Posts by Ilgaz

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

It is old fashioned, horribly unscientific but...

I couldn't make myself purchase a x86 Laptop just weeks ago because of the elephant in the room, Windows. My main OS is and always will be Linux however let's say I want to watch 4K streaming from Netflix/HBO? I want to edit a photo professionally with minimum work? All will happen in Windows, trust me I did really crazy things just to prevent me from dual booting to Windows with all that fan noise, nothing helps.

If I buy a Mac M4/M5, I can use a *nix Desktop and still use Linux with full screen VM trickery. If I buy x86, every company assumes I can dual boot. Also things like old fashioned Hollywood suits not allowing Linux to play HD because "it is what haxors use" drama will never end, even if some Linux does the most blasphemic thing as shipping a HDCP compliant desktop.

TLDR; Check Amazon top 10 laptops, no matter which country you are in. Windows laptops are in a true, massive crisis which never happened before.

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Re: 50 years of computing and the most fun you've had is with a chatbot?

I can understand him considering the time I spent with Amiga Racter was hours if not days. Of course Racter only saved to diskette, not some shady cloud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

I would pay if I could

I noticed the only stuff I watch from the platforms and unfortunately P2P are from BBC. If there was a way for international audience to pay their license, a lot would subscribe to iPlayer. I see there are some legitimate ways to watch BBC in the USA but not in a lot of countries.

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

I noticed a lot of pro tools e.g. ones used by Hollywood etc. does support Linux. Actually people say Linux is the platform of choice for a lot of companies. They just certify hardware configurations and a distribution like RHEL or SLES. Problem solved. I noticed a lot of them started to support Ubuntu LTS too.

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

Better idea, Hancock moment

Before Steve Jobs, Hancock saved Apple so they could survive until he came to rescue them.

She was the one who decided the Apple's OS rescue operation (Copland etc) is a mess which can't be salvaged and stopped them from using their last resources for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hancock?wprov=sfla1

Ms Windows division needs someone to tell the truth.

Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations

It is the model they are using.

I love that guy however as a Microsoft employee he insists not seeing the elephant in the room. It is closed source model Vs open source/community. KDE project for example is gigantic and old. They don't have to cope with this problem.

Also, using their model Apple does have an excellent, native like Turkish translation while Windows one reads like a bad sci fi movie script.

OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

Re: Tulip Futures

I think tulip producers weren't unhappy with the Tulip mania. Go insane and order a $1B personal yacht? Samsung will build it too.

Microsoft puts last remnants of original Edge browser on life support

Re: "Microsoft is determined to move on."

I used it back in 2015. It wasn't bad and it saved battery until Google did some trickery to give it hell on YouTube.

I remember since my battery and 5th gen i5 was a bad combination.

Modern life is rubbish – so why not take a trip down memory lane with Windows File Manager?

Re: life extension - file extension

Any serious antivirus/security suite will alert you about that horrible security flaw right after being installed. It is that bad.

A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive

Re: Yawn...

Next time look to Windows version itself, not the consumer facing name. E.g. NT4, NT5. At least they are sincere in that versioning of the *kernel*. For now.

Antivirus vendors fail to spot persistent, nasty, stealthy Linux backdoor

Commercial Linux AV

It is like they are selling snake oil to companies. There is no heuristics.

Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10

VBS is a nightmare, can't disable

MBEC is the big deal here, Intel i5 Gen 7 doesn't have it, so you clearly see 15-20% performance drop along with horrible fan sound whenever you launch a program. I tried to disable VBS (Which makes use of it) in every imaginable method, even asked AI. No luck.

Everyone questions Wintel now.

M4 price/performance and constant w11 update scandals/ms not caring made me question why would any regular user buy a Wintel (or AMD).

If I wasn't bugged about Apple's restrictions, I would buy a M4 Mini and use it as my Desktop server right away.

