Network Effect.
Road designers understood this, probably as far back as the Romans.
"Build it and they will come". Whenever any network is expanded, it will have increased traffic.
Yep, I find booting from off is as fast (and maybe faster) than coming out of hibernation these days. It's definitely more fluid.
My SMB IT friends disable hibernation when they deploy laptops. Users don't reboot enough as it is, hibernation can be problematic, and wastes hard drive space (at least 16 gig, because they don't spec any less)
Disable auto updates.
Damn auto updates being on by default is a terrible design choice.
I've never had a Windows pc get slow after 6 months... Unless I've beat the snot out of it as I just don't care. But I'm an Admin, user boxes don't usually have such an issue. I have a 10 year old Windows 7 box that's as fast as it was 10 years ago.
But... If you install/uninstall a lot of stuff, over time that can cause issues (because Uninstallers are notoriously lazily compiled - I say this as an app packager of 20+ years.)
I used to say Windows Reg cleaners are snake oil, but on some systems it can really help with the uninstall issue - lots of crap, especially stuff related to context menus, can really slow it down. The only one I've ever recommended is Crap Cleaner - I've seen it revive a test machine that had gotten slow from a billion installs/uninstalls, testing lots of iffy software, etc.
Not even close.
Though it's really impressive how much it's improved over the years.
Right? Like every little municipality could do this?
Shipping is a massive consumer of all kinds of oils, especially fuel oil and diesel.
Want to make a real difference? Stop shipping shit around the world, accept there are growing seasons, grow and manufacture locally.
Suddenly the number of massive ships constantly churning through hundreds of gallons of fuel per hour, and trucks moving shit cross country, would seriously dwindle.
If it isn't clear by now - the power brokers of the world love moving manufacturing to wherever they've made a political deal, and don't give a fuck about the rest of us.
Do I like getting off-season fruit in December? Sure. Do I need to get it from Chile? Fuck no, greenhouses are a thing. How the hell is it cheaper to move that shit 10,000 miles than to grow locally in a hot house? Clearly someone's getting paid.
Sorry about the rant. Shipping is the elephant in the room whenever I hear people complain about cars.
Have you heard of capital letters and punctuation?
That's too hard to read.
That's a good point.
From a large family, couldn't sleep when I first moved out - too quiet.
Now do the (wholly fabricated, and known so by all using it) Steel Dossier and boy Biden being paid $50k/mo by Ukraine operatives...
And since the announcement of not buying Russian uranium, look into Hillary'S dealings with Ukraine and uranium.
Here's an idea, since you're an MS shop - OneNote.
My SMB consultant friends use it as a secondary, shared, more comprehensive and free-form way to track system docs, changes, etc.
It's so easy to use, just using it yourself will sell it to other people in the company, besides giving you a single place to store stuff (that can easily be shared or copied elsewhere when needed).
When someone asks "where's this" and you can pull it up in seconds in OneNote, they'll be impressed.
Just don't use the Universal app version of OneNote, or use OneDrive - use the full version included with Office. I'm still using OneNote 2016,though I think there's a 2022 version (I keep all notebooks in the 2016 version just in case)
Store your OneNote files on a file share (that gets backed up, and that you can control access), so it only syncs locally. You won't get mobile device sync this way, but it never leaves the premises, and it's not sensitive to OneDrive issues (I've seen OneDrive hose a notebook). (You can do mobile device sync if you store notebooks on a SharePoint server).
I have a personal notebook I work from, plus a work notebook (which is just mine, not shared). I then create other notebooks as needed - I have an IT Reference notebook with saved web pages and docs of how to fix problems. My personal notebook has a section for a current laptop rebuild, with a spreadsheet embedded that I open every day to track changes and problems.
OneNote auto syncs between all devices using a given notebook. You can copy anything into it, even zip files or executables (don't do this, since OneNote keeps 3 copies of a notebook locally - working version, cache, and backup).
Last year I started using the PARA model for my notebooks, and it's a huge help with business stuff: one notebook with section groups (Tabs) for Projects, Area of responsibility, Resources, Archive. I've added a fifth section, Reference, to my work notebook.
I do things like share emails from outlook to OneNote - it puts the email in there with all it's info, then I can add notes as needed for reference. Great for tracking Approvals.
If you start using OneNote, there are numerous paid and free add-ons for it that really extend its ability to sort, search, layout, edit, etc, such as OneMore and NoteGem. Just the calendar showing notebook changes is worth installing either one, but the section and page sorting is a massive help.
I have 15 years of nitebooksbat this point - be judicious in setting up and organizing your notebooks. I've found the idea of Archiving to be hugely helpful.
Yea, temperament. Even though we use the same 8-note system that was used during the "classical" period, the distance (in frequency) between certain pitches isn't the same as then, because we now (generally) use even-tempering.
Re:move away
Move away from today's temperament in pop music (or even how classical is played with modern instruments) and most people would probably be confused because of these slight frequency changes.
I've heard classical played with historically accurate temperament using instruments adjusted to try to reflect the sounds of the time - very different.
Check out prof Greenburg - pretty sure he does it in one of his lecture series.
Oh hey, thanks for the link!
I knew of Keyhole, but didn't realize they were Hubble chassis.
Yes, please link your guide.
This is a major barrier to helping others.
I've run rooted since 2010 because it's my device, there's things I want to do, and now run Lineage/DivestOS or Graphene. But I can't recommend that to friends/family, of course.
I've tried to improve a non-rooted phone, but damn if it isn't a real PITA.
Threat modeling is hard.
Just like anything, that beginning step to assess where you are, and where you want to go, is critical.
Frankly my threat model is way too ambiguous...and I'm trying. I can't imagine trying to convince non-tech folks they need a threat model assessment and then walk them through it, design a plan to improve their security/privacy.
Hmm, well, sounds like I just described a consultancy.
While this is true (and a problem with current engines like Google), I could see having a local LLM doing the filtering for you based on your own criteria. Then you could do a wide-open search as needed, or with minimal filtering, etc.
When I'm searching for technical stuff (Android rom, Linux commands/how it works), it would be really helpful to have some really capable filtering mechanisms that have learned.
When I want to find something from a headline, then it needs to be mostly open (well, maybe filtering out The Weekly World News).
But it really needs to be done by my own instance of an LLM/AI, not something controlled elsewhere.