Basically trying to work out why Windows 10, Update is takes so long an I have ruled out:
Network speed
Lack of processing power
Inadequate memory
Disk speed
My hypothesis is that something is blocking IO, which is slowing down a relatively trivial, but large update. I'm beginning to think Windows Defender is locking the IO threads for the MoUSO process (the newfangled-ish updating infrastructure for Windows). Which is, maybe, artificially (deliberately?) massively slowing down the update*.
Assuming the update can be regarded as trusted it seems redundant and careless that Windows Defender is using at least one core at close to full utilisation. On a fresh install.
I am fairly ignorant about Windows - about the same as the average person reviewing it.
* Or there is no IO process/thread blocking it's just - see I don't understand how it can be that slow. I get why Android/iOS updates are slow but not Windows 10 onwards with enough resources. Unless it's doing something really odd and computationally intensive. Except it isn't - I can monitor it quite well inside a KVM container.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lvIBfju00&feature=shared
Teri Gender Bender - What Do You Want Me To Do (I was going to add Córtate el Pelo because I need a haircut)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9efm3tjrTYY&feature=shared
WordAll #532 completed in 2m 15s (genuinely very difficult one, partly cheated by looking up a word. Probably be 20 seconds more without doing that. If I were an invigilator I'd invalidate the score or add a 1 minute time penalty. I'm trying to beat my own scores not other people's, so 🤷♂️ - call it 3m 30s. I feel bad cheating.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 803 3/6* (lucky. Bored switched starter word)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #587 3/6 (100%) (don't forget I always at least partially cheat on this one.)
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La palabra del día #602 6/6 (I had a 1/X chance on 2 with a similar likelihood, I was lucky on 6)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #599 3/6
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Framed #538
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I don't think most Linux Distros have the equivalent of "Preparing to configure Windows" (1hr+ so far)* or "Optimizing Your Device" or a ridiculous, meaningless, update progress bar. I am taking such messages from devices on faith much in the way that people in Idiocracy think Brawndo is what plants crave†.
* In fairness it's in a KVM instance, but it's really not badly specified. What I object to is the lack of transparency. It needs a button I can click to show me what it's actually doing - like 'tail -f logfile'. Otherwise I'm tempted to believe there's just a timer as a kind of sadistic mass practical joke. It's getting towards the compile time of a huge application. Windows Update - so thorough it takes approximately the same time as recompiling Windows.
† Idiocracy is deeply flawed, but good, much like The Marching Morons was deeply flawed but good. The Little Black Bag would make a better screen adaption. I wonder if Mike Judge drinks Smart Water with a wry smile.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyxy_KMom7g&feature=shared
WordAll #531 completed in 2m 41s (first three <1 minute but flustered a bit on 4, with reality loving a bit of irony, because I tried a French word)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 802 4/6* (acceptable)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #586 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #601 6/6 (crap, but there is an acceptable logical reason this was more difficult)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #598 💀/6 (double crap - but the thing with most 'wordles' is that what happened 4 onwards becomes part luck, part guessing, when there are a plurality of words and finite guesses. I could have avoided that by going, if possible, for a word that contains free letters but I couldn't do that playing hard mode style - plus finite guesses limit that)
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Framed #537
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Gloomy dandelion.
Santigold - Chasing Shadows
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=F8xS1FqQzjQ&feature=shared
WordAll #530 completed in 5m 48s (Arses trickle, becoming a torrent, drawn out to the Narse Sea, and the Alarsentic Ocean. Like arse tears in the arse rain.)
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Wordle 801 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #585 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #600 5/6 (Hijo de culo.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #597 💀/6 (Une forêt de culs. Cul trompets etc.)
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Framed #536
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A 'once a decade is probably not too much of a risk' pudding.
"While cooking, the filling ingredients create a thick, caramelized sauce, which upon serving and cutting of the pudding, runs out and pools around the plate, creating a "pond". After cooking for so long, the skin of the lemon, if included, almost candies like a marmalade in its own juices and that of the butter and sugar."
'Ultra-processed food raises risk of heart attack and stroke, two studies show'
Diet studies are very difficult and there are always going to be post-hoc elements/confounding variables involving lifestyles, but I think this is important and there are minimum of two or three scandals waiting to happen that I'm underqualified to volunteer my opinions of why*:
* although I very much avoid artificial sweeteners (harder than you'd think†), carboxylmethylcellulose emulsifiers (harder than you'd think‡), polysorbate 80, low fat alternatives, and try to mostly eat stuff cooked from fresh because that's what I'm evolved to eat. A bit like a pig discovered fire. I don't care about MSG or 'natural flavouring' and have no fear of chemicals when making an informed choice. But, counterintuitively, it seems taste, mouthfeel and palatability, may affect how we digest things, independently of ingredients - see low fat alternatives.
