megane_kun
@megane_kun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.
Can also be found at lemm.ee, lemmy.world, and Kbin.social.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
Thanks for the explanation. Prior to our exchange, I didn’t even know such a thing is possible. It’s wonderful, though to be honest, being as technologically klutzy as I am, I might find it easier to just buy a different set of hardware for my win10 to use, if ever, and disable any networking capabilities (because if it’s no longer supported, it needs to be taken offline).
Again, thanks!
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
I swear, I can read the first part of your first sentence just fine, but I don’t understand what it means, lol!
I tried to look it up, and as far as I understood it, it’s a technique that allows a virtual machine to access a physical GPU directly. I guess that means that even if your VM is elsewhere (a server or wherever) it can still use the GPU you have. But the more relevant part is that since your Win10 install is on a VM, it can’t do shit on the rest of your system, and the GPU access is just there so that it won’t run as slow as shit when gaming, right?
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
Huh, that’s interesting. I’ve gotten used to using the Grub menu every time I had to reboot (which is quite often), but it defaults to the Linux installation (auto-selects the Linux install after a timeout), so if I want to go to Windows, I’ll just have to make sure I catch the Grub menu.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
I’ve kept a Windows 10 install on a separate SSD for the programs that stubbornly refuse to run on Linux (games, in my case). However, I won’t be upgrading that to Windows 11. If Microsoft insists I upgrade to Windows 11, I’ll just reclaim that SSD for other purposes and use Linux exclusively.
- Comment on Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 1 year ago:
That time was when I was forced to switch from Windows 7. I switched to Linux, found that I can do there most things I usually do on a computer anyways, and never looked back. It reached to the point that someone had to give me an entire SDD with a windows installation just to coax me to use Windows 10. I rarely touch it nowadays, and every time I do, I end up being frustrated with it.