FonsNihilo
@FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 6 months ago:
That’s alot easier to type out when you haven’t been a quadriplegic for 8 years.
I understand and to a point agree with your points.
But think of it from Nolans perspective. He referred to himself as a waste before he had this implant. Regardless of how awful Musk is, other people who do care have in Nolans words “Given him purpose” again and has changed his life in only positive ways. If even just for a few months/years he is able to start enjoying life again.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
Your an asshole. I’d highly recommend looking into this topic, you might be a victim of it aswell.
If you have ever driven on the road, you would know that not everyone drives perfectly, and do not drive as other drivers expect them too, and shit just happens that we cannot control.
While we all share the same road, we do not share the same page. That leads to people needing to hard brake/accelerate quickly/ect,ect,ect. Or other things happen that requires a driver to stop/accelerate/serve. Where I live we have a lot of deer and moose, and they cause alot, and I mean ALOT of accidents.
Or if you have ever driven in a modern car, most of them will tell you the local speed limit, but sometimes what the car says is the speed limit, and what the legal limit actually is are different, so say your in a 70 zone, but the car thinks it’s a 50 zone, the car think your speeding, when your actually not.
So anyways, what insurance companies are doing, are using the cars data and increasing insurance rates for people who have had hard breaks or “speeding” and other things that would make then a “risk”. Insurance companies have no fucking clue why the car did what it did, but for them it’s a reason to increase rates, when what probably happened was the driver prevented an accident from taking place.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Whats bizarre about a shady company forcing their BS and trying to maximize profits though you for as long as absolutely possible?
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
It’s not a moot point because unless people are explicitly looking for a Linux pre-installed PC, every pre built computer/laptop has a pre installed OS. If people are building their own PC, then there is a very high chance they know how to install a OS.
You don’t need to know how to install a OS on a fresh pre built system when it is already installed. Again, why bring up Anriod OS? It comes pre-installed, and 99% of people will use the same OS and let Andriod maintain itself, infact, unlike computers, changing or modifying your Andriod OS most likely will result in warranty being revoked, and on top of that, changing your OS/bootloader on andriod is MUCH harder then installing Windows. I’d even say it’s harder then installing most Linux distros.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Well apologize if my assumption was wrong.
But if you do work in IT then you know how people use technology.
And my entire argument is the regular user doesn’t know how to do most things on a computer.
You have installed Linux for family, if not for your help, would you family be using Linux? Could they have installed it alone, and maintain whatever distor they were using, without help?
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
I think it’s just you don’t understand what I am trying to say.
I’m not going to respond to your essay you wrote when most of your points were off topic, or you took mine out of context/didn’t understand entirely what I was trying to say.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
No, some Laptops exclusively don’t have Ethernet, but come with pre-installed wifi drivers. Worst case scenario you get a USB to ethernet adapter. Again, ethernet drivers are pre-installed. This entire point is just you making the problems and crying about them, even though solutions are easier to apply then it is to create this problem.
Also regarding your mother and your argument for me.
You said you moved her over, my entire argument is regular people have no idea how to do stuff like that alone. Your mother did not install or maintain the distro. It seems you do. So that entire argument doesn’t really have a leg to stand on, as it about non tech people working with tech without help.
Also what is your comment about me and Windows? Windows isn’t hard to break, but you need to know how to do it. To the regular people who don’t even what the control panel is will have an extremely hard time breaking Windows. I know how to break it, so I avoid breaking it. I don’t mess with Windows much anymore, I mess with Linux and I’m unintentionally breaking stuff kinda often, while just trying to make my Linux distros function in a way simular to what I’m used to on Windows.
Your arguments are grasping at straws at best.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
All features are available to an extent on Linux.
A free support service you can call is better then not having one to call.
I have years of experience with Linux, I know it can be easy, but it’s not easy for everyone.
You have never worked in IT or an enterprise level job, and you really have no clue how hopeless people are with technology.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Iv only ever called to reactivate Windows 7 licenses on win10, but yes they were very helpful and were quick. Didn’t try to stop me or tell me I couldn’t do it anymore.
For basic things iv heard it works, not good for more complex things.
But most people who don’t troubleshoot probably aren’t calling for anything complex.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Sigh, I know andriod is based on Linux, yet work differently and one has been mass adopted by the average user and can use it pretty well (Andriod).
