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Obsolesce

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

Typical

nadnerB

PC has dramas? Reinstall! None of this troubleshooting nonsense.

That being said, there isn’t a published target audience. Perhaps they really want the kiosk business...

DustinB3403

@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

PC has dramas? Reinstall! None of this troubleshooting nonsense.

That being said, there isn’t a published target audience. Perhaps they really want the kiosk business...

I actually just reset my gaming laptop, both the wireless interface and the Ethernet were getting piss poor performance.

Next step perform a clean install.

It's gonna suck having to reinstall everything tonight though. . .

Dashrender

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

eh?
To me it appears they are trying to make a new OS - one they've had since Windows 8, but has gained no traction at all.

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

eh?
To me it appears they are trying to make a new OS - one they've had since Windows 8, but has gained no traction at all.

Nothing new or different, same OS just with fewer packages installed.

DustinB3403

Node.js released version 10. Version 8 is officially their LTS and required for XOCE community users.

Need people to test.

Worked for me, please confirm.

Obsolesce

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

dbeato

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Holy cow, that's pretty huge.

dbeato

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/04/more-secure-sign-in-chrome.html

DustinB3403

In other news, Windows blows and essentially cripples great hardware.

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.

ah, missed that