r_deckard
@r_deckard@lemmy.world
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 week ago:
Looks like Australia will profit. We have a lot of lithium, and some of the others, china’s been undercutting the price for a while.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Panasonic, or some of the European brands are good. Or you buy the largest 4K computer monitor that can afford.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
They’re designed and built to run 16/7 or similar. If you have TV on 16 hours a day, a commercial display is worth considering.
No, I’m not joking - I’ve seen folk who turn it on at sunrise, and off at bedtime.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got a few computers - my daily driver is Win10, there’s a media player still on 8.1 (only accesses music streams and it’s not spotify, it’s URLs like das-edge15-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a98345), the main pihole machine runs vanilla Debian, the backup pihole on a Raspberry Pi also running Debian, and a couple of older laptops also running Debian.
So no, I don’t plan to upgrade.
- Comment on “Huge win:” Federal Labor unveils $2.3bn plan to slash home battery costs by 30 pct 3 weeks ago:
Good - mine’s due for replacement. Hopefully it’ll also apply to off-grid scenarios.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 weeks ago:
I’ve still got a windows XP computer that I fire up once in a while for the LOLs. it continues to remind me that support ended in 2014, but it keeps working.
I also have a Windows 8.1 tablet that continues to work, and receive Windows Defender updates.
They won’t disable anything, stop spreading FUD, that’s Microsoft’s job.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft will sell it as a safety thing - your essential stuff is backed up to your Microsoft account, so in the event that your computer is compromised or damaged, you can wipe and start over with your important stuff restored from your Microsoft account.
Which is not a bad idea in itself, but the rest of the data harvesting and telemetry makes it yuck. I use pihole to block access to Microsoft telemetry servers.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
What, as a delimiter? Even some FOSS software uses spaces.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, that works, too.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
You know, if you copied those three lines into a text file, then saved it as bypassnro.cmd, you’ll have solved that problem.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
I put this in another thread: It’s not a big deal. They’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:
@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0
You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a big deal. They’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:
@echo off reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f shutdown /r /t 0
You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
Well, if I’ve got no way to bypass it (when setting up for customers), I’ll create an account specifically for this purpose.
And proceed to poison the hell out of any data it sends.
Does it still let you sign in locally if you disable network interfaces in BIOS?
- Comment on Alibaba doubles down on RISC-V architecture with a new secretive 'server-grade' chip that will put AMD and Intel on alert 1 month ago:
What, not even an IBM POWER 10 ?
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 1 month ago:
“All I said was ‘that piece of halibut was good enough for luigi’”
“BLASPHEMY”
“Luigi, luigi, luigi”
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 1 month ago:
I’ve still got the box, CD, and Manual for Aldus Pagemaker, but what I use is InDesign from CS6 - the last non-subscription version.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 2 months ago:
Audio playback is such a low-demand process, surely a player (e.g.VLC) can spare a thread to line up playback of track 2, a few seconds before track 1 ends? It knows the exact length of the track, why can’t track 2 be initiated when the audio level in track 1 drops to zero (or minus infinity dB) in the last frame?
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 5 months ago:
Infosys is a mistake. It’s a poor choice for anyone.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 5 months ago:
The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel…
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 5 months ago:
Pi-hole can block microsoft telemetry domains, just need to keep the blocklists up to date, and flush the Recall cache every day.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 5 months ago:
But you can feed a scrambled egg back to a chicken.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 5 months ago:
Last time I bought a Win 10 Pro DVD to install on a customer’s machine, it was AUD$195.00. And I still had to use powershell to de-provision some of the bullshit. Better than the Home version (AUD$165.00), at least I can use GPEDIT to disable some “features”.
Of course, a Windows licence on a pre-built Dell or HP would be a lot less.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 5 months ago:
“If you think this is expensive now, wait for 20 years” “Not a problem, I’ll be retired by then, it’ll be someone else’s problem”