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Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by DerArzt » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

Suppafly wrote: post #188

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #166

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I suspect this is about work related MFA apps; for example, one of the reasons I switched to an iPhone many years ago is the MFA app used at work would not run if the latest Android version with security bugfixes were installed, and the manufacturer had stopped providing updates for quite some time. At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the lat…

>At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the latter. That's your personal decision though, you don't need a flagship android phone to have the latest versions of android. I pretty much never spend more than $100-150 for android phones and they always support all the normal MFA apps.

It also should be on your employer to provide a compatible device (especially when it's your personal device that's not secure enough for the business)

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by flomo » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 5:24 AM UTC

staticman2 wrote: post #290

flomo wrote: post #274

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As I said in another post, yes. I also don't fix ppls computers "for fun".

You seem to think grandparents too cognitively declined to use windows safely can be taught to use Chromebooks and IPADs instead. What you are missing is it isn't always easy to teach a new operating system to someone with cognitive decline. (And if we are picturing a grandparent without cognitive decline your suggestions makes even less sense.)

Big Assumptions on your part. Do you think 'grandparents' also don't use iphones and androids? If anything more people are more familiar with this interface than Windows/Mac WIMP.

Anyway, their Windows laptop got all sorts of shit "side-loaded" (and I have a benign theory about this happened), and put them on iPad like 15 years ago. You can object to the closed system, but zero tech support calls for me.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by rldjbpin » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

thot_experiment wrote: post #28

I cannot see myself installing Windows 11, it's sad, I've been primarily a windows guy for my home computer since W95 and I'll miss it. Windows 10 (LTSC) has been the best operating system experience of my life, once I disabled updates and all the nag screens it's been rock solid for me for many years. It's so important to be able to trust that your computer works the same way tomorrow as it does today. I hope that t…

> Windows 10 (LTSC) has been the best operating system experience of my life

Unless you've stumbled upon it by chance, the LTSC version of Windows is by far the recommended approach by forums online, particularly for those who do not want to run random scripts to remove unwanted elements.

Windows 11 happen to have its own variant [1], I wonder how it compares to the gold standard of the previous version.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by nixosbestos » Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

bloqs wrote: post #125

nixosbestos wrote: post #95

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If I could wave a wand and ban a single class of comments on HN, it would be this. Rambling, non-specific handwaving useless text. > user experience is nowhere to be found in the linux landscape. It's ignorant, and its insulting, and it's stupid. You can read one or two KDE blog posts, look at the roadmap for Cosmic, look at the attention Valve has put into Linux and know that sentence is just rude. It's just so frus…

and I would ban fanboying such as your username I agree with you, that it is irritating when people make sweeping statements that casually dismiss a lot of things as not existing when they do, but it's an endless arguement. Operating systems are not the problem, support is. Just making a good operating system isn't what drives adoption. reducing _pain_ does. Nerds arent good at empathy, so the response is normally "j…

Good thing it's just a username and the comment you replied to has literally nothing to do with NixOS. Also, I don't even use NixOS anymore so waaaah.

I'm all in favor of empathy and reducing pain. If only there was a single, SINGULAR fucking concrete, OR EVEN HAND WAVEY CRITICISM.

It's literally "lol linux suxors". Very actionable! /s

Sorry, some of us use it and are tired of this? Let alone contribute.