It’s pretty clear to me that Microsoft wants your PC to be just like your phone: closed-source vendor-only hardware and software with all user data cryptographically linked to your identity. Coupled with social media and internet mass surveillance, device level surveillance will fully enable the fascist takeover of the United States, and other countries. There are untold riches in selling your device-level actions to an authoritarian government so they can eliminate electoral opposition, and to advertisers who will advertise and capture insights at the OS level.
We have been building the surveillance state for decades, and now there is a federal power that is willing to use it not just extra-judicially, but against its own citizens to suppress their constitutional rights. ICE is already using this power to arrest and disappear lawful citizens without trial. Protesting in a city where the national guard is illegally deployed? Better not bring your phone or speak about it online. Hell, eventually you won’t be able to speak out loud near a mobile phone if you’ve draw the ire of the federal government; The Great Eye is ever watchful.
Imagine no more covert device interception, no more packet-level analysis from expensive secret rooms at your ISP, and no more digging through phone records and social media posts - just organized, searchable, AI-queryable information purchased from Apple, Microsoft, and Google with your tax dollars about what you think, where you go, what you buy, what you do, and who you talk to every minute of every day, with an integrated secret police ready to arrest you at a moments notice of thought-crime or an attempt to exercise your rights. An authoritarian’s dream.
All the attention you’ve paid and all the work you’ve done preserving your privacy is about to come to fruition. And it still won’t be enough to save us.
they will never be able to stop
pacman -S linux.I use arch, btw
Oh no… Anyway, anyone got a fix for dual audio on Linux Mint.
I wanna output to 2 devices (one is HDMI TV and the other is Bluetooth) at once and pipewire isn’t accommodating me. I’m hesitant to go screwing around with pulseaudio cause I tried that on a previous build and things went badly.
I managed to get an all devices audio output inserted into the pipewire.conf but the only sound that comes out is from the TV and not the bluetooth speaker.
I don’t really expect an answer here but if you could point me to the forum or instance that might have answers would be appreciated.
I used this page to do the code insert.
~~https://thecodeninja.net/2024/06/pipewire-combined-sink/~~ nevermind, the site seems to have 404’d itself in the last minute or so.
I killed windows with Linux
same.
i overwrote the entire disk with linux. (i was really worried that my computer will go kaboom at the time. thanks to installing arch, the wonderful archwiki and the … adjective not found community.)
no matter what circumstance, I’M NEVER TOUCHING WINDOWS EVER AGAIN.
“Are we being an asshole corporation that’s about to lose what little customer respect we still have?”
“No, it’s the users who feel entitled to be able to use their computer without signing up who are wrong.”
They know exactly what they’re doing and how people feel about it.
They haven’t made money on Windows in years. Nobody has been willing to pay for a new version of Windows since XP. What they do make money on is cloud services. So Windows is a loss leader.
Just like the cheap rotisserie chicken at Costco is there to make your walk past and look at everything else they’re selling, the modern role of Windows is to funnel people towards Microsoft cloud services, which is what makes them money. Step 1 of that process is to make sure you create a Microsoft account.
For many years I’ve had at least one Windows machine and at least one OSX machine (and then everything else runs linux). As MS started pushing this (and as Proton and Lutris got good enough to support almost any Windows software I would need to run, mostly games) I finally made the jump to zero Windows machines about a year and a half ago. Don’t miss it.
I just last month tried out Bazzite for fun and haven’t switched back. I feel like an idiot for sticking with Windows as long as I did. I was the metaphorical frog in the pot of water not realizing how shitty it had become. I guess I should be grateful there isn’t any program I need that’s Windows only because Bazzite is better than Windows in every way I can think of.
If you’re not familiar with wine, it can be your friend. Run Windows applications in Linux if you can’t find an alternative application
Thanks, I’m still learning but so far there hasn’t been any application I need that there isn’t some equivalent of.
I’ve had zero Windows physical computers in my life for something like seven years now. If I do for some strange reason need Windows for something, I’m perfectly capable of putting it into a virtual machine and running it for as long as needed.
With that said, I have not had to do that for quite a while.
Same here; IIRC it was about the time M$ started backporting “telemetry” to Windows 7 that I switched and never looked back.
Haven’t felt the need for a Windows VM, either.
BASH killed the PowerShell star.
I’ve never looked at it as one OS vs another. I think they all have their place. I still maintain a very locked down W10, and I run Linux and Mac. I was wondering tho, if MS would ‘patch’ the ability to log in to a local account because that’s the only way I’d log in to Windows.
Yet more for the mountainous pile of proof proprietary software cannot be trusted and is therefore fundamentally not fit for purpose.
