So I’m trying to figure out a way to jip Microsoft. We’ve already got a way to activate windows for free, but LTSC images need to be available - because that’s where we get away from Microsoft’s bullshit.
Unless Microsoft removes access to DISM and gp, we’ll still be able to cut off that “always online” limb.
That’s not, wasn’t, and never will be free even if you don’t ritual with your Talisman, the dollar.
Closed source software isn’t about making money. That’s just a sucker tool to vacuum people that accept shit-worse-than slavery from the dollar.
Free means to ditch any and all software that some person you don’t gorram know bar one pedophile who stole everyone else’s written software and turned around selling it promising what it does. Even he doesn’t know jack fucking squat about what it really does.
If you flip that for the trust you gave over the then the news is that you’re an even more gullible sucker and it isn’t a gamble on whether or not the next software cracker will kidnap the rest of your family as well.
The life of everyone in your family will inevitably become the truth serum regenex for Steve Jobs when they unfreeze his ass. If you think he really is dead then you weren’t paying the fuck attention to his stock market vaccine six months before his ice cube.
You can’t tell the difference between an AI and a real person because your understanding of reality was fed to you by children in culture’s trap persuading you to summon the 10 dimension into the essence of your soul flux into theirs.
The obvious truth you think ain’t cuz the writer knew you would understand what the real dimensions against reality we live in are without your inability to perceive them.
It’s not difficult. You can see it. Let me throw an example of one them.
We see 4 dimensions. Height, width, Length and time right?
There’s another multidimensional track here. This is the Story. It’s a little more complicated and I’d be foolish to claim understanding of that; though I would easily say the I know a few of them. I’ve read many Sci-Fi, Fantasy and a few others.
That’s just an example. I am trying to give you understanding but if you continue to ask questions that are essentially a weapon using ignorance to attempt to smear someone who is attempting to help everyone before the Sun smite gorram planet like Mars for our universal suicide in ways we can’t begin to understand let alone describe should we actually know anything about it let alone understand anything.
In some cases, that’s still not possible for m, although my personal laptop that I use daily runs Fedora Atomic.
But I also recently reinstalled another laptop with Windows 11, promptly stripped the whole thing of all kinds of apps and services, installed a bunch of audio software, libraries, etc, to prepare a machine to be show worthy.
When the day comes and Ableton ports Live to Linux proper is when I will forego a bulk of my VST’s, but running it under wine for real-time purposes is not reliable at all - so eh. There’s Bigwig, but I got like years of Max patches that I just can’t live without, and I don’t need just a DAW. In fact, if you ask me to leave Live, I’ll tell you to fly a kite.
Same issue it’s always been, unfortunately, that vendors do not support the Linux desktop. Go bother the vendors about platform supoort. I do, frequently. In fact, time for another ticket - and this one is going to be political.
*That won’t be acknowledged running on my computer.
Correction. If you’re running any kind of closed source software AND haven’t disabled Intel ME (or PSP) Then this is the accurate reality shining on you illusion of reality.
Also, get you a lap shade or that 10-dimensional…whatever is still racking your body, watching you out of every camera. Every.Camera.Everywhere
Qubes. Get a another laptop. Something old and cheap. X230 or better for some basic security tools in the chip. On that front though, learn to either disable Intel ME or cough up for someone else doing so. would recommend a Librem from Purism.
If so, get a three year warranty. I don’t know about us lasting that long here but mine lasted two years before all the ports stopped working with USB going first. I sent it to them with a new NVMe and the sent me back a failure after asking me if they could wipe the drive and made me pay for the shipment. When I received it and told them about their failure, they paid for shipping the second time. Sent me someone that worked for another two years.
I quit windows two decades ago. Didn’t get into comps and GNU/Linux for 5 more years. First thing i learned about comps when I built one was GNU/Linux.
It’s not the software itself that I respect, but the philosophy of Richard Stallman. He is no less than our Messiah and he doesn’t make a single reference to a gorram thing that ain’t a tangible security concept he manifests into what makes sense.
Like I’ll ever “trust” someone I don’t know let alone some pedophiliac thief’s OS that someone wrote and even he don’t know. Despite claiming anything about its function.
Honestly I think windows is so fucked in terms of market share and it seems like they are kind of just pre-emptively ceding the battle to linux intentionally or not.
Yeah people have been waiting for years for linux to eat windows for lunch and it hasn’t happened yet but I am convinced that linux becoming massively more practical and easy to use for gaming (Steam deck being a good catalyst) in the last couple of years has pushed things past a tipping point. Gaming might not make up the outsized chunk of desktop usage, but gaming is where people experiment, try new things, learn software inside and out and it is where people are most inspired to contribute and build and polish out the annoying little details of complex systems.
Yeah Microsoft will have its walled moats around entire sectors of business indefinitely into the future, and that probably is where most of the consistent money is, but I think Microsoft shitting the bed with Windows 11 so hard is creating the rosiest forecast for the future of Linux desktops I have ever seen in my life.
These twin factors converging has got me bullish af on Linux in the near to mid term.
The day Linux says all video games are compatible with their OS is the day I finally switch from Windows for good.
I mean Wine and steamOS’s Proton are that though? Sure compatibility isn’t perfect but the vast majority of games I have tried worked all the way from current AAA games to games like Steel Panthers WinspWW2, a DOS game from the 90s that barely functions on a modern windows computer but yet runs perfect on my Deck. Because the deck is using a virtual environment to emulate a windows OS it actually arguably creates a more stable platform to run windows software than windows itself running the program normally.
