Pirata
@Pirata@lemm.ee
- Comment on You wouldn't steal a font 13 hours ago:
Always the same gadlighters trick: acuse others of doing what you are doing.
- Comment on Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps ... yet | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!
You’re most welcome!
Which a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back.
And yes, I completely 100% agree. Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.
Anyways, best of luck to you in the future!
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
Hey, so I just tested this and you’re right, it doesn’t work as you described.
I suppose I unconsciously found workarounds and just ran with it.
For the examples you mentioned:
I’m is achieved by typing ’ and then space.
ç you can get with AltGr+<
The other two, I have no idea what they are, but I trust your judgment.
I also went around some forums and yeah it appears other people report it doesn’t work as it should. A bummer.
Maybe there already are some custom keyboard layouts out there you can download?
To get
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
I hear you but, let me get this straight: Windows fleeced you out of a technology they were supposed to support for the years to come, and you’re upset at Linux and still wish to stay with Windows? Lol.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
Sounds lovely, thank you for that feedback. I’m very excited to try. I’m gonna try to install Aurora OS (immutable) and boot from a pendrive on my wife’s Mac (it has an Intel processor still, so it should be fine). If everything works well, I’m sure shell be very happy.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
That problem was present in both distros, and I even went so far as to unsuccessfully edit system files to get the desired behaviour.
What desired behaviour are you talking about exactly?
Because I have used those exact two distros, also with deadkeys since I type in Portuguese and Spanish alongside English, and deadkeys works just fine for me.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
- To use Windows only and legacy software.
This is a fair point. If you’re a creator and need adobe software then Linux is pretty much a no go. However, a lot of windows software have Linux equivalents (and those
- Some laptops don’t support Linux due to missing drivers. are generally free as well), so its a matter of doing research.
If you pick the right distribution it may include all the drivers you need. So far I tested 5 distributions and they all worked straight out of the box. I’ll test Linux on a Mac this afternoon and see how it goes, but I’m optimistic it will just work also.
Some very old people hate change and would want to use windows 10 till the end of times, matter of fact I had seen a full office with about 5 desktops that is still running windows xp. (Spoiler alert:they got a ransomware 2 years ago.)
Fine. These people who refuse to adapt to the world can just keep using windows. No skin off my nose either way.
finally, Windows is idiot proof, meaning that it’s kind of hard to ruin desktop windows during the normal operations. In comparison, a bad Linux update could fuck your boot loader beyond repair (it happened to me twice in fact, once on openSUSE tumbleweed and the other on Clear Linux).
Now this “idiot proof” take is really funny. You see, I’ve been using Mint for about a month now, never having to log into Windows. Yesterday I needed to log into windows and was immediately met with an update (against my consent), followed by a blue screen of death and when I restarted my laptop my profile couldn’t be acceded and I was instead logged into a safe Environment.
I ended up having to troubleshoot using the Registry to get my account back. If this is idiot proof I have no idea what you consider a system that just works (which is what Linux does in my experience). You’d feel like Heaven is on Earth.
As for the issues you had, I understand. Rolling releases aren’t for everyone and if you’re not particularly into tinkering or just use your laptop to browse the web, an immutable distro is pretty much unbreakable.
Otherwise, Linux Mint is very conservative so it won’t break with updates (and in the rare instance that does, you can just use Timeshift to rollback the updates anyway).
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
I don’t have experience with setting up networks on Linux, but Ubuntu should have some guides available, no?
In any case, I was speaking from the perspective of someone who used Linux Mint and Fedora. Both work pretty much out of the box with little tinkering.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
Which distribution did you try?
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
Why even bother at this point? Linux has become so good it’s actually easier and more familiar to use than the clusterfuck that is windows 11.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 days ago:
Well, if you go back to my original comment, all I said was that Tesla owners were clearly not paying attention to even their News notifications on their phones, since Musk’s presence is ubiquitous. Tesla’s multitude of issues is equally as well-known.
That said, I didn’t wish anybody any harm for buying a Tesla, although they probably will get harmed when the “self-driving” feature inevitably sends them speeding into a brick wall.
But buying that garbage car was their choice.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 days ago:
Like the other guy said, Elon Musk is public about his shittiness. In the beginning didn’t even care about him, and yet I couldn’t escape him because he was constantly on the news.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 4 days ago:
They just weren’t paying attention then because Musk has always been exactly that.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 4 days ago:
Switzerland going the usual “appeasement” route with fascists, as per usual.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 days ago:
Interesting how other instances of the fediverse have no such restrictions. It’s almost as if they want to make it as difficult as possible so that people just don’t federate.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Why hello there
- Comment on Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future 5 days ago:
People clean sleeves (fleshlights) on the regular
I don’t imagine that to be the happiest activity. The post-nut clarity must be insane.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 5 days ago:
They’ll just make it a crime and pretend you were wrong all along. We’re not playing by moral rules anymore.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 5 days ago:
I think their initial selling point was that Eventually©®™ Bluesky would federate with the rest of the Fediverse.
Is anybody really surprised that a social media corporation didn’t make it their utmost priority to allow their userbase to connect out of their proprietary platform?
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 5 days ago:
This was always bait to keep people using corporate social media instead of decentralizing. I am not sorry for the users one bit.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 6 days ago:
Lol.
Lmao even.
- Comment on I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. 6 days ago:
They get paid 500k a year.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 6 days ago:
Fprfef by Harvard university? :)
I have no issues believing that number because the Chinese standard of living has been rising substantially as the decades go. That is trivial to confirm.
You’re the one who should be more skeptical of anything that comes from the US, but somehow the same standards are never applied there. I wonder why.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 6 days ago:
Yeah yeah, keep telling yourself that buddy.
I’m sure you also used that cope when Harvard university (that well-known Chinese university) found out that 95.5% of Chinese people are happy with their government, compared to only 38% of USians.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 6 days ago:
People on Lemmy are really good at seeing past capitalist propaganda, except when it comew to China. At that point it’s just straight up state department talking points.
- Comment on Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules 1 week ago:
Cool. Is anything gonna happen? No? Then who cares. Just smoke and mirrors.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
It will take way longer for them to shut down all individual servers than it takes them to ask 1 company to shut down individual posts.
Not to mention the dissent that arrises from one server being asked to shut down, how many others would suddenly start hosting anti-turkey regime stuff.
Its like piracy: you can’t really shut it down.
- Comment on Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout 1 week ago:
Had me in the first half xD
- Comment on Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout 1 week ago:
Its opt-in, in the same way the co-pilot that one day just appeared installed on your computer was opt-in. /s