Worse, they’re scoped down both ends while inside a live streaming MRI machine.

Something overflowed somewhere…

This is the computer equivalent of “I don’t wear a seatbelt because I don’t want to be trapped in the car if there is an accident.”

“I reboot it every night.”

Processor Uptime : 191:22:19:54

Stop, you’re scaring me.

I use Windows, and I like it.

Also, Stockholm syndrome.

Have you tried turning it off and on aga… Oh nevermind. Carry on.

Somebody didn’t live though the “Morrowind on Xbox” era where “creativity” meant intentionally freezing the loading screen and rebooting your system in order to save a few KB of RAM so the cell would load.

But also having no automatic corpse cleanup, so the game would eventually become unplayable as entities died outside of your playable area, so you couldn’t remove them from the game, creating huge bloat in your save file.

Not all creativity is good creativity.

Windows…optimized.

It takes 4GB just to idle in windows 11.

Why optimize when you can just mandate insane resources for your OS?

I miss running XP on an system with 768MB of RAM and having enough left over to play Morrowind.

Gotta love it when edge users try to tell me “It’s not that bad” and “It’s based on chrome now”.

Those aren’t exactly selling points…

Facebook started giving me friend suggestions of people who worked there. Location wasn’t even enabled on my phone.

Some devices will still passively check SSIDs, even with WiFi “off”, then they just look for users who have similar nearby wireless networks.

Bluetooth? Maybe even ultrasound to detect nearby devices?

I don’t think you can have privacy online anymore. The best thing you can do is make a lot of noise, so it’s hard to determine what data is real, and who it belongs to.

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 didn’t boot themselves then I had a real problem.

Superfetch was keeping an index of file relationships in RAM and pre-loading files you were probably going to use next. It didn’t ping your network at all, but it could easily eat up a ton of disk resources and RAM. It was really only an issue on old 5400rpm laptop HDDs from what I remember.

Might be thinking of windows search indexing.

Open services.msc, disable the windows update service, and set the start type to disabled. The go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution and delete the entire folder.

Batch script to set your wife’s DNS to 8.8.8.8, and another one to set it back to your pihole? Seems like an easy fix to me…

Walled garden starting to look a lot like a padlocked cell…

Probably a bit of both to be honest. Thanks for clarifying.

This is the way. Although, to clarify, you should assign static IPs on your DHCP server, which for most SOHO networks, that’s going to be your router.

If you assign statics on your hosts, your DHCP server will assign them the preferred address if available, but if it’s already assigned then the DHCP server is going to give your device the middle finger and assign them whatever the fuck it wants.

Are you assigning the static address on your pi, or are you assigning a static address on the router?

Yes. I use it for my PiHole and Wireguard VPN.