Wow if only anyone saw this coming
I can picture the MS execs going “Shit, we still have 1,000,000 Windows users that are not feeding us their data every second, we’re not enshitifying fast enough. Step on it”.
Honestly it’s probably an upgrade for O365 but people won’t want to hear that. It’s cloud based shit being integrated with a cloud based graphics cards being able to search and assist with that functionality. If we don’t want our shit on a cloud, we shouldn’t use O365. Copilot isn’t changing much. Their software took its course, just move to libre office and if there is a big enough market, someone will fill the gap if they don’t have the features they need from libre, but I don’t know of any I need.
*This is mostly pointed at enterprise
Oh no!
Anyway…
Okay okay linux this and that but what am I supposed to do for phone security and browsing (unrelated to microsoft). Please help me, nerds 🙏
Podcast that van help: https://surveillancereport.tech/
Tldr, an iPhone is okay and has decent default out of the box, but going with grapheneos is the best move.
Well graphene OS I have been told isn’t the best, and saw an article earlier about people who are now being targeted in Spain for having a pixel and arrested so it won’t be long before that spreads. I’m hoping to find something else but we need mass support so it isn’t targeted while it not being a large corporation
You can use a degoogled phone. Poxel phones can ise graphene os. Other but not all phones can use lineage os. And murena makes a phone that can use their e os
Okay so as someone in the U.S. that wants phone calls, texts, and apps of my choosing, what can I use. Because I have to assume every Google pixel will be targeted if they have already started in Spain. Trump’s a one upper
That’s enough for me to quit my last two dual boot rigs. Guess I’ll have to figure out how to get over binging 12 fitgirl release.quickly only to realize they all sucked anyway
Use Linux.
Use LibreOffice.
Use LibreWolf or WaterFox.
Free yourselves.If you’re in the US, soon this will be arrestable for enabling terrorism.
I was dual booting for a bit on two computers but didn’t get too far away from Windows.
Finally reinstalled only Ubuntu on my laptop. I use my laptop until I need something on Windows then figure out how to do it on Ubuntu.
Got Syncthing running on both computers early this week to replace Box. Still need to see if I can run it on my NAS. Then need to get Back blaze sorted out.
this is the way
I dare them to do it on my Pop OS! computers! I don’t even run a windows VM anymore.
It feels liberating! No more Stockholm syndrome ✌️
HumanOnEarth announces they will install Linux on all computers going forward
They’ll try to make Linux illegal soon.
Major fear is corruption of the culture. There are corpos and cunts that would benefit from Steam stopping linux suppory which is a major adoption driver. Nvidia is supposedly a more difficult gpu/cpu to use with linux and the current duopoly leans heavily in their favour.
Impossible. The cloud will fall. And locking the bootloader of computers won’t work.
I didn’t say they’ll succeed. And it’ll only apply to private users, of course.
Even though I have a free student subscription, I uninstalled all Microsoft Office last month because the constant ‘do you want to use copilot???’ was infuriating.
Do you want to use copilot???
😭😭😭
Life has been so good with Linux.
Linux is inconvenient at times but so is Microsoft at all times. Atleast you can fix your problems on Linux
Can you fix mine too?
It depends on what daemons you have installed.
This message is brought to you by Microsoft, for Linux Mint, and Linux Mint Debian Edition.
I found Linux Mint Cinnamon edition to be an incredibly easy transition. Just make sure you disable secure boot and use the drive format that the installer recommends.
And Bazzite, and Fedora, and OpenSUSE.
Microsoft fuck you. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Moved to Linux (popos on desktop, mint on ancient laptop). Been fine. Don’t miss windows. Play games and browse the web without issue.
They are also inserting AI shit into Notepad too.
Like, good luck getting me off from LibreOffice and Notepad++ assholes.
I miss npp so much on linux. Kate is pretty good though, but need to tinker with it quite a bit to make it fit my workflow. But it’s also really hard to search for solutions, because just searching the Web for “Kate” brings a lot of noise. I wonder why they’ve never thought of it.
Also, I figure that long time linux users probably solve for what I experience as pain points completely differently. Like for example they use vim a lot instead.
I have to use Windows at work. Happily, the Windows 2000 version of notepad is a standalone exe.
At home, my system runs Debian, which is so much simpler.
