WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Microsoft is (allegedly) replacing the icons in Windows 10 later this year. To the surprise of exactly no one, most of the new "modern" icons actually look worse and/or more outdated than the old ones.
I have the new icons in my Insider VM. They're OK, I guess. They're front-on instead of the angled view we're used to after so many years; I prefer the angled ones but that may just be familiarity.
The new labeled folder icons remind me of the Classic MacOS.
I'm still getting used to the color icons for all the built-in programs that have been rolling out for a while now. The monochrome icons stood out among all of the "normal" software icons, which was useful in a way.
This is what happens when a company has too much money and too many employees. You have to find something to keep all those people busy, so you end up with dumb pointless shit, like changing icons.
The folks that do icons aren't the same as the ones that rip out and/or rewrite parts of the OS to turn it into a iOS or Chrome OS competitor, not that Microsoft can commit to doing one.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
This is what happens when a company has too much money and too many employees. You have to find something to keep all those people busy, so you end up with dumb pointless shit, like changing icons.
The folks that do icons aren't the same as the ones that rip out and/or rewrite parts of the OS to turn it into a iOS or Chrome OS competitor, not that Microsoft can commit to doing one.
That just makes the problem worse.
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@littletijn said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Why not go all the way and add some Docker as well...
(Battery Check for Windows on Wine in Docker on WSL2 on Windows)There should be some VMWare layer, too. C'mon you lazy guy, your job is not yet well done!
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
VMWare
That's almost enough ESX. But it should also be running on ESX and ESX.
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Status: Time to start work! Switch over to my work machine.
CTRL+ALT+DEL
...2 minutes later
OK, I'm ready for your password now!
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@boomzilla Slow connection to the domain server in the office while working from home?
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@boomzilla A token further incorrect guess other than your VM or container system is gone crazy? now do the punchline
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla Slow connection to the domain server in the office while working from home?
I rebooted and things are better.
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@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Status: Time to start work! Switch over to my work machine.
CTRL+ALT+DEL
...2 minutes later
OK, I'm ready for your password now!
Whenever I connect to VPN,
sudo
(on Ubuntu 18) is the same. Needless to say, I rarely connect to VPN. (Thank $deity Jira and Bitbucket don't need that)That didn't happen until our new corporate overlords issued us our new corporate IT approved laptops.
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
new corporate overlords issued us our new corporate IT approved laptops.
You missed at least 3
corporate
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@Zerosquare Mark Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson is an extremely curious name. Wyciślik is clearly Polish (not really a word but means something related to squeezing dry), Wilson is obviously English. Sofia is a mix between English Sophia and Polish Zofia. Mark is again obviously English (Polish would be Marek). The weird part is that Mark is masculine name and Sofia is feminine - no Polish person would ever give a masculine name to a girl or a feminine name to a boy, so that suggest non-Polish ancestry on both sides. But a Polish last name (with a diacritic!) is a very strong indication that at least one parent must be Polish. I just can't make heads or tails of it.
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He (yes, definitely he) graduated University of Sheffield and worked for some unspecified British computer magazines, so he most likely grew up in the UK - but currently lives in Poland (probably Cieszyn). He's also an ultra-rare example of a coder who learned journalism. He's been doing the latter for 20 years and still makes a living somehow. Truly a fascinating person.
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@Gąska It's a man, probably.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwilsonwriter/
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@nerd4sale that's the least intriguing question I have about him. His name still weirds me out and I feel like scribbling an email so I can learn the full story.
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@Gąska It's possible he changed his surname after getting married. Some people like to do that.
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@dkf said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gąska It's possible he changed his surname after getting married. Some people like to do that.
And a hyphenated last name is common for that. Given that his LinkedIn profile has him as Mark Wilson, it seems almost certain to me that the Polish line noise came from his spouse.
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The feminine middle name may (or may not) also have another explanation.
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@dkf said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gąska It's possible he changed his surname after getting married. Some people like to do that.
Polish man, changing surname on marriage? Very unlikely. I'm almost sure he got one surname from each of the parents - I've known people like that.
But that's beside the point. Sofia is still weird ass name for a man regardless.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
The feminine middle name may (or may not) also have another explanation.
It may but he's been using it since at least 2011, and 2011 was before the whole trans craze. Also, his bios on personal and company blogs consistently use "he".
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@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@dkf said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gąska It's possible he changed his surname after getting married. Some people like to do that.
Polish man, changing surname on marriage?
No, British man, married a Polish person.
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@boomzilla who then moved to Poland? Even more unlikely.
Edit: and also, if he was a British man, he wouldn't use diacritics in his new double surname. That's the most puzzling thing here.
