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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
english and korean. i’d like to learn more but i’m too lazy tbh
- Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive 2 days ago:
bro has 60TB of linux ISOs
- Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive 2 days ago:
the drives may die at any time from old age, better backup them soon if you can afford it.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 3 days ago:
i would say that’s a terrible parent. glad mine’s not.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 4 days ago:
try searching for rtnews
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
get addicted to lemmy instead
- Comment on YSK how the front page of the English Wikipedia works 5 days ago:
oh wow, this was very useful. thanks a lot for sharing
- Comment on How to check if Proton VPN has switched locations? 5 days ago:
proton allows generating woreguard config for a specific server even on free plans on their wrbsite, worth checking out
or you could just have a script tobperiodically check your external ip with something like icanhazip.com and automatically make needed changes
- Comment on White House criticized for using anime, video game footage without permission 5 days ago:
fyi yt-dlp usually works on twitter, tiktok, instagram, etc videos.
- Comment on Introducing New Fediverse Software, Goofed v0.0.1, Minimum Viable Shitpost Edition 1 week ago:
looks awesome! commenting to not forget to try this out later…
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
tbh there are really a lot of things that aren’t on the repo or even the slackbuilds (kinda like arch AUR), kinda takes time to manage and install other packages. still i can’t find a better distro yet so i’m keep using it…
i should try gentoo/void/alpine/arch someday but i’m too lazy.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
i do use freebsd :) and occasionally win7/10…
usage goes like freebsd >>> linux > m$win
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
i have slackware 15 on all, it’s great how i can just copy over binaries and they just run because all the linked libraries are the same version
- Comment on Sftp client gor android? 1 week ago:
rclone or rsync on ternux maybe, or totalcmd if you want gui file manager thing
- Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth 1 week ago:
archiveteam warrior
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 2 weeks ago:
afaik (i could be wrong) there’s only modification time for files on linux. it did seem to show properly. as far as i remember the ntfs permission (file owner, etc) wasn’t being shown properly (all just showed as my user?), but it could just be a mount option.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 2 weeks ago:
I literally explained that in the comment above, just replying “LTSC” and then explaining that to me adds nothing to the discussion. what’s the point?
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 2 weeks ago:
damn, both were kinda useful. doesn’t seem $1B worth tho lol
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 2 weeks ago:
not sure exactly what metadata you mean, i don’t really know well about NTFS’s advanced features. i just tend to have some version of windows installed in another partition or a drive and ocasionally copy files from and to it, never had any issues. ntfs-3g is a bit slow tho due to being FUSE.
the winehq compatibility db is outdated in some cases, so it’s best to just try for yourself and see if it runs ok. if it doesn’t work well, it would usually be very obvious. (crashes, glitches, etc)
yes LTSC 2021 and 21H2 is the same thing
massgrave generates a legit activation ticket unlike the old windows hacktivation methods like KMS (KMS haktivators used to run a local activation server baiscally). so it even auto activates after reinstalling just like a legit key. no downsides other than the fact it’s not “legal”, but that’s the same for those sketchy keys since they are also usually violations of Micro$oft EULA.
- Comment on What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use? 2 weeks ago:
sell it maybe? 13 is still pretty recent. and iphones are hard to tinker with, like that one is very likely not even jailbreakable
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 2 weeks ago:
huh?
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 2 weeks ago:
1a - NTFS. Some may recommend exFAT but I strongly don’t recommend it, it’s not a journaling FS (so may corrup on power loss etc) and awfully slow. I’m pretty sure there’s no problem with NTFS on Linux now, but I don’t guarantee though… I still use the old ntfs-3g fuse driver because I’m lazy to run the latest kernel. It’s slower than the kernel driver, but works well and stable.
1b - Program’s specific feature may not work, malfunction or crash. It surely can corrupt a file e.g. you run a document editor in WINE and the program crashes while the file is open. But usually it tends to work pretty well for many programs these days.
