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Hotspot 5g mobile, travelling, currently in Norway, French roaming sim. So a 'far away' + "all the way back" test. And 'only' 66 ping, which is of no concern. Lots more than needed, and the evolution from not that long ago!, was more like 30\5.

Recently repasted i7 9850H (Dell precision 5540) with some not-big-brand stuff. 100% cpu spikes to 100c then quite quickly settles in lower 80's, sustaining good turbo values. Near-idle ok. Results decent? Any reason to try another paste? Thanks

^^^ Caution Running Driver Verifier could cause the computer to crash. You should only run Driver Verifier on computers that you are using for testing and debugging. Quite clear :O) I'd never venture into this unless very serious, very specific reasons. Surely useful in corporation setups with maybe 100's of machines before deploying any mass updates, 1st the period of hard-testing on dedicated, friable pc's. Am trusting the manufacturer (Dell in this case) provided drivers (for Dell, Intel, Nvidia), updating a while after they become available. Giving them some real-world test time before committing (like another version comes 5 days after the initial release), maybe with a little reading in manufacturer's support forums, any reports of unexpected behavior. ------------------------- And this month's 'nothing to report' report, another perfect ltsc update from MS.

Insomnium - Songs of the Dusk

Blackberry Smoke - Whatcha Know Good

LTSC february done. All smooth, no changes, all stable. & no update to 11 ad plague.

Cat invasion https://packaged-media.redd.it/xvz7j84e6ndc1/pb/m2-res_852p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1707692400&s=cb22ba0ffecc94d9b6cadfb0cfb4d600a4eecf5a#t=0

Finally got the Dell Power Manager app to install (after x years and x failed attempts > "not compatible with your operating system" install roll backs (w10 ltsc 1809). Tried earlier app versions and lots of other possible workarounds, to no avail. Just recently had another go, digging the net for users reporting similar install fails, came over a reddit post stating that "Distributed Transaction Coordinator" must run, for unknown reason disabled in my setup. Miracle, Power app installed and working. That install fail was a recurring irritation on an otherwise perfect pc+os combination. The app may prove usefull or not, wahtever, very satisfying getting that install success, also dispelled doubts about ltsc having compatibilty problems.

Jut a late update, TPM update executed flawlessly.

Draconian - Rivers Between Us

In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading

Time to congratulate w8.1 here (original installation + all updates, open shell). 9 years of astonishingly perfect & stable service, OS solid as rock. Same for the old Dell e7440, behaves like new (even the battery has aged well). Laptop in daily use, browsing \ email \ yt streaming \ music playing. MS continues to provide daily Defender updates. (so far) been enough security for my kind of net activity. & the old Tosh mentionned in post above also alive as well.

If of any remote interest (it's a 15" and some years old now) my Precision 5540 I7 is remarkably silent (highly appreciated). Even when quite hot (like at the bottom cover), fans won't start until having a very good reason to do so, ie real \ sustained use of cpu\gpu. & no coil whine and that sort of thing. So "completely silent under light work\internet browsing\picture editing\idle etc" laptops exists, problem, one must usually buy first then find out if lucky or not.

Degoogle and privacy, my take on the subject. Quite easy really to acheive a good rate without too much hassle, and still keep the useful \ needed bits available as options. They gracefully offer to disable (+ easy to uninstall things with ADB if one wishes going deeper). A reset \ new phone got no need to set up with any google (or phone brand) account or email. As for apps, pretty ok for me just starting with whatever the phone maker delivers in their setup (some will label an app bloat, some may label same app useful as gold), then tune into needs & wants > disable, uninstall, permissions, stop data activity etc. Got a google account, an absolute need for some short commando raids into the playstore to get things like banking apps updated. So enabling a few g-store related apps for a few minutes, then disabling and\or stop data access. As for general apps I use apkmirror etc. In my case a Samsung account is acceptable, fine to update their own set of apps. No real name or personal data there, no payment things etc. Looking at my google account (fake name & personal data etc), shows never bought anything, never been anyplace (am using Here WeGo, offline navigation, complete country maps predownloaded), never searched for anything, no sharing, seeing nothing except the list of apps in use. Of course they surely still get lots of info like region\cell towers\imei\phone brand whatever, but avoiding that and one moves into pigeon post territory. Example screeshot, in addition to the 'disbaled' a bunch of preinstalled stuff from both Samsung and Google have been ADB'ed away. + Netguard (screenshot) blocking all data except for those apps I use. Result is the wanted half-dumb\severly-notgoogle phones for normal daily routine (email\sms\internet\some social\bluetooth\photo etc), & can be non-dumb'ed anytime when needed. F.ex. monthly security updates, am keeping the related apps on the phone, only allowing them a short window of data\wifi access for doing the download. This imo is the major privacy tool, Netguard (and great for curbing data use if on a monthly quota). And the ADB program (with backup\restore\snapshots > useful after any failed late night experiments like ending up with a phone that can't make a call or take a photo lol, so make a plan and do some research :0) https://adbappcontrol.com/en/

Apple

Looking back at the SSD history, "OCZ's listed MSRP of $499 for the 32GB drive and $1,099 for the 64GB" (+40% in today's money). Better speed than HD's but no immense revolution, and surely questionable reliability\lifespan. Early adopters > "You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt" :O) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/ssds-in-2008-fast-speeds-200mbsec-over-price-cuts/

^^^^ The above affects only non-ltsc \ newer w10's? Posts probably belongs in the general w10 board. ltsc 2019 (1809) got KB5034127. btw no WinRE recovery partition om my system. As always, no issues, no new features.

Astralia - Solstice

Draconian (as usual, sorry for the male vocals lol) Sleepwalkers Sorrow Of Sophia

And survived another one :O) along with a mysterious 'TPM 2.0 firmware update'. Both labeled CRITICAL Mixing such updates with Bitlocker = suspense until sucessful boot. Got 100% trust in bitlocker itself, but way less in new firmwares' possible implications (and in own deads ...or misdeads lol). Of course got backups of contents and keys ready if anything should ever go overboard.

^^^ Using several Seagate 2.5", alive and well after many years.

Seas of Years - The Ever Shifting Fields

Wisihing everyone a good time, now and next year !

12\23 kb invited in. Nothing added or removed, nothing broke, nothing changed. As expected from the best OS on the planet :O) btw, anyone looking for ltsc (and nearly everything else), check out godeal, 'legal greymarket', has been offering keys (comes with working iso download link after purchase) for many, many years. Example https://eu.godeal24.com/windows-10-enterprise-ltsc-2021-1-pc.html?g24=g31205 (Please edit post if contrary to any forum rules. Thanks)

Am (very?) critical of many of Musk's whims (example twitter) and pseudopolitical-social derailments. ...but what he managed to create, like tesla & spacex ?? Profound and unending admiration. Especially the spacex tech, remember seeing the first successfull rocket return landing. What an achievement. Now, he surely did not design the inside and engines of the spaceships, but got that immense skill in gathering and inspiring the best brains available, and keep everyone working towards a goal. But for twitter seemed he did the opposite, best brains (and now best advertisers) left \ fired, ftm his behavior looks like he's aiming for, and would welcome, trouble and crashes instead of sucessful landing and prosperity.