Andriod, Windows, and MacOS/iOS I guess because we’re covering all angles are all mass adopted software that is relatively locked down, idiot proofed, and does alot of background cleanup /maintenance. I guess the point I failed to get across is if people want a mass adaptation of Linux, people have to learn to troubleshoot/Linux needs an idiot proofed distro that is easy to use for beginners, does alot of maintenance automatically, and feels natural to use, and offers quick and painless solutions, that the average user is capable of doing. Also the more it’s tied into Microsoft/Google the harder it will be to move away and find alternatives with the same ease of use. Like even the first part of Linux can be overwhelming for beginners. What distro do you pick? It’s not as simple as install Linux and your PC just works.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
AtlasOS is a team of people who try to minimize the amount of Microsoft bloat and trash on fresh installs of Windows 10/11.
If you aren’t ready to run another OS AtlasOS is a good middle ground.
The web page is a little off putting as it’s marketed towards gamers, but overall the script they include to reduce the trash is really good. I don’t use my PC for games much, but the overall OS is much faster. Feels snappy like Windows 7 did, but it’s nice and modern, and it still receives regular windows updates/security updates.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Idiot proofing. One click solutions. Compatibility with an overwhelming amount of stuff. A support line I can call to get help troubleshooting my issues. Decades of documented issues and solutions all in one place designed to be read easily. A system that alot of other people use and are all compatible with each other.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
I could be. Haven’t been to grade school in 12 years.
Been to post secondary again recently and they were all running Windows/MacOS.
But my argument still remains, Chromebook are locked down versions of Andriod. Very idiot proof, and from what I hear, decently reliable. But they all have/are capable of running the Microsoft office Suite. They are heavily tied to Microsoft still. Windows isn’t the dominant OS because it’s the best OS. It’s because it’s runs “flawlessly” with the Suite, and overall for the average user, it just works. Not perfect, but good enough to not want to change it. If you want to get away from Windows, you need to get away from Microsoft environments. What Microsoft has done is everyone who went to school in the last 30 years learned Windows, they learned the Microsoft suite. I still hear “open it in word” all the time. I was taught to use PowerPoint/Word in gradeschool, excel/office in Post secondary. My younger sister graduated a couple years ago, and she was taught the suite aswell. She used Windows at school, and her MacOS at home.
How do you break away from something you were programmed to use? I can type up an essay so much after in word then any Linux/MacOS alternative. Simply because I have decades of experience with word and with Windows keyboard shortcuts. I think most people who use office for work are in the same boat as me.
And these kids are already in the workforce. 2 years ago I was in IT, and even people calling help desk who were early 20’s and they had no clue how to even troubleshoot their iPhone/andriod. They don’t want to, it’s easier just to call a help desk, and there are help desks for everything now.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Yes, I use 2 modern versions of Linux. Ubuntu, and SteamOS. I have broken both several times. Granted, I was trying some more complicated stuff, but I still managed to break them.
Windows while you can still corrupt it, has more then 1 method already pre-installed to help recover data in emergency, while not the best, there already there, and if they work, they will get the job done.
Your response about your Windows installation is entirely a nitpicky you problem, that isn’t a problem for 99% of people, or it is by design.
Don’t want to plug in a USB driver with your wifi drivers? Plug in an ethernet cable. Windows already has REALTEK/Intel network drivers. It can automatically download your wifi drivers for you. Windows doesn’t get you the latest GPU drivers on purpose. New drivers can be a little unstable, or have some bugs, so Windows delays adding those to Windows updates, because Microsoft doesn’t want to launch unstable updates. Now for your final comment about how you moved your mom over. I’m calling BS/she has had a tech sons help. Based on your biase to Linux, i’m going to say there is much more to that story. No learning curve from chrome/Explorer to Firefox? No issues or performance loss? When the rare time occurs, can she install a program she is trying to get?
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
I can totally see why thru refused Linux.
In my opinion, Linux’s biggest weakness is that it doesn’t idiot proof itself. That’s why it will never go beyond running a server that only qualified technicians will ever be able to touch. That’s why businesses/people who don’t want to trouble shoot pcs get Windows or MacOS. Linux is not for them, yet.
Unless a enterprise version of some distro ever launches (that is for users, not servers) and has a usesble alternative to the MMC to mass control user groups and idiot proof the hell out of the distro, for the average person it won’t be useable before too long.
I used to work in IT, and even on heavly locked down laptops, people still found ways to corrupt the OS/programs on Windows (Chrome, Outlook,MS office suit, ect). Someone would complain their outlook is slow/doesn’t work, and you find out they managed to get outlook to reload 20k+ emails every time they close and reopen the app. Or their chrome won’t load a web page, and you find out chromes got 20gigs of web pages/pictures/cookies, ect that they never cleared. Dates on some files go back over a decade. I even had someone who managed to change their default boot drive somehow. I don’t know if that one ever got resolved.
