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- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 10 minutes ago:
OHH dammit it wasn’t that hard, I really didn’t make the connection sorry lol
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 4 hours ago:
Understood, thanks for the clarifications (…though sorry but I still didn’t understand the “exfat is widely supported b6 “everything”” part lol)
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 4 hours ago:
not sure exactly what metadata you mean, i don’t really know well about NTFS’s advanced features. i just tend to have some version of windows installed in another partition or a drive and ocasionally copy files from and to it, never had any issues.
Mostly the common user-facing properties stuff like date created/modified/taken, did everything get saved/transferred correctly or is it just something you didn’t personally care about?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 4 hours ago:
Start up virtualbox or any virtual machine on your windows machine and test drive a few different distributions until you find one you like.
Spin up virtual box again and restore your machine into it. You may have license activation issues but you’ll have access your data. Move your data out of the VM and onto your home folder.
My plan was to, respectively, try distros from live versions and transferring files by copy-pasting everything onto a different drive and back, are there benefits in doing them the ways you suggested instead?
Also note that win11 isn’t nearly as bad as people here say.
Ehh… I tried booting that other “test” PC that I have with W11 and I got a ton of random popups, plus I really don’t like the interface and all the stuff baked in like CoPilot and Recall. I know you can disable them in some way, but if I have to go through the hassle of doing that (plus circumventing the hardware requirements), I might as well use that time to try and understand Linux a bit.
Linux has malware. It’s just different.
First time I hear this, what do you mean? Other commenters said that the permission structure prevents them, are there malware who circumvent that or do you mean like phishing/baiting you into giving permissions to a trojan?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 4 hours ago:
Thanks for the answers!
I’m pretty sure there’s no problem with NTFS on Linux now, but I don’t guarantee though…
I heard I might have some metadata issues due to it being a reverse-enginereed version, I assume in your experience that didn’t happen?
It surely can corrupt a file e.g. you run a document editor in WINE and the program crashes while the file is open.
So I assume I should still check for compatibility before running something that opens other files, I guess?
What you’re looking for is “Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 21H2”.
Understood, 21H2 and 2021 are two names for the same thing, correct?
But anyway, I don’t recommend regular Win10, just switch to IoT LTSC :)
Yeah, the options are in order of preference so of course regular W10 would be the worst option, I asked just in case I didn’t manage to activate it in time (are there any downsides to activating it with massgrave and the others compared to buying a key from… certain sites? It’s relatively cheap so I wouldn’t mind but if it’s exactly the same I might as well save some bucks)
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 5 hours ago:
1c: Firefox profiles are fully portable to any other Firefox install.
I knew they had an export/sync feature, but does it include stuff like browser history as well?
1e: Nothing. It doesn’t touch any of your filesystems unless YOU touch them. Don’t delete anything, and you’re fine. It should even automount your existing identified partitions for you to browse through.
I was mostly afraid of deleting something by mistake since I don’t know much about how the commands work, but by your reply I assume it’s not something easy to do unintentionally (?)
2-3: I wouldn’t even bother trying to figure any of this out, because Microsoft constantly changes their mind about this, and they’ll soon just force you into this abomination of Windows 12 they’ve been talking about recently.
Yeah, I’d avoid doing that too, but I have a lot of hoarded stuff and might still need a windows partition in case some of my friends really want to play something with anti-cheat. Of course, even if I do end up going the LTSC way for the main pc, I’m still gonna try and learn Linux at the same time on the secondary one, I know it’s just delaying the inevitable.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 5 hours ago:
Thanks for the answers!
exfat is widely supported b6 “everything”
Sorry, could you ELI5 this part? (and I heard exFAT doesn’t have journaling so a power outage could result in data loss, did they add it or should I get an UPS just in case?)
So in other words, if you boot from a live USB, you have to actually try to ruin anything on your disk - I’m having a hard time imagining how one would do this by accident.
So my persistent storage isn’t mounted by default when I boot from a live version, correct? And if I do mount something, it should still be ok unless I do some weird specific thing with the CLI?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 6 hours ago:
I posted it here because it had some non-Linux related questions, but where would you suggest posting it otherwise? Simply on !linux@programming.dev?
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- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 day ago:
I’ll admit I’m not that informed in the field, but did Samsung have any controversies that caused everyone to consider it worse than Chinese-owned companies? The only negative I’m aware of is that their stuff is really overpriced.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 weeks ago:
So sure, all you “non-essential” personnel stay home. We saw how useless your jobs were during COVID. After this day, your companies will see that too and well, you can easily participate in more of these without fear of losing the job you don’t have.
I respect the ideal of a General Strike
It really doesn’t seem like you do, to be fair.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 1 month ago:
To encourage people to use the auto-generated ones and normalizing it.
I mean, I don’t see any other reason for them to remove a previously working format otherwise.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
to me this is the same as good hip-hop versus people who just rap random shit over premade hip-hop beats. It’s “art” but its just no high quality (which makes sense why sense why would we want to limit it on a site).
I still don’t think it’s the same, even the guy who rapped random shit over someone else’s beat put MUCH more effort and input into the “song” than the random prompt guy.
