Damn you Micros0ft and Windows 10 !
Had probably 15 Brave browser pages opened, researching driver files/hacks for my new/old laptop.
Had a text file open with page links and notes.
Was tuckered, put the laptop aside, will get back to it today. Get up, and time came to go back to work.
Computer had shut down - and not by it's own choice! So fired it back up - and the dreaded "installing updates - do not shut down or restart".
It's OK when microsh!t takes over my computer any time day or night - but by God - I the user dare/cannot !!!
If I hit the power button - because - for whatever reason - Brave browser will save the links of everything I had loaded - on restart, once I fire back up the browser, it will ask if I want to "restore pages?". And of course, I have enough sense to do a "save" in Notepad from time to time.
Just bullsh!t.
Had a text file open with page links and notes.
Was tuckered, put the laptop aside, will get back to it today. Get up, and time came to go back to work.
Computer had shut down - and not by it's own choice! So fired it back up - and the dreaded "installing updates - do not shut down or restart".
It's OK when microsh!t takes over my computer any time day or night - but by God - I the user dare/cannot !!!
If I hit the power button - because - for whatever reason - Brave browser will save the links of everything I had loaded - on restart, once I fire back up the browser, it will ask if I want to "restore pages?". And of course, I have enough sense to do a "save" in Notepad from time to time.
Just bullsh!t.
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https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_10_reboot_blocker.html
What it does is perpetually shift the "active hours" behind the scenes so that Windows is never in a state where it can decide "Oh you aren't using the machine, lets just friggen reboot it now"
For myself anyway, I have decided that the age of the "personal computer" is over. Any modern machine is no longer a "computer'. It is a "device". A "device" for Microsoft/Apple/Google to do with as they see fit. It's NOT yours. You RENT the privilege of doing anything at all with it from them, and only under their terms.
I think I'll go play with a Z80.
@SomeGuy - agree.
I view my most used internet hardware and it's OS like my daily driver to and from work, shopping, chores. facebook, ebay, Winworld and archive,org, etc - plus search engines and OS/hardware forums, and so on. I am OCD about keeping my personal info off that machine.
I want to just put the key in it, start it and go. In return. I make time to get the oil changed regularly, check fluid levels under the hood regularly, check tire pressure regularly, walk around the outside and make sure all lights work, etc.
At home, in the garage, I have other rides full of toolboxes for my vintage software hobby. My "goto" machine runs Windows 7 64 bit, is blistering fast, and most of my archiving tools, hex editors, patchers -also run many older OS from it in virtual machines and hypervisors. With NVDM ad OTVDM, I even do 16 bit - run and do screenshot apps.
Windows 10 does...OK - at first - but it is schizo like the Crazy Lady you meet at the supermarket - because she knows all about the breads, and seems witty and well-mannered. So you date. Go to some great venues, eventually run it to friends, and introduce - they say - oh yes - WE all know Sharon - and say then - got to go, we'll talk soon.
OK, so that night is THE night. She agrees to come over - says been looking forward to that. About a block from my place - she picks her nose and wipes it on the dash.
Windows 10 is like that.