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    of file corruption when symptoms occurs" adds the report (Translated from Japanese by Grok AI).

    Why would you use an LLM to translate text? There are tools made specifically for that

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      Honestly, translations are one of the few things LLMs are good for. It can catch things like idioms or other things a machine translator may mistranslate. Though tbf, the main appeal is still live translation.

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      Which are based on LLMs or other neural network models. It is kind of the thing that language models are actually good at.

      See DeepL for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

      The service uses a proprietary algorithm with convolutional neural networks (CNNs)[3] that have been trained with the Linguee database.[4][5]
      According to the developers, the service uses a newer improved architecture of neural networks, which results in a more natural sound of translations than by competing services.
      The translation is said to be generated using a supercomputer that reaches 5.1 petaflops and is operated in Iceland with hydropower.[6][7]
      In general, CNNs are slightly more suitable for long coherent word sequences, but they have so far not been used by the competition because of their weaknesses compared to recurrent neural networks.
      The weaknesses of DeepL are compensated for by supplemental techniques, some of which are publicly known.

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        Yeah I know they’re based on LLMs, but they’re more adapted to translation, right?

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    Yesterday I got into the process of installing Windows 10 onto my laptop because I am selling it tomorrow. I asked the buyer if he wanted it with an OS or not, and he replied that he wanted Windows 10 Pro. I downloaded the ISO and installed it to one of my M.2 SATA SSD drives with a USB adapter.

    Before installing Windows over my Linux installation, I did a SecureErase to wipe out my drive with the Linux installation because that is the SSD I am selling with the computer.

    After installing Windows 10 from the M.2 SATA SSD with a USB adapter to the SecureErased drive, I instantly got multiple error messages about SMART checks saying that the SSD was broken/corrupted. I had never seen this POST error message when booting that computer with a Linux installation.

    Well, I obviously had to change the drive to another one where I got the Windows installation to work normally without the BIOS POST error message.

    I really cannot be sure what caused that. Can SecureErase do that so SMART checks report the drive as corrupted? Or was it the Windows installation?

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    Yet again, I trot out this phrase, as a response to yet another massive Windows fuckup/scandal:

    … People are still using Windows?

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      many have to - work from home, have to share data and programs with other workers. There are of course ways around it but I know literally thousands of people who are supplied with a company laptop with windows on it and they have to use it…

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      Yet again - headline and article are massive overexaggerations, talking about an issue that a few people have had in very specific situations and saying it breaks everyones SSDs/HDDs and might corrupt their data to get people like you to get outraged and spread FUD.

      Remember - if even 0.01% of people on Windows 11 get an error with an update, that is like 100k people. A 0.01% error rate is nothing. It’s not even worth mentioning. It’s not even worth investigating. Sure it sucks for those 100k people, and they’ll be complaining to everyone that will listen - but it’s not a big issue. That’s this. That’s this exact thing.

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      I use “incontrol” to stop feature updates. And I used win11debloat. Havent had a problem since. In dogshit bloat, no dog shit copilot, no forced updates, no privacy destroying telemetry. Just me and MY windows machine like the old days.

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        Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member “I’m too old to learn a new operating system!” Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.

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          Every time I try switching to Linux I run into some issue I just cant fix and go back to windows, currently pirated win10 IOT LTSC. Last time it was getting the USB ports to recognize an ESP32, the time before that graphics card drivers, the time before that it would either take ages to boot or not boot at all, the time before that software I couldnt get to run.

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            Lies! Linux never has issues!

            My laptop’s Linux install currently isn’t corrupt and won’t boot, honest!

            Disclaimer: I actually like Linux a lot, JFC the windows hate is crazy…

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    The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.

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        Maybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.

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          That’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed.

          Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.

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      It looks like finally after almost ten years they will complete the dark mode on windows. But some buttons will still be with the light theme, they ran out of ai credits and need to wait for next month to replenish the free tier

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      Didn’t they proudly say how much of windows is AI generated slop code a few months ago?

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    Linux users: “See what we mean?”

    Windows users: “La la la! I can’t hear you! Losing my data is clearly better than having to learn something new!”

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    “We looked around and could not find other reports resembling such situations. The problem has been reported by a Japanese PC builder and enthusiast and some of the comments on the thread seem to indicate that others there may be experiencing similar issues. So it could be a region-specific thing too”

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    Bah, each time I want to do the manual upgrade from 23h2 I have to postpone it again due to some stupid bug or annoying feature that makes me reconsider doing it.

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    Can’t they just offer access to your data back at a discounted rate compared to what they charge their data partners for it?