WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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@MrL said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Conversations disappear 'because you didn't interact with them in a while'
My problem is that we're using the free version, so conversations don't disappear for me, but parts of them do.
Unlock messages prior to $date in $workspace
To view and search all the messages in your workspace's history, rather than just the 10,000 most recent, upgrade to one of our paid plans.Not my job, not my decision, and I'm sure as heck not going to pay for the whole company's Slack out of my own pocket.
Teams is supposed to be replacing Slack in our company. The problem with that is that some people don't respond to messages in Teams, only in Slack, so it's still being used more than Teams, which just reinforces the preference for Slack because that's where the action is. OTOH, most of the people who don't respond to Teams don't respond to Slack or email, either, so it's not a technology problem.
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@HardwareGeek the other day I got an email from a coworker asking if anybody still needs the department-wide mattermost channel. I use mattermost a lot for direct messages or for our team’s channel, the department-wide channel has very little traffic though. So apparently “little traffic” was a compelling reason for said coworker to stipulate deleting that channel and “move it to Teams” instead. I don’t understand the rationale, but my passive-aggressive response was “sure you can do that, just don’t expect me to read anything there.”
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A relative's ASUS UX303L (for some reason, just "L", not "LA" or "LN" or "LB" as described on asus.com) started to boot-loop out of nowhere. The hardware seems to pass all the tests I subject it to, but the system is borked.
It shows the circling boot animation with ASUS logo, switches to black screen with a huge mouse cursor on it, flashes a cmd.exe window, flashes the light-blue "Working with updates, 0%" screen for less than a second, then back to black screen, then it reboots.
The Internet tells me that I can press F9 on startup to launch the ASUS-specific recovery image, but F9 does nothing. I hoped to boot off the recovery partition manually, but there's no bootloader there (it's mostly just a .wim file), I have no idea how to do that.
I booted from a Windows 10 installation medium. It told me there's an update pending and that I should cancel the installation and finish the update. Gee, thanks. If I insist, I get a bunch of options, like "remove latest update" (spends quite a while doing something, tells me it's been successful, but doesn't change the outcome), "remove latest component update" (tells me it's failed and to try "startup recovery" instead), and "startup recovery" (tells me it failed to fix anything; when I checked
SrtTrail.txt
file it creates, first it told me that all tests passed but I had a pending update; now it tells me thatC:\windows\boot\resources\custom\bootres.dll
is damaged and couldn't be recovered). Edit: there's also "use other operating system" where I can choose "Windows Rollback", but it results in the same boot loop.The funny part is that every time I choose a recovery option, there are three operating systems to choose: "Windows Rollback" (must be the recovery image I cannot launch) and "Windows 10 on partition 3", twice. I couldn't find any difference between the two options.
Are there any magic incantations I could try to use to recover the system, or should I nuke it from the orbit, put up a flag and install Windows 10 LTSC?
Edit: sorry, the relative insists on everything being reinstalled right now.
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@aitap said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
nuke it from the orbit, put up a flag and install
Windows 10 LTSCLinux?Filed under: Not a help thread; snark allowed
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Nah, you have to install Linux first, and then nuke it from orbit.
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nuke it from the orbit, put up a
flag and installWindows 10 LTSCLinux?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Nah, you have to install Linux first, and then nuke it from orbit.
...because something something optimus primus bumblebee doesn't work out anyway (the laptop turned out to be Intel+nVidia UX303LN model).
Much as I would have preferred it to be the Decade of the Linux Desktop for my relatives like it has been for me, their needs are still better served by Windows. Yes, even Windows 10. (The 10-year-ago "look, I have switched from Ubuntu to Debian by changing
sources.list
and swearing atapt
a lot" me would have been saddened to learn he was going to say this.)
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Attack!
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@aitap It is the Decade of the Linux Desktop. Find any desktop box anybody still has, it's pretty likely to be running Linux.
Decade of the Linux Laptop TBA.
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@Gribnit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@aitap It is the Decade of the Linux Desktop. Find any desktop box anybody still has, it's pretty likely to be running Linux.
Nope.
Decade of the Linux Laptop TBA.
On the other hand, my work laptop is running Ubuntu...
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@dcon "Your PC is monitored and protected." That's got some serious 1984 vibes.
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@Zerosquare
Why didn't you do the laundry like I asked you?
Microsoft said they'll take care of it.
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@Gribnit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@aitap It is the Decade of the Linux Desktop. Find any desktop box anybody still has, it's pretty likely to be running Linux.
Decade of the Linux Laptop TBA.
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is not yet installed by default.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Zerosquare
Why didn't you do the laundry like I asked you?
Microsoft said they'll take care of it.: What did you do to my laundry?! My white shirts are pink, and everything shrunk two sizes!
: Your clothes are exactly like you left them.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
What did you to my laundry?!
I think you a verb.
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My post is exactly like I left it.
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@Zerosquare Someone out there suggested the original message behind this meme, and this is their legacy.
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I was apparently falling behind on Windows versions. Not sure why, when or how - maybe I declined to go to a new Windows version a few months ago when I was actually doing something important?
Either way, Windows started nagging. Accidentally clicked on the "What's new button". Doesn't seem to be much - choose color mode, pinning tabs to the task bar (no thanks!), and ...
