The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

TheySeeMeRowlin said:
Okay, I didn't do anything, but now, all of a sudden, my thumbnails are showing again.

Any idea what happened? And how I can prevent it from happening again?
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Betonhaus is a bit retarded, you can avoid this by keeping a good amount of RAM around and by not burning up all your harddrive. Thumbnails are stored in cache, so they're pngs in a folder, so if they get deleted or badly overwritten cos you have no space left or the process doing it can't w/ a lack of memory then you get this problem.

I've had Windows glitch up badly and yeet thumbnails because it has only like 4 GB of RAM because I'm too broke to get a good PC, not even a mid PC still too costly, but you burn that shit so fast.

If it happens again, restart your computer.

macrodegenerate said:
I dual boot windows and Linux, and I have to say that windows 11 truly hates grub. Wiped that shit out of existence instantly, and wrote over it on the drive I booted from. After playing around with 11 pro. I have to say it's not as bad as people say it is. Just run a debloater script and it's good.
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Windows been doing that since 10, Microcunt will tell you it's to protect your system against malwares that overwrite your boot partition or some gay shit like that, but they couldn't exclude GRUB from this anti-boot overwrite?

Don't waste your time updating if you're dualbooting.
 
TheySeeMeRowlin said:
Okay, I didn't do anything, but now, all of a sudden, my thumbnails are showing again.

Any idea what happened? And how I can prevent it from happening again?
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Not sure on the timescales but is it possible that flipping the "Always Keep On This Device" did solve it, but it took longer than you waited to actually sync the images down?
 
macrodegenerate said:
I dual boot windows and Linux, and I have to say that windows 11 truly hates grub. Wiped that shit out of existence instantly, and wrote over it on the drive I booted from. After playing around with 11 pro. I have to say it's not as bad as people say it is. Just run a debloater script and it's good.
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I've never had that problem since the days of EFI started as Linux installs in a different directory in the EFI partition and your BIOS should be able to see it. Admittedly Windows certainly will trash the efivars so it boots first but bios settings should fix that. I guess it could also wipe the entire EFI partition, which would indeed be retarded.
 
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Not sure on the timescales but is it possible that flipping the "Always Keep On This Device" did solve it, but it took longer than you waited to actually sync the images down?
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I only tried that on one of the images and, when it didn't work, I un-checked it. Then, later, all of the thumbnails started showing up again.

I had previously tried restarting my computer and that didn't work either.
 
TLDR: Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC ARM64
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Just converted an evaluation copy of Windows 11 LTSC into a FULL copy (that can also be activated)!

How?
Simply copy the sku folder located in C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens from the leaked full copy of Windows 11 LTSC then pasted it into the same directory for the Windows 11 LTSC evaluation.

Then ran Command Prompt as Administrator and run these commands:

cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /rilc
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /upk >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /cpky >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D
sc config LicenseManager start= auto & net start LicenseManager
sc config wuauserv start= auto & net start wuauserv
clipup -v -o -altto c:\
echo

After running the commands in command prompt, restart the PC. If successful then there'll be no mentions of "evaluation" in the About Windows (winver) dialog and no watermark at the bottom right corner.
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Susanna said:
The operating system will have dynamic recompilation. It'll read the x86 instructions, translate them into ARM64, and then save the cached file. The program will launch very slowly the first time, then function perfectly smoothly every time after that. Macs handle this flawlessly, and despite all, Microsoft do have better engineers than Apple, their solution will work fine.
ARM isn't the issue, Qualcomm being garbage is. Before ARM can become mainstream you need a more competent firm designing the actual processors. For instance Apple Silicon works just fine, I'm sure once AMD and Intel get into the market, you'll see more practical offerings.
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This entirely depends on whether or not the snapdragons support shit like TSO that enable better dynamic translation of x86 code. Apple specifically tweaked some parts of ARM when making the M-series chips to allow Rosetta2 to be as effective as it is. I haven't seen anything indicating they do so I'd set expectations closer to 50% performance loss.
 
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So I ported a Windows 10 virtual machine from VirtualBox to KVM, and discovered that I have a couple Windows licenses in the activation recovery assistant that i could port to different computers. That's actually kinda neat, and potentially useful in the future if i need to spin up a couple virtual machines
 
Recall has blown up.

An ex-Microsoft employee named Kevin Beaumont took a deep dive into Recall (link, archive) and found that Recall data is only encrypted using Bitlocker, so as soon as you log on, it's completely decrypted - for everyone. This means other users, trojans, and other malware can look at the data since the screenshots are just stored as jpegs and the OCR text is stored in a SQLLite database in plaintext, all in c:\users. There's no audit log and no protection for individual pieces of software.

ArsTechnica (link, archive) has verified this by testing it themselves; they found any user account can access Recall data for any other user account on the same machine.

Someone took this knowledge and write an app that helpfully extracts Recall data on a machine: https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

This has caused some interesting reactions!

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CISA is the government group that wrote a damning report on Microsoft fucking up and allowing the Chinese to hack State Department emails.

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Copilot is telling people how to crack Recall.

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Microsoft is not commenting at all.

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The ex-Microsoft employee openly comparing Recall's safety measures to that carbon fiber sub that turned a billionaire into meat paste.

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Anyone can change Recall's data, so now it's super easy to make it look like someone was viewing CP. Just copy a jpeg into their Recall directory.

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All but confirms that Microsoft isn't shutting this down because it's too late, they've already gotten laptop makers and chipset manufacturers onboard.

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Once content creators found out, they began flooding social media with how it's a privacy nightmare. Either they're killing the Copilot brand or they're killing the Windows brand. Either way, they're killing the Microsoft brand.
 
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urr13 account said:
It's crazy how blatantly terrible this is and how it has zero positive aspects, its all downsides.
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I don't see a world where anyone thinks this is a good idea except the Pajeet at the top and a legion of yes men.

Here are two ex-Windows devs are openly talking about how bad this is.
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"It says Recall on the box of the laptops too" how poetic! :story:
 
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I thought their new ARM laptops sounded like an obvious win until they announced this shit and it's on by default only on them. Really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with this one.
 
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Aside from having access to the windows API is there anything that differentiates Copilots performance in comparison to other LLMs. Also is copilot run locally on GPU or in the cloud?
 
The Ugly One said:
I am never buying another fucking computer again.
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There's still computers that don't have Recall support. That being said I've been starting to feel skeevy about the changes and switched to Linux Mint for my desktop, LMDE for my htpc, and Debian for my media and print server. I'll probably switch back eventually, but I'm checking out of this shit show until things blow over.
 
Betonhaus said:
There's still computers that don't have Recall support. That being said I've been starting to feel skeevy about the changes and switched to Linux Mint for my desktop, LMDE for my htpc, and Debian for my media and print server. I'll probably switch back eventually, but I'm checking out of this shit show until things blow over.
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I've been running mint cinnamon for the past 12 years, and I have had few problems with it.
 
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