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IratePirate

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  • LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

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  • AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

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  • Same. Scored two 16TB drives and a 4GB in summer of 2025 (by pure chance though). They're now 150%-200% the original price. Cannot wait to see this bubble pop.

  • AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

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  • SSDs were first, actually, with HDDs now following suit.

  • AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

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  • That's a much more sophisticated setup than mine! It may even be overkill (depending on what it is you want to host, and to how many).

    I've been running two enterprise-grade Toshiba 16TB drives in a btrfs RAID1 since last summer. No SSD for caching (though the OS and my Docker containers run on one, with regular syncs to the slower spinning drives). No complaints so far.

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  • The worst part is that we don't something, and by saying something, I mean boycott them.

    Boycott is under way. In my bubble, people are ditching American goods and services left and right, including Windows. The combination of "Murica first" (fascist edition) and big tech overreach has prompted people to make good use of their middle fingers.

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  • Go Toshiba. If American companies got us into this mess in the first place, fuck American companies!

  • Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site

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  • DON'T give them ideas!

  • Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.

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  • Yeah, it's a weird way of spelling "liberation".

  • Hold on to Your Hardware - マリウス

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  • In fact, you’re already likely renting rather than owning in many different areas. Your means of communication are run by Meta, your music is provided by Spotify, your movies are streamed from Netflix, your data is stored in Google’s data centers and your office suite runs on Microsoft’s cloud.

    Not this one, no.

    This one has never had a single Meta-owned account because it values privacy.

    It has never subscribed to Spotify or Netflix because it values ownership and control.

    It has, since the Snowden revelations, successfully cut Google and Microsoft from its life and replaced them with AOSP and Linux.

    It has started to build servers from hardware old and new, running FOSS services that rival and replace most big tech solutions people feel they "need" nowadays.

    And it has started to help others take control of their data and computing, move to software and services that respect their rights, and to see value in privacy, ownership and freedom.

    It may not be much. It may not scale. And it may not provide "AI" capabilities. But it's a start. It's a lighthouse that shows this dystopia is not inevitable.

    We need to answer the push towards centralised consumption with a refusal to consume, and a counterpush towards decentralised cells of resilience. If datacentres aren't profitable, there is very little incentive to only build and sell hardware for them exclusively.

    This one has built its lighthouse.

    When will you?

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  • With billionaires now openly buying politicians (instead of greasing their palms under the counter), I'd say the odds of such a law have become even worse.

  • Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

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  • Naw. This is clearly just 1 monkey.

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  • This. Big tech is complicit in the fascist takeover of the U.S. Ditch their services where you can, and where you can't leech and starve them using tech like this.

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • "Harvest" is such an ugly word, mister! We rather like to call it an involuntary donation...

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  • Hannah Montana, Knoppix... a man of culture I see...

    I'll open a ticket with Mozilla.

    ...who wants to see the world burn!

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  • can that be done without Grub on a primary boot partition or the user accessing BIOS?

    I was assuming you'd just write GRUB onto the primary disk and set Hannah Montana Linux (lol, excellent choice of distro!) as the only boot option (because who needs os-prober and a selection timeout when you've got the best of distros on disk, amirite?).

    I suppose the most problematic part is the partitioning you handwaved as "ok". Afair, Windows does not allow for live-resizing of the system partition (as it should). But I suppose there are ways around that, particularly if you've got another drive or spare partition of adequate size. (OEM recovery partitions come to mind; as much as 10 GB can be enough for a viable Linux system partition.)

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  • Apologies. I've seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.

    As for "how would it work": on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.

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  • Made the switch when Windows 7 went EOL. Helped plenty of others make the switch now before 10 was killed off. Life is good indeed.

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  • So, basically Microsoft's "we know what's best for you" style? No. Fuck that, no matter the purpose.

  • Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune

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  • Junkies high on venture capital, begging for their next hit.