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  • Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades

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  • GrapheneOS would have received feature updates for the full duration of 5 years anyway, since they don't separate feature updates from security updates.

  • Russian TV host gleefully claims Trump's Cabinet will 'dismantle' America, report says

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  • Some accurate reporting out of Russia for once

  • Your favorite lesser known docker container?

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  • Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff

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  • Most people don’t care about the same things you care about.

    Oh I do believe that most people absolutely fucking hate Edge and want to get rid of it. I'm also pretty sure that people aren't interested in creating an account that has basically no benefits, while just being annoying as fuck.

    I also care about things like tpm support and kernel signing

    UEFI secure boot and the TPM API are fundamentally broken and provide nothing more than an illusion of security. If you want to see what a proper secure boot setup looks like, take a look at Android Verified Boot with an actual hardware secure element (e.g. the Google Titan M2). UEFI secure boot only exists to comply with standards and certifications written by people who know nothing about security.

    I used Rufus to bypass tpm and web login support with 2 checkboxes.

    Creating Windows installation media in general is a great topic, why the actual fuck does Microsoft not provide a bootloader in their ISO images?!? I recently wanted to create a Windows 11 install USB drive, but I didn't have any working Windows installation at that time. I can't create a Windows USB from macOS or Linux, because I need to use Microsoft's stupid Media Creation Tool, which, guess what, only works on Windows. I need Windows in order to install fucking Windows. This is so insanely stupid.

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  • but Windows had the edge on gaming and simplicity

    I'm sorry, but no. Absolutely not.

    You want to install Windows without giving up all of your personal information to a greedy corporation that will sell it or use it to train AI? Too bad, gotta figure out how to launch the command line during the OOBE process (it's Shift + F10 btw) and figure out which command to enter (btw it's oobe\bypassnro), then restart your PC to reload the OOBE, just so you can avoid the absolutely brain-dead account requirement. Simple, right?

    You want to stop Windows from using Edge by default? Very simple, just download this tool from GitHub.

    You want to get rid of Microsoft Edge? Just a couple of PowerShell commands. Very simple, very intuitive, very user-friendly, right?

    You want to do anything that you as an end user aren't meant to do? Have fun and dive into regedit, while always having to fear that you might brick your system.

    You want to disable Recall/Copilot/whatever they call their AI garbage? Too bad, you can't. It's baked into the system specifically in a way that makes it impossible to remove. What a fucking simple and intuitive operating system. Always works like a charm and lets me do whatever I want.

  • Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power

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  • H₂?

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  • Windows users will do everything, including using a soon unsupported and insecure, outdated version of this proprietary garbage, instead of just switching to a better OS

  • Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff

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  • Doesn't even have to be the military

  • Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus

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  • Obviously he was pulling some crazy 6D chess moves, but we're all just dumb peasants that don't understand what a genius Elon truly is

  • Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus

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  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • Basically everyone in the community agrees that Mint, Ubuntu and Fedora are the best choices for new users. Mint and Ubuntu are pretty similar, so they don't require separate maintenance effort, and supporting Fedora is not that hard, if you already support RHEL, CentOS or another rpm-based distro (which are pretty common in the enterprise space). For all the desktop applications, Flatpak exists and is agreed on as the standard format by most of the desktop Linux community.

  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • Of course not. They wouldn’t have had any reason to switch.

    Of course they would? Millions of euros of tax revenue sounds like a pretty compelling reason to me. This is why Micro$oft's "lobby efforts" should be labeled as what they are: Nothing more and nothing less than corruption.

    It takes more maintenance than Windows.

    If you create your own distro, yes. But there are countless noob-friendly distros like Mint, Ubuntu and Fedora that they could use with practically 0 maintenance required. Also, compare the 2004 desktop Linux experience to now. Having used Gentoo Linux compiled from a stage 1 tarball back in 2002, I can tell you: the differences are tremendous. Many of the issues they had can be directly attributed to OpenOffice and it's bad compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats, which has long been replaced by LibreOffice. It still worked out pretty well for them, over a period of 13 years. And it saved the tax payer millions of euros of Microsoft's stupid licensing fee for their proprietary garbage.

  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • Most of the Windows malware gets deployed by some user downloading and executing random files they downloaded on the web. Since installing applications on Linux is usually done through some centralized package manager or app store (Flathub), it almost entirely eliminates this attack vector. Running random scripts from the internet by downloading them using curl and piping them into sudo bash is a whole nother issue though. Noob-friendly distros like Ubuntu should IMO have some safeguards in place to block these actions.

  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • Except they couldn't keep the Micro$oft criminals lobbyists out

  • Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks

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  • ...Don't vote for Trump then?!??

    If you're at this point still upset or surprised about anything the orange moron does, you're part of the problem.

  • Asking the real questions

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  • "It sounds like a password"