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  • There are vast differences between Windows home and Windows pro and Windows Enterprise editions as far as how easy it is to control and block off the annoyance ware that Microsoft builds into it.

    If you use deployment software to roll out your images after standardizing them and have a set image that you can deploy to a thousand computers as easily as one then it’s very simple to sign in with a local domain account and disable the windows things through a group policy and just start rocking and rolling whereas your average Windows home user is not going to even have access to GPO and we’ll have to tediously for each and every single computer every single time they reset it redo all of the things to disable all of Microsoft’s crap activation.

    They are not entirely different but definitely distinct versions of Windows and dismissing the home and non-enterprise users that their experience is inferior to your experience on the Enterprise side is what I’m saying is disingenuous









  • I’ve had this conversation before.

    I live in a geodesic dome and the finished basement is always noticeably cooler than the main floor and top floor.

    As a test, I got a blower fan and put it at the basement stairs blowing the air from the very bottom of the house up towards the middle floor.

    After about a day the temperatures equalized enough that it was difficult to tell the difference between the Middle floor and the basement.

    Doing that causes the colder air to mix in with the warmer air upstairs, and the registers pull the warmer air in and blow out dehumidified air back into the basement, so no moisture build up.

    The only downside is the noise and energy costs to run a fan. Probably 400 watts.

    What I want to do is get a 4 inch duct fan and place that in the wall and run ducting from the basement up to the top floor so that the cold air is constantly being reblendid back up with the rest of the air upstairs.

    I feel like that would use much less power and do a decent job of blending the two.

    Maybe you can find something like that that will work for you.