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helped a friend set up a new laptop (i.e. clean off shitware that was installed by OEM) as per protocol, first thing i tried to do was create recovery media found out that this is a huge pain in the rear end with windows 8.1, i didn't seem to be at all able to create a bootable recovery usb drive that would install onto a blank disk i could create a small bootable drive that needed an existing recovery partition to operate, or i could create a backup of that recovery partition (i think) that wasn't bootable and wasn't recognized by the mimimal bootable environment called lenovo and they said "yep if you have a blank hard disk you need windows media, it's $60" and i said that's loving outrageous, the guy tried to say it was for piracy or some poo poo, didn't have a response when i said that the windows 8 license status was baked into the firmware and if i was going to pirate windows 8 i'd get a legit iso image directly from microsoft have to pay an extra $60 for the privilege of transferring a win8 install to a solid state drive, i guess. gently caress all modern consumer electronics. hard.
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Lysidas posted:helped a friend set up a new laptop (i.e. clean off shitware that was installed by OEM) ms has a free tool you can download that will let you install 8.1 to usb
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media
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program666 posted:http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/hands-on-with-hololens-making-the-virtual-real/ I thought Ars was doing pretty well on articles recently, oh well. Looking forward to what The Carmack has to say, I doubt Microsoft will let one near him. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/558022864918818816 MrMoo fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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uncurable mlady posted:ms has a free tool you can download that will let you install 8.1 to usb oh of course it's a separate download and not built in anything i could find through some googling and lenovo forums and lenovo support said "nope" thanks, i'll have to try that if it comes to it but i'm crossing my fingers to never touch another windows machine
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Thanks Ants posted:pfft having to have physical media to reinstall an os. i appreciate that it's not as easy for microsoft to do what apple do wrt internet recovery, but surely uefi is supposed to enable much more feature rich recovery partitions where logging into an ms account and starting a network install wouldn't be impossible. in 20 years lol
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Cygni posted:i love the incredibly predictable wave of hot takes from the media when it comes to gimmicky consumer electronics Extremetech is really hit or miss but their live blog was one of the few that was actually grounded (read from bottom up) 
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 that's about the same bad tracking as everyone else, didn't notice so much in the live feed as I guess it was stalling too much 
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shadow puppet of a posted:the fine print on the windows 10 page seems to indicate that the update from 7 to 10 is going to come through the normal windows update process which should take most win7 users by surprise and the pirated users along with it not specifically, it could be one of those standalone updaters that connects to windows update and requires you be at the right patch level to work
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Yeah every time I've used AR/VR it's been severely hampered by latency and image focus issues. I haven't used the occulus rift, but I'm pretty skeptical. At least john carmack seems to be obsessively focused on the latency issue
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dad: "why the hell is everything apps now?" me: "cause they want it to run on your computer, your phone, and your tablet" dad: "aren't we going backwards? why do i want to run one thing at a time in a big window on my computer?" me: "well in windows 10 you can make them smaller!" dad: "isn't that just a dos box?" my god... we've gone back in time...
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Amethyst posted:john carmack seems to be obsessive
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let's see what users have to say about Windows 10   
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 this program is from 1997 and is still being sold. 
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whoa i just realized. isn't windows 10 the first windows that you can upgrade directly to from any windows other than the latest? from xp you had to go through vista to get to 7, there was no direct upgrade. letting people upgrade from windows 7 direct to 10 would be groundbreaking (and also a tacit admission that 8 failed)
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Main Paineframe posted:whoa i just realized. isn't windows 10 the first windows that you can upgrade directly to from any windows other than the latest? from xp you had to go through vista to get to 7, there was no direct upgrade. letting people upgrade from windows 7 direct to 10 would be groundbreaking (and also a tacit admission that 8 failed) both 98 and me could be upgraded to xp
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i am so glad i never had to upgrade our computer from win9x to nt
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Main Paineframe posted:whoa i just realized. isn't windows 10 the first windows that you can upgrade directly to from any windows other than the latest? from xp you had to go through vista to get to 7, there was no direct upgrade. letting people upgrade from windows 7 direct to 10 would be groundbreaking (and also a tacit admission that 8 failed)
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anthonypants posted:yeah and microsoft has never really suggested those upgrade paths, they've always wanted you to do a fresh install instead I've never been able to upgrade from one version of windows to another without weird intermittent poo poo happening afterwards, me getting frustrated, and doing a fresh install a month later like I should have from the start.
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Luigi Thirty posted:dad: "why the hell is everything apps now?" one of lg's selling points for their webos tv is that "everything is an app". inputs, favorite channels, netflix, whatever. any discrete function that you can flag as a favorite is called an app. the idea is that people will go "oh, apps? i know how to use apps!  " and will think that device is easier to useexactly the same logic here
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I used that recently and it was good, but prior to that, reinstalling windows 8/8.1 without media blew (their previous downloader(s) wouldn't let you download 8.1 with an 8 key, and also it just kinda sucked in general)
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duTrieux. posted:any discrete function that you can flag as a favorite is called an app. great now tell this to google so I can get unbanned from the play store and collect on all these youtube channel apps
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flakeloaf posted:great now tell this to google so I can get unbanned from the play store and collect on all these youtube channel apps
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kalstrams posted:wait wait awit, how does one get banned on google play there was a guy who kept making single-youtube-channel apps and naming them to match the channel, so that it looked like they were officially provided by the people who owned the channels in question. he got banned and threw a shitfit about how google was just as bad as apple
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he was hoping to get swooped up by a big tech company, impressed by his impressive development resume.
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the article was https://medium.com/@sgehrman/banned-for-life-c62f2404f66 but it's been deleted hn thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8095974
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Oh my god. http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-windows-10-update-for-surface-rt/
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lol has there even been a mobile microsoft thing released in the last like 5 years that has gotten more than like a year of updates? just keep making GBS threads on the early adopters, thats the way to get them to keep buying your stuff
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rt has always been the red-headed stepchild
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microsoft probably wonders why nobody gets onboard with their stuff apple has the best record in extended support for mobile devices. apple
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got a winner here: quote:Sad. It really emphasizes again that you should only buy things for what they do now, not what appears to be promised.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:lol has there even been a mobile microsoft thing released in the last like 5 years that has gotten more than like a year of updates?
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well tbf it's not like they called it Windows UpgradesForSure
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:got a winner here: lmao that they were reading that article probably means they were considering a windows rt thing
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