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'

Horrible zero days, aged months. I was also installing 6500 (yes) updates to a core2duo 8G Mac. opensuse tw. It only used some more fan ;-)

Re: 24H2 is really a dog

I just trialed Adobe LR for 20 min and cancelled. The OS overhead was 30%. On Linux it is 3% Adobe chose it. They just couldn`t require a RHEL or SEL and ship.

re:devices

You killed the phone and abandoned its users. We call them:computers

Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell

Could be Mandela effect

I remember reading my mainboard or CPU (Pentium era) manual, and it was suggesting to launch Edit and open its "File" menu. If left open, it will use 100% CPU and one will figure if CPU overheats or not. This always bugged me. How would MS allow such a risky bug in DOS era? Or, did the Intel engineers notice the bug and use it for their own advantage?

Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

You should also have 30 years of bugs implemented perfectly in case you dare to support their junk. I wonder how much engineering power wasted on supporting MS Office doc.

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

My ads are from phishers

I would never imagine this kind of thing but they are showing phishing "ads" for some of major financial payment platforms and banks. For the good of people,I keep reporting them as "illegal products & services" and nothing happens. I even reported them to the company being targeted.

It is a jungle, even AI generated famous people are used.

Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive

Re: Quality HW

I have Macbook 5.1 from 2009, running openSUSE Tumbleweed. Actually, I have run a small restaurant's social media with it. It is a core duo 64bit. Unfortunately, there is a power supply problem which is a bit expensive overengineered thing. I will soon reboot it with 4000 updates once I replace the power supply.

This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer

Re: Brave Browser

Crypto kills it. If they paid with real money, we would see it to become a hit among websites otherwise hating ad blockers.

Re: Mozilla To The Rescue

The proposal of Brave was nice until his crypto bro style took over and decided to pay with crypto scams.

GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out

Reading opportunity for all

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP "Burroughs MCP" is a piece of technical writing art on Wikipedia. That OS is really something unique.

Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop

Re: Termux

No matter what you do, even if you only want to "write" business letters, "hacker's keyboard" is a must for any Android user.

Windows 11 adoption picking up speed, but older sibling still ahead

People are dying right now

Hearing the Ukraine rare elements and minerals deal drama? They are all for the thrown away functioning hardware. All because some idiot at Ms invented (!) hypervisor based security.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Once they enable hypervisor stuff and memory integrity type security features, you will live a performance nightmare. It isn't 5 FPS,I am talking about 30% overhead.

Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz

How can it work?

I have never used Broadcom website except getting Linux drivers but thanks to VMware desktop becoming free, I dealt with it.

Once I used my native Turkish name while registering, it took two days with a very helpful (no sarcasm) support staff to grant my free download.

I figured one thing. That is a mainframe/large enterprise company who has no clue about end users or small businesses.

It is like a friend who worked in IBM Turk in Aptiva age. He was holding a freaking bank to help some teenager install his game.

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

Re: Marketing

I keep reading comments from developers saying they were really interested but the absurd price of SDK and compiler prevented them. It isn't like a developer will pirate IBM software.

I used OS/2 V3 with IBM global network. Funny that looking back, I really didn't need Windows but the horrible negative press must have effected me.

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

Re: Considered harmful

Zuck isn't ignorant about Linux etc. I wonder if he called whoever responsible and asked "wtf?"

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

Re: Compatible processor list too short

I have 7th gen i5 as well, I suggest you should stay on Win 10 as long as possible. Windows 11 24H2 has type1 hypervisor trickeries and the 7th gen i5 lacks a specific instruction to hardware accelerate it. You end up with horrible fan noise, at least 30% performance penalty etc. 8th gen doesn't have this issue, I am not sure about other issues that may arise.

I suggest that you use Mint (for conservative but modern Linux) or openSUSE Tumbleweed.

If you have pre-gen8 Intel CPU, don't upgrade

I have lived hell with fan noise/performance for 10 days and finally "downgraded" to Windows 10. My CPU (intel i5 7xxx) doesn't have specific instructions to do easy virtual machine based security and the geniuses at MS somehow managed to enable it, again. This time no tips/help worked and because I won't watch DRM videos with fan noise, I downgraded it. I previously managed to disable it using very advanced trickery but this time, nothing worked. My use for Windows is just movies/tv series and nothing else.

Disabling "memory integrity" isn't enough for Win 11 24H2.

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

Re: Status quo.

