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- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
Think of how Wyse thin clients are typically ridiculously locked down, these are basically a newer version of those.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
Assuming they’re not ridiculously locked down, which they probably are.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
Plus laws going after alternative OSes, no doubt lobbied for by MS to eliminate competition for Windows, are starting to creep in now, see Cali and Colorado.
Next step will be mandating SecureBoot and limiting OS selection to a short list of approved options.
And the end game will be thin clients connected to the cloud.
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 1 week ago:
How soon before the Internet Archive goes under because they can’t afford hardware anymore, and to take this further, how soon before self-hosting becomes untenable and self-hosted platforms like the Fediverse start to collapse as a result?
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
DVD actually still holds up for 2D animation; it’s one of the few media that does, if not the only medium that holds up well upscaled from 480p.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
Think about mp3 CDs…
- …Or worse, ATRAC CDs (yes those really existed), which thankfully also never caught on because had they caught on, given ATRAC is a proprietary Sony codec, they would’ve only been able to be played back on Sony CD players which supported the ATRAC codec.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
Given all the attempts at eroding tech freedom, this might end up being future computing, but the cloud is state-controlled.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
Assuming the bootloader is not super locked down or even nonexistent, think Wyse thin client levels of locked down.
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- Comment on YSK, A chat space on Matrix has appeared for Neurodivergents 1 week ago:
Doesn’t exist, ‘no rooms available.’
- Comment on AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services. 1 week ago:
I can’t believe we’re at the point where entire OSes are blocking whole areas now.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
Not yet, but surely AOSP distros are in the crosshairs next if they’re not already.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
If you ever wanna play 4K BDs on PC, you’ll need a 4K-compatible drive that’s been hacked with LibreDrive though, otherwise you’re stuck using a dedicated set-top player for those.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
I thought Fuchsia was proprietary.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 weeks ago:
Are they going to check people’s PCs at the state borders as they move in then?
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 weeks ago:
Goodbye tech ownership in Colorado if this passes. We’re moving one step closer to the government issuing out thin clients that only they control.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
Plus Windows already tried blocking sideloading with S Mode.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
How soon before Windows copies this, given they already tried this sorta lockdown with S Mode?
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
Matrix. Also to a much lesser degree XMPP.
- Comment on Global YouTube outage sees video platform homepage go dark 2 weeks ago:
The alt front-ends still work.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 3 weeks ago:
How soon before x264 and x265 end up getting pulled and h.264 and h.265 get locked to Windows?
- Comment on A New Era of Safety: Facial Age Checks Now Required to Chat on Roblox | Roblox 3 weeks ago:
Right after Discord.
- Comment on EPA Advances Farmers’ Right to Repair Their Own Equipment, Saving Repair Costs and Productivity 5 weeks ago:
Never thought the EPA of all organizations would be pro-Right to Repair given their history of fining anyone who messes with emissions gear out of existence.
- Comment on Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube? 5 weeks ago:
PeerTube exists and you can get funding through LiberaPay among other crowdfunding platforms.
- Comment on @mudkip@lemdro.id lets LLMs spam the Fediverse 5 weeks ago:
I got both those accounts and the entire lemdro.id instance blocked.
- Comment on Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness 5 weeks ago:
That and I was talking more about infrastructure where you could easily walk to places too instead of having to drive everywhere
- Comment on Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness 5 weeks ago:
Fuck this, I’d rather see less of this and more pedestrian-friendly infrastructure.
- Comment on Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube? 5 weeks ago:
Not even that, per Louis Rossmann, you don’t even get a full penny in ad revenue, just fractions of a penny. YT’s ad revenue system is a scam.
- Comment on Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube? 5 weeks ago:
PeerTube which can simultaneously be an alternative to YT and Twitch both although it primarily aims to be a YT alternative, and also Owncast as well for an alternative to Twitch specifically.
Loops works as a Titkok alternative.
As for monetization on PeerTube, you could get funding through platforms like LiberaPay.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Good luck.