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FFS, DavePL is the reason it's 32gb? I thought there was some actual reason, but it was just arbitrary? The more I learn about him, the less I like him

EliasWatson 2y ago
He picked the limit in 1995. It's not his fault that Microsoft never updated it as storage sizes grew over the years.
- sumtechguy 2y ago
  I make up things all the time and then call them 'requirements'. Its just the way the industry works.
jsheard 2y ago
Context: Dave Plummer left Microsoft to found a company which peddled fake antivirus/security crapware, and only after that grift fizzled out did he rebrand himself around the work he did at Microsoft. https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settles-washington-based-softwareonlinecom https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...
- alt227 2y ago
  If he really wants to further this 'nice old Microsoft guy' image that he is pushing on youtube, he should really do a video on the truth behind the whole SoftwareOnline.com situation.
- voidUpdate 2y ago
  He's also apparently threatening legal action against people who discuss it https://x.com/endermanch/status/1820726634485350727 https://x.com/endermanch/status/1820726634485350727
  - blueflow 2y ago
    Honestly, if someone made a YT video about me with a thumbnail like this, i would sue for defamation, too.
    - jsheard 2y ago
      If you weren't ever found guilty of defrauding consumers then you might well have a case, but Plummer doesn't have that luxury.
  - _JamesA_ 2y ago
    Direct link to the YT video in question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8
- abhinavk 2y ago
  Have any people from Microsoft corroborated what he claims? Whatever I have heard of him is all from his channel and articles citing him. But then Dave Cutler and Raymond Chen appeared on his channel for hour-long Windows history podcasts so maybe that's an endorsement of his claims.
- ziml77 2y ago
  Not surprising. That man seems so off. Like how he always says he's just doing his videos for the likes, while at the same time using the videos to advertise his book. Or how he leans so heavily into having worked at Microsoft but then doesn't actually seem to have worked on more than a handful of projects there (his videos get repetitive).
- hypeatei 2y ago
  > The company has marketed its products through pop-up ads and unsolicited e-mails that offer a “free scan” of the computer. If a user elected to have the free scan performed, a software program downloaded, installed, and executed on the user’s computer. > Once the free scans were installed, consumers were trapped in a labyrinth of advertisements to purchase an upgrade,” Tassi said. “Each new advertisement increased the consumer’s sense of fear, repeatedly warning of threats the computer faced if the user didn't purchase the product. In some instances, the ads kept coming until the free scan software was uninstalled or the consumer purchased the product. But the uninstall option didn’t always work properly and parts of the software remained on the computer.
  - stuaxo 2y ago
    Read that in DavePL's voice for some reason !
Kwpolska 2y ago
Fortunately, Microsoft is slowly de-Plummering Windows. The task manager has been rewritten and made actually useful, they have libarchive for non-ZIP formats, and now this.
- ToniCipriani 2y ago
  One step forward several steps back though, with all the other terrible crap like copying your entire drive to OneDrive by default then attempting to make you subscribe when it fills up, adding all kinds of telemetry and ad tracking, shoving Copilot in your face whenever it can, just to name a few.
  - orwin 2y ago
    Don't forget about Cortana too. The main offender to me is the reactivation of disable regedit keys after each update. I really want to like windows. I even like my professional windows computer. But on my _personal_ computer, i want the administrator to be _me_, not microsoft head of product.
TiredOfLife 2y ago
He had nothing to do with the limit. That was just another lie in the long list of his lies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812561

EliasWatson 2y ago

He picked the limit in 1995. It's not his fault that Microsoft never updated it as storage sizes grew over the years.

sumtechguy 2y ago
I make up things all the time and then call them 'requirements'. Its just the way the industry works.

jsheard 2y ago

Context: Dave Plummer left Microsoft to found a company which peddled fake antivirus/security crapware, and only after that grift fizzled out did he rebrand himself around the work he did at Microsoft. https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settles-washington-based-softwareonlinecom https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

alt227 2y ago
If he really wants to further this 'nice old Microsoft guy' image that he is pushing on youtube, he should really do a video on the truth behind the whole SoftwareOnline.com situation.
voidUpdate 2y ago
He's also apparently threatening legal action against people who discuss it https://x.com/endermanch/status/1820726634485350727 https://x.com/endermanch/status/1820726634485350727
- blueflow 2y ago
  Honestly, if someone made a YT video about me with a thumbnail like this, i would sue for defamation, too.
  - jsheard 2y ago
    If you weren't ever found guilty of defrauding consumers then you might well have a case, but Plummer doesn't have that luxury.
- _JamesA_ 2y ago
  Direct link to the YT video in question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8
abhinavk 2y ago
Have any people from Microsoft corroborated what he claims? Whatever I have heard of him is all from his channel and articles citing him. But then Dave Cutler and Raymond Chen appeared on his channel for hour-long Windows history podcasts so maybe that's an endorsement of his claims.
ziml77 2y ago
Not surprising. That man seems so off. Like how he always says he's just doing his videos for the likes, while at the same time using the videos to advertise his book. Or how he leans so heavily into having worked at Microsoft but then doesn't actually seem to have worked on more than a handful of projects there (his videos get repetitive).
hypeatei 2y ago
> The company has marketed its products through pop-up ads and unsolicited e-mails that offer a “free scan” of the computer. If a user elected to have the free scan performed, a software program downloaded, installed, and executed on the user’s computer. > Once the free scans were installed, consumers were trapped in a labyrinth of advertisements to purchase an upgrade,” Tassi said. “Each new advertisement increased the consumer’s sense of fear, repeatedly warning of threats the computer faced if the user didn't purchase the product. In some instances, the ads kept coming until the free scan software was uninstalled or the consumer purchased the product. But the uninstall option didn’t always work properly and parts of the software remained on the computer.
- stuaxo 2y ago
  Read that in DavePL's voice for some reason !

Kwpolska 2y ago

Fortunately, Microsoft is slowly de-Plummering Windows. The task manager has been rewritten and made actually useful, they have libarchive for non-ZIP formats, and now this.

ToniCipriani 2y ago
One step forward several steps back though, with all the other terrible crap like copying your entire drive to OneDrive by default then attempting to make you subscribe when it fills up, adding all kinds of telemetry and ad tracking, shoving Copilot in your face whenever it can, just to name a few.
- orwin 2y ago
  Don't forget about Cortana too. The main offender to me is the reactivation of disable regedit keys after each update. I really want to like windows. I even like my professional windows computer. But on my _personal_ computer, i want the administrator to be _me_, not microsoft head of product.

TiredOfLife 2y ago

He had nothing to do with the limit. That was just another lie in the long list of his lies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812561