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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 13:45:07 +0300
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On Fri, 31 May 2024 09:55:49 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> 
> Imagine turning off (or never enabling) the services that you don't
> find useful and can be a significant drain.  I always disable Windows 
> updates, indexing services, and would never have a "voice AI" on a 
> computer.  Linux does not have anything like as much of this kind of 
> nonsense on normal desktops (though I believe Ubuntu had some nasty 
> automatic search systems for a while).  The only one I can think of
> is "updatedb" for the "locate" command.  While "locate" can sometimes
> be useful, trawling the filesystem can be very time-consuming if it
> is large.  But it's easy to tune updatedb to cover only the bits you
> need.
> 

Most of the things that you mentioned above are not easy to achieve on
Home Editions of Windows beyond 7.
Some of them are not easy to achieve even on Pro edition.
That's a major reason for me to remain on 7 for as long as I can.