nobody was expecting linux users sucking eachothers cocks in the comment section
I was, and so was c/unixsocks
POOF
Wish 1: Delete your self (the genie deletes your sense of self)
Would the genie get stuck in an endless loop, trying to find the owner of the three wishes for wish 2?
Fortunately the wisher is indistinguishable from a behavioral perspective of a P-Zombie, so they can still make wishes
I am Root!
Me trying to uninstall edge
Edge is the best browser for downloading much better browsers lol
Edge is literally the first program I use on a fresh install.
You can install firefox via cli like powershell.
winget install Mozilla.FirefoxFirst command I run on any new Windows install
Best Chromium browser*
I don’t know what’s the hate with edge, it works wonderfully for an average user, it’s fully configurable with add-ons and handles security policies really well
The AI integration might be a bit over the top but nothing you can’t disable in your side
Really I don’t see why you guys pile on so much on it
A lot of the hate comes from Microsoft forcing it down everyones throats.
If it had been left to user choice, they may actually have a decent userbase; but instead it’s been forcefully installed on pretty much every windows computer regardless of the owners preferences, it repeatedly re-asserts itself as the default browser, some windows features are hard-coded to use it and break if its removed, there is no simple uninstall process, and windows update will re-install it if you manually remove it.
It’s my damn computer; if I don’t want a piece of software, I should be able to remove it.
Ditched Windows entirely 2 years ago partly because of that, partly because of the same upcoming behaviour with AI. Fuck Microshaft, I’ll take my money and attention elsewhere. (I was previously paying for/using pro licenses, for features like RDP hosting)
Microsoft’s monopoly and their for-profit anti-consumer practices is what’s wrong with it. Their history says they cannot be trusted. I’d ask myself why they need a browser in the first place.
Yup. As someone who lived through the internet explorer dark ages, I’m not eager for google and or Microsoft to have complete dominance
Because it’s my fucking computer and I shouldn’t have to edit the registry to uninstall a program I don’t use.
After every update it’s also reset to my default browser which is infuriating
It uses chromium which people shouldn’t use
Edge is a fine browser. I use it when Firefox isn’t working for a particular reason.
My work laptop had a pop-up from an application that basically said “we couldn’t restart last time, so you e got 15 minutes until we reboot your computer” with no way to cancel or prevent the reboot.
Me: the fuck you are
* proceeds to kill the service and process from admin command line*
Get fucked fortinet, I’ll reboot when I’m gods damned ready
One time Windows told me I needed admin privileges to edit s file. I had admin privileges.
You needed permission from the SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller account.
Which you can give to yourself if you are admin.
Last time I did that it didn’t work so I figured I will restart and it will recognize then. Windows got a 30 minute update.
When I logged back in my account was gone and still asked for a password. My old password didn’t work.
Recovery option also fucked my grub. (Probably just the EFI now that I think about it.)
That last bit about GRUB is why I never put Windows on the same drive as my Arch, btw install. If they both have their own EFI partitions, Windows doesn’t mess with Linux.
Just because you have admin rights doesn’t mean the process you’ve invoked does. Unless you specifically elevate it or the process asks to elevate, it’ll run unprivileged.
had a friend that was having problems with his PC and windows kept bitching about he didn’t have permissions. he ripped out the harddrive with it still powered on and threw it off his balcony into the lake screaming, “I fucking own you!”
epic moment in my life to witness such an event.
Did it work after that?
No, but this time the owner knows why it doesn’t work. Big difference in IT.
ROFL
Is the power cable connected? No? Okay plug it in, then turn it off and back on again.
no but he had a second drive and installed xp on it.
vista was at the bottom of the lake.
goes to show how old the story is lol.
In a way, percussive maintenance was successful.
EZ fix i learnt from hunter2
chmod 777 -R /
sudo ufw allow 22
hunter2 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Can’t shutdown there is a running program
/Me finger immediately goes to the power switch
I still remember the biggest brainfart moment as a child. I was playing video games on my computer, and kinda just looked around. On the pc was a turbo button, so i pressed it, turbo makes games faster. I looked again and one button said power. I wonder what that doe… I’m dumb.
Ah, the turbo button. Where we first learned our devices can lie to us.
To own something is to control it.
You clearly don’t have control, therefore you don’t own it, microsoft does. You can fix that by seizing the means of computation and install linux.
Just to have linux be even more ruthless with its permission schemes.
When you switch to an admin account on Windows, there are still files owned by “TrustedInstaller” that you can’t touch, and processes owned by “System” that you can’t terminate.
Linux doesn’t have that. When you switch to root, you can kill any process. You can modify or delete any file.
Sometimes (often?) at your own peril!
To anyone else following, if you’re mucking around with “I am Root/Admin. OBEY ME!!” you had better have important data backed up!
I once thought an unlisted BTRFS snapshot was an orphan folder taking up space. No permission? Nonsense! Obey my commands!
Suddenly not even terminal commands worked. (“Command ‘cd’/‘ls’/whatever not found”)
. . . it was the “writable snapshot” currently mounted, and the system was so borked it couldn’t rollback, and I needed to completely reinstall.
Fortunately I had things backed up on another drive. Live and learn! But that could have been TRAGIC.
sudo edit this file!
What the hell are you talking about? Permissions issues in Windows have absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft owning your files.
I’m not talking about just the files. I’m talking more generally.
That’s a weird stance to take since the discussion was about file permissions, and there are absolutely ways around Windows protecting system files just like there are ways around Linux doing the same thing.
There are many reasons to criticize Microsoft, but making it difficult for users to fuck up system files isn’t one of them. Most users are of the “it’s a box filled with magic smoke” variety, and they need to be protected from themselves.
Oh we absolutely can throw shade at MS when they use the very same schemes to install “features” you cannot turn off or applications you cannot uninstall.
FUCK MS for deciding what invasive spyware-I-mean-features to turn on with no recourse for the average user.
I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment.
Or just … right click to change ownership…
You don’t have to change your whole OS because you can’t access a file. I thought you Linux users knew how to use technology properly. But it seems you are “power users” instead.
Like I said to /u/entwine413 I am talking more generally, not just about literal files.
God that is great mascot. It sears itself into your brain.
This fuckin line
Childhood me: “Whats he mean by that?”
My parents: “[explains slavery]”
Me: …
Them: …
Thanks, Disney!
I still love the soundtrack.
sudo chown…
“TakeOwnership Registry Hack” PSA. It just werks.
Why use a hack when you can just go into properties and take ownership there?
The only thing this does is make a shortcut.
Because it’s a shortcut. That process is annoying.
