11:23 Can anybody please stop the show?
1:20 I can't tell how frustrated i am with Windows, other operating systems.
Back in the days of the mini computers and PCs i used 40 MB hard drives. That is the size of 10 jpg pictures on a phone or one song in wav format. On one of those i made a salary app for a few thousands employees.
One the same hard drive i also had the development environment (FoxBASE) with much room left for games.
At some point i also had data for 6 different clients with an accounting app.
It is true, the operating system (the quick and dirty pre-Windows QDOS) it was Bill Gates first hit, which was actually not done by Microsoft but was sort of a hack done done by a guy from other Seattle company and sold with 40 dollars a copy while the existing CP/M on still on 8 bit only was sold with 200 dollars a copy) was on command line only (no windows) but the app had screens with data fields to navigate, input and check data. But it was easier and faster to work with than it is with Windows.
That quick and dirty imitation (hack) of CP/M ran on Windows until the XP version on it but the API calls copied from CP/M remain to this day, due to needed backwards compatibility. Yes, it became bloated because they kept adding on top of that, never trying to re-write the whole thing. For that, they would need to pay...
Did any government agency or scientific organization ever got involved with this critical area of our lives and society or was it all left all to a hacker and a ninja like businessman like Bill Gates?
For managing files i had an almost graphic set of utilities named PC Tools made by Central Point Software, and of course, Norton commander.
I used CP/M to make a (real time) app for centralizing balance sheets of different production departments of a company in 1990 Romania, using Turbo Pascal on a Romanian 8 bit computer (yes, Cub means cube in Romanian, Z is from Zenu Zilog, with floppy disks only). Which later i used on a PC in Delphi graphic version at Qadramed.
(I remember on 8 bits CP/M did not have integers large enough for those numbers so i built a "custom" data type made of alphanumeric characters with procedures for adding and subtracting but it was still extraordinarily fast, given the fact turbo Pascal was close to C language).
Now i have on an originally 225 dollars PC with 500 Gigs of flash memory, which is what, 10000 times more, with Windows only occupying a few gigs, and Windows became the useless part around a browser (Chrome) which was developed by google using the free (volunteer made) Chromium.
With it, i can watch movies on Netflix and Prime and youtube.
What frustrates me the most this morning (actually was last night when i got home). I cannot easily go back and see what i've done. With all the sophistication of an 8 core processor and this huge, unused amount of memory, i cannot go back in time and see what i've done on it.
Windows has all kinda of logs with every tiny event (don't know if position of mouse is traced, but clicks surely), that are used internally.
The browser has a history of the visited sites, but some are missing, could not figure why. Then i installed an extension which is a bit better.
I know for a fact that each site and video you see (including/especially pictures) is downloaded on your PC or phone (the phone nowadays is nothing but a PC with a tiny display) or whatever and kept for a while. Do you remember that "clear cache, cookies and browser history" action recommended when your PC becomes slow? That thing called cache is actually that space on your hard drive or flash where all the viewed stuff is temporarily saved.
The reason is, if you go back within minutes or navigate back and forth within a site, the PC does not have to download it again. Even youtube videos are saved.
It's got limit settings, however, is not easily available to see if you are searching by example for a video you just watched that disappeared from online. I tried this morning for hours and could do nothing (especially because i've watched bunch of other videos after which may overwrite the limited size of cache).
So yes, we own this things but are slaves to them and the sites we visit, because we don't know and especially we don't have the software to use them at their real power and capabilities.