3749

Did MS fire all their QA testers?

3750

Do you ever wonder if Shutup10 and all the other things you do to your Win10 install have anything to do with it breaking all the time?

Honest question, not trying to be an a-hole.

3751

Do I wonder if settings that hundreds of thousands of people use caused a problem after a full 4 months, when nothing else changed, not even a windows update that day? No, that isn’t it.

3752

Not sure why MS helpfully placed a shortcut to Edge on my otherwise empty desktop after the service pack was applied.

3753

The SCU version of Edge is actually pretty decent. They haven’t discussed what they’ve done with the latest rendering engine (EdgeHTML 17), but I give Edge a serious try after each major update. I’m pleasantly surprised.

3754

I use it too. I’m having none of these issues. Of course now that I said that…

3755

They’ve basically made their “Telemetry” i.e Windows 10 “Cambridge Analytica” (Home) edition users their QA testers/guinea pigs.

Re: Shutup10. 10 happily ignored my group policy settings on Win10Enterprise before (and after) shutup10.

3756

Please remove me from your mailing list

3757

Don’t know what group policy setting you’re talking about specifically, but you should be able to set telemetry to “security” on Win10 Enterprise, which turns off all standard telemetry. That doesn’t cover everything of course, it still contacts Bing when you do a local filesystem search, etc, but it covers the actual telemetry.

3758

This seems like a positive step. “Instead of screwing you all, then rushing fixes that may or may not screw you further, we’ll wait and try again.” Kudos to whoever made that decision!

3760

Speaking of Mobile OS on Computers:

3761

I finally got around to ordering the Schiit Fulla 2 and I wish I had done it back in January. It makes an enormous difference if you are just using the shitty head jack on the logitech Z680 amplifier. I was kind of unhappy with my Sony XBA-H1 headphones but that was really just the lack of a decent amp.

I doubt I could tell the difference between the Fulla 2 and a much more expensive model, but the difference between shit and Schiit is pretty large. Nobody would have an issue separating the two in a double blind test, that’s for sure.

Just tested it vs my XPS15 headphone jack, and it’s a much smaller difference. Pretty sure there is one, but I wouldn’t be nearly as confident with a double blind setup. That Z680 jack was obviously on it’s last legs.

3762

Microsoft pushed out 17134 to the fast ring earlier this week, and then they pushed it to the slow ring and the release ring yesterday. This looks like it, because after you install it the message is Welcome to the April Update. Barring any kind of blocking bug, this will likely be released to the public on Tuesday.

3763

Monday

3764

Will they finally fix Explorer locking thumbs.db on network folders for minutes at a time, preventing them from being renamed or deleted?

Magic meatball says no.

3766

That’s what she said

3767

Come and get it!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

3768

I updated a couple hours ago on my desktop and laptop. So far so good.

3769

1803 broke my Xbox Win10 app. Just opens and closes/crashes. Even after resetting app data, removing it with DSM and reinstalling from Win10 Store and trying the beta app. No joy.

3770

1998: Ooh, a Windows update! Can’t wait to try out the new features!
2018: Oh GREAT, a Windows update… wonder what it will break this time!