The python code we inherited had some performance issues. One of the guys was like âwe should rewrite this in Javaâ.
Luckily the boss was not an insane person and shut that down. The issue was an entirely stupid ââŠand then we do one query per projectâ behavior that worked fine when the company was small but unsurprisingly started to suck as users created more projects.
Instead of a months long complete rewrite, we had a two hour âletâs add profiling⊠Oh wow thatâs a lot of queriesâ session.
Used to do service desk for a large company. During covid most people insisted on remoting to their desktops. If they shut down the machine rather than logged out, we couldnât turn it back on remotely and obviously we couldnât send people out. Had fun explaining that to a lot of people who wouldnât believe it.
Some of the desktops had recently been switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The shutdown and log out buttons are in a different order on 7 and 10. Had two separate people ask me to move the order. Couldnât get over to them that we couldnât do that.
Had to go into the office twice just to turn on a computer. 3rd time I went to each machine and enabled wake-on-lan.
Also set backup devices to automatically turn on at 2 in the morning, so if they crashed, I could just wait until the next day, if the machines didnât boot themselves then I had a real problem.
My dumb arse used to do this to win 98/me when I was a student. âOptimisingâ everything and deleting anything I would never use, trying to squeeze every mb out of my limited 2gb disk space but the damn thing was so unreliable I was constantly reinstalling windows.
After one reload, I finished late at night and just left it alone, forgetting to perform all my âpower user customisationâ until I remembered a week later when it suddenly dawned on me that it was running fast AND stable - I hadnât had a single crash that week. As a final test, I applied all my âoptimisationsâ again and âoh, look! Itâs crashing constantly againâ. I was a slow learner and turns out I donât know better than the people that built the system!
I always think of this when I see threads about win7 - 11 being unstable, because it just isnât. As you dig through the thread, the op reveals more - theyâve chopped out all sorts of system components with registry hacks and third party tools or blocked updates and then bitch about windows being garbage - donât get me wrong, they simultaneously make it better and worse with every release so I sympathize why people try chopping out edge, copilot etc - but just donât.
Disabling services and uninstalling functions the non-hacky way âshouldâ be fine (and likely reversable) but if someone wants to bare-bone their OS or be data gathering-free, theyâd be better off learning Linux.
the biggest causes of bsods and other crashes on windows up to xp were drivers. after xp, Microsoft required drivers for windows to go through their signing and verification program, which was controversial but it did solve the problem
modern windows rarely crashes outright but in my experience it does break in small ways over time, without the user doing anything
in terms of disabling windows components, itâs true that this can break your system, but I would argue this is still Microsoftâs problem. there are many windows competents that are deeply coupled together when they have no reason to be
Thatâs right! I remember those signed drivers where also why early XP (pre SP2) had a bad rep. Not as bad as ME but users were swearing on the graves of dead relatives they would never give up W98 or W2k. Without new or signed drivers, a lot of hardware struggled but by the time SP2 rolled out, hardware vendors had mostly caught up and the OS had matured.
Vista had similar issues (so, so many issues with Vista) with itâs security changes which made life difficult for badly written/insecure software (wanting admin rights to run or write access to system folders/reg keys). Those changes in Vista paved the way for Win7 to be so much better at launch since most software had caught up by then.
I think the issue with disabling components is 90% how users remove them. Pulling them out via âofficialâ methods hasnât ever caused me issues - DISM is really handy - particularly for permanently removing the default apps. Those deeply connected functions can be a pain!
I have only used DISM (I think) for chkdsk. What else can you really do with it? I donât even know what to search tbh, so pardon me if itâs just a quick search away
Quite a few things - mostly used it for capturing images, loading drivers and updates into images but can also be used to pull apps out of the image too.
For a live windows install there are PowerShell commands to do this
This in particular. Windows intentionally destabilises itself if you prevent it from updating or powering off when it realises there is an update available.
