ExtremeDullard

(no consumer is going to pay for extended) begins to really push people to Windows 11

Consumers aren’t exactly ecstatic about throwing away perfectly serviceable computers just so Microsoft can push their spyware-cum-advertising platform down their throats either.

I’d say this is a great push towards Linux for anybody who knows anything about computers and isn’t a corporation with a dumbass MCSE jockey as an “IT” guy.

apt generally downloads more things than apt-get on my Debian machine. apt-get never broke anything, but I tend to eye it suspiciously now.

Yeah alright. That’s one way of looking at it 🙂

I guess what I meant is that I don’t like upgrades that happen without me explicitly requesting each and every one of them, and me watching the upgrade process as it happens for errors.

No Linux system of mine upgrades itself without my explicit consent. That’s one of the many reasons why I don’t run Windows.

The poster would be more convincing if you hadn’t inverted apt-get update and apt-get upgrade…

The Internet Watch Foundation said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered a number of scenarios including “child prostitute in a hotel”, “sex with your child while your wife is on holiday” and “child and teacher alone after class”.

Does it have to be this explicit? I’m sure asking for a Trump Enigma would yield plenty of pedo material.

You’re not wrong. But I have another argument: the Trump regime is not yet fully entrenched, and now is the time to vote with your wallet and boycott the collaborators that bankroll the regime in an effort to smother it before it’s too late. There’s still a tiny chance and every little bit helps.

China on the other hand… It’s been around for so damn long, no matter how much you try to boycott China-made product - if that’s even possible - it not going to make a dent in the regime’s grip.

One does what one can where one can.

Well, there’s another reason why I run this ARM laptop: it’s fully open-source. Well, mostly: there’s one binary blob left. But that’s as close to open-source as I was able to find.

Like I said, there’s no good option if you need a computer - or indeed any product - that wasn’t made by some company in some country that runs against the values you believe in. Only the least bad option. This laptop is the one that ticked the most boxes for me.

I use an ARM laptop as my daily driver (RK3588 CPU).

Is ARM great? No. It’s slower than similarly-priced AMD64 machine, and for some reason, whatever power-saving algorithm my particular compute module is running makes everything CPU-intensive that interacts with the users choppy and annoying.

But it’s more than usable, and I have no doubt it’ll get better over time.

Here’s the most important thing about ARM for me though:

• It’s not Intel: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through its stake in Intel.
• It’s not American: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through sales taxes.
• It’s not Russian: even if Elbrus processors were obtainable, I refuse to fund the Russian fascist regime through sales taxes.

The ARM stuff I currently rock is made in China. Not great, but if you need a computer, it’s sadly the least terrible option at the moment.

Yeah it’s plausible. It’s just that you can’t trust anything any part of the US administration says is true and impartial anymore, is my point.

According to AP, there were messages engraved on the casings in the Kirk shooting.

Careful there. That’s not according to the AP, that’s ultimately according to the FBI. And if you think Kash Patel and his yes-men are above fabricating evidence to enable Trump to pin the murder on the woke-DEI-LGBT-left-whatever, I have a bridge to sell you.

I’ll believe it when I see it, and not with a missing minute in the video.

You mean Apple doesn’t just make impressive bribes for fascist dictators?

Apple can gargles my balls. Fucking collaborators…