Welcome to the 21st century!!!

[stompandgo]

That's not necessarily true. I was very into the latest tech 20 years ago and even built a handful of high end HTPC.
But the older I get the less I have a need for the latest tech and now I can do most of what I need on my tablet. I still have a handful of PC and laptops around that can easily handle what I need from them.. well that is, except for Windows 11 update. Kinda bothering me that I may need to buy a new machine that will probably get less than 6 hours of use per year.
I never leave machines running so no bot takeover going on here.

You'll have to decide how much it's worth to you.

 

[kevinmccune]

Is Linux "plug and play" windows XP started off like that click on your subject( pictures anyway) a menu appeared,send to Email recepient click on address done,haven't been able to that for ages

 

[Gionnirocket]

XP was probably the most user friendly ever.
I still have one machine running it and 10 on separate hard drives.
Then a laptop with 7 and 1 more PC and a laptop with 10

 

[Chargeride]

win10s file explorer is utter fruckin garbage, XP used to search almost instantly even on a platter drive, now it takes minutes to search even on a high end ssd.
That stupid green bar crawls across, opening a jpg takes twenty seconds, it was instantaneous on XP even with a low end processor.
Every OS is more bloat, spyware, gigabytes of trash code, tracking, scripting, and win 11 is running client side scanning.
Its an abomination, the most hideous privacy stealing, monitoring pile of malicious junk for the masses to interface with.
Its fundamental purpose is state access to every corner of your interface with the web, every click, every pause, every miniscule facet of your computer interaction is being used to build a presumption of your character.

The power has intoxicated them, they are just as exposed as their victims, the deluge of humanities secrets are there for anyone to corrupt.
This is a billion times more horrific than anyone seems to grasp.

 

[Gionnirocket]

I didn't realize all that.... but is it still safe to download porn?

 

[kevinmccune]

XP was probably the most user friendly ever.
I still have one machine running it and 10 on separate hard drives.
Then a laptop with 7 and 1 more PC and a laptop with 10

I was informed Bill Gates designed XP while these other abominations were created to justify the jobs for staff.( what if Bill Gates were one of us?)

 

[kevinmccune]

has anyone tried "Wintergreen"( does it still exist?) I downloaded Firefox on my old computer on the advice of my Librarian friend,little did I know what she was setting me up for.

 

[GMA52]

Welcome

Just remember you get what you pay for, when not if the battery dies good luck finding a replacement and ultra cheap bikes come with ultra cheap components

We all have to learn sometime. I know I did with a previous E-Scooter purchase.

 

[Hewholaughslast]

We all have to learn sometime. I know I did with a previous E-Scooter purchase.

All things considered, all bikes are disposable. The price of a new battery can cost nearly as much as or half as much as an entire bicycle. So, I kind of figure I could run my entry level bikes until they die and then just buy a whole new bike. I have seen replacement batteries for a lot of "name brand" ebikes that cost more than my whole ebike. I saw a short video, on either YouTube or on Pinterest, where they show a guy in a bicycle graveyard taking bikes off of a truck and stacking them somewhere in Asia (maybe China) and it looked like there were tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of discarded bicycles stacked row after row after row. Maybe destined for a blast furnace to be made into new bikes? Same story for automobiles and trucks and so on. We live in a disposable world.

 

[GMA52]

All things considered, all bikes are disposable. The price of a new battery can cost nearly as much as or half as much as an entire bicycle. So, I kind of figure I could run my entry level bikes until they die and then just buy a whole new bike. I have seen replacement batteries for a lot of "name brand" ebikes that cost more than my whole ebike. I saw a short video, on either YouTube or on Pinterest, where they show a guy in a bicycle graveyard taking bikes off of a truck and stacking them somewhere in Asia (maybe China) and it looked like there were tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of discarded bicycles stacked row after row after row. Maybe destined for a blast furnace to be made into new bikes? Same story for automobiles and trucks and so on. We live in a disposable world.

Yeah, they are high in cost. A new 20AH 48V battery for my E-Bike is about 1/3 the cost.

 

[slpfrsly4]

Nobody has ever watched 'Rambo'?

When I read you Charge, I recollect a certain Englishman. The man first immigrated in Poland. Later, he married a Russian with the intention to spend his retirement with her in Bulgaria. The Russian state treated him badly. Despite being married to a Russian, he was kicked out to Ukraine after his Russian visa expired. His wife tried "creative solutions" (a bribe) to bring him back to Russia. Then Russia invaded Ukraine for the first time (2014). Despite his bad experiences with Russia, he wrote: "Putin is as a great leader as Winston Churchill was to the UK. He knows how to take care about his nation!"

Really?

Now, I can see some dots connecting his thinking to yours. It is not my intention to draw the line along these dots, though. Yet one Neville Chamberlain should be remembered; a person who was once nominated to Know more the Nobel Peace Prize for giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler to appease him... Like a great Orange leader just recently who so badly wanted the Prize for creating war in his own home country.

Yes,I also took a shot at the political system in general: when oligarchs and plutocrats rule, the common person suffers.

 

[Chargeride]

Good news win11s market share has actually dropped.

Windows 11 market share unexpectedly slips below 52% as Windows 10 recovers ground. A peculiar thing has happened in this month's batch of Statcounter data. Windows 11, despite being the only supported version of Windows, has now slipped from 53.7% of market share in November to 51.75% in December.

Not that the monsters in their lair are bothered, Windows is morphing into a corporation cash cow, the average Joe user brings little income to the beast.

 

[stompandgo]

Windows has always been a corporate cash cow. It began it's life as a paid application on DOS. As apps move to the cloud and browser based, the need for a heavyweight operating system on the desktop has faded. However, the need for enterprise level operating systems are still there, and conversions are a b*tch. Try going to your CIO and suggesting that they convert from Active Directory ($$$) to OpenLDAP (free). They'll laugh you out of their office. Microsoft desktop operating systems may continue to lose market share, but major applications like SQL Server, Azure, etc. are still bringing in the cash. Not to mention, their cloud hosting and AI businesses.

Full disclosure: I own Microsoft stock and options.

 

[Chargeride]

400 million still on win10, more and more people are becoming sick of letting the beady eyes and ears of corporations into their lives and homes.
The penny is dropping slowly but steadily.
Imagine if everyone who gets to pour over your data, listen to you 24/7 and follow you everywhere you go was actually in the room with you.

Youd be horrified, but strangely out of sight and all

 

[harryS]

We all get another year of free Win 10 support but you have to know your microsoft login to sign up. I did that with mine, but my wife's PC was registered to a long dead email. I could have reloaded her unit with a new user, but switched her to a inexpensive Dell refurb.

As for ebikes, I don't plan any more ebike conversions or adds in 2026. Will change my wife's bike to easy pull hydraulics this winter,