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

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Post by bodiekane »

SilverElfin wrote: post #398

YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities. Otherwise the abuse will continue.

Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host.

Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and all the other laws that are used to bankrupt any competitor to YouTube, so that instead of a single video hosting site, we have tens, hundreds or thousands.

The dream of the early web was that everything would be resistant to censorship and centralized control because it was a true network of many independent hosts, globally distributed, independent from the whims of any government. Then we let a few billionaire copyright holders and authoritarians who want to control what is published and seen gradually strangle the open web and replace it with a handful of corporate sites that can be controlled.

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

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Post by auguzanellato »

Brett_Riverboat wrote: post #206

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…

Do people actually do this instead of just switching to linux?

I thought Windows was the "user friendly" choice

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

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Post by raydev »

ryandrake wrote: post #347
saghm wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess I'm old and out of touch after only a bit over three decades, because I can't figure out why this would helpful to have as a video in the first place over the text summary you posted here. I could see screenshots maybe being slightly helpful, but to having this sort of thing as a video feels like an extreme inconvenience; I'd much rather see all of it at once and be able to visually scan (or even better, ctrl…

It's telling that most of the responses to this question center around why the YouTube video creator would want to make a video instead of a simple text description, not what the OP asked: why the user would want to intake the information by way of video. Says a lot about what is broken, incentive-wise, about the modern Internet.

I think it says more about most people not wanting to bother to read.

Modern social media has only succeeded by moving away from text, and meeting the masses where they already are. They mostly don't want to read.

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

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Post by kwar13 »

chongli wrote: post #51
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

If you run gnome then I made this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...

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

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Post by dingaling »

Brett_Riverboat wrote: post #206

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…

Windows will never succeed on the desktop if it relies on arcane CLI configuration...

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

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Post by mrguyorama »

larrik wrote: post #393
mrguyorama wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would it be a "bold move"? Linux gaming population is damn near zero, they do not provide a higher profit margin like mac gamers would, and the documented evidence is that supporting Linux users is obnoxious because they are rude and entitled but not actually that much better at providing feedback. Epic Games bought out rocket league and turned off a native linux build and faced no repercussions. Instead they mad…

Not sure that's fair, given most Linux gamers look like Windows gamers to the metrics. That said, devices like the SteamDeck run games on Linux (and that's without considering that every Android game ever is technically running on Linux too). Let's face it though, PC gaming is already small enough these vs the consoles, that further splitting the marked isn't going to make sense for a lot of companies.

>Not sure that's fair, given most Linux gamers look like Windows gamers to the metrics.

No. All the articles and testimony of game devs abandoning native Linux versions is from well before Proton was a thing, including Epic Games buying Rocket League and preventing you from playing the Native Linux build they had.

It also was not related to anti-cheat or underlying engine limitations or anything. Developers were clear that the problem was the massive lack of uptake mixed with a weirdly entitled community.

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

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Post by cwillu »

ceejayoz wrote: post #299
nonethewiser wrote: post #284

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>To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff Are you just playing devils advocate or do you actually believe this?

In the early 2000s a newbie to our forums got computer advice to do something nasty to their BIOS. Months later they came back incandescent with anger. It happens.

And? Is your answer to “some people gave malicious advice on the internet” _really_ to outlaw giving _any_ advice on the internet?

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

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Post by cwillu »

dylan604 wrote: post #329
nonethewiser wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff Are you just playing devils advocate or do you actually believe this?

I had a friend that would allow her kids to watch YT videos. One day they were watching a video in my backseat as we were driving where I could hear the audio. The person was trying to tell the kids how to get free stuff for some game or other. The instructions provided had my jaw in my lap. This was years ago so I don't remember the exact details, but it was straight up instructions for installing malware.

What's your point? It's surely not that giving instructions should be banned because it's possible to give malicious instructions, is it?

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

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Post by auguzanellato »

klazutin wrote: post #385

Oddly enough, I had the simplest experience of installing Windows 11 25H2 on a new ThinkPad just recently. Apparently the Windows ISO doesn't have the WiFi drivers for that specific machine out of the box, so during setup when it couldn't find an internet connection, it simply offered to create a local account. So I would assume, if there is a way you can temporarily disable networking (e.g. in BIOS), then that would…

They already have the local account button, they just need to consistently expose it, even if a machine has a working internet connection.

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

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Post by Yeul »

dylan604 wrote: post #323
saghm wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess I'm old and out of touch after only a bit over three decades, because I can't figure out why this would helpful to have as a video in the first place over the text summary you posted here. I could see screenshots maybe being slightly helpful, but to having this sort of thing as a video feels like an extreme inconvenience; I'd much rather see all of it at once and be able to visually scan (or even better, ctrl…

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…

That assumes that how young people use the internet is inherently better than how we use it.

I can get the same information only without the ads and parasocial relationships with content creators. Not making anyone money!

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