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- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 3 hours ago:
I’ve been dailying Linux for over a decade at this point so you don’t need to convince me, and I’ll just spin up a Windows VM for things aren’t picky about baremetal OS installs, but also don’t play nice with WINE.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 1 week ago:
Not going to help when you have a monopoly over the user-generated content field like YT and by extension Google basically does.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 1 week ago:
Only Freetube is being actively attacked by Google and Invidious is basically dead.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 weeks ago:
Not in the traditional sense anyways.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 weeks ago:
Vo-techs at least kinda have to be based on the types of things they tend to teach.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know that was a thing. Cool!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 weeks ago:
Or even actually show what they learned in a practical sense.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 weeks ago:
And virt-manager is pretty solid for hobbyist tinkering too.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 weeks ago:
This is why KVM is a good option, or even Hyper-V for Windows hosts.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 weeks ago:
How long before Respondus introduces an education equivalent of BattlEye as a result of stuff like this?
And I don’t mean the Lockdown browser, I mean something beyond that.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 3 weeks ago:
If this literal malware (I say that because again, what MS is proposing here is what some actual viruses used to do) gets ported to the Enterprise and IoT SKUs, the people who work on this stuff for a living at the local call center or public school district are going to have a nightmare on their hands.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 3 weeks ago:
Looks like this isn’t ripe for abuse in any way…
sarcasm - Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 3 weeks ago:
More like MS enabling Bitlocker and causing data loss without the user knowing about it, something that’s been pissing a lot of people off lately, and forced obsolescence refers to Win11 blocking everything prior to Zen+ and Coffee Lake, compounded with Win10 going EOL soon, which has at least the intended effect of making people buy a new PC even if their old PC is still good otherwise, and not all people are comfortable with having to sign up for an online account just to install their OS and would rather make a local account if possible; MS recently axed the workaround which enabled that for the consumer versions of Windows.
Also, I didn’t know local backups of your data ala simply copying it to an external drive at the minimum, weren’t an option that existed anymore.
sarcasm - Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 3 weeks ago:
So, forced Bitlocker, forced obsolescence of otherwise still viable hardware, forced online accounts, and Copilot/Recall make Win11 the best PC OS?
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking more in terms of MS locking out everything prior to Coffee Lake or Zen+ from running Win11, rendering a lot of otherwise still viable hardware obsolete, killing off Win10 GAC, and essentially forcing the purchase of a new PC with Win11 installed.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 3 weeks ago:
If Win11 adoption is really massive, it’s because MS forced it down people’s throats.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 4 weeks ago:
I thought this was never going to get ported to GOG. Sweet!
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 4 weeks ago:
I hope I’m not the only one in here who nuked my Reddit account voluntarily after they started ramping up censorship.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
I ditched Reddit because the writing’s on the wall for them becoming a complete hellscape with their ramping up of censorship recently, and I jumped ship before that Titanic sinks.
- Comment on Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. 1 month ago:
I’d more likely argue they’re facilitating it, but that’s just me.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 month ago:
Adobe’s been starting to get some pushback and people ditching them for FOSS alternatives lately, though.
- Comment on Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was? 1 month ago:
Head Cleaner unironically sounds like something a group really would’ve called themselves.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 details: Screen size, controllers, storage, microphone chat and games 1 month ago:
The fact that Nintendo is trying to bring back literal license dongles with their Game-Key Card, when dongle DRM died in the '80s for games for a reason, don’t help matters.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 month ago:
The ‘not leaving centralized services’ thing isn’t really helped when there’s basically no other viable alternatives, like is the case with YT. PeerTube exists, sure, but it’s a content desert, sadly.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 1 month ago:
Google’s been attacking those lately, mostly to success (Piped and Invidious are effectively dead, ViewTube is also dead, and FreeTube’s a target now).
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 1 month ago:
Nothing’s stopping you from nuking your Windows install and installing some Linux distro though, at least on PC.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 1 month ago:
Blender at least has gotten to the point where an indie flick made with it actually won some Oscars and other big awards, so that pretty much put it on the map as a viable Maya or 3DSMax alternative, so there’s that.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 1 month ago:
No it’s not, multiplayer games with anticheat that hard-locks you into Windows and productivity software with DRM that hard-locks you into Windows is still a thing, if that were to stop being a thing, then Windows’ dominance on the desktop might finally be threatened, but until then, sadly, no.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 month ago:
That applies for PeerTube, Matrix, Pixelfed, and Mastodon as well.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 month ago:
I’d argue Lemmy and other decentralized platforms are the last bastion for free speech instead of Reddit though.