Personal question: How old is your computer?

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Originally Posted by redpoint5

Wood is cheapest after all the sweat, but I certainly wouldn't use it, but only because I have access to natural gas, which is cheap and easy.

Even though I remember some hotels and apartment complexes still resorting to wood for water heating, and I even stayed some days at a hotel in Pelotas which also resorted to wood for water heating, I would only use wood either as a backup or if I had any actual use for the ashes, such as correcting soil acidity in a garden. But in the house of my paternal grandparents, there was a fireplace which they enjoyed during winter.

[Gasoline Fumes]

Originally Posted by freebeard

What OS is it running?

10.5.8

[Xist]

Your comment on The Best KVM Switches for 2022 violates the community guidelines and has been rejected

My comments included:

I was surprised how affordable KVM switches became and ordered the Ugreen one, Not only does it not do video, it doesn't work! It made my webcam blurry, my microphone didn't work, and my keyboard didn't register!

I bought the Ugreen one and within a couple of weeks 3 of the devices I was using stopped working properly.

I bought the Ugreen USB switch and am trying to find an actual KVM that works!

Many people: The author, the people trying to sell glorified USB switches, and the people who downvoted you!

That is going to be expensive.

[freebeard]

Obs, you were dead-naming KVM switchers?

[redpoint5]

You didn't try to describe their connectors by gender did you? Very sexist, and possibly transphobic. Do ambiguous connecters make you feel uncomfortable? How do you feel about ethernet cross-cables?

[freebeard]

"PC" Magazine; amirite?

[redpoint5]

LOL

[Xist]

They are dead to me!

[Xist]

He said that people will use this instead of Linux. He liked it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7CIkZcWYE

Their website: https://atlasos.net/faq

Linus said to check their forum discussion, but nobody seemed to like it.

Do you know who else didn't like it? Our sponsor, TechSpot, who wrote

[W]here AtlasOS follows a questionable path is when it disables many security features which are described "bloatware."

AtlasOS disables mitigations against hardware security flaws in modern Intel (and AMD) processors like Spectre and Meltdown, following the principle that "if a security mitigation measure decreases performance, it will be disabled." As they are not crucial for gaming, standard (security) features like Trusted Platform Module (TPM), BitLocker, Windows Defender, Voice Recognition, Restore Points & System Reset are all removed as well.

They claim that it doesn't make sense to use this for gaming because all gamers use the latest and greatest hardware.

Big Negative little fellow.

Check out AtlasOS, a redesigned Windows 10 version for gamers and potato PCs

Weird how the title is "Check out..." not "Avoid..."

They also mentioned this video, where they showed how to convert an old computer into a server:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPmqbtKwtgw

[freebeard]

"if a security mitigation measure decreases performance, it will be disabled." As they are not crucial for gaming, standard (security) features like Trusted Platform Module (TPM), BitLocker, Windows Defender, Voice Recognition, Restore Points & System Reset are all removed as well.

IOW, for a non-worldfacing machine.