Pretty much the only obstacle left is stupid super invasive anticheat/spyware software that doesn’t bother to cover Linux in competitive multiplayer games.
Kernel-level anticheat and DRM are killer features, like it or not. People don’t care how invasive they are, they want to play League of Duty. If Linux can’t do that then it’s not good enough yet as far as they are concerned.
Meanwhile the only thing keeping me from switching to Garuda on my desktop is that the GPU is wonky and misbehaves even worse under Linux than it does under Windows. Screw competitive online games.
Then Linux may win over Windows for gaming, but games might lose to tinkering for me. Cause no way in hell I’m installing a kernel-mode trojan consciously.
If Linux can’t do that then it’s not good enough yet as far as they are concerned.
Linux can do that, see The Finals, Halo Infinite, Apex Legends or any number of other games. It’s just the anticheat companies are sketchy and often uninterested in doing even a little bit of work to add Linux support.
True, but getting someone to switch to Linux is a hard sell already. Any compatibility issues are seen as the OS’s fault, not as the game company being lazy.
Getting someone to switch anything major in the workflow/toolset of their lives is nearly impossible most of the time, it is process highly likely to cause headaches and only provide counterbalancing benefits down the road once the painful learning curve of acclimation is overcome.
However, in the same token there are plenty of Linux distributions that have perfectly understandable desktop UIs that many Mac or Windows users wouldn’t event notice wasn’t windows. Especially with Windows changing shit every 5 seconds and stuffing useless crap into menus everywhere, I think it isn’t a stretch to say the UI of many Linux distributions is more user friendly than Windows and in many cases Mac.
The real problem is the moment someone has to fuck around with headaches with drivers for basic computer functionality like Bluetooth or other hardware. If that stuff is generally covered pretty well then most people aren’t going to give a shit.
At this point Linux is like making coffee with a French press, people who aren’t coffee nerds think using a French press is way more complicated than using some stupid keurig machine with completely unclear buttons and a camera inside just to check you are using brand name keurig cups that you have to fool by slipping in an old k-cup lid from keurig over the top of the off-brand one….
…peoplenwho do know coffee well on the other hand shake their heads confused when people jump through 1000 hoops to use other coffee brewing methods when a French press conceptually and mechanically is only one step away from just literally dumping your coffee grounds in hot water and then drinking it.
Honestly I’m already not a big fan of Windows 10 so if Microsoft tries to force me to download Windows 11 with all these nonsense AI features that spy on you I’m just gonna switch to Linux
having the control to make decisions over my own computer is superb
I find it really sad that it has come so far that feelings like these exist. That should be a matter of course. Instead, it has become a special feature.
Same! It was actually a pretty big surprise that Mint worked flawlessly out of the box on my crappy pre-built PC. Everything’s working great including the printer! I’m seriously impressed.
If I’m reading this correctly this runs locally and will requirean NPU, so would not be present or working without AI dedicated hardware?
It honestly sounds useful and I would be a little excited to use it, but I imagine Microsoft will collect the data in some way which would be bad as it pretty much records your screen all the time (I somehow doubt all the info the AI collects will be actually stored locally)?
Hopefuly one day there will be a point when a similar software will be developed that runs 100% locally, storing the data locally and have no internet connectivity and just be a useful tool.
Good news is that unless you have Qualcomm CPU (or one with integrated NPU in the long run) you are safe from it for now
Yeah you just about summed up my thoughts about the feature.
It sounds like it could be genuinely useful, but I could never trust Microsoft to do it right, no matter how much they insist it’s local only.
For the average user, with maybe a little bit of IT knowledge but doesn’t work in IT, what can we do for ourselves and our families other than go to win 11 eventually?
Unironically, switch to Linux. Mainstream distros like Mint, PopOS or Ubuntu are very friendly for casual users, have GUIs for everything and if something does go wrong, the error messages actually have proper meaning and you’ll find tons of resources online as well as people willing to help.
Most stuff nowadays runs in a browser anyway, so here there’s no compatibility issues, office is available in Linux through libre office and gaming has come far with steam and proton.
Canonical have a long history of making decisions for corporate reasons, then using their popularity to try to strongarm the larger Linux community into adopting their way of doing things.
Currently, they’re pushing their closed source Snap packs, which are frankly inferior to the open source Flat packs, but it’s just the latest example of their shenanigans.
I don’t like Canonical either, hence my recommendations for Mint or Pop being listed first. But let’s be real, if someone wants to just get away from windows and wants something that works without having to learn much new, this is good enough.
It’s an open secret that Microsoft is gearing up to supercharge Windows 11 this summer with next-gen AI capabilities that will enable the OS to be context aware across any apps and interfaces, as well as remember everything you do on your PC to enhance user productivity and search.
These new capabilities are set to ship as part of a new app internally called “AI Explorer,” which I’m told will be unveiled during Microsoft’s special Windows event on May 20.
The feature is also said to be exclusive to devices powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X series chips, at least at first, as Intel and AMD play catchup in the NPU race.
AI Explorer is able to do more than just remember the things you do on your computer, it’s also able to analyze what’s currently on-screen and provide contextual suggestions and tasks based on what it can see.
This capability is called Screen Understanding, and I’m told one of the big selling points of AI Explorer is that it’s supposed to work across any app, with no developer input required.
The existence of Rewind.ai proves that this is a concept that can be done, and Microsoft is essentially building its own version into Windows 11 that offloads the resources required for such a feature onto NPUs to keep the load away from the CPU.
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