Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Bandwagon
I'm doing my usual end-of-month stuff. Archive and backup monthly folders, run CCleaner, scan AVG, reboot.
Noticed a couple of oddities. CCleaner has jumped onto the bandwagon of medicalizing everything with a new feature:
Must admit the feature is a good idea. It autoruns several steps that you could manually choose in CCleaner.
And Windows 7 ran a short update during the reboot. I've kept 7 because it ALLOWS you to turn off updates. 10 spends half its time updating and half its time spying on you, leaving no CPU cycles for actual work. You can't turn anything off. When you try, Win 10 pretends to obey, then quietly turns everything back on.
But I thought MS had stopped OFFERING updates for 7 a long time ago. Can't tell what's new from the log files. New spying tools? Prison bedcheck?
I also added recent months to the blog size record...
...which has asymptoted strongly in the last 10 years, exactly since I discarded the TV. You wouldn't think a complex measurement like letters per month could stabilize so firmly, but it did.
Must admit the feature is a good idea. It autoruns several steps that you could manually choose in CCleaner.
And Windows 7 ran a short update during the reboot. I've kept 7 because it ALLOWS you to turn off updates. 10 spends half its time updating and half its time spying on you, leaving no CPU cycles for actual work. You can't turn anything off. When you try, Win 10 pretends to obey, then quietly turns everything back on.
But I thought MS had stopped OFFERING updates for 7 a long time ago. Can't tell what's new from the log files. New spying tools? Prison bedcheck?
I also added recent months to the blog size record...
...which has asymptoted strongly in the last 10 years, exactly since I discarded the TV. You wouldn't think a complex measurement like letters per month could stabilize so firmly, but it did.Labels: Entertainment, Metrology
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