Pirata
@Pirata@lemm.ee
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 4 hours ago:
Cool. Won’t affect me, but good to know.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off 3% of workforce in biggest round of cuts since 2023 - report 1 day ago:
I expect them to give shareholders and directors a haircut before laying off workers, yes.
But we know Microsoft never does that.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off 3% of workforce in biggest round of cuts since 2023 - report 1 day ago:
Another reason for me to leave windows behind for good.
- Comment on Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection 4 days ago:
Surprised to see the US caring about personal data.
- Comment on 20th-Anniversary iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design 1 week ago:
Lol. They can’t even get rid of the camera dock and now all of a sudden they’ll jump to no visible camera? I call BS on that.
- Comment on Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence 1 week ago:
When the US government demands that Red Hat hands over all info they have on the people who use their products, or decides to ban access to US software from countries Trump has decided in his mind are “playing unfair”, let’s see how far PopOS being FOSS takes us.
- Comment on Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence 1 week ago:
It is Linux! Honestly mentioning SUSE was a mistake since most people aren’t gonna use that. That would be for enterprises or government.
OpenSUSE, particularly openSUSE Aeon is the one I would use if I wasn’t too knowledgeable about Linux. It just works out of the box, and it’s an atomic distro so a lot of the guides out there for other atomic distros apply to Aeon.
- Comment on Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence 1 week ago:
“Legitimate competition is when other countries impose unwarranted tariffs and their companies monopolise our markets.”
- Comment on Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence 1 week ago:
PopOS! is built by a US company.
- Comment on Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence 1 week ago:
Excellent, they should. Europe has many services that are already on par with American alternatives (certainly when it comes to Microsoft’s services), and many are free or cheaper.
We also have SUSE and OpenSUSE from Germany that work as very serviceable alternatives to Windows. I hope this wake up call that has been the US’s betrayal of all past allies leads EU tech to capitalize on it.
- Comment on North Korea Stole Your Job 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree with you.
- Comment on North Korea Stole Your Job 1 week ago:
Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.
The chicken or the egg, which came first?
If i were to guess, I’d say North Korea doesn’t engage with more standard economic activities because the entire western world refuses to do business with them. So they resort to illegal activities instead.
Not that this excuses much, but countries still need to survive somehow. Cuba is a country that doesn’t do any of the hacking that NK does, but that doesn’t save them from being mercilessly cut off from the world economy either. And NK knows this.
Also, I’m not a north Korean bot and I resent that the discourse around this topic has become so polluted that I have to preface by saying this.
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, a little bit of intra-class war for them, for a change.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Idk what Microsoft did to the product but I wouldn’t call it an improvement.
I think the article we’re looking at here isn’t really hyperbolic. They got AI to write all their code and broke the Keyboard.
Just FYI, if you can live without swipping, I recommend FUTO keyboard., it is basically Swiftkey but it actually works and doesn’t come with Microsoft’s spyware built in.
It’s what I use now, and I’m really happy. Don’t be fooled by it being in Alpha, because it works flawlessly.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
So this explains why Microsoft Swiftkey is total dogshit now. Also why the Outlook barely works.
Its unbelievable.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Who still uses search engines to find torrent, though?
- Comment on You wouldn't steal a font 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Which distribution did you try?
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
They just weren’t paying attention then because Musk has always been exactly that.