They do worse things every release. 24H2 tried to do a Type 1 hypervisor trick for security on unsupported (i5 7th gen) CPU of mine. It took me 15 days to figure it out and it was a fan noise nightmare with lagging system. Their telemetry isn't interested in this of course.

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference

Re: Writing applications for Windows...

Speaking of kernel, to run Adobe suite licensed (subscribed) etc you will need kernel level running DRM which will never happen on Linux. Perhaps, if Adobe people magically notices how much Windows waste their suite with horrible overhead, they may ship something for RHEL/SUSE first.

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

Re: Another Era

If you are using an Intel CPU, you are already using the Minix the latest version right now. Even while the computer is "off" ;-)

How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software

Re: Single Input Queue

Back in the day there were rumors that a huge installation (US navy?) had a software relying on it therefore IBM kept it.

Re: ======> Where are the printer drivers?

It did have printer drivers and a working printing system but for example my HP 690C which was a massively popular inkjet wasn't supported. In Warp 3. Perhaps HP shipped a driver later.

The problem is said to be they didn't work with vendors. MS on the other hand even physically sends people to help some vendors.

Re: Handicapping it to use the pi**poor 286 pretty much f**ed themselves.

Not a developer but I was reading 80286 history. The problem seems to be 286 can't get out of protected mode once it is switched to it, e.g. you run a modern GUI OS but you also have critical MS-DOS software. On Unix there isn't such archaic issues of course.

Re: I remember reading Letwin's post

IBM pushed it way too hard shipping object oriented desktop to ex DOS/Windows users.

Think what would happen if Apple ported Next directly to Macintosh users. No Finder etc. IBM did even more.

I have read a OSX developers blog

It is more than decades ago around 2005, a die hard OSX developer had to ship a Windows exe for a reason. I can't remember the name or product.

He had the exe crashing all the time and somehow MS got aware of it.

Microsoft contacted him telling why likely it fails and how to fix it sending the necessary documentation.

The guy was so impressed that he blogged about it on a OSX developer blog.

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

A dramatic example in my mind for 24 years

I have read that some fiber/petrol etc companies had to spend 200K+ dollars just to replace a $5 chip on the bottom of the Ocean. That really shows the scale of the things people had to deal with.

HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair

Re: Can't beat the old iPhone SE

I say buy a device which Lineage guys support, if it is possible, also check for Linux compatibility.

The vendor should also promise at least 3 Android major updates with security updates for 5 years. HMD is tricking people that they are just ex Nokia, there is also a giant Chinese in the room.

In 2025

If a vendor says they will update for 2 years, just move on. Don't bother.

If their Chinese overlords didn't dictate them, it would be excusable if they donated a good sum to Lineage guys and let them continue the care but of course it won't happen.

Re: nanny-ing software

Check dontkillmyapp.com it has Nokia section and also explains who put that lame software in the Nokia. I am using Nokia 5.1 plus and it runs

setting.duraspeed.enabled 2

every freaking boot or it will randomly kill things. This device also carries "Google one" certification. How did Google allow this?

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

Re: The Box Of Delights

They don't say anything like "Click here to subscribe". I would subscribe to BBC instead of Netflix.

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

I asked it to their AI

I asked something similar to "Isn't pushing your own browser to users while Firefox is perfectly capable of functioning in the same manner old fashioned?"

It ended the conversation. Basically said "Let's talk about another subject' That was Bing AI.

systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0

Funny thing is, I had to run Windows XP+ POS machines 24/7 for a long time and never seen a problem like severe lag etc requiring a boot. They only booted at 3 AM on patch Tuesdays.

It is almost like a tradition people do without any real requirement since NT 4.

Did you miss the boot time pissing contest days?

Re: I find this story intensely ironic.

Small note: systemd also wants to replace sudo. No kidding.

Microsoft coughs up yet more Windows 11 24H2 headaches

Xmas Miracle

Just imagine a "viral" mass switch happens and 40% of users moved to Linux desktop.

It would take Adobe one month to polish their secret version of suite to release on a LTS Linux. Once you are getting out of space you inspect their monster sized folders more. They opt in to multiple platform frameworks and libraries more than ever.

Didn't you notice how fast they shipped for ARM?

Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating

I was reading the 80486 Wikipedia article and he was even in that one.