I don’t think a lot of people decide so consciously as nearly no one installs their OS themselves, but yesterday marked the first time I installed W11 from the scratch on a premium laptop. Official enterprise image, last updates, it’s Intel core 7 + 5060 + 32GB ddr5, and as I install stuff I can’t launch start menu, it’s just does not appear after clicking. Every other browser, installer or program responses as usual, but you just can’t press Win and access notepad or whatever. How did they fuck that up so bad? On some dying w10 PCs with a faulty ssd I have the Start menu working weird, but on a fresh machine my client got from the store it’s fucking bonkers.

You won’t do this on corporate machines, but converting a Win install into an IoT release and generating a key for it is like a couple of clicks and a reboot.

But, but - the way massgrave is still accessible and not fought against makes you think Microsoft wants the fluctuating users to keep on using their products and ecosystem even if they don’t pay the initial sticker price.

So if it’s at least slightly feasible for your workflow, it’s always better to switch and leave M$ behind.

P.S. I can be wrong, but IoT right now doesn’t shield oneself from installing copilot and other garbage, making this edition not better than others, you still need to debloat it.

Yep, it seems I mixed them up.

The myth behind it is that it’s only russians (prisoners of war?) that are allowed to band together and act semi-independently against Putin. But I’d encourage you to read more about them, because at some points their postition or even their mere existence was qustioned, and their leadership was called out for white power shenanigans. It is VERY complicated.

ed: I mixed them up with another unit.

If not for you and the site’s newsletter, I couldn’t have got a handheld myself and could completely missed a lot of older gems I now slowly explore with joy. Keep it up! Niche Lemmy communities adore small and honest news sites covering what we are into, going out of their way to post it there and communicating with us directly. It’s still work, but it looks you too enjoy it, and that’s sweet. I hope to keep reading ya <3

With F-Droid apps - as long as they are privacy-friendly and completely localized, they are way safer than if social media app that handles credentials and always calls home becomes unmaintaned for like a week. They just don’t take risks usual apps do and don’t ask every permission on Earth. So, by design, even less maintained ones serving just one function and not using too much external libs are kinda ok. The danger arise proportionally to their web usage, and these apps usually see more frequent updates and traction.

What’s wrong? To me he looks a bit tired reporting on one another Torment Nexus we built.

Mythmaking marks the point in time when they stop to care about advancing financial profits and try to convert it into other resources they can gain, e.g. legacy and influence in the case they are playing masons, but with a starting ego boost of 9000x.

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In Russia in my school most class coordinators/teachers organized an evening a month to clean up the classroom they are responsible for and spent most time in. There were contracted cleaners, but they mopped only the floor, while the condition of tables, shelves, blackboards etc were on students and their coordinator/teacher. Also in my school, we had regular roles you can fill to help staff by being a helper to a librarian, a dishwasher to a cook or being a coridor cop ensuring no one runs around - I moved lotsa books and washed tonsa dishes to bond with friends, smoke and skip classes.

I like this almost symmetric picture of empty-eyed confusion. I want him to be remembered and depicted like that, even in sculpture. Make it a modern cliché, a mask in a traditional theater, an archetype no one would follow.

I feel like Kodi mediacenter app is one of the main things to consider putting on it. Like, booting some Linux and instantly launchung it, so it’s UI is the main UI for user to interact with. It covers most TV usecases of mid 2010s and shines if you have a medialibrary on the network.

But it doesn’t cover occasional web browsing, DRMed videostreaming platforms with their own apps, etc. Worse than that, if we don’t limit it to just Kodi, we’d need some UI to pick apps, swtich apps, etc, and if that’s critical, it’s probably worth it to rip an image of some WebOS, like on LG TVs, or an Android fork like on SmartTV boxes/sticks, whatever is less combatative, and methodically carve out bloat and adware, forming an image of inherently insecure/outdated OS that has the UI thing working right.

Outside of SteamOS idk if Linux (not Android) had slick console/SmartTV-like DEs/system-wide GUIs. But since the problem is on the surface, I believe there are some who tried, or configured/themed their environment to act like it.

I can see it, haha. Lemmy is about quality over quantity but I do miss the hot takes and the drama for hundreds, thousands replies.

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Basically a benchmark for modern chinese batteries, engines and machine learning. Would definetely look into how far they can take it.

ed: Sorry mods, my internet lagged, I deleted all dupes.

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