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Comment · 5 years ago
Word has the same if you save your documents in a folder backed up by OneDrive and you turn on auto save in word.
Comment · 5 years ago
> I think there’s a future where phones are all-in-one devices. When in my pocket, it’s a screen-first mobile device. When plugged into a dock, it’s a full-blown MacOS machine. I could then have “profiles” for personal and work environments.

This is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Windows Phone. It worked but didn't work. It worked just fine for application that had an adaptive UI that works just a good on the desktop as on a small touch screen. starting a desktop app on the phone was not a good experience.

Yes, Apple could have a better shot at getting this to work if the phone and laptop had the exactly same hardware and because of their appstore. But having the same hardware in both devices is not enough. They would also for need to turn the MacOS into a gigantic iPhone with a touch Screen.

They would have to recreate their own version of Windows (8) 11's vision and implement an UI that works both with mouse/keyboard and touch.

I bet they are working on this, but I suspect we are many years away before we see a MacBook with a touch screen.

Comment · 5 years ago
Where does blockchain fit in with a login form?
Comment · 5 years ago
yeah, endless hours spend waiting for Windows Update. It is not so bad anymore.

The only thing I can think about comparing your setup to mine is that I rarely turns off my computer. If you only use your very infrequent and turn it off when not used. I wonder if Windows is doing all kinds of maintenance jobs every time you start your computer since it is off most of the time, and then when you manually hit windows update, it gets a bit busy working out the correct state of your computer

Those jobs are on my computer distributed over days / weeks but wit you they run every time you turn on windows since it couldn't run them at their scheduled frequency since the computer was off.

I am just speculating, but maybe try to turn on windows once in a while and leave it over night, to test if this improves things.

Comment · 5 years ago
Your installation of Windows is that by any chance the installation that came with computer? Or is it a Windows that you have upgraded from a previous version (and perhaps that was upgraded from yet another previous version)?

I never have these slow downs that I read others have. I always do a clean install from a USB stick (including deleting recovery partitions). I do this like once a year or 1 1/2 years when something is being released that is either a new version or what is we used to call a service packs.

Windows sucks at upgrading. There is always something strange going on after upgrading. Things that not happens after a clean install.

If it is looong time since you have performed a clean install, I recommend you to consider doing that.

Comment · 5 years ago
Do you have a spinning rust disk?
Comment · 5 years ago
Go watch the movie "Ready player one". The book has been given to all facebook employees. They want something like that.
Comment · 5 years ago
And they will fail. I read long ago that the book "Ready Player One" was given to all FB employees and it is therefore fair to say that the metaverse is inspired by that book. Looking at Facebook today and trying to map that into a VR world will be a universe carpet bombed with advertisement and sponsored content. The universe you as a user would roam in would be like living on the canvas of a instance in Internet Explorer that has all available toolbars installed.

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