IF you have one of these devices in your home/office, DO YOU TRUST Amazon to actually honor these settings? I certainly don't, and won't have one of these (or ANY of the other versions by other manufacturers) devices in my home.
I supported/used Windows as a system admin for 20 years. I began with Novell/Win311/DOS and retired during the XP to Win7 upgrade timeframe. Now that I'm retired, I'm DONE with ANYthing from Microsoft, and after seeing what a turd_in_the_punchbowl Windows 10 is, I feel REAL sympathy for those who still use Windows, either because they have to or just don't know any better. I, frankly, couldn't give a rat's ass who does/doesn't like/use Linux, so long as I don't have to use Windows on my personal systems.
I already have Owncloud running on a leased vps, and it does a "backup" of my dropbox, along with "dropbox" style use by the family. I use Dropbox between my home workstation and my laptop and phone, so I guess I'm cool (for now).
Kind of like the IRS saying they depend on "voluntary compliance", but if you don't "volunteer" we'll take everything you have and put you behind bars...
WHO the hell wants to get rid of Linux??? Its my (and a LOT of other people's) saviour in the war against Windows 10... I supported Windows (and Linux) for 20 years as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with anything Microsoft. MS was bad enough in the olden days (pre-Windows 10) but they've "jumped the shark" on insanity and creepyness... Sooooo glad I escaped its clutches...
I'm constantly astounded by how much abuse by Microsoft, people (and corporations) will put up with. That abuse being endless "updates" that break systems, and the spyware aspects of the turd_in_the_punchbowl that is Windows 10. I spent 20 years dealing with the insanity that is Microsoft as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with anything Microsoft. Watching these endless stories about YET another broken "update" from Microsoft makes me endlessly glad I escaped from the MS ecosystem for my personal systems...
SURE hope you're dreaming on that "even if it will probably die in a few years".... I started with Slackware back in 1994 and with EVERYBODY seemingly jumping off the "systemd" cliff like Lemmings, I may have to go back to my "Linux roots" if my current distro, Devuan, shits the bed....
I refuse to buy these overpriced "flagship" phones, nor will I do any kind of cellphone contract, so I'm perfectly happy with a 2013-vintage Nexus 5 on the Ting MVNO. My phone bill for my phone and my wifes phone for the month is usually around $40, and thats with my using nearly 2Gb of data for the month. When this Nexus 5 croaks, I'll likely move up to a Nexus 6...
You sound like me.. I got my license in 1976, and was a loyal ARRL member for about two years. I discovered all the benefits of membership were available elsewhere at little or no cost, and fast forward to today, I'd NEVER join that organization again, after seeing the kind of crap they pull on people who are members.. Just ain't happening...
Yup.. Devuan is the "cat's meow"... I had been a Debian and Ubuntu user since about 2007, and other distros going back to Slackware in 1994. When Debian (and now Ubuntu) went down the blackhole that is systemd, I decided I was done with those distros. I MUCH prefer a Debian-based distro and Devuan/Ascii fills the bill perfectly...
Yeah.. Those of us who spent most all of our working life playing a "Windows janitor" and left that shitshow behind when we retired, and now strictly use Linux don't give a rats ass for this bullshit... If EVER I found a need to run Windows, it would only be as a seriously locked down virtual machine, but I really don't see that ever happening.. Come on, say it with me, "FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!" (you KNOW you want to..)
California Franchise Tax Board (California's version of the IRS) is like that.. My wife and I bought a house in Las Vegas in 1994, and she moved into the house then and went to work for a local hospital. I got a tiny studio apartment near work in San Diego, as I had a job I liked and there was a rumor going around that there were going to be layoffs in the near future and I'd hoped to get laid off vs quiting. The wait for the layoffs wound up being close to 2 years, so I did quite a bit of flying up to Las Vegas over the weekend for that time. The layoffs finally happened in Dec 1995, and I was laid off. I moved my stuff up to Las Vegas and got unemployment. During the nearly two years I was still working in San Diego, I filed state income tax returns showing my California wages but did NOT show wife's Nevada wages. To make a long story short, I had to pay a tax attorney quite a bit AND nearly two years to convince the FTB that Nevada wages were NOT taxable by California, even though I had California wages. The CalFTB can FUCK OFF.. Soooo damn glad we escaped that nuthouse...
Its obvious theres a LOT of people who like it, I, being one of them.. If it wasn't so well-liked it wouldn't have lasted 12 years, I, for one, will be sad to see it go...
I guess if you're one of those who MUST have the latest/greatest of EVERYthing, and you have money to BURN, this could be considered a good deal, but I sure the hell don't.. My phone is a well-used rooted Nexus 5, that I bought for $65 on Glyde, and it uses the Ting MVNO, that saves me a lot of $$$ on monthly charges. I guess to each his own...
A LOT of us who *used* to use (and support) Windows KNOW this will NEVER EVER happen, so we've left the MS ecosystem, and now life is beautiful and we reboot our systems ONLY when we want.. Its called Linux.. Thank Linus for Linux.....
It astounds me how much just plain ABUSE users of Windows put up with, since MS released the steaming pile of shit that is Windows 10. I spent a 20 year career supporting Windows as a sysadmin, from Win311 to Win7, but if my job required working with the current version of Windows, I'd quit.. Needless to say, I've been 100% Linux since my retirement in 2010..
