Post #2410211
2026-05-11 22:04 UTC
Replies (8)
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-11 22:06
@hailey@hails.org i was not prepared for this.
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@oilheap@infosec.exchange 2026-05-11 22:41
@hailey@hails.org @osnews@mstdn.social doesn't Android also do this on app startup?
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@Aradia@weirder.earth 2026-05-11 23:05
@hailey@hails.org @osnews@mstdn.social Surprisingly, this is not the first time a Microsoft product has done this. https://community.spiceworks.com/t/microsoft-veterans-worst-bug-to-be-shipped-with-windows-was-from-the-most-unexpected-place/1239088 "Dave’s game engine for Space Cadet Pinball [a game shipped with Windows 95] would end up hogging an entire CPU core due to the lack of a frame rate limiter." The test engineers at my company used to run Space Cadet Pinball on our test workstations to max out the CPU while they tested out our software!
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@arcterus@wafrn.vaguely.art 2026-05-12 00:12
@hailey@hails.org @osnews@mstdn.social They might as well keep it at max permanently, not like the rest of the system runs any better
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@wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social 2026-05-12 00:27
@hailey@hails.org I'm surprised that the CPU would not already clock up when opening an application in Windows. Surely that constant CPU demand would make it run at full speed. I guess not.
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@hazelnot@sunbeam.city 2026-05-12 08:02
@hailey@hails.org @osnews@mstdn.social wait what he said macOS, Gnome, and KDE Plasma do the same thing and I am very suspicious of that claim but also not knowledgeable enough to know if it's bullshit or not 💀
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@robinkunde@hachyderm.io 2026-05-12 19:00
@hailey@hails.org in the Wintel days, they’d have added a start menu coprocessor or dedicated instruction set extension
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@ticky@slime.global 2026-05-14 01:03
@hailey@hails.org lol… genius, really