This could be non-malicious, such as refusing to collect spyware reports from a potentially infected box, and the box needs to connect to MS to function properly, It could be a tool to force people to âreboot to solve your issuesâ. Hard to tell without running afoul of the Computer Misuse Act.
Iâm not sure about this one - itâs definately not my experience but yours could be very different.
The system definitely reports data back to MS but Iâve never seen a box have issues because we denied it the ability to dial home or update. Unless the PC is online and the user is actively trying to prevent the updates installing? Iâve seen users pull the plug on a PC that started/midway though updates hoping to stop them and it would often make a mess of things.
We had a small handful of XP then Win7 boxes that were completely off the grid/standalone as SCADA access points/controllers? for several years without issues.
Likewise, we had one box where the vendor did not allow any updates despite it being networked and online. They had disabled win updates completely without our input. It ran just fine for a few years until it was picked up in a security audit. We didnât understand why updates were disabled at that time so we switched them back on and updated. The PC ran just fine until itâs eventual retirement.
Ah, forgive me. Iâm referring to the latest and most miserable versions. 10 will noticeably prevent results in the search area, if the machine doesnât power off and is not updated for too long. Among other things. It takes around a week of ignoring an update.
If you want barebones Windows Iâd suggest you cough cough obtain Windows 10 LTSC.
Itâs got most the bloatware cut out, you just have to reenable the old style picture viewer.
Though when I eventually make a new PC, Iâm probably just gonna use Linux Mint because I hear running Windows games/software isnât nearly as bad nowadays, thanks Steam.
Windows 11 is pretty unreliable on my 3 machines. I donât see many blue screens but the Start menu, Explorer, Task Manager, search and other basic bits frequently become unresponsive. I havenât changed or removed anything. My Linux machines donât do this. I think Windows 11 just isnât that stable.
Yeah I kinda agree. C# might have some nice new shiny features but Java is improving all the time and has deep roots in the open source community.
Scripting languages donât really compete with Java because they are a different type of tool. Even when data engineers/scientists use pyspark in data pipelines itâs just a thin wrapper around JVM scala code.
I want a strongly pro-vaccine culture, but whether or not to have vaccines mandated by the government is a tough dilemma for me.
I expect Americaâs overall health to improve and catch up with the rest of the world under RFK Jr. because of his support for vaccine/drug testing thatâs free from corporate capture and his ambition to mitigate chronic disease.
I can respond to your point about conspiracy theories if youâre more specific.
If all of your supporters think vaccines cause diseases, if you're elected you're going to need to satisfy them by acting on those beliefs.
I think, in the abstract, you're right - having any sort of health procedure mandated by the govt is extremely problematic. However hugely communicable diseases are a big caveat to that principle, and we have been doing something about that for a long long time.
Typhoid Mary
was forcibly detained because, over and over again, she kept spreading the disease. Several different times, bird flu was halted before it could get too widespread because of govt mandated culls. Smallpox was completely eradicated because of vaccine efforts.
Imagine if in any of those cases people said 'freedom' was primary and prevented coercion for vaccines. The death and injury toll would be much higher by today, including those of the young and the immunocompromised.
Right now my gut reaction is that local governments, but not higher levels of authority, should be able to do what was done to Typhoid Mary, until we have sufficiently convenient and effective ways to be protected from contagious diseases without the cooperation of other people.
Thanks for well contributing to Lemmy but you sure are quite the annoying character. Now donât go and abuse your newfound abilities and remove the blocking feature <3
We looked after a cafe who had a couple of PCâs to use that gave internet access. Yes this was a while ago, way before smartphones and wifi. The PCâs had some software that allowed internet access for a set duration based on how long they had purchased. This software was managed by an NT4 Server backend.
The owner called one day to say nothing works. When I got there, NT4 has been wiped and replaced with Windows 98. Apparently one of the university student baristas was asked to help when they had an issue. The owner was trying to save money from calling us out. Fixing this mess was way pricier than whatever was wrong previously!
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