Back to work today. Signed into my windows machine. Had to agree to 3 privacy policies to read my emails/use Edge.
Have the XKCD as a wallpaper to remind me of 'home'.
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You could redo that XKCD but with windows today...
I hate everything about this stupid propaganda/publicity stunt.
What was it?
They took a bunch of rich women, dressed them up in objectifying skintight suits, then flew them to space for 10 minutes in a glorified plane ride on the second richest guy's dick shaped rocket. And we're supposed to be "inspired", meanwhile women who are actual rocket scientists and astronauts are being erased and removed from NASA's web site because "woke dei" or whatever.
Funny thing is, 10 minutes sounds like hyperbole, but after they crossed the line that's internationally recognized as the edge of space they only spent 3 minutes there before returning.
Wow! A whole 3 minutes! Better kiss the ground to show my appreciation for the Earth!
Thats it, nobody can do anything now because the US voted for an fat orange turd after running their finances in the worst way they possibly could for the last 50 years?
You're not fair to the brave astronauts^* that did^* the first^* all woman space^* expedition^* ! It was a whole 11 minutes of a glorified plane ride.
Meanwhile no-one mentioned Valentina Tereshkova, who orbited Earth 48 times on her own back in 1963. Sigh.
Some rich fucks went to "space" for a couple minutes in another rich fucks giant penis enlarger.
I wasn't sure which article to link, there are many opinion articles with their own takes on it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin_NS-31
Here's the Wikipedia
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I would have said the same thing until I saw this new meme format.
Iβm not gonna pretend that the billions squandered and the environmental damage was worth the meme, but those are sunk costs so at least we get this out of it?
We take what we can get, and keep going.
You joke, but I attempted to set up a Windows partition back in January so I could play some games on Game Pass, and made it nearly a whole two hours before I wiped the partition and vowed never again.
There were ads on the login screen. And that was just the start! I haven't seen so many ads on a desktop since the early 2000's when I used to fix PCs infected with spyware for people.
At least back then the ads had naked girls!
Did you just rawdog the home version or something? You gotta use at least some protection man! LTSC Pro install, some debloat scripts... anything but a straight install.
Lord knows what you could have caught!
Problem is, there are no good debloat scripts. It's all written by amateurs who don't know what they're doing, messing up the system in subtle ways that then take ages to figure out.
And if you are an amateur yourself, you have no means to validate that the scripts aren't harmful.
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Some tools for the forsaken:
https://privacy.sexy/ https://github.com/builtbybel/Bloatynosy/releases https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Not FOSS: https://winaero.com/download-winaero-tweaker/
Someone's curated list I just found: https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy
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I helped my son install Windows 10 on a spare SSD for Fortnite. His first comment after booting into Windows: Why is it so ugly?
After the novelty of playing Fortnite wore off he's back to Linux.
heβs back to Linux
^^^ Amazing parenting right here. π π π π Bravo sir.
Honestly gaming on Linux is so good these days, itβs almost on par with Windows there. Really the only major games that canβt be played are due to anticheat rootkitsβ¦ which are a security nightmare anyway.
I had 5k hours of Linux-exclusive Apex Legends, the only Linux Apex Diamond in my country, I had streaming income and even tournament income. I still miss it but I won't ever go back to Windows gaming even if I doubled my streamer income.
Did they drop Linux support or something?
Almost 2 seasons ago, yes. It's not coming back.
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"Ima install windows server edition since I like the C API and I can learn regedit stuff"
(The most undocumented nightmare imaginable)
"Never again"
Seriously how did I have harder time connecting to my home wifi than I did connecting to PEAP encrypted university wifi on open fucking bsd.
Microsoft hides how their server shit works behind their certifications
Source: I've been taught how to use Windows server edition by people who got their certs. I assume it's somewhat a joke, but cannot be certain
Meanwhile, Windows users are landing down, wondering what this strange new planet is. Confused by the Great Filetree, they begin to poke its roots...
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Did she really do that? I'm flabbergasted she brought a pamphlet for her upcoming tour and a little flower to hold in front of the camera. This is the first and possibly last time you're going to space, Katy. How vain do you have to be to be holding things in front of a camera? I would be glued to the windows and savoring the sensation of weightlessness.
She did it and so did Gale King. The only good thing about this whole narcissistic, class-based, photo op ordeal was this meme. The best part is that they trained together for what, 8 months? They spend almost 3 minutes of their 4 minutes in space taking selfies of each other and playing with their devices. I guess they got their $100k a piece worth of PR.
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When you're convinced that the world revolves around you, you probably won't have much appreciation for the universe.
There may not come another time where she's in all the news, worldwide. Gotta use every second to promote the upcoming tour with that amount of exposition, i guess.
~. / sweet ~. /
Once you're hooked to Linux there is no going back lol
I use fusion 360 on windows 11 for work. Then i come home to my linux and it feels right
Windows 11 is awful i hate the UI the ADS and spyware. I debloated as much as i can but i need fusion for CAM/CAD. I bring my lenovo laptop with debian 12 incase i need to do something other than CAD. Why cant autodesk port the POS to Linux
Why cant autodesk port the POS to Linux
I mean, Fusion 360 even runs in a web browser (although it was unusably slow for me). It should be possible to port it to the Linux desktop.
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Linux is like mechanical keyboards once you use it once theres no going back
Work βupgradedβ me to Windows 11 today. So fun learning how to do the same thing as always but with a much shittier workflow.
this will be me when I'm finally released from the prison of my work software only being supported on Windows
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