Posts by Kurgan

Re: Goodbye Windows 11

While I understand some of your frustrations, as a Linux sysadmin I'd like to point out that this is exactly the hell I live when I have to work on Windows.

It's all about your competence on Linux or on Windows. If you used Windows for years, you have, even not being a tech, become accustomed to its issues and learned how to work around them.

In Linux every little issue becomes blocking to you because you lack experience.

Also, if you had bought a computer with Linux preinstalled, a lot of issues would have never existed. And dual booting is another issue that is non existent if you happen to have only Windows (or only Linux) preinstalled.

So, Linux is far from perfect, but Windows is plainly satanic. At least in my opinion as a 55 years old (35 years on the job) tech that started on IBM DOS 2 and worked on OS/2 Novell Netware, then Windows 3.11, then Windows NT, then Linux. (and a a lot of other old and obscure software like Banyan and Xenix and so on)

Re: Just ditch US products?

No government is trustworthy when it comes to privacy, of course. Subjects must be spied on and controlled and kept under the heel, this is true for every government in the world.

But when it comes to being able to exist as a nation, and not being a slave to foreign nations, then there is a need for locally controller and sourced computing, in both software and hardware.

As a subject, I can only choose if I want to be screwed by my own or by someone else's government, of course. Well actually I can't even choose, I can only accept my destiny.

Re: The reason is in there.

Yes, Putin does not want to empower China, but this is what's happening right now. Then, once Putin has secured the US as a friend and Europe as a slave, they (Putin and Trump) will try and conquer / destroy China, and that is where WW3 happens.

Re: Never forget that Lenovo was IBM at one time

I think the issue here is that China is driven by "the good of the nation" while the US by "the good of the CEO". Both systems don't care about the slaves, of course. But at least it seems that China's system is winning.

Re: Well if a random guy on Twitter says it,

Not a random guy, but the CEO of the United States. This is the level of enshitment the world has reached.

China will be the next and the only space faring nation. Europe will be left behind.

The ISS was the product of a short era of decent collaboration before Putin came and conquered everything using Trump and Musk.

I don't think so. Chrome (its rendering engine) has gobbled up quite all the browsers market. I don't mean to say that it's impossible for it to become irrelevant, but it won't happen in the near future. Maybe someday Microsoft will switch to a different rendering engine, and this could make a dent.

Which is more or less what China has been doing since forever. Steal the tech, make it cheaper, profit.

Re: Don't let the shattering glass injure you on the way out, Windoze!!

I run Linux Mint since it was born, and I run Linux desktop since windows 7 was born (Yes, I jumped ship at that time). I run multi-monitor on Cinnamon no problems.

Re: Using Bing

I have tried Duckduckgo because I also dislike Google, but its search results were mostly under performing.

I usually search for technical information as I'm a linux sysadmin. I was baffled I could not find anything relevant on some topic (I don't remember what) so I tried Google again with the same query: first hit was the right one.

I sadly went back to Google, because it gets the job done better than DDG, at least for tech questions. Probably DDG is better in other scenarios.

It's the fact that you cannot say that you base line is shit, so you have to say that your base line is fine for the same job as the middle line.

Also, there is a difference between the PC given to the lower slave worker and the PC given to the middle manager.

Dell = slaves

Dell Pro = middle managers

Dell Pro Max Premium = C-levels

Apple something for the CEO

Re: It happened to the McLaren F1 fuel injection first.

And this is why PIRACY is our only hope. For every kind of "content" be it an ebook, a movie, music, or a game.

Copy and crack the software (if you can, that is "if it can be made to run locally") and you'll have it forever (or at least as long as you have a compatible hardware or emulator).

Is this morally wrong? Yes, it is, but only if there is a morally right way to have your software run as long as you like, like my old, pre-internet era games do (Quake, Doom, Diablo 1, Diablo 2), or having your content available FOREVER (like for example if you can pay for an ebook and download a LOCAL and without DRM version of it)

Otherwise it's morally right. Very right.

And if some software is completely cloud based, think about this fact before deciding if it's good for you or not. Maybe it can be good anyway, but just think of the implications of cloud-based software before making a decision.

Re: Wintel Reckoning

The lock-in is still present today, up to a point. But I think it's MS that rules the market and gives peanuts to its vassals (intel and amd) with the windows 11 forced PC replacement. Probably it was not so 30 years ago, but it's been like this since at least 20 years. Businesses need to run Windows, and Windows needs (well, needed) X86 or AMD64 cpus to run. Today windows can run on ARM, but it's a very marginal market anyway.

Mobile is a very different story but that ship has sailed for MS and Intel (and AMD) 20 years ago.

Re: Head of FAA

And of EPA and FCC and whatever agency may have some saying on his business.

This is the whole point. Once starlink lets the government monitor and censor the communications, then it will be licensed to operate in India.

Re: Function keys on a touch bar?

I'm a proud owner of a Thinkpad with a nice keybaord and no shitty design.

Re: Would have prefered "*.int"

Yes, there was indeed .local, but then some smart ass stole it from us.

Re: The only thing worse than bad security

Like... a BIOS? We had it, when IT was not such a shitshow.

We all know that UEFI is a pile of useless trash and that Secure Boot was invented to make sure that only windows would be able to boot (and then failed at that).

I'd really like to have old BIOS back.

Re: Betterbird on macOS actually exists

It's called better for a reason.

But still betterbird has the same 115 UI that sucks sooo much.

Re: Website Advertising Preferences

I have just discovered about this thanks to this article, and immediately disabled it.

Re: Tired

Actually every AV vendor is more or less tied to the government of their own nation. This is why you should avoid Kaspersky (because Russia) and also avoid American ones (because America).

I'd consider F-secure which is tied to a smaller and probably less intrusive government.

Boot time has NEVER been a real issue. On servers, bios / uefi startup time is measured in MINUTES, OS startup time in seconds. What are we talking about? This whole mess has almost NO benefits (almost, something is actually a little less than useless) and has become a mess.