The line gets blurry when you talk about stuff like Duchamp’s readymades, which are considered “art” by a reasoning that you could easily apply to the prompt guy song too. Just goes to show how literally everyone has a different definition of “art”, and even a single person’s definition might be contradictory in itself.
One thing I wonder is if you make a recommendation system that generates new music purely based on what previous music you liked (That was also generated by AI) who is the artist? Think like spotify but the AI keeps creating new music based on what you like from it. In the end I feel you are the artist of that song then no? Your recommendations then created whatever final song you listened to.
Ehh… that’s just an indirect commission. For example, the Prince of Wales in 1876 was gifted by the Maharaja of Jaipur some british usage items crafted by the city’s artisans that were specifically made as a gift to him. But the “artist” in this situation is not the prince whose taste was tailored to, nor the Maharaja who commissioned them, it’s still the individual artisans.
In the case of the algorithm-made song, you basically “commissioned” to it a song made for your tastes, and it “gifted” it to you. But it’s still the algorithm who “made” it, not you. And personally, unless you take it and consciously edit/remix it in some way, I wouldn’t label it as “art”. But again, it’s a blurry subject and that’s just my opinion.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
All forms of human production carry some artistic value, we simply value things where the production process feels less alienated than others (Carpentry vs factory work)
And we agree on that, I think most people do. What they don’t agree on is what qualifies a “human production”. Or, to which degree does a human have to get involved in a production for that to be considered “human”.
I think there’s a gigantic difference between someone composing a song and writing its lyrics, then pasting it into an AI and having it sing it (basically Vocaloid), and a guy going onto Suno, writing “make me a pop song”, and taking the first output. And they shouldn’t be treated the same way.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
I think there’s a place for AI in music, just like sampling, and it has to be regulated, but not straight-up banned (or regulated in a muddy way like “substantially made by AI”).
It doesn’t help that everyone has their own personal opinion on how much AI should be allowed, though, and we’re never gonna reach a solution that everyone agrees on.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 1 month ago:
Oh, good to know, thanks!
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
That’s what I said right after
(Obviously the whole situation applies to the apathetic/apolitical ones, the “actively fighting against other peoples causes because they aren’t your own” bunch can go fuck themselves)
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
The ones in the US barely have any excuse, I agree, but it’s better to leave it late than never. Then eventually when Instagram enshittifies under that aspect too they’ll find another platform (hopefully on the fediverse).
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
Yeah, unfortunately this was the best article I could find in English, better than nothing I guess.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
I’m not necessarily saying this is the case for these artists, but the sad truth is the current society is perfectly engineered to make the average worker as apathetic as possible.
You work 8 hours a day not counting commute and meals, which means you’re left with very little free time, and you’re really tired on top of that. Plenty of people choose to spend that time doing things that actually make them happy or relaxed, instead of looking at the state of the world and being even more sad because of learned (or sometimes even actual) helplessness.
Of course, it would be better if they didn’t, but can you really blame them when the system is stacked against us?
(Obviously the whole situation applies to the apathetic/apolitical ones, the “actively fighting against other peoples causes because they aren’t your own” bunch can go fuck themselves)
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
I’m not saying every Japanese person still on there is unaware of that, but the general coverage is MUCH smaller than what you get if you’re in English-speaking spaces.
I also heavily doubt someone of korean origins like Boichi is a Sanseito supporter, but that’s just my guess.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, the two “big names” I know of (Boichi and Kei Urana) are both going to Instagram.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
I know, I just couldn’t find a better term to distinguish the two. I’m sorry if that sounded diminishing to them, it was definitely not my intention.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
I think all the uproar is about new Grok functions that allow you to edit with AI and repost (aka distribute) images directly from within Xitter (I’m not sure that this is the case but I’m definitely not going to log in that thing to verify that).
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
“Actual artists” as opposed to “fanartists”, in the sense of “people who are under contract and are hired to do art as a job”.
Of course I’m not saying people who don’t have a team aren’t “real artists”, it was just a way to differentiate fanartists from people like Boichi.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
Ehh… it’s one of the biggest platforms in Japan, and if it starts pissing off that fanbase it’s not a good look. Definitely won’t “die” either, but it might be a considerable hit (and hopefully boost for the Fediverse, or at least Bluesky).
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
Absolute facts. Also it’s one thing when it’s fanartists which just do that as a past time, but actual artists should have a dedicated team and it really shouldn’t be hard to crosspost on multiple platforms, should it…?
It’s just free visibility that they’re ignoring, definitely a huge head scratcher.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
Generally in Japan they don’t see much of Elon’s “prowesses”, so I can kinda understand why artists like him might not have caught wind of the Nazi direction the platform has taken until it actually hit them.
And yes, Ignorantia non excusat, but it’s still something, at least.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 months ago:
Yes, unfortunately Boichi is leaving… for Instagram.
But hopefully this is at least a wake-up call for some artists that they should really consider leaving for platforms with “less malicious intentions”. Maybe one day someone as big as him will decide to go fediverse, we can only hope.
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