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- Comment on Caw caw 6 days ago:
Wanting to be able to walk?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 6 days ago:
Also the kids mom (my co-parent) is now on Aurora which is basically the same as Bazzite just less gamer centric. Both are really slick modern Linux experiences so far imho.
Check out Aurora for all your friends and family members you want something really awesome, low maintenance and pretty indestructible for. We’ve not used it for long but it seems really fantastic. Like the distro I would dream up for mainstream (desktop non gamer) users. Or Bazzite if they are gamers. Easy!
That’s three less Windows machines I’m responsible for… whoopee! (Mom was previously using Mint.)
2026 is the year of the Linux desktop! ;-) ;-) ;-)
I’m sticking with LMDE myself because it’s been perfect for me for 15 years already.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 6 days ago:
Cope alot.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 6 days ago:
It’s fuckin great, my kids are using it!
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 week ago:
Bitwig on Linux is amazing and was the final thing which let me ditch Windows for good after years of using Linux for everything else.
You won’t regret it!
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 week ago:
Who wants a computer which might not work after an upgrade and not because there’s an actual problem but because a corporation says no? It’s more stress and more work out of nowhere. Corporations should never be allowed to brick devices, but since they are, I choose “not corporation” as my permanent fix. It’s a good move!
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 week ago:
With Linux systems we never(?) have to deal with defaults decided by the profit motive. The computer might not instantly do everything I want but I don’t have to fight a multinational corporation as part of the solution. That’s what swung it permanently for me. I’m not in corporate IT but as a fixer of hundreds of people’s personal computers over decades, Windows is horrific and nowadays I have started just refusing to become responsible for trying to sort it out, even for pay.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 1 week ago:
Well yeah that’s true. I’m driving an 18 year old second hand VW myself… the fuckers do keep running.
I could never afford a Tesla anyway even if I wanted one - I’m glad to say I always hated them as cars.
But ugh… Musk literally did the Hitler salute, twice to make sure, on live TV, and he is responsible for the real-time deaths of millions of people.
We can’t always do much about politicians but when it comes to business fucks like him, we can dismantle that bastard and his companies everywhere they exist… including in space!
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Musk and Fuck Swasticars!
There’s no excuse left for driving one except having bought it before this year.
Buying Tesla is funding fascism and corruption. All Musk companies need breaking up!
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 weeks ago:
PokemonFuck?
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
It’s always a good time to get off of Windows!
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- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
They could save themselves all that bullshit by just not bothering with any of it!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 weeks ago:
IMHO Bitwig is a modular synthesis and sound design environment that also contains a full DAW. There’s possibly nothing else quite like it around - I’m not certain, but I’ve looked and not found anything. Notes are events and can be processed or generated in all manner of crazy ways… or just played. Audio can be piped all over the place and processed almost however you want. I think of the stock devices like basic building blocks, like Lego or Minecraft. Once you understand the pattern you can build anything. There are so many ways to work in Bitwig! It’s almost like Ableton but equally it’s almost an unlimited modular synthesizer. It’s very playable too, a real digital instrument. I could probably spend the rest of my life with it and not run out of things to try. It steers away from trying to be a virtual instrument rack like Reason with pretend jack leads, and seems to me to be both incredibly powerful and still very intuitive. It’s the best music making software I’ve come across in 35 years of using music software!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 weeks ago:
I love synthesizers. Found my salvation in Bitwig Studio and now I don’t even eye up VSTs. (I’ll await my downvotes!)
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
No thanks! I’m more into abolishing capitalism than facitating it further. I’m looking forward to the end of all commercial enterprises and especially management! It should be as difficult and expensive as possible to establish hierarchical systems of digitally managing large corporations.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
I can’t move the Windows 11 taskbar because I’ve been running Linux for over 20 years. Recommended fix!
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 3 weeks ago:
Starmer is a fucking terrible PM and we knew he would be from the start because the establishment wheeled him out to get rid of the Jeremy Corbyn problem.