1c - Yes. Go to about:profiles on your Firefox, click “Open folder” and copy your profile folder to your linux install on ~/.mozilla/firefox/
1d - Not that I’m aware of.
1e - Don’t format your existing drive, should be safe then. If you’re really paranoid about losing data, disconnect the drives physically before testing the live distro. Yes the changes not being saved means changes you make to the linux session wouldn’t persist and get reset the next time you boot that live usb. You can access your NTFS drives like normal even on live, there should be no difference to a full install to internal drive.
1f - Unlike Windows where you get programs from each program dev’s website, on Linux you usually install them from your linux distro’s repo. So unless you run sketchy binaries and scripts from 3rd party, it should be safe. You very likely would never get infected by simply browsing. No need to worry about that part. The Linux drive also wouldn’t be accessible to Windows side, so unless your whole system including the Windows drive gets “infected” you’re safe. If that happens you have bigger issues.
1g - Recent-ish nvidia card shouldn’t be an issue. The easiest way to find out is to just trying to boot a live USB and see if things work.
2a - Win10 has multiple versions, like 1609/1703/1709/1803/…/21H2. LTSC is their “long term service channel” where they maintain a specific version for an extended time. They also have multiple editions, Home/Pro/Enterprise etc. What you’re looking for is “Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 21H2”. IoT means it’s getting 10 years of support unlike normal LTSC which only has 5 years, 21H2 is the latest version. Enterprise (IoT) LTSC is also cleaner (less bloat) than Enterprise.
2b - You can everything you do on the normal editions. It’s hard to legally obtain an Enterprise IoT LTSC license, but it’s no issue since this is your personal machine. (use massgrave ohook or hwid for activation) Unlike normal versions you won’t get pre-installed Candy Crush or Tiktok.
2c - Their method of keeping files should work fine, but it could go wrong. You should backup your existing Windows install if you decide to do this. Use dd on linux, CloneZilla maybe if you favor GUIs, to backup your whole Windows drive as an image you can restore to later. If you do a clean install with LTSC your system would be a bit more cleaner, since “upgrading” from normal Windows does keep the clutter from the normal version. I’d recommend clean install if you don’t tend to spend a lot of time configuring your system. massgrave MAS works fine, no need to buy sketchy keys.
3 - Yes there are those kinda malwares. Theoretically yes, not connecting to the internet at all is the safest. Realistically, if you keep a firewall(your home router in most caes) and block incoming ports, you should be safe. There are people still running WinXP for fun and they don’t get random malwares out of nowhere. Just don’t download anything weird. But anyway, I don’t recommend regular Win10, just switch to IoT LTSC :)
Hope this helps.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes 2 weeks ago:
i was thinking of some “automated browser” type, like if the browser returns an error page saying it’s blocked, the LLM would get the "blocked from website"ish error as the page content, and shouldn’t it say something around “I’m sorry, I couldn’t access the website” instead of “Sure! Here’s a summary of that webpage” followed by hallucinated bs. well maybe that’s not the case here?
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes 2 weeks ago:
lmao, didn’t know the ‘ai’ tool is that stupid to not handle website blocks/exceptions…
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 2 weeks ago:
no problem at all, but in some cases the power drain on the laptop could be larger than the amount being charged which makes it kinda useless unless charging while in powered off/suspend mode.
- Comment on PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME 2 weeks ago:
yep rloew’s patches are great rloewelectronics.com
though that much ram isn’t really necessary, setting MaxPhysPage=20000 (512MB) just works fine
- Comment on PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME 2 weeks ago:
yep it works, i had it working on a haswell xeon machine
- Comment on PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME 2 weeks ago:
the 512MB ram thing is true, but it’s just a single line of edit on system.ini, nothing difficult
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 2 weeks ago:
Its name is a play on the North German greeting Moin (from Wikipedia)
TIL!
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 2 weeks ago:
i like moinmoin and dokuwiki, mediawiki always felt too complex.