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  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • More like MS enabling Bitlocker and causing data loss without the user knowing about it, something that's been pissing a lot of people off lately, and forced obsolescence refers to Win11 blocking everything prior to Zen+ and Coffee Lake, compounded with Win10 going EOL soon, which has at least the intended effect of making people buy a new PC even if their old PC is still good otherwise, and not all people are comfortable with having to sign up for an online account just to install their OS and would rather make a local account if possible; MS recently axed the workaround which enabled that for the consumer versions of Windows.

    Also, I didn't know local backups of your data ala simply copying it to an external drive at the minimum, weren't an option that existed anymore. sarcasm

  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • So, forced Bitlocker, forced obsolescence of otherwise still viable hardware, forced online accounts, and having Copilot/Recall shoved down your throat for the versions of that OS that a normal consumer can legally and readily obtain, make Win11 the best PC OS?

    I mean, sure, you can get LTSC and Win11 even has an LTSC version, but unless you're a large corporation, there's no legal way for you to get it, the only legal versions a normal consumer can get are Home or Pro as those are readily available on the retail circuit, and if you bought an OEM prebuilt from any big box store, one can just download the normal Win11 ISO from MS and it should auto-activate to whatever version that system came preinstalled with, which is typically Home, and those are the versions that treat their users like hot trash, Home especially.

    Windows 11 is the best Windows OS, and arguably PC OS, there has ever been.

  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • I was thinking more in terms of MS locking out everything prior to Coffee Lake or Zen+ from running Win11, rendering a lot of otherwise still viable hardware obsolete, killing off Win10 GAC, and essentially forcing the purchase of a new PC with Win11 installed.

  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • If Win11 adoption is really massive, it's because MS forced it down people's throats.

  • What would you do if you had 32GB RAM?

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  • I have 32GB and for most of what I do, which is normal desktop stuff and gaming, and occasionally messing with VMs, it's fine if not overkill.

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  • I'd more likely argue they're facilitating it, but that's just me.

  • Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems

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  • Adobe's been starting to get some pushback and people ditching them for FOSS alternatives lately, though. One of the more notable examples is James Lee as he details in his 'How I Broke up with Adobe' vid.

  • Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't

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  • First-party games are still fully on the cart and the Game-Key Cards are a cheap option for third parties, for now.....

    I personally don't trust Nintendo to not try this on their first-party titles at some point though.

  • Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't

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  • Not with the Switch 2 bringing back dongle DRM and applying it to downloaded games ala the Game-Key Card.

  • Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't

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  • SuperTuxKart exists for a native Linux kart racer, and it's FOSS on top of that. Oh, and since STK is FOSS, I can imagine there are some tracks as intricate as anything in modern MarioKart if not moreso, that the community around it made for it.

  • Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't

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  • I already made a joke similar to this in another thread in another community, but... SteamOS does! What Windon't.

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  • Stuff like this is a good ad for Pixelfed.

  • Nintendo Switch 2 details: Screen size, controllers, storage, microphone chat and games

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  • The fact that Nintendo is trying to bring back literal license dongles with their Game-Key Card, when dongle DRM died in the '80s for games for a reason, eg. what if you lose your dongle? You can't play your game that uses it anymore, don't help matters.

    Discs on PS4/XB1 and PS5/Series X are figurative license dongles, which is probably worse as a 50GB or 100GB disc respectively will have been wasted on DRM for a game you still have to download anyways, but Nintendo is using literal license dongles.

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  • The 'not leaving centralized services' thing isn't really helped when there's basically no other viable alternatives, like is the case with YT. PeerTube exists, sure, but it's a content desert, sadly.

    Now, if PeerTube had more content to choose from.....

    Really though, Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Discord all have viable decentralized alternatives in the form of Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon (Mastodon serving as an alternative for both Facebook and Twitter), and Matrix respectively, why can't PeerTube serve as a truly viable decentralized alternative for YT?

    Even Linux is in its glow-up arc as a viable Windows alternative lately ffs, and I'm glad to have been on that bandwagon for years before that platform started gaining mainstream attention.

  • EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech

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  • Google's been attacking those lately, mostly to success (Piped and Invidious are effectively dead, ViewTube is also dead, and FreeTube's a target now).

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • Nothing's stopping you from nuking your Windows install and installing some Linux distro though, at least on a normal PC. Surface products tend to be more locked to Windows though. I haven't ran Windows as a main OS in years and don't plan on going back, and Windows has gotten so user-hostile lately that I don't even trust it enough to dual-boot it anymore, LTSC included.

    (so far LTSC has dodged most of MS' worst atrocities but it's only a matter of time before that version starts getting compromised in some way too, so I don't trust Windows outside of a VM, period, anymore, at least if I virtualize it, whatever stunts it may pull are isolated to that VM and won't affect the host generally)

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  • Blender at least has gotten to the point where an indie flick made with it actually won some Oscars and other big awards, so that pretty much put it on the map as a viable Maya or 3DSMax alternative, so there's that.

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • No it's not, multiplayer games with anticheat that hard-locks you into Windows and productivity software with DRM that hard-locks you into Windows is still a thing, if that were to stop being a thing, then Windows' dominance on the desktop might finally be threatened, but until then, sadly, no.

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  • That applies for PeerTube, Matrix, Pixelfed, and Mastodon as well.