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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
01:54
xda-developers.com/microsoft-breaks-windows-11-by-injecting-ads
gparyani
gparyani
Lots of people don't remember, but every Windows version since 98 at least had ads
Canadian Luke
Canadian Luke
02:45
@gparyani Not as widespread as with 10. Can you give examples of where Microsoft injected ads into their OSes since 98?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Actually more the point that...
it crashes
(also, If you need teams, you install teams, and only cause its a work requirement ._.)
gparyani
gparyani
03:08
@CanadianLuke Ads for Windows Messenger in XP
Windows Live OneCare in Vista
Windows Media Player 7 had ads for music services
98 had ads for MSN
By the way, has anyone tried buying Windows product keys on gray-market sites? Do those work?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
YMMV?
I usually get system builder keys locally
they're meant for people buying whole boxen but they'll sell you one with any hardware purchase
gparyani
gparyani
It's practically the only way for the general public to get the Enterprise or Education versions of Windows, which have ads disabled for privacy
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
03:31
Ya, but depends on the source - generally both those editions are meant for places with 'bigger' system farms, so your licence might be something that's a bit dodgy
XKCD
XKCD
04:03
We've almost finished constructing the piña collider.
 
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Canadian Luke
Canadian Luke
17:53
@gparyani Funny, I run Edu and Ent at my work... Still get a tonne of ads
gparyani
gparyani
@CanadianLuke I should have said: "disable-able". I run Education and have found options to disable some forms of ads (e.g. the spotlight lock screen). Don't know where those are.
Cortana was removed from Education in 1703 due to it not complying with privacy regulations, but was reworked to comply and re-added in 1709
 
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Canadian Luke
Canadian Luke
19:58
We've gone through the Group Policies to disable as much as we can. It still has a large amount of advertising in the built-in apps
 
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Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
22:20
hey :wave: hope you folks are doing well. I have a puzzling observation: I have a 1 Gbps up/down connection. With speedtest/fast.com speed tests, I can get close to the advertised speeds ( ~850-900Mb/s). A steam download however seems to cap at just over 100 Mbps ~ 13.4 MB/s. I don't have any throttling rates setup.

when I launch a speedtest/fast.com speed test during the steam download, the speedtest results are around 20Mbps. Pausing steam download immediately rockets it to 900 Mbps. So what's the bottleneck here? Steam network? steam client "reserving network capacity" but not using i…
djsmiley2kStaysInside
djsmiley2kStaysInside
Is there any reason a PC would have asymmetrical speed test results compared to another one on the same network that wasnt related to infrastructure?

PC A gets 300 down/300 up on speed test

PC B gets 300/18 with same target server, ethernet cable, etc
this wasnt' you posting else where was it @SathyajithBhat? weird timing (that was about an hour ago)
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
nope, timed exclusive access to this question from me, here ;) @djsmiley2kStaysInside
djsmiley2kStaysInside
djsmiley2kStaysInside
xD
weird
also somewhere else i saw someone post that speedtest.net gave them 1000Mbit/s down, and 13Mbit/s up
Very weird timings.
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
I know of an indian ISP that throttles uploads
djsmiley2kStaysInside
djsmiley2kStaysInside
I'm not sure steam can 'reserve' bandwidth btw, that'd be weird
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
22:29
but right now for me its 1000 down / 500 up
djsmiley2kStaysInside
djsmiley2kStaysInside
However, the steam download could be stalled on waiting for storage?
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
@djsmiley2kStaysInside yeah I realize hence the air quotes ;D
the download is going to a nvme drive.. so shouldnt be storage

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