Things I will now never buy
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 9:29,
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My decision to buy a mITX system based on the AMD Ryzen 1700/Radeon 480 got the same treatement.
Microsoft decided to pull drivers for said CPU IN Win 7 and 8.
This forces me to go Win10 with all the snooping and adverts it implies...
Not sure what to do, even the Pro Version of Win10 are too Invasive as of now...
Fucking twats.
(, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 10:42, Share, Reply)
You can totally turn off all the snoopy ad stuff in 10
then its actually pretty darn good. I keep looking at the high end Ryzen. My AMD 9590 and r9 290x are still capable enough that I can't quite justify it.
The 480 looks great too.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:03,
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^ This in regards to Win 10.
It really irks me that people complain about Windows 10 'snooping' on them and serving up targeted ads, when the vast majority of it can be disabled.
Not to mention that a lot of the tools that complain about Microsoft's questionable privacy policy don't bother with VPNs and peruse the web quite happily with trackable browsers.
It's like these cunts moaning about the government snooping charter and their personal right to privacy being breached, despite owning a credit card, mobile phone, smart TV, subscribing to a broadband provider and being on the voting register. Spastics.
(, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:22, Share, Reply)
I was going to run an older CFD program on it...
It works great on Win7, but for newer versions of Win the uni would have to fork out a forklift of, erm, forks.
The R7-1700 would have meant a sub 1000€ 8 core, 18gb CFD beast. The same performance with Intel is 1000€ for just the cpu...
Edit, the computer would be airgaped and not running any antivirus/tasks/other softs, not sure basic versions of Win10 allow this
(, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:29, Share, Reply)
Good point, have only used the premium/pro versions
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:43,
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you can disable Windows Defender
that runs the anti-virus / malware detection, also firewall if you need. By "other softs" I assume you mean Windows Services? Those can be disabled too, some may be required for core operating system components to function, but you can cut a lot down. What's the deal with doing all that to it then?
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 13:22,
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Yes,
But doing a fresh install of 7, doing SP2, and she's ready to go - all offline - is much easier.
Win 10 "needs" to be connected, or a work around + fiddling.
in that respect I'm what you could call a "lazy cunt".
Not counting that I'll never manage to talk the Uni into shelling the extra dosh, and quite frankly, i don't think the new version does anything more than the old one...
(, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 15:25, Share, Reply)
This might help:
https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
You can turn the vast majority of it off. The rest you can probably resolve with blocking the telemetry servers:
www.dslreports.com/forum/r30676597-Complete-Win10-blocking-host-file
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 11:24,
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"If I remember correctly, if you block them in the hosts file Windows puts out errors in the log and then silently queries the DNS and connects nevertheless.
This file should be set in the router's kill file, not on the Windows machine itself."
Sneaky. I doubt there is a way to silence W10 fully.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 15:52,
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I don't thnk you have anything to worry about with the
"snooping" as you put it, it's all configurable. Even Ubuntu tracks shit these days so what can you do? You either have a new computer that works, and customise it so it's more secure, or stay in the past, your choice.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Fri 17 Mar 2017, 13:17,
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