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   Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 03:51:46 JST Phantasm

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   @mangeurdenuage @kaia @cell @ooignignoktoo Yeah, 10 minutes sounds about right. Especially if you consider modern 3rd-party AV bloatware. Dads ChinkPad with a 5400rpm HDD takes around 30 minutes to become usable in any way thanks to ESET doing a "startup" scan that cannot be disabled.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 03:55:22 JST Phantasm

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     • ooignignoktoo
     @mangeurdenuage @kaia @cell @ooignignoktoo Updating Windows after two months of not being turned on takes a whole day.
     
     >Imagine paying for a SaaSS that's literally a scam and they also put the money you give them in a tax haven.
     It also likes to make scary popups about some random "security vulnerability" every time you boot into Windows. Usually some old driver than cannot be updated anyway, so you just click on "ignore" and continue with your slow computing experience.
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     @phnt @kaia @cell @ooignignoktoo
     > ESET doing a "startup" scan that cannot be disabled.
     Imagine paying for a SaaSS that's literally a scam and they also put the money you give them in a tax haven.
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     @phnt @kaia @cell @ooignignoktoo
     >Updating Windows after two months of not being turned on takes a whole day.
     Disable fast boot. That's the issue. Fast boot on the long terms cause tremendous amount of fragmentation, NTFS was already garbage for that and it's even worse with it. That's also why I create a separate partition and dedicate the swap in to that partition like you would do on a GNU OS.
     
     >so you just click on "ignore" and continue with your slow computing experience.
     Also just install clamwin for your father and uninstall/unsubscribe ESET and make him put the money in clamwin instead.
     https://clamwin.com/content/view/180/105/
     
     Configure his account as basic user with no password and create an administrator account with one.
     That's what I do and it avoids most issues, especially when they have kids.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:37:47 JST Phantasm

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     @mangeurdenuage @kaia @cell @ooignignoktoo
     >Disable fast boot. That's the issue. Fast boot on the long terms cause tremendous amount of fragmentation
     It's not fragmentation. That is sitting consistently around 1%. It's just a combination of a slow HDD and ESET's trigger happy scanning everything as it passes by on the FS layer.
     
     I'm convinced that if he disabled and stopped paying ESET, the laptop would be much faster, but he's insistent that he'll get "hacked". Nothing I can really do since I've lost all hope anyway after years of arguing about this. 2 years ago he bought an iPhone SE and it took a full of convincing that there isn't any ESET AV for iPhones as it is with Android. And that it's impossible to make an AV on iOS anyway since the OS does not allow any kind of FS access without a sandbox. He's planning on buying a MacBook to replace his 8 year old "slow" ThinkPad and he already told me that he'll install ESET on it. I don't like saying this, but he's too far gone in my eyes.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:37:50 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @phnt @cell @kaia @ooignignoktoo
     Also here's the software to unbloat :windowstrash:
     https://github.com/Fs00/Win10BloatRemover/releases
     I do most it manually and go further than that but it's what most people want.
     
     As for software
     
     -OpenShell: a functional desktop GUI
     https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
     -Bleachbit: Cleaner
     https://www.bleachbit.org/
     Defragmentation: ultradefrag
     https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/files/stable-release/7.1.4
     Note: this is the last version that is GPL, after that they closed and became proprietary.
     -Peazip: Archiver
     https://peazip.github.io/
     -SumatraPDF: PDF reader
     https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
     -Nomacs: image reader/editor
     https://nomacs.org/
     -LibreOffice: Office suite/pdf editor
     https://www.libreoffice.org/
     -Firefox ESR: Web browser
     https://www.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/enterprise/#download
     -Thunderbird: email client
     https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/
     -VLC: audio/video decoder
     https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
     -KeepassXC: password manager
     https://keepassxc.org/
     -The Gimp: advanced image editor
     https://www.gimp.org/
     -Clamwin: antivirus
     https://clamwin.com/
     -Client torrent
     https://www.qbittorrent.org/
     -Image reader/editor with GPS metadata reading localization: digiKam 
     https://www.digikam.org/
     -Folder hierarchy: WinDirStat
     https://windirstat.net/
     
     WebBrowser addons:
     -uBo : a simple web firewall
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
     -uMatrix: an advanced web firewall
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
     -Lightbeam: generates maps of third party trackers
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam-chikl
     -Firefox Multi-Account Containers:
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
     
     Optional:
     -Blender: 3d modeling/animating
     https://www.blender.org/
     -OBS: video/audio recording/streaming
     https://obsproject.com/
     -Gsmartcontrol: HDD/SDD SMART diagnosis
     https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:38:18 JST Phantasm

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     @mangeurdenuage @kaia @cell @ooignignoktoo Thank you, bookmarked.
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     Rain (rain@melonbread.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:38:35 JST Rain

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     @mangeurdenuage @kaia @phnt @cell @ooignignoktoo I agree with with this pretty much 100% when I have to setup a Windows on someone else's box for one reason or another. A big fan of ninite for speeding up most of the software installs.
     
     https://ninite.com/
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     @rain @kaia @phnt @cell @ooignignoktoo But what I said about being lazy aside is that I've often go such random :windowstrash: moment and the scripting/automation just fuck up.
     been like that since win10 especially.
     Never had that issue on 7, any scripts just ran.
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     Rain (rain@melonbread.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:38:51 JST Rain

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     @mangeurdenuage My apologies, missed that part of the process.
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     @rain @kaia @phnt @cell @ooignignoktoo
     I could just do some scripting and it would also work but I'm lazy.
     
     >ninite
     This is sadly proprietary software.
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     @phnt @kaia @cell @ooignignoktoo
     >It's not fragmentation.
     I'm not saying it's only that. Trust me on this one, it makes no sense but removing fast boot actually maintains the system better over time
     
     >a combination of a slow HDD and ESET's
     I also agree.
     
     >I don't like saying this, but he's too far gone in my eyes.
     He's been bullshited by your average tech conman, they're also the ones making it hell for us.
     
     Show him these
     Corporate surveillance, digital tracking, big data & privacy
     https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8414-corporate_surveillance_digital_tracking_big_data_privacy
     
     The surreptitious assault on privacy, security, and freedom
     https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/1529/144_7_gerwith.webm
     
     Data collection, psychographic profiling, and their impact on politics
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUm9hV9KPy0
     
     DEF CON 21 - Karl Koscher and Eric Butler - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-nxemBCcmU
     
     Security Analysis of Estonia's Internet Voting System
     https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6344_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412281400_-_security_analysis_of_estonia_s_internet_voting_system_-_j_alex_halderman
     
     Maybe he'll change his mind and start to read privacy policy/EULAs after these.
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