Posts by Wokstation 275 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2008
There's four PCs at our place, one each. Only one runs windows 11, the other three are on 10. Two of those could theoretically upgrade to 11 but the most powerful of them cannot.
I see no reason to upgrade, the computers are fine, it's only Windows 11. As a techish home user, it's not broke, why fix it?
... having the glasses listen and report via HUD would be really useful, for deaf and hard of hearing, for situational awareness on construction sites, safer cycling, all sorts of things.
I can certainly see some machine learning needed to make it work, but an omnipresent douchecanoe constantly whispering "well actually" every time you say something definitely is not.
My machines, despite running games like Fortnite and supporting my vr headset just fine, do not meet the requirements for windows 11 because of secure boot.
There's three mid range gaming rigs in the house for the family, that'd mean spending anywhere up to £2,500 just to run windows 11. As each needs replacing, maybe I'll have to go with 11, but I don't think Microsoft get that their new shiny not only isn't particularly shiny, but it's definitely not worth trashing three perfectly good rigs for.
That's our rule. Ok, so he's only 11 and a lot is still to come, but the screens are in that living room and a condition of having a phone is its subject to us looking at it at any time, it's codes must always be known to us, and it doesn't go upstairs.
That, and actually communicating with him, seem to be helping... So far.
I bought a Sony tablet s (original)a couple of years ago. It's still going strong. Not had an OS update for it since the day I bought it, which was to ICS. I expected Sony to support it, turn out I was just being green - it used to play PlayStation games, but Sony pulled that, and no OS updates since.
Just as well I don't use chrome, but I doubt it'll stop at chrome...
Had a Razer Naga, the buttons became unreliable - a click became 10, and holding the button down was read as mashing it.
Replaced it with a Logitech g600.
Keyboard-wise I use a basic cheap keyboard, but have a pad for my left hand so I hardly have to touch the main keyboard. Originally a Nostromo, now a Logitech G13 - the little LCD is invaluable for it's temperature readouts. Shame LCDStudio was discontinued.
I hadn't intended to go all Logi, it just turned out that way.
"The watchdog said that unlike BT, TalkTalk and BSkyB which nagged all of their customers with an "unavoidable choice" about filtering"
I switched to BT about a month ago (only FTTC provider here). Wasn't asked by customer services nor the engineer. Not had any popups asking.
I'm guessing it's because I disabled Smart Setup, which makes the choice far from unavoidable.
Bed down this idea, then change the T&C so it can listen for spoken keywords to "serve you more relevant content", those around the Facebooker may not have consented to having personal data processed. But oh so handy for the spooks.
Likely? Who knows. Possible? Unfortunately.
November? Our local cabinet was listed as upgraded to FTTC, so planned to go BT Infinity once Christmas was done. January rolls round, go to sign up, not available. Checker says March. March? Checker says April. Now it says May.
To rub salt in to my current 1Mbps wound, I get phonecalls and leaflets proclaiming how joyous life is on 50Mbps from BT about once a week.
Yeah, coz there's no chance of mission-creep is there? Our Government would never do that, would they?
It's not like they have form for that, is it? They'd never, for example, user anti-terror legislation to catch people who didn't pick up their dog's excretions, would they?
You talk as if it's all-or-nothing, when there's many shades to choose from. Non-intrusive adverts that don't phone home, run scripts, risk my network security and/or follow me? I'm not going to mind that any more than I mind a poster on a bus shelter.
If advertisers didn't take liberties, we'd not want to take them back.
