Move out to a rural area were our speeds are mind-numbingly slow and you can still experience the phenomenon you describe. Only problem is now a days there isn't much you can do about it if forced to use Windows.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You used to be able to tell what every process was doing on your computer. Nowadays there are so many processes running and they all have tons of child processes that you can't tell what is doing what.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

This is why I use Linux

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even on Linux where it's easy to find what any running service does, the are so many

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

This is why I use a distro that doesn’t add lots of extra bullshit I don’t need