You can still use local accounts with Windows 11. It’s just a bit fiddley. If you use Rufus to make your boot usb, there’s a bunch of deshitification options you can do.

Meanwhile I felt so guilty filing an AWS support ticket under “Production Services Impacted” when, while it was our production environment, it was not actively in use…

Hell yeah, now I can waste my time on DuoLingo outside of the toilet!!

you can install Android apps including Google Play on it natively

What whaaaat? I didn’t know this! Thanks for the tip

I switched over to EndeavourOS around the same time. I relegated my old windows install to a virtual image, which I boot into for specific games and Excel. 10/10 recommend.

Hey! You take that back! I love my vending machine waifu more than any human woman!

For affordable set it and forget it cold storage, this is incredible. For anything actively being touched, yeah definitely a pass.

Oh frack off…

Sounds like a legal and maintenance nightmare

As an immigrant to the US, I’ve always found the blind patriotism commonplace here to be very strange. It feels even more alienating now than ever before.

No worries here. I’ve been on EndeavourOS for 3+ months now. Im just saying there’s enough crossover that I think the steam hardware survey will show the uptick over time.

Tbh, I’ve wanted to cut over to Linux for years, but I hadn’t due to game support. We’re at a point now with Proton that there’s almost no reason not to, unless you’re that beholden to games that install rootkits, er, kernel level anticheat, in which case just dual boot.

OneNote re-installing and re-adding itself to my startup after I absolutely turned it into swiss cheese was my final nail in the coffin.

Windows now lives in an image file that I can boot into using Linux as a thin client to start up a Windows VM for the occasional time I need to do some heavy Excel work. Absolute trashware.

2 days? He said 2 weeks haha

Sure it will, there are a ton of people who want to get away from the trash that is Microsoft and play Steam games, myself included.

Yeah, they should have sucked it up and made a passionless game, a shell of the former titles. Oh, wait.

I guess it wasn’t super relevant to the prior comment, which was focused more on AI embodiment. Eh, it’s just numbers anyway, no sweat off my back. Appreciate you, though!

That and there is literally no way to prove something is or isn’t conscious. I can’t even prove to another human being that I’m a conscious entity, you just have to assume I am because from your own experience, you are so therefor I too must be, right?

Not saying I consider AI in it’s current form to be conscious, more so the whole idea is just silly and unfalsifiable.

Only if you’re punching down, obviously

Dude, if I had no ethics, I would scam the fuck out of stupid people and get so rich. Damned moral compass…

Heh, you think there’ll be people to remember things in 300 years?