If people can’t even manage to maintain a web browser or a desktop email app, there is no way they will be able to use Linux. Linux requires a little more then basic knowledge to use properly. I’m pretty literate with tech/PCs, but I ruined my first few Linux distros just by trying to set it up the way I wanted it set up. Even now, a few years later, I still have tons to learn. I still feel like an amature with Linux, and I use it most days.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Uhhhhh no. That would not work. Sorry to be so blunt, but I’ll explain way it wont:
No gradeschool anywhere is going to simply move to Linux from Windows because their systems are outdated. Microsoft pays a huge roll in the educational systems around the world. Most often they will offer their software for free, as long as the students are trained on Microsoft programs. It’s considered to be a long term investment by Microsoft. Most school boards cannot simply drop Windows for Linux.
A better business opportunity would be to just mass buy these outdated computers, get Rufus to remove the TPM 2.0 requirement, reinstall Windows, resell PCs.
Do you think someone who uses their PC for Facebook is going to want to learn how to use Linux? What will they do if/when they break it?
2 major and key difference between Linux and Windows for the average user is: 1.Windows protects the user from breaking the OS. 2. Peripherals and everything else just work on windows. Everything for the average user, it just works. Plug it in, and Windows takes care of it.
For the average person who just wants to turn their PC on and use it, Windows/MacOS just work.
Or even simpler business idea: Offer a reinstallation of Windows without TPM for the user for a fee.
Unfortunately just because ~%4 of PC users want Linux to be the norm, doesn’t mean it will.
- Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 8 months ago:
It does matter, and parts of them do stop working.
Older devices that no longer security updates are vulnerable to exploitation.
The Google play store won’t let you download certain apps if you are behind on andriod versions.
The phone does slow down as it ages, solutions are time consuming to keep phone up to speed.
The battery degrades and it gets harder and harder to replace a battery with each generation of phone that comes out.
Cases/screen protectors are rare and expensive as they are no longer being produced.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
Spez already sold reddit. He doesn’t care what happens to reddit. The only thing spez cares about now is his bank accounts growth.
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 9 months ago:
The only thing they fear is you - Doom Eternal OST composed by Mick Gordon
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
I don’t know dude. I’m just a Canadian trying to get by.
Maybe political just need to be good people and make laws that benefit us and not themselves and cooperations?
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
Would it? There is a lot of technology out there that we aren’t too aware of.
Some examples from the past: The internet was a military tool that was in use in the 1960’s.
Siri was originally a military project. The version originally launched in 2015 was deployed in the US military as early as 2007. I’m not saying siri is a powerful tool, but for what it was in 2015, it started the Ai helper crap we have today.
Little boy and Fat Man - Ended ww2. Very secret.
Powerful tools are hidden. General AI would be the most powerful tool ever built. There would be no confirmation it exists until it’s been fully deployed under our noses.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
Right, so with this logic we should ban smart phones because they can pirate digital media.
The device was not ment to steal cars, just as smart phones aren’t designed to pirate media.
Also unlike the smart phone and its abilityto priate content, this device cannot steal cars. It might be able to steal a car from the 90’s without a proper secure key FOB.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
Remember the rumors that Altman was fired because he found a breakthrough in general AI?
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
I don’t know, maybe a LAW that forces companies to eat the cost?
But hey even with our carbon tax, our Canadian companies are still making yearly record, so that’d good right?
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Your an idiot.
Just because I complain about something with carbon tax in it’s name does not mean I am against global warming or climate change.
Go back to reddit.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Yeah, buy taxing them properly, and not just putting the tax on the individual
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide 9 months ago:
Naw it’s pretty grindy from the getgo. First example that comes to mind: Battery cell upgrades.
Also there is alot of good armour with a lot of good passives, and if you want to benefit ftom them, you need to grnd more resources.
I’ll take my LOZ as an adventure game, not a loot fletching.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide 9 months ago:
I will never update Totk. The absolute last thing I want to do in a LOZ game is grind resources for hours.
- Comment on Fact 9 months ago:
Well if buying digital media isn’t owning it…
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
Think you and the other Geeks in Europe can fix it all in a few hours/days?
Microsoft leaving Europe would devastate supply chains. Probably eradicate most of them actually.
What do you do when you loose access to the Exel files with all the information? Shit, how many programmers exclusively use VS Code? Remember when COVID was a thing and people couldn’t get toilet paper?
But yeah, Fuck Microsoft! Who needs them anyways?