Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones

Re:Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones by convery on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:18PM (#29818886)

Ye, I always disable non-security related updates on pretty much all my hardware, then do a update once a year for new features on some stuff.

Recently got access to Windows 10 LTSC from a company I worked with and installed it on my workstation, super fast compared to the modern version I was using (LTSC build is 3 years old IIRC) and didn't find any downside compared to 10 Pro, so can recommend that for any dev that feels like their machine is too slow.

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Re:Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones by behnamoh on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:43PM (#29819077)

Is there a way to disable all unnecessary services in Windows 10 to make it be as close to LTSC as possible?

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Re:Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones by gruez on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:28PM (#29819400)

The main draw of LTSC IMO is the 10 year support period. You can continue installing the monthly updates, and not have to worry about a feature update. Those are the ones that come twice a year, and ruins your day by taking 1 hour to install, resets random settings in the process (eg. default apps or telemetry settings), randomly changes the layout/color scheme, and randomly replaces your built in apps with worse ones (https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/12/07/redesig...). A debloating script doesn't protect you against those.

as for disabling bloat in non-LTSC versions, there's various scripts floating around, eg. https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline/ or https://ameliorated.info/

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Re:Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones by solarkraft on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:23AM (#29819779)

These are Android-type reasons for switching away. Again Apple offers an option that just sucks less.

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