Honestly that’s one of the least annoying ways windows interacts with modern hardware, you should experience when it changes your efi settings and breaks pxe booting

I wish, the new dell optiplexes are terrible, not only do they not have an actual psu switch, it takes like 20 seconds of holding the power button before they turn off and then you have to wait like 10 seconds before you can turn it on again, during which time it does a really good job of pretending to be on and flashing disk activity lights and things but it’s actually just self testing and you have to wait for it to turn back off before you can actually turn it on again. Dell used to make such good quality computers but they are genuinely awful now

Last time I was using a windows computer I was turning it off to re image it and I didn’t want to wait for it to shut down so I just held the power button since it didn’t matter if it got messed up and windows popped up this message on screen that was like “Please stop holding the power button we just need a few minutes”. Like what are you doing you aren’t supposed to tell the user what to do, that isn’t the job of a computer

I really like it, the ai stuff can mostly just be ignored but the ai button on mobile is really big and annoying. My biggest issue with it is that there’s no way to download documents you made using a cloud account, but I think they’re planning on adding that

Yeah I feel like especially for like data analysis equipment which you would think there would be a lot of there. Stuff like that probably just has no way to get counted

I have basically zero issues with fractional scaling with Gnome on Wayland, I thing you probably have something configured wrong.

Here’s a screenshot of how a few programs look for me with 125% scaling on my original framework display. The only thing slightly blurry is spotify but it’s not enough to be noticeable in normal use.

Edit: Looks like lemmy actually compressed my screenshot a fair bit but I think you can still tell that things are scaling properly

I use my phone on vibrate next to my pillow so it wakes me up without waking everyone else in the building up

I bought an Asus Eee PC from 2007 for $7 a couple weeks ago and put NetBSD and it is honestly surprisingly usable for non web tasks. Your 2011 ThinkPad is like insane future technology by comparison

Hyundai/kia are doing really well recently compared to everyone else, their designs are really recognizable and stand out a lot. Some of them aren’t the best but it’s better than everything looking identical

I like the page on “Pumping” which as far as I can tell is a completely made up term https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/what-is-pumping/

Stealing that

Actually I think they mean that “as a girl” (meaning the commenter is a girl), they “head cannon” (meaning they use a cannon to shoot heads) “at the arch installation bandit”. I hope this annotated version helps!

I’m currently using a PS/2 Dell AT101W while I procrastinate fixing my AT Leading Edge DC-2214

Wait did they not stop serving the broken release to clients even after they realized the problem? I guess I wouldn’t be surprised but wow that’s worse than I expected

Not if you can boot from an old snapshot like BTRFS and ZFS can

Does windows not have any reliable filesystem snapshot capabilities? Because as soon as I learned about this whole thing my first thought was just that it would be easy to fix just rollback to the snapshot before the update

Is it faster than pfetch? Everything slower than pfetch really annoys me

I use a computer btw

I wonder if more memory still increases post time even on modern computers that don’t do a full test on every boot. I feel like I’ve noticed faster post on computers with less ram compared to ones with more but I haven’t gotten around to actually testing changing the amount on the same computer

Last time I used windows 10 on one of my computers an update somehow got stuck so I just turned off the computer and I was never able to get windows to boot again because of how broken the registry was. This was probably around 2019