Someone already said massgrave, and they’re right, but I wanna be 100% clear: Microsoft can’t take these away. If they did then smart fridges would be complaining about how they’re not registered, massive enterprises would have to completely change how they provision systems, pc manufacturers would have to change their processes and even if it was as simple as a change to the generic disk image they ship (it’s not) they’d have to handle all the systems out there in the world.

And

Even if Microsoft went ahead anyway and removed the ability to use some method (like they did with kms38, which had nothing to do with mas and everything to do with addressing the end of the Unix epoch) there are methods they cant effectively remove like hwid.

Anyway, go to the massgrave page about 21h2 iot ltsc and read up.

Use windows 10 21h2 iot ltsc. Security updates till 2032.

It will buy you some time to see how things shake out with windows.

Every day it becomes clearer that the dod disk memo from a million years ago was an mkultra psyop.

Just call the block devices trim then secure erase functions and be done.

After taking some time to think, it’s worthwhile to remember that basically everything we think of as modern open source happened in a time of unipolar global hegemony with the express approval of that hegemony.

Open source as we know it and experience it today likely cannot exist in a time of real contestation over the levers of power in the world and you probably shouldn’t make the mistake of voting with your dollars or time in that contest. Any money or time that you find sloshing around is probably better spent elsewhere preparing yourself for the outcome of that contest rather than cheering or contributing in it.

Fair warning, if you apply enough scrutiny to any big distribution you’ll find tons of stuff like this.

Theres some awesome schizo timecube esque website that documents Debian (my chosen distro) mess in great detail. I’ll edit in the url if I can find it.

E: found it: Debian History Harassment & Abuse culture evolution

If you can’t be a truther about something you’ll lie for anything I guess

Op post a link to item bounce and take this sucker to the next level.

don’t.

If you wanna learn then buy a cheap used laptop and a pixel and fuck around on those until you figure out what you actually want to do. Don’t “switch”. You’ll be unhappy.

Idk about now, but the low powered ai accelerators of olde weren’t meant for that.

The google (nee coral!) ones for example really shined at object recognition but weren’t good for text to text or tts (I didn’t try hard).

If you’re not willing to get a gpu, you’re better off ram maxing and doing stuff like that in cpu.

If you are willing to get a gpu, you can still do what you need using the old ass Maxwell and pascal ones. They’ll be awful at image generation but fine for text.

I also want to carry the good word of not worrying about power consumption to you! It doesn’t matter! Pcs aren’t expensive to run! They have low idle draw! Power is cheap!

If you have to know for sure about the power impact, get a kill-a-watt and plug your shit into it and be confident in your new knowledge.

You can use some program like macrium or whatever to make a complete compressed image of your windows drive on some other device and then pick through it when you’re ready.

That requires that you have some device with as much storage as is used on your windows drive(s).

Dd if=your_windows_drive | tar lvqf some_output_file.tar.bz

I should put together a workflow that registers a new account, waits a few hours and posts about some crazy bullshit until it gets banned.

Docker wouldn’t save you from this.

Yeah, the good thing about that solution is you’re not tied to a specific terminal program. Enjoy kterm, use that. Like alacritty, no problem. Have some weird need for xterm? Go for it.

On windows, macos and linux I usually keep a workspace with a full sized terminal running tmux. The same workspace switching hotkeys native to the os or wm get me there.

https://tools.sendmarc.com/ Is a good start. Listen back through the security now eps where he’s setting up his own email list with his own email server.

If you have an ios device, turn off biometrics, turn on adp (actually store your code in a safe place!), turn on lockdown and start aggressively powering your phone off when you’re not using it.

Learn the duress combinations, on iOS it’s the side button five times. From there you can make an emergency call, power the phone off or cancel out and unlock with pin only (no biometrics).

Use this screen to power your phone off so when its confiscated it boots into bfu (before first unlock) state.

What?

You find out if the hardware can handle it by looking up its video decoding capabilities on Wikipedia and checking that it’s capable of the resolution and codec you want. If you’re buying new hardware then a chip from Intel or amd that support the resolution and codec you expect will do the job. It doesn’t need to be the latest and greatest thing.

If you can’t be content with 4k60 over hdmi then you either need to use proprietary drivers or a different cable. Your tv very well may have a displayport slot and that’ll sidestep the problem. I don’t have problems with proprietary drivers but you may.

Nvidias repositories work fine.

If you need the latest driver they have installation instructions that walk you through adding their repos to your package manager and installing that way.

I recommend you get right with using vim or its forks.

I tend to think 99 percent of linux users or prospective users would exchange the modicum of what could be considered lock in if you were to really give it the most uncharitable read in the history of computing for the extensive documentation and support.

I have nothing but hate in my heart and vitriol in my guts for red hat but their linux is owed more recommendations than it gets.