Posts by Sir Adelaide

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

Why update?

I'm now not worried at all about the end of Windows 10 support. Not receiving updates seems to be the safer option.

Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard

Re: Resilio Sync

Only for small file volumes. Resilio reads the contents of every file to make its index, which takes days if you want to keep a terrabyte in sync, and resets when files in use change.

Allway sync was decent, before it was killed off.

Currently, I'd rather live with Dropbox' shortfalls than the pitfalls of the roll-your-own alternatives.

Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10

Philosophically, the OS is only there to let you load other programs, ie word processors, numerical simulations, games, web browsers. The OS shouldn't have any hardware requirements, other than needing a bit of ram and a 32/64/arm CPU.