• xxd
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    2 months ago

    I love that you had such an annoying update experience that you went ahead and created 2 memes about it and postet into a total of 4 communities, only to vent your frustration. Keep going, this is great!

    • Jolteon
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      32 months ago

      Wasn’t that one just a logarithmic progression?

  • atocci
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    242 months ago

    Is it actually measuring progress of anything as it’s happening, or do they just update the percentage when it passes certain milestones? So many progress bars are just straight-up lies that slowly increment a number until the real process finishes and it shoots to 100% from wherever it was at before.

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      They do not generally reflect time passed but amount of task done.

      For example, let’s say you have 100 files to configure as part of an update or installation. 99 of them are really small files that fly by, but the last one is a few gigabytes of data that needs to be configured. The bar might hang on that one really large file, then fly by the rest of the process as these files are very small and go quickly.

      • @shoki
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        22 months ago

        In this case the progress bar should show the percentage of processed data, but just using the amount of tasks or number of files is quicker and most often than not works fine

        • bountygiver [any]
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          22 months ago

          even then it would not be accurate, difference in file systems and storage medium would cause performance difference of processing many small files vs few large files. In TWRP when backing up, it would just straight up show you both progress and neither of them would advance linearly.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      Windows update is definitely milestones. 30% is the “reboot milestone” so if it shows less, it needs to reboot to finish applying.

  • @9point6
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    172 months ago

    Nah, there should definitely be spikes at 30% & 70%

  • @iAvicenna
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    32 months ago

    the most important parts are left to last %0