What should we do after January 2020

bigmck · 23 Apr 2019

Here is the way I look at it. = If you have been married to a woman for 20 years and are happy, is there really a need to upgrade?

RoWin7 · 23 Apr 2019

townsbg · 23 Apr 2019

bigmck said:

Here is the way I look at it. = If you have been married to a woman for 20 years and are happy, is there really a need to upgrade?

Especially when an upgrade will co$t you half of what you own.

Windower7 · 01 May 2019

F22 Simpilot said:

I run a netbook as a FTP server with XP. I have never gotten malware or any of that scare tactic crap.

Is it supposed to act as a hardware firewall? I'd love to learn more about this.

Miguel Castillo · 01 May 2019

say "malvare in windows 7 if you not update to windows 10" = Microsoft fear tactics to force change software hardward and so on.

consumerist system so changing pieces of hardware = damage to the environment, global warming and so on.

You decide wich planet and society do you want! with you litle change(keeping your old sistems and no change if is not necessary) you could change the world.

Best.

badcrc · 01 May 2019

Miguel Castillo said:

consumerist system so changing pieces of hardware = damage to the environment, global warming and so on.

You also have to consider power consumed. Modern cpu's use less electricity, but give better performance. This is particularly important in systems that run at 100% for hours/days eg I do a lot of 3D rendering.

You could argue that hardware upgrades benefit the environment.

Miguel Castillo · 01 May 2019

What I try to explain is that not is the tecnology evolution is bad in itself, is the perverse politic of how this tecnology is selling in that way describing that politic is the constant buy and throw of all kind of things from hardward or anything else like televisions whashers, fridges etc.(programmed omniniscence) that this economic system evoce all of us and this is could be a harmfull to our world and for all of us.

Africa's 'electronic graveyards' where the West dumps PCs, laptops and more | Daily Mail Online

Best Regards,

Megahertz07 · 01 May 2019

johnhoh said:

Just use Wumgr, 400kb freeware package, disables auto-updates and provides interface to check manually when you want or not at all, can also pick and choose which updates to install. Best part, unlike past windows versions that could take forever just to check for updates, this program takes 5 seconds to check.

GitHub - DavidXanatos/wumgr: Windows update managemetn tool for windows 10

Just downloaded the Windows update managemetn tool for windows 10. How do we install it as there is no Setup file?

johnhoh · 01 May 2019

Megahertz07 said:

Just downloaded the Windows update managemetn tool for windows 10. How do we install it as there is no Setup file?

Its a standalone exe, you just click it.

RoWin7 · 01 May 2019

Miguel Castillo said:

say "malvare in windows 7 if you not update to windows 10" = Microsoft fear tactics to force change software hardward and so on.

consumerist system so changing pieces of hardware = damage to the environment, global warming and so on.

You decide wich planet and society do you want! with you litle change(keeping your old sistems and no change if is not necessary) you could change the world.

Best.

Wish we could change the world, but we can change only the little piece around us. And the throwaway economy doesn't take our individual financial circumstances into account. Most people keep a credit balance to keep up with the "latest and greatest" products. I can't throw away my computers till they die. The price of a smart-phone is way beyond my means, so I use a perfectly good flip-phone. No one really needs to change their smart-phone every few years, but the IT industry has convinced them that they need instant gratification and unlimited services.

We've wandered away from the topic at hand.