you people have been had... RTFA... a tourist "claims" this happened. The tourist name is Mads Mikkelsen??? The dude has the same name as the fucking actor??? Really??? Seriously people, learn when things smell of bullshit and when it doesn't.
Readit Newsthrownaway561 commented on Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update techcommunity.microsoft.c... · Posted by u/zdw
How about first fixing, that Windows update is automatically installing inappropriate drivers for my graphics card, causing system instability and freezes? How about first fixing your shit, MS?
You can turn that off and not have drivers installed through Windows Update.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/disabl...
thrownaway561 commented on Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update techcommunity.microsoft.c... · Posted by u/zdw
Great. So if I interpret this correctly, when companies go out of business (or drop support for product lines), your perfectly functional hardware will now inevitably stop working (or not be installable after you reformat your OS). Welcome another step down the path toward a world where you don't really own your hardware and your vendor dictates how, when and what you can use ("we control the horizontal, we control the vertical").
There are already some great comments in that thread, like this thoughtful one:
While having a well organized and updated driver catalog is undoubtedly a good thing, please spare a thought for curators of vintage PC collections. The Windows Update Driver catalog is a near unrivaled resource on the internet for known good drivers, and is a great source for drivers where the original manufactures have either removed the drivers from their own websites, or they no longer exist.
Personally I always hated the idea of using Windows Update as your warehouse for drivers in the first place. Much better to keep your own collection. (Yes, it takes some work to curate and periodically update).
Nothing is stopping for from making your own and gifting it to the world.
You can't support old things forever. Eventually you have to move forward as the cost for maintaining things just doesn't support the effort (or the juice isn't worth the squeeze).
thrownaway561 commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
WSL along with VSCODE has been a godsend for Rails development.
thrownaway561 commented on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien
Thank God!!!
how do you look up the solutions?
https://github.com/marcos-acosta/css-hell/blob/main/solution...
Just an FYI... Your screen size plays into the solutions. Make your browser width 1350px.
I got stuck on #2 and had to look up the solution, which still doesn't seem to make sense?
how do you look up the solutions?
thrownaway561 commented on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump... · Posted by u/bhouston
If anyone had advanced warning, you could have made a fortune today:
https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-...
when the market dropped 1100 points in a day was the time to buy. Buy the DIP!!!
I use CoPilot that is build into Windows 11 now almost exclusively. It's right there and gets the job done 99.9% of the time for me. that other 0.1% is when I use google.
https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/blob/develop/examples/...