Nobody likes Windows 12

[Essence Lumin]

My feeling, as anti-logical as it may be, is "Screw Newegg". They adveristed this great deal, a good cheap machine with scads of memory and no mentions of re-built or refurbished or anything. I will not deal with dishonest companies.

Newegg used to be the best. Not so for years now though.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

NEWS FLASH! (if anyone cares) - the store called. They found BENT PINS on the CPU! The motherboard is trash. $90 to replace the Mobo, they said, then offered to help me with any warranties. I never touched the CPU or the Mobo, so I believe it was shipped this way.

My feeling, as anti-logical as it may be, is "Screw Newegg". They adveristed this great deal, a good cheap machine with scads of memory and no mentions of re-built or refurbished or anything. I will not deal with dishonest companies.

I told my repair guy to go ahead with the new MoBo. I'll eat the cost for making such a huge mistake. Next time I'm going back to Alienware. I've had two of their machines and not only did I get exactly what I ordered, but their customer service was top rate.

Newegg used to be such a great company. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

 

[Kokoro Fasching]

new egg constantly sends out used returned crap as new.

 

[Knutz Scorpio]

Newegg has gotten as sketchy as Amazon and Ebay, I still shop at all three occasionally but really check things out before hitting the Buy button.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And like Amazon they are a platform for other sellers now. So you have to be careful that you are really buying from Newegg.

 

[Noodles]

And like Amazon they are a platform for other sellers now. So you have to be careful that you are really buying from Newegg.

So many online places are like this. I hate it so much.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

A while back I bought a pair of headphones on Amazon and made sure that Amazon was the seller. But apparently between putting them in my cart and hitting "Buy" Amazon changed to a marketplace seller for the order shipped from their warehouse. Fast forward 5 months and one side is dead, so I try to get a warranty replacement. The manufacturer says it is a grey market product, not sold by one of their partners (Amazon is listed as a partner). Add several weeks back and forth and I finally get a replacement. I really really hate that.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Everybody should have a good, reliable, honest Tech store. Mine just called me to inform that the MoBo i want is now reduced in price by about $100. "Do you want the less expensive one?" Hell yeh!

Two more days for shipping but whatever, I want a computer I can rely on for at least another year or two.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

So many online places are like this. I hate it so much.

I remember when I first got cable years ago, I hardly ever saw a commercial. Now they love to interrupt shows to sell me some ridiculous, worthless piece of crap I don't want.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Everybody should have a good, reliable, honest Tech store.

That would be nice. I have heard good things about MicroCenter. They are 40 minutes away but that is worth it for a major purchase.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I use them for my tech purchases and support. They have been consistently helpful.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

My new baby PC is home at last, plugged in and running on my desk. What more could go wrong, right?

Turns out the tech forgot to activate Windows 11 on the new motherboard! What kind of tech does that?! He barely saved himself when he chased me out to the parking lot to hand me a free wireless WiFi kit. He's so lucky!

It's not far from my house but I'm done fussing with computers and software for the day. I'll run over Monday.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Microsoft's newest Windows feature that nobody asked for is Recall, "powered by Copilot" I guess, that will help you find things you've done in the past by helpfully taking and storing a picture of literally everything you do on your computer, in any application, continuously.

"Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds," Microsoft says on its website. "The snapshots are encrypted and saved on your PC’s hard drive. You can use Recall to locate the content you have viewed on your PC using search or on a timeline bar that allows you to scroll through your snapshots."

By performing a Recall action, users can access a snapshot from a specific time period, providing context for the event or moment they are searching for. It also allows users to search through teleconference meetings they've participated in and videos watched using an AI-powered feature that transcribes and translates speech.

This is actually really neat! Not only does it take pictures of your screen every few seconds, but each screenshot is picked through by AI to build a searchable database of keywords. This is unimaginably useful! Because like, imagine you're a Turkish citizen and someone who has gained access to your computer you want to remember everything you've said or read about the President - why all you have to do is search for "Erdogan" and SHAZAM you've got a whole sheaf of screenshots of every single time the word Erdogan has ever appeared on your screen along with its context, including on pesky apps that don't keep records of that sort of thing for some reason, like encrypted chats and sandboxed virtual machines! How handy is that?

 

[Free]

Microsoft's newest Windows feature that nobody asked for is Recall, "powered by Copilot"

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Needs a Johnny Cab version of Clippy.

 

[Noodles]

Microsoft's newest Windows feature that nobody asked for is Recall, "powered by Copilot" I guess, that will help you find things you've done in the past by helpfully taking and storing a picture of literally everything you do on your computer, in any application, continuously.

Just what I want, something to eat up my hard drive space.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Microsoft's newest Windows feature that nobody asked for is Recall, "powered by Copilot" I guess, that will help you find things you've done in the past by helpfully taking and storing a picture of literally everything you do on your computer, in any application, continuously.



This is actually really neat! Not only does it take pictures of your screen every few seconds, but each screenshot is picked through by AI to build a searchable database of keywords. This is unimaginably useful! Because like, imagine you're an American citizen and someone who has gained access to your computer you want to remember everything you've said or read about the President for Life or Three Terms, Whichever Comes First, His Supreme Orangeness the Rapist in Chief and Defrauder of All he Sees - why all you have to do is search for "Trump" and SHAZAM you've got a whole sheaf of screenshots of every single time the word Trump has ever appeared on your screen along with its context, including on pesky apps that don't keep records of that sort of thing for some reason, like encrypted chats and sandboxed virtual machines! How handy is that?

Made that a little more menacing for USAnians.

Just what I want, something to eat up my hard drive space.

Oh, I don't think it's eating YOUR hard drive space ....

 

[Noodles]

Tangentially related to the hard drive space thing.

I hate howuch they keep pushing One Drive backups.

And I use and pay for M365/One Drive.

I hate the default organization it does, so I keep things sorted my way.

I do not want the desktop backed up, I don't need it killing my bandwidth everytime I dunno some large scratch files there.

I don't want everything backed up, I want what I choose backed up, and most of the backup, is done via my NAS.

If I was not paying, the backup would get annoying and start nagging me to pay, really fast.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Made that a little more menacing for USAnians.

lol...

A bit more realistically, perhaps, imagine living in a state where giving someone the address to an out-of-state women's health clinic is now a felony punishable by prison time (I can't believe I'm typing those words as a statement of fact) and you're trying to help a family member or friend in need by giving them that information. You can't even protect yourself by using Signal or Tor or something because the state police can just confiscate your computer and read the screenshots.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

SOMEONE needs to get their ass to Mars already...