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  • so Tach!

    what did you think of the Camp Lo track?
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    We learned it in my computer science class last semester.  Made much more sense than Java or HTML to me.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    The paranoia squad is out in full force, I see


    Haven said:

    I can't believe you think you haven't posted anything controversial today, Centie. Just the very notion insults me to the core.

    *throws horse plushie at you*
  • edited 2015-08-24 19:53:13
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    SIMULPOST!
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Black Jesus?  i liked it.

    That's the first the first time i've heard it, so i didn't take in all the lyrics, but i liked the sound.
  • edited 2015-08-24 19:55:06
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    jokes on them I never update my OS

    I never update my OS

    ...I hope you enjoy your laptop being part of 12 botnets
  • *takes the horse and puts a cat plushie on top of it*
  • jokes on them I never update my OS

    I never update my OS

    ...I hope you enjoy your laptop being part of 12 botnets
    siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

    you've got a point but it's just, you know

    sigh.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Oh, yeah @ CA, what is the deal with that?

    my parents were kind of worried about Windows 10, i said i didn't think it was anything to worry about but i see posts like that fairly often

    (my parents are even worse with computers than i am, and tend to be very credulous of any story about any software being in some way bad)
  • Tachyon said:

    Black Jesus?  i liked it.

    That's the first the first time i've heard it, so i didn't take in all the lyrics, but i liked the sound.

    that is not an unusual reaction to Camp Lo.

    but imo they're probably the single most underrated rap group of all time
  • I actually genuinely have like a dozen major system updates that I never install.

    I don't understand why the computer can't just do it when I turn it off and back on normally. 
  • Tachyon said:

    Oh, yeah @ CA, what is the deal with that?

    my parents were kind of worried about Windows 10, i said i didn't think it was anything to worry about but i see posts like that fairly often

    (my parents are even worse with computers than i am, and tend to be very credulous of any story about any software being in some way bad)

    the gist of it is that Win 10 has targeted advertisting built into the OS.

    The actual amount of it you'll see is probably minimal. However, the fact that it's happening at all is understandably somewhere between unnerving and simply annoying for some people. It's a reason (of many) that I haven't bothered to upgrade.
  • jokes on them I never update my OS

    I never update my OS

    ...I hope you enjoy your laptop being part of 12 botnets


    siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

    you've got a point but it's just, you know

    sigh.
    actually can I get a word from like someone who's good with computers as to how common this actually is

    I always hear horror stories about it but I rarely notice my laptop running particularly poorly. 

    It is running a little warm right now but I have two (busy) browsers, foobar2000, the Task Manager, OneNote, the volume mixer, HexChat, Skype, Windows File Explorer, Paint, Windows Photo Viewer, and FL Studio all open.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Tachyon said:

    Oh, yeah @ CA, what is the deal with that?

    my parents were kind of worried about Windows 10, i said i didn't think it was anything to worry about but i see posts like that fairly often

    (my parents are even worse with computers than i am, and tend to be very credulous of any story about any software being in some way bad)

    the gist of it is that Win 10 has targeted advertisting built into the OS.

    The actual amount of it you'll see is probably minimal. However, the fact that it's happening at all is understandably somewhere between unnerving and simply annoying for some people. It's a reason (of many) that I haven't bothered to upgrade.

    oh, ugh

    that's a gross thing, i thought it would just be for performance data and stuff, not something like that
  • Tachyon said:

    Tachyon said:

    Oh, yeah @ CA, what is the deal with that?

    my parents were kind of worried about Windows 10, i said i didn't think it was anything to worry about but i see posts like that fairly often

    (my parents are even worse with computers than i am, and tend to be very credulous of any story about any software being in some way bad)

    the gist of it is that Win 10 has targeted advertisting built into the OS.

    The actual amount of it you'll see is probably minimal. However, the fact that it's happening at all is understandably somewhere between unnerving and simply annoying for some people. It's a reason (of many) that I haven't bothered to upgrade.

    oh, ugh

    that's a gross thing, i thought it would just be for performance data and stuff, not something like that
    I think you only actually see it in the Windows Store, which very few people use.

    But that it's happening at all, is, well, stupid.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i was thinking of replacing my old laptop once i get a job, and i was thinking of getting Windows 10

    that actually makes me have second thoughts
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tachyon said:

    Tachyon said:

    Oh, yeah @ CA, what is the deal with that?

    my parents were kind of worried about Windows 10, i said i didn't think it was anything to worry about but i see posts like that fairly often

    (my parents are even worse with computers than i am, and tend to be very credulous of any story about any software being in some way bad)

    the gist of it is that Win 10 has targeted advertisting built into the OS.

    The actual amount of it you'll see is probably minimal. However, the fact that it's happening at all is understandably somewhere between unnerving and simply annoying for some people. It's a reason (of many) that I haven't bothered to upgrade.

    oh, ugh

    that's a gross thing, i thought it would just be for performance data and stuff, not something like that
    The targeted advertising is easy enough to turn off, but it's one of those things that people flipped out about.

    Also people say Windows 10 contains a "keylogger"...when the reality is that it sends certain keystrokes to Bing to offer search suggestions in the Start menu, just like every web browser in the past 10 years. And again, that can be turned off.
  • Tachyon said:

    Tachyon said:

    Oh, yeah @ CA, what is the deal with that?

    my parents were kind of worried about Windows 10, i said i didn't think it was anything to worry about but i see posts like that fairly often

    (my parents are even worse with computers than i am, and tend to be very credulous of any story about any software being in some way bad)

    the gist of it is that Win 10 has targeted advertisting built into the OS.

