 06:29 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlft8o$1gc0p$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16145
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 22:29:09 -0500, Paul wrote:

> On Sun, 1/5/2025 7:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> 
>>> Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to
>>>> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those
>>>> who installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows
>>>> updates slipstreamed into it.
>>>
>>> Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
>>> into it."
>> 
>> How should that be possible? Don’t Microsoft’s own updaters check for
>> applicability before allowing themselves to be installed?
>> 
>> 
> Yes.

Obviously not.

> But even in Linux, if you go around randomly deleting or installing
> stuff, if you go outside the scope or bounds of the automated update
> system, yon can break stuff.

But you can’t install packages that would conflict with ones already 
present, unless you force things. Package managers are inherently 
resistant to such screwups, by design.

> sudo rm -Rf /

“Doctor, it hurts when I do this!”
“Don’t do that, then.”

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#16164 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromBrian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid>
Date2025-01-08 00:09 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<lu5u16F5lutU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#16146
On 06/01/2025 06:29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 22:29:09 -0500, Paul wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 1/5/2025 7:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to
>>>>> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those
>>>>> who installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows
>>>>> updates slipstreamed into it.
>>>>
>>>> Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
>>>> into it."
>>>
>>> How should that be possible? Don’t Microsoft’s own updaters check for
>>> applicability before allowing themselves to be installed?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes.
> 
> Obviously not.
> 
>> But even in Linux, if you go around randomly deleting or installing
>> stuff, if you go outside the scope or bounds of the automated update
>> system, yon can break stuff.
> 
> But you can’t install packages that would conflict with ones already
> present, unless you force things. Package managers are inherently
> resistant to such screwups, by design.

There is no package manager and the updates were already slipstreamed 
into the WIM image on your installation media.

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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#16165 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2025-01-08 02:24 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlknlr$2fte8$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16164
On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 00:09:10 +0000, Brian Gregory wrote:

> There is no package manager and the updates were already slipstreamed
> into the WIM image on your installation media.

I’m sure that’s very convenient if you are able to keep getting entirely 
new installation media every time.

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#16167 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromJoel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
Date2025-01-07 22:44 -0500
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<d3trnjh9k4c7h054nkvr6qqlprcua2eoq4@4ax.com>
In reply to#16165
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 00:09:10 +0000, Brian Gregory wrote:
>
>> There is no package manager and the updates were already slipstreamed
>> into the WIM image on your installation media.
>
>I’m sure that’s very convenient if you are able to keep getting entirely 
>new installation media every time.


Just use a USB media, it's reusable.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

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#16173 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

From...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com>
Date2025-01-09 09:02 -0700
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlortr$3eb5d$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#16164
Brian Gregory wrote on 1/7/25 5:09 PM:
> On 06/01/2025 06:29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 22:29:09 -0500, Paul wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 1/5/2025 7:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to
>>>>>> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those
>>>>>> who installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows
>>>>>> updates slipstreamed into it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
>>>>> into it."
>>>>
>>>> How should that be possible? Don’t Microsoft’s own updaters check for
>>>> applicability before allowing themselves to be installed?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Obviously not.
>>
>>> But even in Linux, if you go around randomly deleting or installing
>>> stuff, if you go outside the scope or bounds of the automated update
>>> system, yon can break stuff.
>>
>> But you can’t install packages that would conflict with ones already
>> present, unless you force things. Package managers are inherently
>> resistant to such screwups, by design.
> 
> There is no package manager and the updates were already slipstreamed 
> into the WIM image on your installation media.
> 

Fyi...another piece to the same pie.

MCT USB/CD/DVD created media with the Oct/Nov bits with install.esd had 
the issue, while downloaded Visual Studio(fka MSDN, Technet) ISO's and 
MCT created ISO's which have/had install.wim used to create USB/CD/DVD 
did not have the issue.

Note: Linux group removed from this reply.

-- 
...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

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#16151 — Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

FromFrank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Date2025-01-06 14:48 +0000
SubjectRe: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Message-ID<vlgu0d.1370.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
In reply to#16141
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 
> > Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to
> >> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those who
> >> installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates
> >> slipstreamed into it.
> > 
> > Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
> > into it."
> 
> How should that be possible? Don?t Microsoft?s own updaters check for 
> applicability before allowing themselves to be installed?

  A bit badly worded, but the answer is yes. But in this fictive
scenario, Microsoft's own updaters are not used and actually
circumvented, as I wrote in the part you snipped:

> >   I.e. the imaginary user did the *wrong* thing and that might have led
> > to a problem.
> > 
> >   That's what you get for doing things the wrong way, isn't it!? :-)

   You yourself wrote (in a response to Paul):

> sudo rm -Rf /
>
> Doctor, it hurts when I do this!
> Don't do that, then.

  So when a Linux user does something out of line, you says the
consequences are their fault, but when a Windows user does something
similar, you blame Microsoft/Windows. Hypocritical much!?

  Bottom line: Best not flame/blame stuff you don't understand.

  But in case you still can resist: At least *try* not to be dishonest
and don't snip context/comments when they don't fit your anti Microsoft/
Windows agenda.

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