BlueDwaggin

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on It's OK if you cry · c/linuxmemes · 3 pts · 2y

Possibly. Some XPS models (~9310) cheaped out on the WiFi chipset, which was really bad at reconnecting after sleep/suspend on Win 10/11 right out off the box.

Tried a live Linux install and it worked perfectly, so made the switch as there was no Win-only software that I needed.

on It's OK if you cry · c/linuxmemes · 9 pts · 2y

Strange. One of them main reasons I wiped my Dell XPS OEM Windows and installed Linux was for -better- WiFi behaviour.

Anecdotal, I had the same with EA. When Origin first launched, the two games I had in my EA account disappeared. Do amount of battling with their support got me anywhere, even though I had the retail copies and the serial keys.

Got to the point where I gave up. Rather play games I actually wanted to play, to than Spore and The Sims 3.

on How dumb can you get? · c/google · 4 pts · 2y

Asking a fitbit to set a timer for 2 hours is dumber.

Apparently it only supports a 1h39m59s at a maximum. So responds saying it can't set that timer. But then offers clickable suggestions for 1h50m and 2h10m ... which gets you the exact same response.

I had the opposite problem with Windows 11.

My typical way of shutting down my machine was Alt-D, Show Desktop, then Alt-F4, which brings up a shutdown menu.

For whatever reason in Win 11, they made this menu unable to trigger updates. So for the first several months of my Win 11 install it was quietly never receiving any updates at all.

It really winds me up how results that match every search term aren't prioritised any more. I often search for very specific pieces of hardware, and it's been a nightmare since the late 2010s. You now have to pore over each result to check that it's 100% what you're are looking for.

SEO exacerbates the problem, but I'd say the root cause is the algorithm itself.