Starmer sold his soul long ago, his big “human rights lawyer” past counts for jack shit - it’s history. He’s so unlikeable, stands for nothing, has no moral clarity, and has absolutely zero charisma. He’s liked and respected less than a dull secondary school headteacher. Even people who agree with his policies die of boredom and cringe when he’s speaking.
He’s alienated so many former supporters, and meanwhile despite adopting right-wing talking points and policies, he is absolutely loathed by the people who will vote for Fartrage and ReBørk. They think he’s woke, when actually he’s just useless.
Starmer has painted himself into a corner like a twat, and now has nowhere else to go. Labour could have seen it coming if they cared, but they didn’t care because Corbyn posed a bigger threat with some actual socialist policies that were gaining popularity the more people heard about them. We couldn’t have that, could we!
Labour smears Corbyn with bullshit antisemitism accusations, while continuing to arm Netanyahu and profiting from the genocide. A Palestinian genocide we’re not allowed to express support for a certain genocide-opposing nonviolent direct Action movement, without getting arrested?
Now there’s nonviolent political prisoners, held on remand with no trials yet, some seriously ill on hunger strike. All because Labour have no principles.
The whole lot is laid bare here in fascist Britannia. The Labour party is bought and paid for by the arms industry and the Israel lobby. Starmer is a loathed lame-duck PM and should go ASAP to limit the damage, but he won’t. He’s a hanger-on, an egotist with a messiah complex, much like Blair was. It’s already too late and in any case there’s nobody good to replace him, or anywhere to advance current Labour policies that doesn’t just play more into the narratives of the far right. The more Starmer plays on their terms, the more he and Labour lose. He’s lost authority and has no control of the narrative.
The Tories are in disarray too and are trying to play the “brown people who are clamping down on immigration” fool move, also directly playing on the far right’s terms and losing. Bad-enoch is also utterly uncharismatic, but in far more of a problem for potential Tory voters, she’s black and a woman! A tokenistic bit of lip-service to trying to be a modern political party - it won’t wash with Tory voters, they will smile and secretly vote to stab Bad-enoch in the back when she’s no longer useful to them.
If bloody Fartrage gets in though, it’s firmly at the feet of Starmer, who couldn’t be harder to vote for if he tried.
Because he’s so crap, and implementing fascist policies, he will be directly responsible for ushering in ReBørk votes, since he hasn’t really made the case for anything different.
What a fucking waste of space and very real fascist threat Starmer is!
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 4 weeks ago:
How are they going to make all of that back with just AI?
Government bailouts is how.
Socialism for the rich, dog-eat-dog capitalism for everyone else.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 4 weeks ago:
Larry Ellison can fuck off while we’re at it, the meddling technofascist bastard. Hope he loses everything!
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 4 weeks ago:
Imagine being scared of your own butthole ffs!
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 4 weeks ago:
𝕬𝖗𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙?
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 4 weeks ago:
Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font, stating it will “restore decorum and professionalism” to documents.
Bro it’s going to take more than a font change!
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 4 weeks ago:
What they conserve is wealth and power, and only for themselves and their perceived “in group”.
Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 5 weeks ago:
Account age 19 hours and already behaving like an ass. Congratulations and welcome to Lemmy, a place with actual communities where you can expect to be blocked if you carry on like that. Please learn to treat people better!
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
I use my old pc nas as a 50w continuous heater in my lab-shed which is a small stone outbuilding. Keeps it dry in there!
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 month ago:
Fuck that! We should be aiming for 21-28 hours being the normal length of the employed week for everyone everywhere, and it not being necessary to work any more than that unless you want to for yourself. We can’t accelerate forever, we need to do less work hours and have good quality of life, otherwise what’s even the point of technology?
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
It is! They’re trying to “compile” insulin on the smaller scale. Not home labs but local production. They haven’t managed it yet but I believe they will eventually.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
We could change it to being called a Mountbatten-Windsor but that’s a much lengthier way to say the same thing.
Billionaire Merry Christmas!