What do we even do at this point?

[D.Draker]

On 12/4/2024 at 3:43 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Online banking does not require buying high-end hardware.  But it does unfortunately seem to require newer than Win7 these days.  

In the early 2022, I quit using all online services, I go to physical stores, I pay cash only. I withdraw all money that I get from the military (pension) every month.

I pay with physical papers for the utilities, usually in advance (4-6 months or so). I also refused to install any water counters, so I pay a "normative", which isn't that huge.

By our Glorious French Constitution, no one can enter my house without my explicit permission, and it would be extremely hard anyways, they would have to besiege me with the special ops.

So they had to calculate a median tariff for me.

That's what you all need to do.

[j7n]

A normative water consumption here is about 10 m³ per month per declared resident. That would be enough for taking two showers every day and then some. That is for an apartment without any garden. It is very expensive, especially for municipal hot water. A median or running average is only possible if there have been recent data points, and you've forgotten to hand in a reading once or twice. There are new water meters that have either reporting over radio and/or a limit to how much water they will allow. Since those need to be swapped regularly for accuracy, it can also get expensive, and apartment owners are asked to vote whether to install them or pay extra for lost or stolen water.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken gives a numeric signature device for logging in and signing orders. Their website works in New Moon, although with a warning that the browser should be updated.

[UCyborg]

What not to do? Switching random devices / drivers to MSI mode.

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/windows-line-based-vs-message-signaled-based-interrupts-msi-tool.378044/

GPUs may do fine in MSI mode, others, it depends.

[D.Draker]

22 hours ago, j7n said:

A normative water consumption here is about 10 m³ per month per declared resident. That would be enough for taking two showers every day and then some. That is for an apartment without any garden. It is very expensive, especially for municipal hot water. A median or running average is only possible if there have been recent data points, and you've forgotten to hand in a reading once or twice. There are new water meters that have either reporting over radio and/or a limit to how much water they will allow. Since those need to be swapped regularly for accuracy, it can also get expensive, and apartment owners are asked to vote whether to install them or pay extra for lost or stolen water.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken gives a numeric signature device for logging in and signing orders. Their website works in New Moon, although with a warning that the browser should be updated.

Thank you, interesting, I don't usually do a lot of reading about Eastern Europe. So, even there it's not worth it, since the modern devices are expensive, and here we mostly got only them, just like you wrote.

Older ones are already rather hard to get, and I'm an active man, I visit the gym frequently, so I take showers frequently, too.

[mshultz]

On 12/21/2024 at 12:04 AM, j7n said:

A normative water consumption here is about 10 m³ per month per declared resident. That would be enough for taking two showers every day and then some. That is for an apartment without any garden. It is very expensive, especially for municipal hot water. A median or running average is only possible if there have been recent data points, and you've forgotten to hand in a reading once or twice. There are new water meters that have either reporting over radio and/or a limit to how much water they will allow. Since those need to be swapped regularly for accuracy, it can also get expensive, and apartment owners are asked to vote whether to install them or pay extra for lost or stolen water.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken gives a numeric signature device for logging in and signing orders. Their website works in New Moon, although with a warning that the browser should be updated.

That works out to 88 gallons per day per person.  Here in the US, we use 100 gallons per day per person in Water & Wastewater calculations.  When I was hooked up to City sewer, I had the option to either get a City water meter on my well, or use the default household consumption rate of 400 gallons per day.  Because I previously had my own water meter (out of curiosity), I knew that I used between 90-100 gallons per day, and opted for a City meter.  I was always hesitant to recommend that my neighbors get City water meters, as I did not know their water consumption rates.  For all I knew, they might be watering the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and if your City water meter showed you were using more than 400 gallons per day, that became your new base rate, even if you no longer wanted a City water meter.

[j7n]

Normal is up to 2 m³. Without an ability to go outdoors, there is nothing to wash. We had water practically free up to about year 2000 when meters became mandatory. We would use it to water the garden. It was, of course, a tragedy of the commons and someone else had to foot the bill from taxes. Today, I don't think the city would entertain the idea of no water meter in a house.

If I watch some online video with a demonstration at a sink where cleaning is involved, they seem to know only two positions, fully open  and fully closed. and keep talking while water is getting wasted. On the BBC they often talk about some country's plight and how horribly disadvantaged they are because of the carbon emissions (usually) or conflict. One time they talked about how those people don't have water, and they pulled out some big number, like a hudred liters per day, I forgot the exact value, showing how far the news reporters are removed from practicality.

[UCyborg]

I stopped SysMain (Superfetch) service for the test yesterday, can't say it improved speed during login. Man, I used to be able to cold boot Win10 in under a minute. Though KUbuntu 21.10 also takes its time to load.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, UCyborg said:

I used to be able to cold boot Win10 in under a minute.

My old-but-not-ancient harware boots Win10 in 59-61 seconds.  Default was 72-74 seconds.  As measured by a program called BootRacer  --  https://greatis.com/bootracer/index.html

This is how I gained approx 10.7 seconds  --  http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/69693-startup-delay-enable-disable-windows-10-a.html

Since I "hibernate" 99.9% of the time, I never really tried to improve cold boot more than that approx 10.7 second gain.

The same exact old-but-not-ancient hardware boots XP in UNDER THIRTEEN SECONDS.  I miss that aspect of XP, but everything else works much MUCH better in 10.  I do not regret migrating to 10 (heavily tweaked 2016 version, not the 2xHy versions).

[UCyborg]

I'm aware of that default startup delay, prefer to keep it due Windows itself needing a bit of time for itself. I'm interested in what goes on before login screen appears. This is the time that I usually report as post login usually wasn't problematic for me. Pre-logon part seems much slower than it used to be. Virtual Win11 RTM booted from the same disk hosted on that slow to boot Win10 is done in around 60 seconds while Win10 itself is about 1min 45s. That POS Lenovo with 5400 RPM disk does better. It has 32-bit Win10 1809, but still.

Does BootRacer offer any detailed insights in what goes on pre-logon?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

58 minutes ago, UCyborg said:

Does BootRacer offer any detailed insights in what goes on pre-logon?

Nope.  At least not the freebie version.  I've never looked into what features are added in the "premium" version.

[D.Draker]

13 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

My old-but-not-ancient harware boots Win10 in 59-61 seconds.

It's too long. My old and ancient hardware (approx. 2009) boots up Vista in 5-6 seconds. 

And that's on a mechanical HDD. I assume you're on SSD?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

12 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

I assume you're on SSD?

Nope, I am not.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

13 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

boots up Vista in 5-6 seconds

Me too for from hibernate/sleep mode.  But a cold boot/restart SUCKS in Win10.

[D.Draker]

10 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Nope, I am not.

It's till very long. I have a first gen iCore Xeon, is your PSU fine? How long ago did you measure the voltages?

[D.Draker]

10 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Me too for from hibernate/sleep mode.  But a cold boot/restart SUCKS in Win10.

I was referring to the cold boot only, I don't usually do "sleep".