I partitioned 80gb off for work and installed Windows 10 on it. Install was fast, it found all of the drivers itself and had no bloatware using the Windows Media Creation Tool for another machine. Every device I have plugged into it or connected via Bluetooth has just worked. I don’t have a printer, but I imagine if you have an old printer that you will have to fuck around with drivers to get it working if you can’t use a generalized pcl driver for it. The entire OS with LibreOffice, and the work software I need runs on ~48gb with more than 30gb still free if I need random stuff but I don’t think I will as I’ve been using it for 2 weeks already.

I don’t have a Microsoft account signed into anything, and when I went to Windows Updates the first time I clicked the button that said “Don’t upgrade to Windows 11”.

Overall the OS is solid, I think it’s mostly people worrying about bloatware (which often comes from Manufacturers, though Windows does some) and advertisements, and Microsoft trying to monitor people.

Are the fair phones working on cellular bands in the U.S.? I was hoping at this point someone just launches a small handheld gaming device I can install a Linux distro on that I can put a sim card in/esim but I haven’t seen any hit the market. I figure maybe even just have a flip phone and forward the number to VoIP on the handheld.

The Steam deck is to big to carry, and isn’t a mobile device in my opinion because it can’t work soon as you walk out your front door, it is just a cordless device in my opinion. The GPD 4 is a bit big as well, and still isnt mobile.

If someone launches a $500-$800 handheld that maybe flips like a 3DS size and is mobile I’m sold lol (Steam deck Mobile Mini)

So if we don’t want Google monitoring our stuff we are going to be considered criminals, fuck this world is going south. I wanted to find an alternative OS with this bologna about side loading apps coming forth with Android but I haven’t figured out what kind of phone yet. If this spreads I guess Pixel won’t be the option

That would be comical. Breaking the 4th wall, boss talking shit. Get a refund punk you suck at this, while you’re at it throw your PC in a lake, fish play better.

2 months ago they put people on around the clock sifting of the files for Trumps name according to this NBC article. And gave no explanation as to what they were supposed to do after flagging them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fbi-personnel-jeffrey-epstein-files-mentioning-trump-dick-durbin-says-rcna219699

Anyone covering this up could be guilty of conspiring against the United States. As the data was alleged to be for some 300,000,000. Pretty sure “We the people” means that.

Would at minimum fall under Conspiracy to Defraud… which would be up to $250,000 a person and 5 years prison.

Trump would pardon them, but that’s another example of how we know the rule of law is gone.

I want all of the data. I see nothing wrong with LLM’s scraping government sites

I didn’t know rewards were common but have never looked into that, who reports those numbers even? They sound fun to go through

I wonder if classification has made the mass shooting numbers look different. In the 90s I remember everyone just blamed gangs. Shoot out in a parking lot, “they were probably in a gang.”. But soon as you list gun violence under gang related, it no longer falls under mass shooting according to the FBI and such. So even if 6 people get killed, that incident wouldn’t show up.

Today I rarely see people lumping acts into something like that.

Are you pronouncing it Giggle like you jiggle when you laugh? A chunky happy baby is a great marketing foundation. Just make some Jiggles of babies

Okay so Jif for shorthand and Joojif for the full spelling. Just to make a call to their original misspelling of Googol

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Citrix does well in those situations. A standard virtual machine image set up for standard users and then seperate images for those that need other apps running off seperate hardware with dedicated GPUs. None of the data needs to pull to the device you are on, and no matter what machine you walk up to, even remotely at home you can access it without even needing a VPN but rather set it up using 2 factor on the login site where only single factor is needed when onsite. So no software is needed on any of the clients you log in from. And the “computer” you are signed into is located on the same network as where you use network drives so it works better than a VPN at accessing the data.

Someone hops on your machine when you went to lunch, hop on another and have it bring the same desktop you were using up, drive home, same desktop. If set up right it’s nice, if not… There is always struggles for people

Makes management simple and slightly more affordable when you need a lot of them. No graphics cards or good CPUs needed on the clients. They are just a remote display with inputs at that point. All the processing is happening on the servers. Instead of buying a $1200 dollar computer to last for 5 years, you buy zero clients for often less than $500 and when the operating system and applications get more demanding you don’t care on the clients, just the back end. Test environments are easier, swap outs are easier. From a management point of view it’s great. From the client user side though it gets limited when it comes to more demanding applications. Sure the graphics cards can perform the tasks needed for video editing, but uploading/downloading/editing videos that are stored on a cloud somewhere would just be a nightmare, so you’d need network storage locally, but even then it still isn’t going to be as useful as just performing it locally on a machine, and having a copy on an external you walk with.

Wonder if they are thin clients. I remember setting up some Dell thin and zero clients using Windows for a state college in Florida a few years back. 2019 I think. Everything being forced into OneDrive storage for their personal files, but it made it so they could sit down at any desk, and pull the computer up out of the desk and login and have their crap while it all being very locked down/managed.

Look at you spilling the tea

If it did it prior to seeing the picture of the 🐘 I would have struggled to remember what it was called. My word association always sucked if I smoked. I would have just sat their laughing with someone else both trying to guess half the names on the list here.

Mouse and squirrel would have definitely come up.

Though it effects everyone differently. My perception sucks compared when doing other things. If someone asked me to play darts while high I would probably miss the board so id just say no, while others would do great.

That’s an elephant. Have fun and be safe haha (Just wanted to make sure if no one else said it you still got your requirements met)

Yeah I don’t know what they’ll block yet but I’m already assuming some of my apps will be blocked. It’s pretty terrible news. I really didn’t want to have to hunt down a phone that was compatible with alternative OS’s.