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@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
who then moved to Poland? Even more unlikely
Yeah. Who, in their right mind, would move to Poland
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@TimeBandit this but unironically. And Cieszyn, of all places. He definitely has a family there, no other explanation is possible.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Yeah. Who, in their right mind, would move to Poland
I think I once said something like that
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@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla who then moved to Poland? Even more unlikely.
Edit: and also, if he was a British man, he wouldn't use diacritics in his new double surname. That's the most puzzling thing here.
Why not? Maybe he married a Pole and left the UK because BREXIT.
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@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@boomzilla who then moved to Poland? Even more unlikely.
Edit: and also, if he was a British man, he wouldn't use diacritics in his new double surname. That's the most puzzling thing here.
You've made me more interested in this than I intended on being.
His wife is called Agnieszka Anika Wyciślik-Wilson.
One of their names is significantly more Polish than the other.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Agnieszka Anika Wyciślik-Wilson
The plot thickens.
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Anyone remember when we discussed Windows 10 and nothing else?
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Anyone remember when we discussed Windows 10 and nothing else?
And as pointed out in the comments, enabling it will break most of the legitimate applications on your computer — anything that tries to access My Documents. There are ways to work around that, but you have to maintain the settings and adjust them whenever you install something, or move files between folders, or an application is updated so that it spawns a helper process to do a task instead of doing it directly, or ...
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Anyone remember when we discussed Windows 10 and nothing else?
And as pointed out in the comments, enabling it will break most of the legitimate applications on your computer — anything that tries to access My Documents. There are ways to work around that, but you have to maintain the settings and adjust them whenever you install something, or move files between folders, or an application is updated so that it spawns a helper process to do a task instead of doing it directly, or ...
Yes. The side-effect of controlling which apps can access certain folders by default is that which apps can access certain folders by default is controlled.
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Back to Win10... Looks like 21H1 is rolling out. One of my computers was just infected. The others say "nah, you're up-to-date".
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@dcon IOW, you're a beta-tester on only one computer
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Back to Win10... Looks like 21H1 is rolling out. One of my computers was just infected. The others say "nah, you're up-to-date".
Mine keeps telling me corporate policy is installing 20H2... but it fails every time and nothing happens.
Filed under: Error code 0x87D00664 apparently just means it ran out of time... but it had hours to do what it was doing.
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@error said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Mine keeps telling me corporate policy is installing 20H2... but it fails every time and nothing happens.
My corporate one does too.
Not connected to VPN: No updates.
Connected to VPN: Error! 1903 is good enough for you!
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What's in 21H1, I hear no-one here ask?
https://www.howtogeek.com/685996/whats-new-in-windows-10s-21h1-update-coming-spring-2021/
Small Updates Mean Fewer Bugs
Haaaaaave you met Microsoft?
Almost nothing is new in Windows 10’s 21H1 update
Sounds promising
However, under the hood, Windows is still being fixed with important security patches and bug fixes.
Ok but the security patches would happen anyway
- Windows Hello Multicamera Support
- Windows Defender Application Guard Performance
- WMI Group Policy Performance
Oh. That's it?!
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Anyone remember when we discussed Windows 10 and nothing else?
I was going to say...
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Almost nothing is new in Windows 10’s 21H1 update
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About time
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
About time
...Didn't they retire it, like, 3-4 years ago, when Edge released?
Randall Munroe should make a comic like the "times Voyager 1 left the solar system" one but for retiring IE.
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Goddammit!
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We all get the point, now back to Windows 10.
@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
...Didn't they retire it, like, 3-4 years ago, when Edge released?
No it's still officially supported on Windows 10.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
We all get the point, now back to Windows 10.
@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
...Didn't they retire it, like, 3-4 years ago, when Edge released?
No it's still officially supported on Windows 10.
"The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10."
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@El_Heffe ends in 2022 on the semi-annual versions of Windows 10 but not on the LTSC versions of Windows 10.
As IE11 is a Windows component it's theoretically supported on the 2019 LTSC until 2029.
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@El_Heffe Probably not LTSC.
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@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
supported on the 2019 LTSC until 2029.
Fun Windows 10 LTSC fact:
From the 2021 LTSC version of Windows 10, the support lifecycle drops from 10 years to 5 years. This means that the 2021 LTSC will go out of support 3 years before the 2019 LTSC does.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Goddammit!
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I'm leaving these two posts in here rather than the new thread to where I the off-topic posts, because these two are on-topic. :-J
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@loopback0 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Almost nothing is new in Windows 10’s 21H1 update
It works for Apple.