The point in the article is that 'debloating' does nothing for performance. And they're right. Uninstalling things you don't run does nothing for performance. Background tasks largely don't interfere with foreground processes thanks to the foreground process boost Windows uses.
Right but windows also aims to be backwards compatible which means it was trying to run things designed for a single user system undermining protections.
'vim' wasn't designed for multi-user use. Nor was emacs.
Applications don't need to somehow be "designed" for multi-user systems. It's up to the underlying system to enforce application isolation in various ways, which NT has and does.
Does vim expect to be able to delete files in /bin?
If vim tried to create, modify and delete files willy nilly It would quickly run into problems. I would guess vim keeps it's temp files in /tmp and config files in ~/.vimrc?
Windows doesn't/didn't have any of this. If you want to be compatible with lotus123 and lotus123 writes it's tmp files to the root directory, you need to keep it writable, or you break lotus123.
What's easier, and bitlocker doesn't count. I want my FDE to be based on a password or a keyfile, not simply by some code in the motherboard. I want it encrypted until I, the operator, provide some data to unlock.
In my limited experience with bitlocker, the disk is decryptable automatically as long as it's in the original motherboard.
If someone steals my laptop, and there is no factor of decryption requiring something I possess or know, then the only use of that disk being encrypted is that I can throw it out more safely at end of life. Thieves/LEO has the data because they have the motherboard.
If bitlocker has a PIN/passphrase decrypt option, then I missed it.
While a thief or LEO could boot the OS, just having the motherboard doesn’t give them access to the underlying data. They would need to have a valid user account.
It was not made clear to me that my username/password was the decryption method! I was expecting something like Linux where a separate password is needed.
Furthermore it wasn't intuitive to me that my user account would decrypt more than just my home directory.
We can explain it to you, but we can't understand it for you.
Explanation: Microslop is a power hungry, greedy and frankly evil corporation whose only goal is complete financial domination of the government, business, and personal tech industries. They actively promote making regressive software, increasing complexity, and hiding straightforward processes behind an information veil.
Example: Go to learn.microsoft.com and try to actually learn HOW to do anything. You'll read 35 pages of text talking about the concept of working with a specific microslop product but not 1 single explicit example of HOW to accomplish a specific task.
Example: Windows 11
Example: Copilot
The whole company is run by backassward tech hicks and digital yokels who can't think past a dime on the floor for a dollar in customer satisfaction, and somehow they run the majority of non-server space or personal device tech on the planet.
Funny enough, I do read the Copilot Studio and Dynamics Customer Service and Power Platform documentation and understand it.
But reading documentation from any vendor is a skill. Don’t throw me in front of Google or Oracle documentation and expect me to understand it off the bat.
And of course companies in the US are wanting to make money/capture markets. They’re not a charity. None of that has any relation to holding back the industry. Unless you wish to explain how they hold back all FOSS projects.
You don’t need to be rude in your replies. This is HN, not reddit.
True, but it's so incredibly fragile. 90% of the time copilot returns sensible things, eg when prompted to list all the f2f meetingsI had last month. 10% of the time it fails to find things, makes things up, etc.
Problem: if I cant rely on it for administrative tasks like this, I end up having to do more work to verify what it says. which makes the tool pretty useless.
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