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| IanB:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 11, 2021, 07:03:56 pm ---Can't wait to own a car with a Microsoft OS. --- End quote --- You mean, like a Tesla? >:D |
| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---Can't wait to own a car with a Microsoft OS --- End quote --- An oldy,but still rings true 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off." |
| Berni:
--- Quote from: IanB on November 11, 2021, 06:54:49 pm --- --- Quote from: Berni on November 11, 2021, 06:34:30 pm ---It still is the same kind of sleep mode. The PSU switches off while the motherboard uses the 5V standby rail to hold the RAM contents. The thing is that various hardware also runs from the 5V standby rail and has the ability to wake the computer from sleep using an interrupt line (Much like interrupts are used to wake up a MCU from sleep). --- End quote --- Traditional sleep mode is as you say, and older computers did this. However, what I read (and have experienced) is that "Modern Standby" is different. The CPU does not switch off, it remains on in a low power state and is still able to execute code. Therefore, it does not need a hardware event to wake the system; the system keeps running in standby mode and the CPU continues to execute background tasks. With traditional sleep, it was possible to disable all the hardware wake events in the BIOS and the system would remain powered off. With Modern Standby you cannot achieve the same result, as the CPU never powers off completely. --- End quote --- Ah this. Yeah i don't like the sound of it. So far i have personally not come across a Win 10 machine that actually supports this. Just went and tried the "powercfg /a" command on my Ryzen laptop and Ryzen work desktop and they don't support S0 Idle (And a 4th gen i7 machine is too old for it). All of these also taking the usual second or two delay to actually show something on screen after waking up. Maybe some of the smaller form factor intel laptops/tablets that use it. Yet Win 10 will still do the secret sneaky update during the night even in the regular sleep mode. I guess the next step with this S0 mode is to now also always listen to the microphone during sleep mode. |
| David Hess:
--- Quote from: emece67 on November 11, 2021, 07:11:06 am ---There are many sites describing ways to disable automatic updates (and subsequent reboots). I have applied such tricks (in my case related to removing execution rights to files MusNotification.exe and MusNotificationUx.exe) with great success, in many computers and for some years now. --- End quote --- I initially tried that also, and invariably an update would reset the changes, or ignore them, and automatic updates would continue. So I settled on the metered network connection solution which has held so far. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: IanB on November 11, 2021, 07:08:17 pm --- --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 11, 2021, 07:03:56 pm ---Can't wait to own a car with a Microsoft OS. --- End quote --- You mean, like a Tesla? >:D --- End quote --- Ahah, not that they don't have their own set of issues, but Tesla uses Linux AFAIK. |
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