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- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 18 hours ago:
you can safely use Windows 10 PCs connected to the internet for the next decade.
Do not, absolutely do not, hook an OS that is no longer receiving security updates to the internet. Out-of-date machines can get pwned simply by being on a network or loading a website’s ad, no user interaction required. Vulnerabilities are discovered, never patched, and thereafter every script kiddy can get in with little effort.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 1 day ago:
And the most “bloatware” are just windows apps
The Windows 11 Pro edition at my work had an entry for Whatsapp in the start menu after a fresh install…
This “Pro” edition had a popup ad for one of Microsoft’s games pushed as a notification. Literally a popup ad for a game in a Professional edition of the software. Something my company paid extra for.
I have 0 “ai integration” on my PC.
I’m constantly playing wack-a-mole with Copilot. It’s in Notepad by default…
Yeah, there is a reason my home PCs are all Linux Mint.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 1 day ago:
Looking to buy a new home right now, and every time I see one of those I see a multi-month project in my future to remove all that crap. Because I know they aren’t going to do it themselves…
- Comment on THE FINALS is getting new kernel-based anti-cheat, likely to break it on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck 1 day ago:
I’m just happy I don’t have to think about kernel-level anti-cheats now. No way in hell do I want any game to have that much power over my machine.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 days ago:
That’s the required amount for it to continue in the UK legal system, correct?
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 2 days ago:
It’s clear sexual harassment. However, you can’t just claim something has underage nudity when the nudity is of an adult model.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 2 days ago:
Anyone with half a brain will certainly claim as much. Even if people don’t fully believe it, it will blunt the most serious of social consequences.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 2 days ago:
Taking nude pictures of someone is quite a bit different than…not taking nude pictures of them.
It’s not CSAM to put a picture of someone’s face on an adult model.
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 3 days ago:
It was discovered in pre-history, and almost certainly independently by many, many individuals. You aren’t going to get a name on it.
- Comment on Netflix is delisting some of its best indie games 1 week ago:
the website’s admins do not want you to have any control over your front page. The end result is utterly alienating.
This is one of the biggest things. Back when I would netflix often, I would constantly be annoyed when the ‘continue watching’ dialog was not the first one. Stop moving it around! Now I just watch everything locally. It’s so much nicer.
There is no reason streaming should be such a pain in the ass, and it amazes me the industry has made basic, paid access to shows a chore. And they wonder why viewership is not great*.
*Also the writing…one of the least expensive parts of shows, generally sucks ass and assumes I’m not paying attention. No, seriously, they assume you aren’t paying attention and write shows as such now. It makes so many things unwatchable.
- Comment on Netflix is delisting some of its best indie games 1 week ago:
I’m still confused on why Netflix has any games.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
Men had privileged position in the society for millennia.
Other people had this privileged position in society for millennia. The people turning away from progressive politics aren’t wearing top hats, their hands are oil-covered. When you tell them they are privileged, that everything is just handed to them, they look around and wonder what you are talking about.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
If 98% of Lemmy wants to kill all men, that’s a pretty shit state of affairs.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was a very, very odd choice.
You have Eve Online, a PC exclusive MMO. And you try to sell the playerbase on a PS3 game? Most of them literally don’t have the proprietary hardware to run that game but 100% of them have a gaming PC sitting right in front of them…
This isn’t to say don’t include the PS3, but why the hell wasn’t it on PC where the entire Eve fanbase is?
- Comment on Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears 2 weeks ago:
“Reserve Cloud PCs” will be preloaded with Microsoft 365 apps and a user’s preferred security policies and other Windows customizations.
You need a working PC to access this ‘reserve’ PC. Why not just install Office on your own PC and ignore this extra cloud thing?
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 2 weeks ago:
CCP and their affiliates have been incurring sizeable losses instead. They released a mobile game, EVE Echoes, via NetEase shortly after the acquisition, but this has apparently fallen short of expectations, and CCP are now focusing rather heavily on “web3” games fuelled by blockchain bullshit. They are also still trying to make an EVE Online FPS, despite screwing this up three times in a row.
