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Is it at all ironic that I get a page that is trying to force me to turn off my ad blocker when I am trying to view a link about Microsoft putting ads in their Mail app?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yRBphYeo3uUl5jFFQJufLMKPmup...
OSX: Pay here. Not enough, we increased our prices! Oh, don't forget your dongles! Windows: Oh you want to rename a file that is opened by an application? Fuck you. We're not even capable of telling you what application. Have some ads instead! Linux: Ooh you thought you could use $APPLICATION_NAME? Sorry, that isn't available, but you can try $MEDIOCRE_ALTERNATIVE instead. I'm not a fanboy, I hate every major desktop…
While OSX might be expensive it is such a pleasure to use!
Now, that's not to say that X11 desktop environments are all sunshine and rainbows but at least a) if you like it the way it is, you can probably keep it exactly as it is with no consequences, and b) you can always choose something simpler, where there's less to go wrong.
I went with option b here, I've been using mostly the same version of the same lightweight window manager since 2012, it is just fine, it isn't ever sluggish on any machine, and it isn't "too little" for my workstation. I use it on OpenBSD as well, and when I tried out MINIX 3 in 2013, it wasn't any effort to use exactly the same window manager. There are no commits in it (mine is a fork, but it didn't really need to be) since February 2016, because it didn't need to change.
Amazon has lately been putting ads on prime video for other prime video shows. I have a feeling we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads. Also, on prime video, occasionally, pressing the fast forward button won't skip the ad. I'm sure it's one of those "bugs" that just happens to force the user to do something the company wants but the user doesn't but I have a feeling it might just stop working all…
If Netflix introduces any mid-show ads, I suspect there'll be a sharp rise in illegal downloads...
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I resurrected my late 2012 Mac Mini recently and "upgraded" it to Mojave. I can't even SSH into the box. The SSH daemon accepts connections, firewall is off, and login sharing is enabled. But the daemon refuses my key, my password. I can't even figure out how to get it to display the reasons for the denied access. At least on Linux I can turn off the daemon, turn on logging, turn the daemon back on, and get somewhere…
I could be mistaken but I think you're crashing into Apple tightening up the security (in the good "require better encryption" way, not the bad "walled garden" way). https://www.reddit.com/r/macsysadmin/comments/9wt05m/cannot_...
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I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the preinstalled apps, as well as disabling and deleting all of the scheduled tasks which try to re-install and re-enable those settings. All this trouble so I can play modern PC games..…
1998: I'd never connect a Windows box directly to the Internet. Hackers might break my computer. 2018: I'd never connect a Windows box directly to the Internet. Microsoft might break my computer.
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> GPU drivers still perform worse for my card Which GPU?
nVidia GTX 1080ti In addition to the performance degradation, nVidia and the kernel maintainers don't currently get along so I'd also have to deal with that.
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> All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. AFAIK a license is paid with every new computer coming WITH Windows, so it isn't like people get Windows for free. I'm not sure it is even possible to transfer Windows's license from compute…
What do you mean tomorrow? When I open my start menu today I see ads for a bunch of games and apps that I don't have installed. When I see my lock screen I see a pretty nature photo with a couple of clickbait phrases on it like "If you think that this place is peacefull, then..."
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No. I have no desire to have my primary means of installing software be to compile from source. That's retarded. Literally retarded, in that it is a backward concept from the before-times.
At some point aren't you going to have to choose between software requiring shared libraries and take the package-complexity or source build-hit, or have everything statically linked and take the program size hit?
If Linux had a stable and consistent base system that was comprised of the most commonly used libraries, then developers would only have to statically link or include their own copy of less common libraries. I'm totally ok with that.
And let's be real for a minute, the program size hit is negligible. You can get a 1TB SSD for under $200. The largest part of almost any program that's in any way large are its assets, not its code.
All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd
Also, they (Apple, MS) don't want your money. They want your freedom, which is virtually priceless. I'm sure a fat monthly fee will suffice, but yeesh.
All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd