Linux, people… Linux!
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And that’s the point where I’ll go off the grid
Buy a ThinkPad, download Wikipedia, print as many books as you can, spend 6 months binding those books, die from dysentery or almost starve to death in winter.
This is also my retirement plan.
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Yeah, my factory windows install died and refused to boot up, because I spent too long without creating an account or some ransom shit like that…I was sad for a second…then I booted back to Debian as I do every day :))
I’ve never had an account… not sure what weirdness you experienced but I’ve never once been pestered or asked for a login. Infact, the only thing I get is the ‘lets finish setting up windows’ full screen trash, which is just a window and I can alt-f4 to close. It’s been years like that.
But housing it behind a key combination is malicious for the average user.
microsoft: hey lets set up onedrive and make it your new documents folder for everything on your computer
also microsoft: oh yeah you only get 15gb unless you pay more but we won’t tell you that and once full you can’t use your documents folder
Windows 11 finally allows you to simply uninstall OneDrive. Before that you had to do weird registry hacks, that often broke something :-/
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You can also remove copilot
Right click tray icon > Settings > Manage backup > Turn off backup for all the folders…
That’s it, all your folders become local only. Then if you don’t want it running just disable auto-startup in task manager.
I guess it’s more popular to hate than to learn things…
The fact that it’s opt-out and opt-in says a lot about windows.
I guess it’s more popular to hate than to learn things…
Sure is, look at all that hate for this little guy 🐧 gets for example
Windows® Just Works™
“But I don’t want to learn how to set things up, I just want it to work, now how do I set up this windows pc?”
No one should have to do that stupid shit, it should be opt in only. The only reason for this model is to trick idiots into buying a subscription they never wanted or needed.
Yeah, it’s very easy… as long as it’s working, which it is not, at all.
A reminder that if your data is not backed up in a different physical location, then it is not safe.
And also if you don’t try to restore your backups from time to time, you may actually not have any backups.
Reminder that you should choose where to back up to, not Microsoft.
Agreed, but most people don’t backup at all. Then complain very loudly when they lose everything and blame everyone else other than themselves. Saw it daily fixing people’s phones.
The technically inclined were the worst offenders, they always felt like they knew better than the defaults but they never actually set anything up.
OneDrive sucks but it is better than losing everything because your shit suddenly dies.
All I ever see is most people using (whatever system cloud provider comes with their computer/phone/tablet) and forking over $3, 5, $10, $20 a month to make the “your cloud is full!” alert to go away.
Somewhere in the middle is the way, and in countries like the US, that something in the middle should probably not be a US cloud provider anymore.
To be honest, from experience with the general public selling and supporting phones since the beginning of the smartphone revolution, anything other than the built in option is more complicated than most people can handle. They just get overwhelmed and then do nothing.
Most people are completely willing to ignore that message and will then complain that they lost everything just because they didn’t pay the $1-2 a month upgrade that would have covered their storage needs with that built-in dummy-proof option that requires zero setup.
Agreed, but most people don’t backup at all. Then complain very loudly when they lose everything and blame everyone else other than themselves. Saw it daily fixing people’s phones.
I’d love to back up my phone locally, if there was an option, but AFAIK there isn’t, so I’m stuck. This is a problem with companies forcing you into their cloud ecosystem and removing your ability to bypass it and control things yourself. It’s only getting worse.
I’d love to back up my phone locally, if there was an option, but AFAIK there isn’t, so I’m stuck.
Can you not use Syncthing?
Syncthing could be used to replicate a directory somewhere, but that doesn’t address backing up the phone itself (apps, settings, SMS messages, etc.). Only option I’m aware of is iCloud. You can connect the phone directly to iTunes on a computer and back it up that way, but that only works with a hardwired USB connection and can’t be automated, so it’s a non-starter for a regular backup system. Android probably has more options, I’m referring to iOS specifically here though.
Depends on the data, some data would be fine being deleted but not fine being leaked, some the other way around.
OneDrive: fuck no you’re not doing that shit
This sounds like a problem I’m too Linux to understand
I am almost 100% ubuntu, but working in home office and remoting to use my three monitor setup from work (windows) at home is a nightmare. Remmina is the best at the moment and she laggy as, and getting it to use all three screens at work, at home… Nightmare
Never found remmina to be laggy but never tried with 3 monitors. Still sounds better than what I had to do when i had to work from home a few years ago. I had to run a windows vm, to log in to citrix at work (didn’t work directly in Linux for me then) to then remote desktop into servers and work in emacs there. It was virtualization hell. It worked but oh boy was everything laggy… Should have gone one deeper and ran my linux on a hypervisor for a true beauty of a setup.
I’m gonna go buy a copy of Linux
I will sell you my copy. DM me, I’ll give you a deal
buy
What is this word?
I, too, shoplift my install USB’s. /s
Raw dog PXE boot over the fucking internet
Memorize the kernel, stick your dick in the PCIe slot, I N S T A L L
I miss boxed copies of Linux $50 and you got a thick book with it.
I remember buying Suse Linux in the box at CompUSA where i lived. I was so excited!
You’re really missing out if you’re not buying Ubuntu Pro.
Almost all the new hires at work save shit to one drive and teams and it’s incredibly annoying to locate anything. Just save it to the dang shared drive.
I had to force people in our lab to use the shared drive, they were all so resistant to it for some reason. Lo and behold they love it now because its easy to share stuff and you can use any computer to get it.
The cloud is just someone elses computer, you could pay 19.99 a year for 100 gbs of storage on some shady corporations server somewhere for them to inevitably jack up the price. Or you could not be an idiot and buy a 128 gb flash drive for 14.99 one time and have that storage forever.
buy the 32g thumbs for about $5. load with mp3s-4s and give as gifts. for backups
Flashdrives are not forever storage. Flashdrives corrupt literally all the time. And old flashdrives that sit around also corrupt while not in use. If you care about your data, store that data in multiple places. Follow the data hygiene rules. 3 2 1: 3 copies of the data, on 2 different storage mediums, with 1 copy off-site.
Got it so buy a second drive, and pay $15/mo to the cloud storage company.
If you’re willing to deal with managing it, 125gb on s3 seems to cost about $3 per month.
forever is a long time. distributed copies might last beyond my time. eh
You think you can do better for 15 dollars go ahead.
15? I pay like 80 euro for 1 year m365 family. That’s 5 Terrabyte for 80/12=6,66 euro/month.
That’s less then a cent per GB. Much less. Combine that with Amazon photos (Unlimited photo storage, included with prime) and i’m set.
There is no cheaper storage plan.
TBF that’s forever until your house burns down with it inside
or the drive wasn’t plugged in for a long time, causing the flash storage to degrade
I remember having a 90$ Android phone that was also loaded with bloatware.
I’d like to find a phone that isn’t, mine is certainly full of crap I don’t want.
Use an open source android ROM like lineageOS
TRY AGAIN IN THREE DAYS
And in a million years, people will still do everything possible except install Linux. Ubuntu is 20 years old and it was already a decent alternative to Windows back then. People are idiots and we shouldn’t be sorry for them.
You know, some people’s work needs software that doesn’t run on Linux. (Adobe in my case, and yes, the Linux-compatible alternatives are missing important features.)
Also anti-cheat in online games often doesn’t support Linux.
Those are the main reasons I’m still sticking to Windows, but at least I 🏴☠️ it lol.
Windows vm for adobe shit… and these days, only kernel level anticheats dont work for linux. (And lets be honest, good.)
as far as I read it’s difficult/buggy to give GPU passthrough to VMs (I only have one GPU - I found this guide but it seems quite over my skill level)
and as much as I don’t like kernel-level anticheats, one of my main games (Genshin) uses them 🤷 another older MMO I occasionally play, Uncharted Waters Online, also uses such kernel-level anticheat
There is always dual booting. Basically its how much bullshit do you want to deal with microsoft before dealing with the minor inconveniences of linux.
There is always dual booting.
I’ve read many experiences about how Windows has a tendency to brick the Linux partition when dual-booting :/
Basically its how much bullshit do you want to deal with microsoft before dealing with the minor inconveniences of linux.
For me it’s more like how much Linux-incompatibility bullshit I’d need to put up with (in addition to running into situations where I’d have to use CLI which I hate) in exchange of using a not-actively-user-hostile FLOSS OS. And for my abilities and use cases the balance doesn’t quite tip in Linux’s favour yet, over an O&O Shutup’d Win10 Enterprise where I can disable 99% of Microsoft’s bullshit via group policies. (Will see how that changes when I have to switch to Win11 in a few months lol.)
If you install windows first and then linux, windows wont overwrite the bootloader.
I use linux as a daily gaming pc… you know how often i need to use CLI? Zero.
Instead of reading about it, try it.
Yeah, such minor inconveniences of linux, such as not having motherboard control software at all, and not having a way to customize my peripherals, because the software also doesn’t exist.
Meanwhile god forbid I open the onedrive settings and solve this annoyance in 10 seconds.
I always find it funny how people act as if there is literally no reason in existence to keep using windows.
It literally just shows us your ignorance and insulation from the real world.
Please tell me because I have been using Windows at home and at work for more than 30 years and I still believe that most people only need Firefox and LibreOffice.
Well for starters, if I were to install linux I’d have no manufacturer’s software to control motherboard, keyboard, mouse, and GPU. None of those exist for linux, and the open source alternatives would take decades to have only a fraction of the features already present in the manufacturer’s offering.
Then how do I interact with my apple devices? I want to sideload apps. Windows can do it with sideloadly + itunes. On the linux scene the opensource software is abandoned for almost 4-5 years. It doesn’t work because I also already tried it.
Then I want to play games. On windows I don’t have to fiddle with proton versions and recompiling the whatever the shit to play the new doom.
Not back then no. I could install windows and get it running but not ubuntu and connect to internet. Now linux is flat out better than windows, only issue remaining being proprietary software.
As soon as I saw that mustache I wanted to get out my knife as well.
Hey, moustaches make you a better programmer
