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Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11 (www.neowin.net)

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I once ran the windows Troubleshooter to get an old scanner working, and the final page told me to but a new scanner!

I plugged it in to a mini PC I use as a backup server and the scanner worked fine with Linux.

And another recommendation issue: I noticed that my Windows laptop has a "reduce your carbon footprint" settings section that tells me to reduce power settings, screen brightness etc. but it's completely lacking a "stop giving me AI search results in Bing" section.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Win11 also says that showing seconds in the taskbar "reduces battery life"/"increases power consumption"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

While it sounds ridiculous, there is a reasoning for this even nowadays:

Any periodic activity with a rate faster than one minute incurs the scrutiny of the Windows performance team, because periodic activity prevents the CPU from entering a low-power state. Updating the seconds in the taskbar clock is not essential to the user interface, unlike telling the user where their typing is going to go, or making sure a video plays smoothly. And the recommendation is that inessential periodic timers have a minimum period of one minute, and they should enable timer coalescing to minimize system wake-ups.

Found 1 test that seems to confirm battery life is slightly worse (2%) with seconds enabled. But this is true only when nothing is going on on screen. If you would actually work on PC, I imagine difference would be practically nonexistent.

All that said, I use seconds on my private and work PC. Was pissed when MS initially removed this as an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The moment I heard about the option was the moment I literally searched on how to enable/install this single KB-Update just so I can use it :P

Regarding the battery: That would be like leaving the desktop on at all times and just doing something else. This could be appropriate for an e-ink display. Maybe a PC should embed what form-factor it is in the bios like android phones do (e.g. phone, tablet, phablet) and the display report what type of panel it is (e.g. e-ink, TN, IPS, VA, QLED/OLED hybrid).
You can actually see those specs with AIDA64 on a phone. Very neat

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