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Comment Re:Do you actually use them day today though? (Score 1) 99

It's normal that any OS will have close to 0 free memory! This is the expected behavior..

Describe "0 free memory". When I say it is 100%, I am literally looking at Outlook, Windows services, and Excel taking almost 16GB by themselves. This is not cached memory model of the Linux and MacOS where free RAM is reserved for caching. At 16GB, the "cached memory" on my Windows machine is disk swap as I can see the disk activity.

See my other post just above.

I am not searching through this forum just because you can't be bothered to retype or paste a link. Also I have to read your mind to determine which of your posts apply? That's a no.

Comment Re:8 GB of RAM (Score 1) 99

There are lots of things that could be removed from Windows that are unnecessary; however, MS makes it more difficult with each new update and patch. Removing them for the performance is such a hassle that few do it. For example, I don’t have an Xbox but MS deems it that I must have Xbox Gaming installed with each major update. It used to be that you could uninstall it. Now you can remove it but it really is not uninstalled as components still exist; for example all the modules that connect to the Xbox gaming servers still are present.

There are all sorts of service running that do not to be. I don’t have a touch screen yet all components for it cannot be removed. My machine is a desktop not a laptop yet airplane mode exists and cannot be removed. I know because one day it was triggered somehow and I was off the Internet until I rebooted and reset everything.

Comment Re: It's also unusable with 8GB of RAM (Score 1) 99

Oh Windows 11 is fine to have all of these running at the same time; using them at the same time is the problem. Switching between them is a constant issue for me. Want to switch back and forth between an email and a spreadsheet? There is a noticeable lag and pause. I can’t refer to an email the start typing in a cell immediately. And I have 16GB and it is constantly 100% used between Windows and Office.

Comment Re:8 GB of RAM (Score 1) 99

The Macbook Neo set that standard. You're apparently allowed to make a cheap laptop in 2026 with a unusable amount of RAM and storage now as long as it has a good display.

Have you looked at DDR5 and SSD prices recently? Cheap and lots of RAM or storage are conflicting conditions right now. Laptop manufacturers are not "allowed" to do this as much as they have no choice at the moment. But you are allowed to buy more RAM and storage in a laptop; do not expect it to be cheap.

Comment Re:8 GB of RAM (Score 1) 99

Macbook Neo, the machine it is a rival to, also runs very poorly on an 8GB RAM machine

According to whom? The Neo is a terrible machine to run anything memory intensive like 4K video editing full time. But that is not designed primarily to do. It was made for the average consumer like students to handle everyday computing like web surfing. Every review I have read say the 8GB is fine for these tasks.

Comment Re:Nobody wants a 1984 surveillance machine (Score 2) 68

Also "poorly implemented" and "deceptively advertised". It was originally on by default and was advertised as being secure by being "encrypted" but "encrypted" only meant Windows Bitlocker if the user turned it on; however, Bitlocker only prevents the data being read if the drive was removed from the system. The files themselves were not protected against being read by other processes or users. After many complaints, Windows relented with Recall being optional and implemented actual file encryption.

Comment Re:Wat (Score 2) 48

Guess we forgot how funny it was that we suddenly went into a "current post quantum transition while somehow forgetting how we really got out of the pre-quantum phase.

For security, some people prepare in advance of threats instead of reacting to them when they arrive. 1024 bit RSA was implemented around 1999 as the standard. It was recommended around 2010 that 2048 bit replace it. 1024 bit had not been factored yet but 768 bit had been. The current threat to cryptographic systems right now is quantum computing. Moving to more secure algorithms before they are all cracked seems like the prudent thing to do.

Comment Re:Pulled Linux from Git;now owning 44m lines of c (Score 1) 142

Nope you did not. Otherwise we had agreed on the topic 10 posts ago.

It appears that you will not cite where I said any of that. Is that because you can't find it or that you are lying?

You insisted that private information in a corporate calendar is just fine, an our different points of view might be a cultural thing, and implied that you put your doctor appointments into your corporate calendar.

I did not "INSIST" on anything. You are lying. I said is that WHATEVER I type into my calendar should be private that AI cannot not read. It could be "Out". It could be "Holiday". It could be "Doctor's Appointment". I don't know what your calendar looks like but "Out" for every single block of time makes it very difficult to plan. You are inventing things.

and implied that you put your doctor appointments into your corporate calendar.

Dear Lord, your comprehension is poor: I said: "In the case of surgery, you mean besides to remind people I work with that I'm having surgery so I will be out for X number of days? IF I have a surgery, I block the days I will need for recovery. I TELL my team members WHY I am out. I COULD put it in the calendar as "Surgery" or "Playing Video Games" It doesn't matter. No one should see WHY. Your first response is that I could be robbed. You keep inventing scenarios INSTEAD OF FUCKING READING.

Do you even work in an office with people? Every response of yours relies on an unwillingness to recognize other people exist.

Comment Re:Pulled Linux from Git;now owning 44m lines of c (Score 1) 142

And, you repeatedly told me again (this time I know it was you): that you indeed put information that has nothing to do in a corporate calendar, into that corporate calendar.

That is a lie. I said nothing of the sort. Please cite where I did. I have repeatedly said the exact opposite. REPEATEDLY. What you are saying is you could not bother to FUCKING READ.

The whole thing has nothing to do with AI or if the calendar is secure or what ever: it is about people who put stuff into calendars that should not be there.

HOW FUCKING DENSE ARE YOU? When you let AI program things, it misses details. Every current calendar out there has privacy settings. Privacy settings is one of the many things that I expect AI to miss when coding a calendar app.

If a company policy in Europe would force you to put your private live into a corporate calendar: that would be plain illegal.

NO ONE FUCKING SAID THAT. Why do you keep making up shit? No one is "forced" into anything.

If you do it voluntarily: it would be brain dead stupid.

WHAT PARTING OF FUCKING PRIVACTY SETTINGS DO YOU STILL NOT UNDERSTAND. PRIVACY SETTINGS.

No one needs to know that you are 3h on a school event with your kid(s) and your wife is till next week in hospital for XYZ (because you have a daily appointment to visit her from 9:00 - 10:00) and your house is during that 3h event free to be burglar-ed, as everyone in your company or above you, does not only know when you are "available" and when not, but also knows: where you are and why.

FUCKING PRIVACY SETTINGS. YOU STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT PRIVACY SETTINGS ARE.

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