Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak Spooky, bestbuy had 4 sections for laptops, the funniest one was the laptops with built in copilot (edited)
The crazy part about those
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is their "copilot chip" can barely run anything
My options were mac, windows, 2 in 1, and copilot
I, of course, just chose windows
I'm 100% onboard with AI, but for a laptop doing on-CPU processing just doesn't make sense
CUDA acceleration on GPUs is a stop-gap until co-processors get a lot better, we're not close yet
yeah
Asus
btw Pika, congrats on doing the thing where you notice a problem with your computer, and rectify it in 1-2 days
@Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil take notes
oh Pika, does your ASUS have the meme touchbar thing
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 btw Pika, congrats on doing the thing where you notice a problem with your computer, and rectify it in 1-2 days
did not mean that as a reply
Pika, spooky advice
if you don't plan to be backing up your laptop regularly, I wouldn't do full-disk encryption, though I do like it
Replying to legorhin #jazardly that is a massive mousepad
I have a wireless mouse/keyboard lol
I've had that fuck me over on lapops before, just a note of caution
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 if you don't plan to be backing up your laptop regularly, I wouldn't do full-disk encryption, though I do like it
I don't even know how to do that
yeah, I figured it might prompt you
if not, dw
I honestly don't know
probably
I've only ever used WinProfessional
Also wtf
that is the thinest most gangly power cord I've seen for a laptop
maybe it's just the camera, it just looks surprisingly thin, I'm impressed
it is very thin
I think 1mm diameter
maybe 1.5
Is there stuff I should be careful about using this optimizer
don't want to accidentally brick my pc
no and really if you don't care you should only be turning off telemetry and any windows services you don't care about
I remember most of the settings being pretty straightforward
Well, I disabled telemitry and some misc stuff like cortana and copilot
I am just going to manually uninstall apps, I trust myself to do that more than using this
I did
I hit most of the restore classic stuff
since I am mostly familiar with 7 and 10
are you talking about folder tabs Leg?
Uninstalling the pre packaged mcaffe lol
oh yeah, fuck that
I do dislike how since Windows 7, it's been really hard to universally change sort defaults in explorer
Lmao at it trying to make me run things as apps
taskbar was full of apps to download via the microsoft store
yeah, don't fuck with anything from the Windows store
UWP versions are worse and often behind the normal version you get off the web
winget stuff is getting better, and some is ok
usually 1st party MS stuff is fine that way
Almost done my uninstalls, then I can install the 3 or 4 things I actually need
What do you mean by tabs
okay
I mean, I'd keep animations on
I think they're pretty useful
I mostly cared about undoing what retarded changes they made from 10 I could, and removing bloat tbh
right click menu is 90% of what I think is bad
you can easily change most other stuff in appearance settings