It seems like every time I like how responsive and quick the Start Menu opens up on new hardware, M$ decides its time for a new OS to bog down the new hardware.
Pohemi
Lifer
- Oct 2, 2004
- 10,859
- 16,928
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Def a FWP, haha.
But, I hear ya nonetheless. Probably why I sandbag on older versions so hard, lol. I didn't switch to 7 (from XP, not Vista) until well into SP2. Skipped 8/8.1 and went to 10 not long before 7 was at EoL. I've had a reg key for 11 for years now and have yet to install it.
- Dec 3, 2010
- 8,033
- 3,494
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11 and 10 are very similar if you are just a standard user. I don't see much of a difference in features or performance.Def a FWP, haha.
Beg to disagree. Win11 gives you a daily reminder to say "WTF Mcrosoft????".
KLin
Lifer
- Feb 29, 2000
- 30,259
- 586
- 126
False alarm. Got over my symptoms I had Friday. w00t.
Muadib
Lifer
- May 30, 2000
- 18,120
- 910
- 126
Chaotic42
Lifer
- Jun 15, 2001
- 34,600
- 1,760
- 126
Virtually everything I search for on eBay is sold in the US, India, and China. The Indian and Chinese variants are always nominally cheaper - China has huge shipping times and fees and things from India never seem to show up.
KLin
Lifer
- Feb 29, 2000
- 30,259
- 586
- 126
balloonshark
Diamond Member
- Jun 5, 2008
- 7,048
- 3,526
- 136
On Amazon you can't read all the reviews or search the Q&A and reviews on a product page without being logged in now. Hell, they completely removed the search the Q&A/reviews box if you're aren't logged in. I assume they did this to reduce the workload on their unnecessary AI summaries. They should have kept the question section and just removed the AI functionality. Killing those feature is really stupid because it's literally how I window shop. It's only going to hurt them and save me money by putting up a barrier.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Well this fucking sucks. 3 of my 4k monitors on my work machine started to go haywire and the remaining one was flashing and I couldn't do anything, eventually everything just went black and I had to force reboot.
I guess I didn't solve that issue after all. Now I have to relogin to everything FFS. That's like a 45 minute ordeal that I really don't feel like dealing with right now at this time of night.
I guess I didn't solve that issue after all. Now I have to relogin to everything FFS. That's like a 45 minute ordeal that I really don't feel like dealing with right now at this time of night.
- Sep 13, 2008
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Well that does suck. Any update on the issue? Sounds more like a video/computer hardware issue of some sort than a monitor issue, but it sounds like there are a fair amount of unknowns there.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
I do get an error in event log about the display driver crashing so it's sorta a place to start I guess but why it's doing that I don't know. It lasted the rest of the night, so I suspect I have 2 issues going on, the heat issue which is most likely solved otherwise I think it would have died right away, and now some random software issue.
The mini DP to regular DP adapters may also be at fault, when I initially setup my PC at the office I had to play around with them to get all displays to work. So maybe something slightly moved and triggered this. They are kind of dodgy.
My next shift is going to be at home so I'm bringing my PC and I have a whole week off so think I will leave it turned on at home to see if it does it again. If yes I will come pull the GPU from my old PC at the office and swap it to see if it solves the issue. The fact that it's so random is going to make this a pain to troubleshoot though. It lasted 3 days before doing this.
The mini DP to regular DP adapters may also be at fault, when I initially setup my PC at the office I had to play around with them to get all displays to work. So maybe something slightly moved and triggered this. They are kind of dodgy.
My next shift is going to be at home so I'm bringing my PC and I have a whole week off so think I will leave it turned on at home to see if it does it again. If yes I will come pull the GPU from my old PC at the office and swap it to see if it solves the issue. The fact that it's so random is going to make this a pain to troubleshoot though. It lasted 3 days before doing this.
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
- 66,002
- 14,402
- 146
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Been trying to convince my credit card company to enable paste on the password field because it's ridiculous not being able to use a password manager and the browser remember feature tends to be really inconsistent in FF and only seems to work when it wants depending on the specific machine. Still requires manually typing the password any time you want to change it which is a pain.
They keep trying to say it's for security, so I finally showed them an article from 2017 showing how that's BS and that if they care about security they would implement 2FA instead. Doubt it's going to go anywhere as companies that have policies like this tend to be set in their ways, but I tried.
There is an about:config flag you can set which allows copy and paste but it also breaks twitter. Too bad there's not a way to set it on a per site basis.
As a side note, why do financial related sites never have 2FA anyway? It's kind of silly that my social media accounts are more secure than my finance accounts lol.
They keep trying to say it's for security, so I finally showed them an article from 2017 showing how that's BS and that if they care about security they would implement 2FA instead. Doubt it's going to go anywhere as companies that have policies like this tend to be set in their ways, but I tried.
There is an about:config flag you can set which allows copy and paste but it also breaks twitter. Too bad there's not a way to set it on a per site basis.
As a side note, why do financial related sites never have 2FA anyway? It's kind of silly that my social media accounts are more secure than my finance accounts lol.
Brainonska511
Lifer
- Dec 10, 2005
- 28,096
- 12,724
- 136
For a long time, Treasury Direct, the US Treasury site to buy government bonds directly, had an on-screen keyboard you would have to use to type your password. It was extremely annoying; the only relief was that it was a website I rarely had to go to (ie, maybe once a quarter).
lxskllr
No Lifer
- Nov 30, 2004
- 59,551
- 10,062
- 126
Breaking twitter sounds like a feature. I had to block several ips in ublock & noscript.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Wow what a shitty design lol. Seems the people making these decisions don't realize hackers will be using tools that bypass their site entirely and just send http post packets direct to the server.
Brainonska511
Lifer
- Dec 10, 2005
- 28,096
- 12,724
- 136
I don't think it was a case of them not realizing the issue. It was just a design from another era of security, and the lack of change was probably driven by institutional inertia and lack of resources to update the frontend. It has since been fixed anyway.
Brainonska511
Lifer
- Dec 10, 2005
- 28,096
- 12,724
- 136
My current problem: moving to the adjacent state in under a week. Everything is lined up (place to live, pack and move services, etc) - just the general stress of hoping it all goes smoothly.
thestrangebrew1
Diamond Member
- Dec 7, 2011
- 3,931
- 667
- 126
Good luck. Moving sucks. We have 3 years until my daughter moves out for college and the wife and I halfway joke we're just going to get a 5th wheel and live in that. Park at our friend's house and leave whenever we want.
Brainonska511
Lifer
- Dec 10, 2005
- 28,096
- 12,724
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Yeah, it definitely does stink, but we have to do it for my wife's residency starting next month. At least this time, we're paying for the packing services - I don't want to figure out how much bubble wrap and boxes to buy.
And at least I am a fully remote person, so the two-body problem is solved there.
Lost_in_the_HTTP
Lifer
- Nov 17, 2019
- 13,238
- 7,853
- 136
Brave and a couple of other browsers have a 'force paste' option that works well.
waffleironhead
Diamond Member
- Aug 10, 2005
- 7,049
- 554
- 136
Can feel your pain and stress. Just did that, or still currently doing that.
Moved 45 mins from wisconsin to mn.
Soo much stuff. Selling my farm, so have all the equipment to deal with. Still heading back to old house to prep for sale and move things.
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