don’t forget the peas and tuna.

my first ‘distro’ was slackware, on floppy disks. then debian or a flavour of, mainly, ever since. i’ve never really strayed too far from debian and apt over the years but i have tried most everything.

they tend to make money off it due to the bundle deals and commissions and what-not.

a major oem charging $140-200 is all profit.

we used to do a ‘wildcard wednesday’, it was whatever leftovers there were–often still hanging around from the previous weekend.

possible. theirs might just become ‘third party’ cookies.

but i think they’re confident that they will not have to give up anything tangible in the current proceedings. toss a little more money into the diaper pail, case is mysteriously dropped or government remedy neutered to a “try not to do that again”.

i don’t see it that way. i see pacman, apt, and rpm.

the unique GUID in the device’s rom is what they tie your license to.

unraid does have instructions and software as zip files for manually preparing a flash drive to run their software from. you don’t have to use their scary binary media creator tool. see here

muskrat still has that hallucination that everybody’s gonna be riding around in fully-autonomous self-driving teslas, right? so that’d mean this case will be ‘‘allowed’’ to proceed.

i have a brother, bullied me the entire time growing up; selfish as yours. i haven’t talked to him, nor family members that co-conspire with him, in almost 20 years. i do not miss any of them.

use the free antivirus (e.g. measles and chicken pox ‘parties’) instead.

of all that shit microsoft forces upon you…

it’s the msa (online microsoft account) that’s the biggest deal-breaker for me.

absolutely not. never gonna happen.

ntfs: hey, i got user passwords set up here!

linux: really? never noticed.

i have a laptop here with a gemini lake celeron n4000, 4gb ram, and 64gb emmc. it barely meets the requirements imposed by microsoft for win11.

windows 11 on it is as horrible as you might imagine. someone brought me one very similar last week to ‘fix’… basically same model but with upgrade to 16gb ram. was not any better at all. essentially unusable, just like mine. their ‘fix’ was buying a new ryzen 5 laptop 12 hrs later.

JustRepublicanThings

it’s actually four things.

hauling a bunch of old tech out to the curb so it could be picked up (also by me, later today) and taken to an ewaste collection site… including a crt tv old enough to be ‘made in usa’

i just woke up, too. the time was 1745067101

the ability to produce a never-ending supply of highly-contagious stupid is donvict’s superpower.

rar has recovery records. i know it’s a somewhat niche feature, one far more popular in the ‘olden days’ especially in certain uh… ‘venues’… but it’s something i’ve always used when making backups with it.

i frequent their online storefront almost weekly. there’s still (and always has been) instances of the practice on their site.

and they are hardly the only ones that do it.