Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish
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@douglasac said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
their 1.5mbit ADSL is not fast enough to download the update even if they leave the computer running for 24 hours or more,
Because resumable downloads is a new and untested concept that's too chic for the likes of Microsoft to do...
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@douglasac said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
It's still a thing
You can click here to find out cPhone !
I wanted to write a witty comeback to that phrase here, but the sentence is so broken it's resistant to it!
Anyway, I love the section about VoIP where they are all about switching between profiles, followed by "descriptions" of A2DP and HSP, which amounts to pretty much writing the same thing twice. Well done.
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@onyx ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐จ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ซ๐!
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@onyx If you think the english is broken, wait for the popup
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@tsaukpaetra said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
Because resumable downloads is a new and untested concept that's too chic for the likes of Microsoft to do...
That angers me to no end.
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Engineers that create springs, rejoice
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Forced update can now be paused....for very vague value of pause
This incident marks the third time in the past year when Microsoft has mistakenly updated v1703 users to v1709. It happened before in November 2017 and January 2018 when Patch Tuesday security updates accidentally upgraded some users.
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@timebandit My work laptop's update skipped 1703 entirely, and no one else here has either update it seems. Now things that IT broke work. Because they got reset, and IT doesn't know about it :D
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Also, as a fascinating sidenote: there was one thing our IT did that was completely insane. They turn off the Windows Firewall Service. Not Windows Firewall, but the Service. The one you have to have to do most things with Powershell, like, say, deploy a Service Fabric application locally. Which is required for my job.
Previously, I could just enable the service and turn it on, and it'd just shut itself off eventually. It was a pain, but I could get work done. After the update, they completely disabled it and disabled every method of enabling it. Or so they thought...
As I posted elsewhere, they can't stop me from doing work if I use MMC to set up a security template
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@magus said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
one thing our IT did that was completely insane
Always fun when IT come up with new and exciting ways to prevent you from doing your job properly, isn't it?
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@douglasac said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
I bought a cheapass Bluetooth dongle years ago and it didn't even bother having a driver that integrated with Windows at all. Instead, it included some crappy BlueSoleil software that was literally the worst possible thing I have had the misfortune to use.
I had one like that, from DealExtreme. It cost a whole $2, and on Windows XP it used that crappy BlueSoleil thing. But Windows 7 (maybe Vista too, idk) brought with it many wonderful and magical features, including native support for cheap, shitty bluetooth dongles, and I used it until it shat the bed as $2 devices sometimes do.
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For those stuck on Windows 10, here is some good news !
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@timebandit is that for the first reboot or does it include all of them?
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@bb36e It's just the offline time
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- PC reboots
... - PC reboots
- PC reboots
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@bb36e said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
- PC rebootsbolded text****
... - PC reboots
PFTFY
- PC rebootsbolded text****
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@douglasac said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
Incidentally, if you think the Broadcom driver is bad, I bought a cheapass Bluetooth dongle years ago and it didn't even bother having a driver that integrated with Windows at all. Instead, it included some crappy BlueSoleil software that was literally the worst possible thing I have had the misfortune to use.
It had its own godawful app instead of using any of the tools that Windows did have which were rudimentary but worked and weren't ugly, awful and badly translated from Chinese.
Out of curiosity I googled it. It's still a thing and the UI has basically added tabs in ten years and nothing else. How it is still a thing baffles me.
Also, back on topic of the update, my grandparent's computer has been trying to update to Fall Creators Update for the past few weeks apparently (I've been travelling for work and the grandmother was in hospital for a few weeks so was a low priority until they were both at home and I went to visit them there this week and they asked).
Apparently, their 1.5mbit ADSL is not fast enough to download the update even if they leave the computer running for 24 hours or more, so I am having to download it at home on my 5mbit ADSL, put it on a flash drive and do the update manually that way when I visit next time.
Of course, downloading it at home assumes that our internet provider hasn't decided that weekly outages were far too infrequent and that we should get them every other day or something else equally stupid.
Screenshot for posterity.
I particularly like the (Chinese) textbox in the corner that popped up. No idea what it says, but it sure wants my attention!
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@sloosecannon said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
@douglasac said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
Incidentally, if you think the Broadcom driver is bad, I bought a cheapass Bluetooth dongle years ago and it didn't even bother having a driver that integrated with Windows at all. Instead, it included some crappy BlueSoleil software that was literally the worst possible thing I have had the misfortune to use.
It had its own godawful app instead of using any of the tools that Windows did have which were rudimentary but worked and weren't ugly, awful and badly translated from Chinese.
Out of curiosity I googled it. It's still a thing and the UI has basically added tabs in ten years and nothing else. How it is still a thing baffles me.
Also, back on topic of the update, my grandparent's computer has been trying to update to Fall Creators Update for the past few weeks apparently (I've been travelling for work and the grandmother was in hospital for a few weeks so was a low priority until they were both at home and I went to visit them there this week and they asked).
Apparently, their 1.5mbit ADSL is not fast enough to download the update even if they leave the computer running for 24 hours or more, so I am having to download it at home on my 5mbit ADSL, put it on a flash drive and do the update manually that way when I visit next time.
Of course, downloading it at home assumes that our internet provider hasn't decided that weekly outages were far too infrequent and that we should get them every other day or something else equally stupid.
Screenshot for posterity.
I particularly like the (Chinese) textbox in the corner that popped up. No idea what it says, but it sure wants my attention!
OOoh even better!
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@timebandit said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
For those stuck on Windows 10, here is some good news !
When Windows can get their feature upgrades to be as disruptive as a Linux dist-upgrade, THEN they can be proud of themselves. But considering their typical update is more disruptive than a Linux dist-upgrade as it is right now... Yeah...
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@sloosecannon I think you need an adblocker...
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@dcon said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
@sloosecannon I think you need an adblocker...
Not an ad, or at least not in the normal sense. It's one of those customer engagement type things.