Yep, I find booting from off is as fast (and maybe faster) than coming out of hibernation these days. It's definitely more fluid.
My SMB IT friends disable hibernation when they deploy laptops. Users don't reboot enough as it is, hibernation can be problematic, and wastes hard drive space (at least 16 gig, because they don't spec any less)
Disable auto updates.
Damn auto updates being on by default is a terrible design choice.
I've never had a Windows pc get slow after 6 months... Unless I've beat the snot out of it as I just don't care. But I'm an Admin, user boxes don't usually have such an issue. I have a 10 year old Windows 7 box that's as fast as it was 10 years ago.
But... If you install/uninstall a lot of stuff, over time that can cause issues (because Uninstallers are notoriously lazily compiled - I say this as an app packager of 20+ years.)
I used to say Windows Reg cleaners are snake oil, but on some systems it can really help with the uninstall issue - lots of crap, especially stuff related to context menus, can really slow it down. The only one I've ever recommended is Crap Cleaner - I've seen it revive a test machine that had gotten slow from a billion installs/uninstalls, testing lots of iffy software, etc.
Right? Like every little municipality could do this?
Shipping is a massive consumer of all kinds of oils, especially fuel oil and diesel.
Want to make a real difference? Stop shipping shit around the world, accept there are growing seasons, grow and manufacture locally.
Suddenly the number of massive ships constantly churning through hundreds of gallons of fuel per hour, and trucks moving shit cross country, would seriously dwindle.
If it isn't clear by now - the power brokers of the world love moving manufacturing to wherever they've made a political deal, and don't give a fuck about the rest of us.
Do I like getting off-season fruit in December? Sure. Do I need to get it from Chile? Fuck no, greenhouses are a thing. How the hell is it cheaper to move that shit 10,000 miles than to grow locally in a hot house? Clearly someone's getting paid.
Sorry about the rant. Shipping is the elephant in the room whenever I hear people complain about cars.
Neither.
That's a good point.
From a large family, couldn't sleep when I first moved out - too quiet.
Not enough safety pins or silver buttons to be hot topic. Or black
Why does the liquid look photoshopped at the bottom?
Made me chuckle... And people are sleeping here, dammit!
Network Effect.
Road designers understood this, probably as far back as the Romans.
"Build it and they will come". Whenever any network is expanded, it will have increased traffic.