    The actual amount of it you'll see is probably minimal. However, the fact that it's happening at all is understandably somewhere between unnerving and simply annoying for some people. It's a reason (of many) that I haven't bothered to upgrade.

    oh, ugh

    that's a gross thing, i thought it would just be for performance data and stuff, not something like that
    The targeted advertising is easy enough to turn off, but it's one of those things that people flipped out about.

    Also people say Windows 10 contains a "keylogger"...when the reality is that it sends certain keystrokes to Bing to offer search suggestions in the Start menu, just like every web browser in the past 10 years. And again, that can be turned off.
    it's actually quite difficult to turn off from what I've heard, unless you knew about it beforehand and took some steps while upgrading.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Well, it's good that you can turn it off.  i guess i'll read up on how to do that before getting it.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    2012-07-19 00:55 GMT
    <Buttercupistiny> he stays awake as long as he can, crashes into a nap, cannot fall asleep, does not take melatonin and then gets frustrated when he cannot sleep
    <Juan> sounds like quite the image of health, Buttercupistiny
    <CentralAvenue> So like a month ago I randomly became obsessed with The Powerpuff Girls and now this obsession WON'T GO AWAY
    <Buttercupistiny> I will beat him with plushies until he learns the value of the powerpuff girls
    <Buttercupistiny> that is not what I meant to write
    <Rig> No, I imagine not.
    <Buttercupistiny> the value of taking his melatonin
    <CentralAvenue> So once again, the poni is asleep, thanks to THE POWERPUFF GIRLS
    <CentralAvenue> ...Actually with you being "Buttercup" that makes too much sense
  • Know your lines? Of course you know your lines! But I don't want to just hear your lines...I wanna hear what's in YOUR SOULS!!
    I need to get a better sleep schedule but I want to not have nightmares 
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    and yes Slowpoke "Breaking News" but i'm used to Windows 7 so it's news to me.
  • kill living beings

    jokes on them I never update my OS

    I never update my OS

    ...I hope you enjoy your laptop being part of 12 botnets


    siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

    you've got a point but it's just, you know

    sigh.
    actually can I get a word from like someone who's good with computers as to how common this actually is

    I always hear horror stories about it but I rarely notice my laptop running particularly poorly. 

    It is running a little warm right now but I have two (busy) browsers, foobar2000, the Task Manager, OneNote, the volume mixer, HexChat, Skype, Windows File Explorer, Paint, Windows Photo Viewer, and FL Studio all open.


    performance effects of being virused ( which you are, without updates) are small but existent, but probably increase over timeas you get more and more infected.

    just keep in mind, being infected and not knowing it is what the infectors want.
  • kill living beings
    aliroz. I have to know how you know what rebol is
  • If I was an Alternian troll... I don't mean me as Vriska, I mean me as a troll version of Ozbourne, where do you think I would fall on the hemospectrum?

    (this is for Homestuck people obvs lol)
  • I suppose I should run a scan and do updates and junk

    bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
  • edited 2015-08-24 20:24:45
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    aliroz. I have to know how you know what rebol is

    We learned to use it in my computer programming class, as it can be used both Client-side and Server-side, and is a basis for a lot of simple programming languages.  I found it just a tiny bit more intuitive than HTML, and a lot more intuitive than JAVA.
  • actually would it be simpler to just upgrade to 8.1 if I'm gonna be doing a bunch of install shit anyway
  • rebol yell
  • kill living beings
    it's kind of lispy as I remember

    Probably less ridiculously verbose than java

    I am sorry for assuming you'd have no idea how to computer, that was mean
  • is there a functional difference between just getting all of the updates and upgrading to 8.1
  • kill living beings
    I want to say that comparing java and html is like comparing English to the apa style guide but that's probably sorta misleading
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    Ozbourne, I thikn you'd be

    rgb(112, 148, 131) 

  • kill living beings

    is there a functional difference between just getting all of the updates and upgrading to 8.1

    Probably, but both will help security
  • apparently I last installed updates in November.

    To be fair, that's actually far more recent than I thought it'd be.
  • computer made the "you plugged something into the USB socket" noise a few times while installing all of these things.

    Good sign? Bad sign?
  • *looks that up*

    Oooh that's a nice color!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    is there a functional difference between just getting all of the updates and upgrading to 8.1

    Probably, but both will help security
    Windows 8.1 came out nearly two years ago, so there are a shitton of updates for that by now too.
  • image

    look can I just get the ones that will keep people from getting my Skype logs and whatever makes Dark Souls tick? Thanks.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    I just have a knack for RGB colors.
  • kill living beings

    image


    look can I just get the ones that will keep people from getting my Skype logs and whatever makes Dark Souls tick? Thanks.
    there might be a subset of them marked as high priority or security. if so just get those
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Yeah, I would say install anything that's "Important" or "Recommended" but you can skip "Optional"

    If there's an update for a Visual Studio Runtime it's probably because you've installed something that relies on that runtime to function
  • I just installed all of the important ones

    all 99 of them.
  • is there anything I should do after installing these 99 updates (and presumably restarting)
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    My blood color would be

    rgb (17, 149, 4)
  • kill living beings
    Yeah try to keep regularly updated so you don't have to get four gigs at once
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