General Computer Thread

[Candleicious Ghost]

I no longer rely on an internal optical drive, I'm using two external ones via front USB 3 port. One drive for local content and one for USA content, but that one can also read and burn bluray disks.

I have two internal SSD drives one is my main drive on a socket on the motherboard the secondary is just for files and games, things I wouldn't really care about that much. The secondary used to be a mechanical drive, and it's still around but tucked into an enclosure. Haven't touched it in a couple of years.

 

[Marc]

its easier for me to just use an older desktop as a hypervisor and run stuff I need to have running in its own OS as a VM, these days. I still have a lot of old hardware, but it's going to the dumpster before long. I don't really do any gaming more substantial than 90's and early 00's games on a pc, so my hardware needs aren't really that great any longer.

virtualisation is definitely a winner

I tend to be a bit oooh squirrel with so I have lots of stuff running but don't always get around to finish setting it up (or haven't decided on soft e.g Plex vs Jellyfin, Calibre vs Booklore).

At present I've got 44 Linux containers and 14 vms running, 1 of those VMs had a pile of docker containers running. My daily driver desktop is a TuxedoOS VM (Ubuntu 24.04 based but more upto date with the KDE version.) and my internet gateway is virtualised as well which can also be curse

On a Ryzen 9 7900 with 128GB ram, CPU siting at 49% and ram used is 117GB

 

[John Clark]

Tried to use my laptop to watch a blu-ray last night and it's decided to throw an errors again

Had it working last month, so I hoped it was just the disk being a new one, but the same happened to the one from last month after I retried it

Back to installing the blu-ray bits again I guess. (and fixed)

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Tried to use my laptop to watch a blu-ray last night and it's decided to throw an errors again

Had it working last month, so I hoped it was just the disk being a new one, but the same happened to the one from last month after I retried it

Back to installing the blu-ray bits again I guess. (and fixed)

But you shouldn't have to do that repeatedly if it worked before

 

[John Clark]

But you shouldn't have to do that repeatedly if it worked before

Shouldn't - but as it turns out, the program I use had had a mental hiccup on update and forgot it's registration number.
I was messing around in the background, then just looked at that and it asked for the registration number. - If I'd done that first, a five second fix instead of a couple of hours

 

[Santaman]

Software can be a real pain in the arse...

 

[Marc]

Software can be a real pain in the arse...

But surely you know the hardware people blame the software and the software people blame the hardware

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

But surely you know the hardware people blame the software and the software people blame the hardware

Software is far easier to fix; hardware, once it is released is very hard to fix if there is a fundamental design flaw in the chip.

 

[Marc]

Software is far easier to fix; hardware, once it is released is very hard to fix if there is a fundamental design flaw in the chip.

and the joke goes right over your head.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I powerwashed my Chromebook, and after reinstalling all my apps, it was apparent that it wasn't as fast as it was, my preferred browser Duck Duck Go was super laggy...Google must have snuck something in there.

I went into chrome://flags and searched for 'ai' and disabled the results I got.

Now ther lagging is gone. Fark AI

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I powerwashed my Chromebook, and after reinstalling all my apps, it was apparent that it wasn't as fast as it was, my preferred browser Duck Duck Go was super laggy...Google must have snuck something in there.

I went into chrome://flags and searched for 'ai' and disabled the results I got.

Now ther lagging is gone. Fark AI

That's cool. Glad you got it back to how you like it.

BTW I've been misreading your name the last couple of days as The Salt Vampire haha

 

[The Salt Umpire]

That's cool. Glad you got it back to how you like it.

BTW I've been misreading your name the last couple of days as The Salt Vampire haha

It's my Halloween Handle. Waiting for Holiday Handle time if The Mods / T'Bonz want to do that.

 

[Marc]

Windows has now had Taskmanger for 30 years and Dave Plumber who wrote is has put up video on it's development and what his goals were with it.

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[Santaman]

That guy should have been in complete command of M$'s Windows development team...

 

[camdudetenger2018]

i still have windows vista lol

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

i still have windows vista lol

Wow. Just the disk or a working copy?

 

[Marc]

i still have windows vista lol

Not going to be too long before the retro computing forums start talking about the Vista because it falls into the category.

Talk about depressing

 

[Santaman]

Vista is vintage, so is Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 and kinda 10 now as well..
Might surprise a lot of people but 8.1 was actually really good, very stable, like Win2K stable and juuuust modern enough to support everything you need, only one thing you MUST do is install Open-Shell which turns it into 7, XP or even Win2K,

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

God I hate what the current Windows team did to the Windows 11 Start Menu.

It's like they intentionally are designed by people who don't use any DeskTop computers in the past 3 decades, just to fulfill a check box to show that they did some work that wasn't necessary.

The fact that so many people use a "Alternate 3rd Party Start Menu" shows how stupid of a design it is.

 

[Marc]

Vista is vintage, so is Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 and kinda 10 now as well..

20 - 25 years seems to the norm for something to fall into the vintage category so XP would sneak, it a bit early for Vista.

God I hate what the current Windows team did to the Windows 11 Start Menu.

that's why people use tools like classic shell or the Windows 11 debloaters.