Andi

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

No chance.

You concentrate on the TPM but ignore the CPU requirements...? If you have a CPU that is up to spec, you have a TPM - they're built in the CPU. Most people just need to turn it on in the BIOS (or update their BIOS as motherboard manufacturers have turned on the TPM as "Windows 11 support")

The truth of it is, every "jump" OS, i.e. 95, XP, 7, 10 has run really poorly on >5 year old chips at the time of launching. And MS got panned at "how slow" is was. But it was also the norm to update your PC more often. Now speed increases have slowed and Moore's Law has ended, it's about security and performance hit of said security. The truth is, the kernel hardening and malware protection and encryption built into 11 to make it far less likely to get infected than 10 and 7 means it needs the hardware support to do it. Without it, it runs far slower or is less secure. Neither anyone wants.

When 10 support ends in 2 years time, the lowest supported processor for 11 will be nearly 9 years old...

[–] [email protected] 81 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If anyone happens to remember half-life.fortunecity.net , I was your floating admin (I literally floated around the Map during death matches)

At it's hayday, it was the 1st/2nd most popular server in the UK.

If I can remember, my little PC managed to handle 20 players, all on a 2mbit line, sneakily hosted in my server room at work in circa 2000...

Yeah, I'm that old.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is the GOAT 🐐

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Certainly YMMV. I have an HP 8720 and it works wirelessly perfectly, Windows finds it and installs it automatically. Including the scanner. Even works from my wife's Chromebook. I can print from my Android phone without any issue.

I do pay for the HP ink subscription, but it's only 99p per month, and that's 15 pages with rollover and that suits our need 99% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

This seems a bit fishy to me, I don't buy it.

I reckon the couple had done something stupid in the car like drive it through a ~~fjord~~ ford that was deeper than they thought, or through a flooded section of road and actually did submerge the battery. Multiple times.

Then went to dinner. And the car had enough.

They get the scary quote, then decide to omit the majority of the day's activities when complaining to the local newspaper in order to shame Tesla/Elon to pay up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I had reliability issues with PiHole and moved to AdGuardHome a couple of years ago. It has never, ever crashed and the updates takes a couple of seconds. It rocks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Have to disagree as I've tried pretty much all of them. The most popular "tiny10" and "tiny11" by NetDev (not mentioned above) is actually a bit of an arse with stuff broken. Same with the others. You shouldn't need to skim through a Telegram group to figure out how you create a new user account... (Amolierated, I'm looking at you).

However, the one where it all just works is Ghost Spectre Superlite (Windows 11 version, though I'm sure the 10 version is similar). It is proper clever with its app that allows you to add the features you need and install the updates you want, or not if you prefer. They released a tweak to get CoPilot working too which just worked. And all in a tiny image with neat tweaks plus all the bloat gone. And the only one where my laptop instantly resumes and works perfectly with Modern Sleep.

Even has an extended WinPE boot environment with extra apps for hard drive partitioning, data recovery, etc. Worth a look.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Install as "English (World)" and all adverts and additional software is missed, as it doesn't know your region, therefore doesn't know what to serve.

If you need the Windows Store, you can change the region post install, and it'll remain clean and the store will then populate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Gave up on Clarks years ago.. the premium just isn't worth it.

M&S and Next, when they have kids shoes in the Sales, are up there with the quality. But, recently we've been kitting ours out with shoes from Vinted. Seriously do not understand how these people have hardly-worn shoes and let them go for £6 or so - but it's been a blinder so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, our 365 team got estimates from Microsoft about 3 weeks ago.

If we don't cull our usage before next August, our renewal will be £1m more than this year... That's for 70,000 accounts and a whole lotta SharePoint.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Wait until Corporate sees the new data storage rates for 365 for next year and their potential new bill for cloud storage.

They'll be spinning up those server room file servers in no time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Until the directory structure and filename, including your SharePoint hostname, exceeds 400 characters and then it just breaks. Because, Microsoft.

Surprisingly easy to do with some quite nested folders with spaces in the names (as that takes 3 characters per space) and a long filename.

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