CCP had a one-hit-wonder and never again figured out how to make a game.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
Drop policies that have been consistent long-term losers like expanded gun control.
Suppressors are a literally a hearing safety device/noise pollution reducer and Democrat politicians describe them like they get all their information from a John Wick movie. It would be so easy for the party to drop the matter entirely and throw politically-homeless gun owners a bone by taking suppressors off the NFA.
Force through policies that improve their lives at the cost of others, for example, healthcare paid for by taxing billionaires
Yep! Follow that up with policies that improve people’s lives and we have a ticket that writes itself.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
Start by no longer telling men who have done nothing wrong they are responsible for the misdeeds of others. It breeds resentment and closes people to anything else you have to say.
- Comment on Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler 2 weeks ago:
This is a good change. One of my friends had some confusion over the install button not appearing for some small games, he had to go toggle this on. It being available by default for all games is great!
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t worry about it too hard, there isn’t anything fundamentally wrong with Ubuntu. Both it and mint are in the same family after all.
Sounds like you should just keep Ubuntu and get the non-snap versions of the apps that need codecs.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
O, yeah. Snaps basically live in their own little system. Anything you do to your wider system, like installing codecs, will not affect a snap. Easiest solution is to remove the snap VLC and install normal VLC.
I have heard nothing good about snaps and Canonical pushing them is a big reason you don’t see people recommending Ubuntu, and instead recommending things like Mint (me included).
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure why anybody is mentioning Windows 10 IoT. When you lookup where to buy this, Microsoft themselves tells you to call a salesman; it’s an enterprise-only thing. Recommending this for individuals is misguided.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
I know when you install Mint there is a ‘install codecs’ checkbox during the installer, not sure if the same exists for Ubuntu.
For Ubuntu, you could try this and see if it solves your problem.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
Enhanced Privacy
Once again not something people strictly care about.
Privacy is exactly what got me and one of my other friends to switch. Many, many people don’t like being spied on.
The implication that carbon emissions is something an individual can do something about has been objectively disproven.
Not buying something new and using what you have demonstrably helps. There is no world in which throwing away a ton of perfectly good PCs just to manufacture and transport more is somehow better for carbon emissions.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
Two of my friends switched recently precisely because Win 10 was going end of life. The ‘I have to change the OS anyway’ was the final motivator.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
intimidating complexity of installing Wine
I would give that a shot. The full guide is install wine and winetricks the same way you install any other software you use. Then in winetricks, tell it to run an arbitary executable and point it to your .exe. That’s it.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft already lost enterprise servers to Linux, and has lost significant ground over the years in consumer PCs to ChromeOS and Linux. While I agree that business laptops will continue to be dominated by Windows for awhile, the market shifts we see everywhere have downstream effects on business laptops too. When you find yourself having to train more and more people on how to use Windows than you did in the past, the value argument for Windows quickly comes into question.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
If you debate people and neutral onlookers find themselves agreeing more with the other guy than they were at the start, the answer is to re-evaluate your arguments. When you go to social shaming, while you may get people to shut up, you also solidify those people against you. You blocked off the mechanism for those onlookers to have their mind changed and created resentment for the social cost you impose on them.
Isn’t it weird how when you talk to someone online they generally won’t go against the grain, yet Trump now won a second term? And not only that, but he won the popular vote this time around with 14,317,752 more votes than he got the first time around.
That is what social shaming does. Instead of trying to convince people, you force them against you.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning
Physical traits are passed through genes onto kids. The kids have much the same traits as the parents. Asian parents have asian kids. Why are we doing elementary biology here?
This really isn’t the argument y’all should be latching onto.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
doesn’t make much sense to group them so roughly
Just as I would not generally group people by eye color, the fact remains eye color is real.
tell them race isnt real
This is the shit I was responding too. And rhetoric like this is painfully contrary to even elementary biology.