Fortunately, I don't actually use
ChromeEdge for anything other than a sandbox to keep Zoom/Teams/related shit in, but looking at the hundreds of tabs that I have open in FF ... that would make alt-tab even more useless than it already is.Edit: Also .. those three item are the main things for a feature update? Lame.
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@cvi said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Fortunately, I don't actually use ChromeEdge for anything other than a sandbox to keep Zoom/Teams/related shit in, but looking at the hundreds of tabs that I have open in FF ... that would make alt-tab even more useless than it already is.
It can also be turned off for the very small amount of people who are tab hoarding weirdos that also use Edge.
20H2 was a few small changes. Including "Focus Mode" no longer having annoying notifications telling you it wasn't going to bother you with notifications.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
20H2 was a few small changes. Including "Focus Mode" no longer having annoying notifications telling you it wasn't going to bother you with notifications.
They should have led with that.
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@cvi said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
pinning tabs to the task bar (no thanks!)
I like it. In fact I like it so much I already used it in Windows 7.
How is this a new feature?
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@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
How is this a new feature?
It's a "new" feature because at some point between Windows 7 and Windows 8, the designers at Microsoft suffered a massive head injury and forgot pretty much everything they knew.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Including "Focus Mode" no longer having annoying notifications telling you it wasn't going to bother you with notifications.
I turned it on, and forgot that notifications were even a thing because of how little I care about them.
Check that out....
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
It can also be turned off for the very small amount of people who are tab hoarding weirdos that also use Edge.
It’s still idiotic. If people wanted tabs to behave like separate windows, they’d open sites in new windows instead of new tabs.
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@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
It can also be turned off for the very small amount of people who are tab hoarding weirdos that also use Edge.
It’s still idiotic. If people wanted tabs to behave like separate windows, they’d open sites in new windows instead of new tabs.
You'd also think that if people wanted tabs to behave like bookmarks, they'd use bookmarks...
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
You'd also think that if people wanted tabs to behave like bookmarks, they'd use bookmarks...
Meanwhile, what I'd like it for bookmarks to act like tabs.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
at some point between Windows 7 and Windows 8, the designers at Microsoft suffered a massive head injury
That explains Metro.
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@Gąska Or some industry-wide brainworm at the time that touchscreens were the future and the UI must be designed as touchscreen first. See also: Ubuntu (who started before Windows 8 and kept trying after MS gave up). All while Apple imported select features from iOS to macOS and made them work nicely with the touchpad to enhance rather than replace the desktop experience. But Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers (and I am inclined to agree tbh).
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gąska Or some industry-wide brainworm at the time that touchscreens were the future and the UI must be designed as touchscreen first
Butt! Butt! Star Trek!
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers (and I am inclined to agree tbh)
Makes me wonder if they tried it out and decided that it sucked, perhaps because of hand positioning?
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
But Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers (and I am inclined to agree tbh).
One of my
client
computers has a touch screen, and while it's no replacement for a mouse or even trackpad, it can be a nice convenience on occasion.
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers
While never having seen one in front of me (never mind used), the idea of the touchbar appealed to me.
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@dkf said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers (and I am inclined to agree tbh)
Makes me wonder if they tried it out and decided that it sucked, perhaps because of hand positioning?
Steve Jobs likely had their UI people envision it. And tested the resulting mess. And promptly decided to bury all evidence posthaste. Maybe even kill off everyone associated with the project, for good measure.
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
But Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers (and I am inclined to agree tbh).
I thought that too before I got one. Now I 100% disagree. Sometimes poking a monitor is easier than using a mouse. It's nice to have that option.
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
But Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers (and I am inclined to agree tbh).
I thought that too before I got one. Now I 100% disagree. Sometimes poking a monitor is easier than using a mouse. It's nice to have that option.
I have a laptop with touch screen, and I hate it with a passion. Every once in a while and update reactivated it so I have a script that runs on start that disable it because jeez, it's annoying.
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@HardwareGeek: I'm not sure which possibility is worse: that you searched for those pictures, or that you had them already.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
This picture is leaving quite an impression on me.
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Did they shoot behind a one-way mirror, or?...
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@Zecc More likely the camera angle is just right to keep it out of the reflection
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
That's not entirely equivalent. Distracted Boyfriend doesn't slap Girl In Red's butt; Charlie does slap Yeoman Rand.
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@HardwareGeek: I'm not sure which possibility is worse: that you searched for those pictures, or that you had them already.
I assumed that if I searched for "Star Trek butt" I'd find something applicable. I wasn't sure what I'd find, and I found less than I expected, but I wasn't disappointed.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I found less than I expected
Turn Safe Search off?
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
More likely the camera angle is just right
No complaints about camera angle from me. Nope.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I have another printing patch I'd rather they pull...
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
But Apple also are of the opinion that touchscreens have no place in laptop and desktop computers (and I am inclined to agree tbh).
I thought that too before I got one. Now I 100% disagree. Sometimes poking a monitor is easier than using a mouse. It's nice to have that option.
I use the touchscreen often enough when my convertible is in laptop mode that I like having the option. Lately I've even been using it more as a tablet than a laptop! :)
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Go an email from corporate IT that I have to upgrade to 1909 by April 13th.
The gears of progress slowly grind on.