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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by randomNumber7 »

indymike wrote: post #311

It's as if the web as we known it has outgrown it's usefulness to individual people beyond interacting with companies and government. Time for something new. No idea what, but we need a way for people to share with people... That's what made usenet, then the web so awesome. Both were mostly wrecked by the same commercialization.

> Time for something new

How should that look like and what could one make differently?

What we currently have could easily used to share with people (like it was years ago). Nothing really changed but people use it differntly now...

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by fuzzfactor »

mikkupikku wrote: post #88
lousken wrote: post #84

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Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4

mpv is my choice by a wide margin, but I still recommend VLC to most people because it has the sort of GUI more people are comfortable with.

VLC also streams media to other clients, which most players don't do.

Not on Android yet though.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by Nifty3929 »

jpalawaga wrote: post #302

One thing I do not understand about HN and other online tech communities is how much they hype up linux as some paragon of usability and ease of use, when it's just obviously not the case. "You don't need windows for gaming, 90% of games work on linux!" -- except the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles that people want to play. It's like saying "90% of the gears in the car work fine, just not 1st gear".…

I was with you until "essentially lying." That's not fair. You can disagree - but calling people liars who express good faith beliefs is uncalled for. Many people genuinely believe that Linux is the better desktop OS.

But yeah, I run Windows as my daily-driver for pretty much the reasons you give.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by dylan604 »

ycombinete wrote: post #344
dylan604 wrote: post #323

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Videos get higher rankings in Google's search. Remember those? Definitely says something about your age though complaining about video versions of anything. Kids today don't even know what Google's search page looks like. They search in YouTube, TikTok type apps first. Since the location bar has also become the search bar while theGoogs pays browsers to be the default search, lots of people are not even aware they ar…

This was a good comment until it suddenly became bizarrely insulting in the last paragraph.

I don't feel I was insulting at all. If you feel obstinate is an insulting word I really don't know how to respond as anything else will probably feel as an attack on you now. I guess I could have said non-empathetic, but we're not talking about feelings so much as valid reasons someone prefers A over B.

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Post by rvba »

happymellon wrote: post #162
drumhead wrote: post #82

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If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel. But otherwise Libre office calc is perfectly fine.

> If you're a finance professional then there's no alternative to Excel Not sure what you mean by this exactly, but I work in banking with a lot of "financial professionals", and the general opinion is that Excel is not good because it screws with numbers, whether its scientific notation (Why? Its just as long as the original number), rounding of numbers (had that with a large list of account numbers just last week w…

If your bank is exporting and importing csvs, the problem is on the software stack side.

Both xlsx can be exported and imported. It is just harder

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by dole »

MrNeon wrote: post #105
lousken wrote: post #81

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Word is awful too, it messes up formatting, especially when pasting images. Good luck writing anything longer than couple pages. Hasn't been solved in 20 years. Have stopped using word 2 years ago but I am gonna assume it's still an issue

Section breaks keep the formatting changes from affecting the previous/following content so you can place and format images as you wish.

I’d blame this behavior on Office OpenXML becoming the standard in 2007, legendary for generating unnecessary nested tags.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by wiseowise »

RobotToaster wrote: post #207
wiseowise wrote: post #63

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There's a difference between having Russian devs and being made by a Russian company that supports war. OnlyOffice is made by a Russian company that doesn't condemn war of aggression that Russia wages against Ukraine. https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7zlf2/onlyoffi...

Did you boycott all the American companies that didn't condemn the war of aggression against Iraq?

Is it Americans who actively rape, kill and destroy Ukrainians right now?

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Post by wiseowise »

antegamisou wrote: post #147
wiseowise wrote: post #117

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* Company is Russian * Doesn't condemn war (understandable in their position) * Has dev team in Russia * Pays taxes to Russia, which directly fuel war * Does not support UAF or donate to Ukraine (also understandable) * Keeps selling their software in Russia, which might have links to military and administration Am I missing something here?

> Am I missing something here? The fact that all of the above is being presented as an exclusively Russian strategy. When almost all companies mentioned on this website are proudly and directly tied to non-Russian war industries. The tendency to omit pointing out non-Russian examples almost always indicates endorsement of their actions. And let me beat you to this that I condemn all offensive war industries no matter…

> The fact that all of the above is being presented as an exclusively Russian strategy.

Where did I ever present those as exclusively Russian strategy?

> When almost all companies mentioned on this website are proudly and directly tied to non-Russian war industries.

So?

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Post by 4ggr0 »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #252
esbeeb wrote: post #240

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People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.

You're not supposed to do this, this is to get around a restriction on installing Windows 11 on certain hardware. If your computer is supported and you install it the way Microsoft wants you to, then you won't be typing any commands anywhere.

> If your computer is supported

That's not really the use-case for this. It's not possible anymore to use Windows with a local account (for a long time), the official UI only lets you login with a Microsoft Account. These commands are not used to install Windows on an unsupported PC, they're being used to create a local-only account.

I for one still got a Windows boot partition next to my Linux, but I refuse to create an account for it. The only way I can install Windows on my supported PC with a local account is by using these commands.

You used to be able to just press a small button. Then you had to disconnect the LAN cable and not connect a WLAN to create a local account. Then you had to open the Commandline and execute a single command. Now we're at the point where you have to execute multiple commands.

If they actually manage to make it impossible to use Windows local-only, that will truly be the nail in the coffin for me. Currently use Windows to play games which aren't supported on Linux, but this will turn into a hate_for_online_forcing > appreciation_for_kernel_level_anticheat_shitgames.

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Post by wiseowise »

tmtvl wrote: post #296
wiseowise wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a difference between having Russian devs and being made by a Russian company that supports war. OnlyOffice is made by a Russian company that doesn't condemn war of aggression that Russia wages against Ukraine. https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7zlf2/onlyoffi...

Remember that when the ICC issued a warrant for Netanyahu, Microsoft blocked Karim Khan's e-mail account: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/whe... >

Yes. Another good reason to decouple from American tech giants.
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