† in my best Charlton Heston voice "they put it in the pickle!".
‡ I love pies: Steak and Kidney, beef, chicken and bacon, cheese and onion, steak and ale, apple, blackcurrant and apple, gooseberry and game. There is an extensive list, which I'll spare you, but basically not so keen on mushrooms. TBF there is also a list of steamed puddings.
Always read/know the ingredients.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5u48UJU53MQ&feature=shared
Choé & Vassilena Serafimova - Balani
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PkLSULoEZ5U&feature=shared
WordAll #529 completed in 47s
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Wordle 800 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #584 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #599 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #596 5/6 (should have been 4)
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Framed #535
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Jem - Just a Ride
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=65_8xq5KobA
Blossom Puzzle, August 27
Letters: B I L E R S V
My score: 308 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
I got the longest word last which was a minor annoyance because the trick with this one is using the double letter scores in each round, therefore it is possible to get a higher score with shorter words in the right places (although all words been 7+ letters in 12 rounds will be, at the lowest, around 220). My highest score is 375 but I don't play it that often. It's Sunday and I am walking with a stick (hip tendonitis - 3/10 annoyance but transitory) and bored. My average is 211 because I played a few low scoring games while learning the game.
I will likely not post a Blossom score regularly. I'd get into music or something if regularly incapacitated. Maybe the Venezuelan Cuatro - primarily because it's an instrument that, in my opinion, sounds bloody annoying.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=a1dP6VfPxIA
WordAll #528 completed in 3m 31s (my two starting words lacked adequate distance from eachother)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 799 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #583 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #598 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #595 5/6 (should have been 4)
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Framed #534
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Future of The Left - French Lessons
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yBrZFf2lNSw
WordAll #527 completed in 2m 25s (one of these I'd class, maybe inaccurately, as slang so didn't immediately occur until it was the only word that fits)
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Wordle 798 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #582 1/6 (100%) (cheated a bit on two of her neighbours by using a map)
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La palabra del día #597 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #594 4/6
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Framed #533 (I recently got half way through Shin Masked Rider)
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Amp Live - Let's Start The Show
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwX7bcIqz5Q/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
6.5/10 Latvian kvass via Sainsbury's - no questionable artificial sweeteners; a pleasant fruity taste with a slight bitter finish, but I'd prefer far less sugar. I prefer to save my redundant energy intake for mint humbugs or Marvellous Creations or puddings. Maybe some other sweets. At 0.5% alcohol it has about the same alcohol as many bottled fruit juices.
Pickle World is a great name for a shop that sells just pickles or a planet that somehow has pickles as a key feature.
The Blow - True Affection (I recalled the lyrics have distance in them, see next footnote [4])
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q99YKjqe73Y
WordAll #526 completed in 1m 26s (the trick, I think, with this one is to try to start with two words that have enough different letters [1])
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 797 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
La palabra del día #596 6/6 (the word I was looking for wasn't also an English one [2])
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #593 4/6 (There is overlap with French and English [3])
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Framed #532 (I am sure it is very good and if someday someone else chooses to watch it there is a reasonable possibility I'd watch it)
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[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/misdirection
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans
[4] Foot sounds better than 'bottom notes'. I added the song last and I'm not going to renumber the bottom notes.
Lauren O'connell - Peacebone (I had Strawberry Jam on the day it came out, IIRC via Bleep, and this cover, while I suspect, or erroneously heard originally, has slight lyrical differences, but this cover, unlike covers of many songs, retains the spirit of the original)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AAjNyOcWlxY
WordAll #525 completed in 44s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 796 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #580 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #595 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #592 3/6
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Framed #531 (well, TBF...)
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Rizzle Kicks - Cooler Than This
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSZJ6ei0WU
WordAll #524 completed in 4m 52s (tough/arse)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 795 5/6* (random-ish starting word leading to pendulous ball sacks)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #579 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #594 6/6 (an infernal pot pourri of a bunch of arses, loudly a-guffing in the breeze)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #591 3/6 (minor redemption)
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Framed #530 (I haven't seen it or can't remember seeing it)
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The horrible realisation of front camera screencrabs of oneself concentrating, slack-jawed, at the screen, slouching, in bad light. It's the visual analogue of wearing socks before putting on underwear; between the vacuousness of a turkey and the reality of who we are.