Dunno WHY I'm replying to an AC, but in the case of said XLS that Windows has decided it doesn't want to handle anymore, you might try LibreOffice. I deal with some small businesses that, for one reason or another, have to continue to use Windows/Office. One of them a while back had an Excel spreadsheet that was older than the hills, and the Office2013 installed on the machine in question, did not like this spreadsheet AT ALL.. Since I only use Linux/Opensource stuff on my personal systems, I decided to copy the xls to a memstick and tried opening/saving in LibreOffice 6.. Was able to open/modify/save said xls just fine, and as a bonus, WHATever Office didnt like about the xls before, once LibreOffice did its thing, the "fixed" xls was now working fine under Office... Go figure..
Sooooo damn glad I quit pissing up a rope while using MS software. I used/supported Windows (and everything that goes with it) for 20 years as a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was DONE with anything MS.. Now Linux powers all my personal computers and quite a few friends/neighbors/relatives. These were done after they learned what *their* computers were spewing out into MS's greedy servers.. Now, reading these endless reports of the latest effort on MS's part to fuck up the world's computers, I regard it as a very high form of entertainment, with a sprinkle of pity for those who are forced to continue to use the shit from Redmond....
This little tidbit from their Windows 10 EULA *should* make ANY intelligent computer user run SCREAMING away from ANYTHING Microsoft..
We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.
If you're recycling computers and putting an MS OS back on it, you're nuts and deserve this kind of abuse. Most of the computer recyclers I've run into put a lightweight Linux distro on their recycled machines..
So now Microsoft is patching their patches... Kinda makes one think of the little dutch boy putting his fingers in the dike, till he ran out of fingers/toes to plug all of the holes in the dike... Sooooooooooo damn glad I got off the "Microsoft train" 8 years ago when I retired after 20 years of supporting the insanity that is Microsoft and its products... LINUX FTW!!!
I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with anything MS, and switched my home systems from dualboot Win7/Linux to JUST Linux. Since I'd been using Linux off/on since 1994, starting with Slackware, it was a particularly easy "switch".. Now I laugh my ass off at the abuse MS heaps on those who, for whatever reason, STILL us MS products, especially Windows 10. Being retired, I have copious "playtime" and I tried Windows 10 when it first came out and was astounded at the lengths MS went to to get their product on every possible machine. They took a LOT of tricks out the malware writers playbook to shovel their shit everywhere they could. These endless reports of Windows doing whatEVER the hell it wants on computers *should* tell all you need to know about *your* computer, if you still use Windows.. hint: *YOUR* computer has become MS's computer, and they just let you use it, except when they want to use it.. As I said, ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT....
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IF you have one of these devices in your home/office, DO YOU TRUST Amazon to actually honor these settings? I certainly don't, and won't have one of these (or ANY of the other versions by other manufacturers) devices in my home.
I supported/used Windows as a system admin for 20 years. I began with Novell/Win311/DOS and retired during the XP to Win7 upgrade timeframe. Now that I'm retired, I'm DONE with ANYthing from Microsoft, and after seeing what a turd_in_the_punchbowl Windows 10 is, I feel REAL sympathy for those who still use Windows, either because they have to or just don't know any better. I, frankly, couldn't give a rat's ass who does/doesn't like/use Linux, so long as I don't have to use Windows on my personal systems.
I already have Owncloud running on a leased vps, and it does a "backup" of my dropbox, along with "dropbox" style use by the family. I use Dropbox between my home workstation and my laptop and phone, so I guess I'm cool (for now).
Kind of like the IRS saying they depend on "voluntary compliance", but if you don't "volunteer" we'll take everything you have and put you behind bars...
WHO the hell wants to get rid of Linux??? Its my (and a LOT of other people's) saviour in the war against
Windows 10... I supported Windows (and Linux) for 20 years as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I
decided I was done with anything Microsoft. MS was bad enough in the olden days (pre-Windows 10) but
they've "jumped the shark" on insanity and creepyness... Sooooo glad I escaped its clutches...
I'm constantly astounded by how much abuse by Microsoft, people (and corporations) will put up with. That abuse being endless "updates" that break systems, and the spyware aspects of the turd_in_the_punchbowl that is Windows 10. I spent 20 years dealing with the insanity that is Microsoft as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with anything Microsoft. Watching these endless stories about YET another broken "update" from Microsoft makes me endlessly glad I escaped from the MS ecosystem for my personal systems...
SURE hope you're dreaming on that "even if it will probably die in a few years".... I started with Slackware back in 1994 and with EVERYBODY seemingly jumping off the "systemd" cliff like Lemmings, I may have to go back to my "Linux roots" if my current distro, Devuan, shits the bed....
I refuse to buy these overpriced "flagship" phones, nor will I do any kind of cellphone contract, so I'm perfectly happy with a 2013-vintage
Nexus 5 on the Ting MVNO. My phone bill for my phone and my wifes phone for the month is usually around $40, and thats with my using nearly 2Gb of data for the month. When this Nexus 5 croaks, I'll likely move up to a Nexus 6...
Get OFF my lawn... :->
You sound like me.. I got my license in 1976, and was a loyal ARRL member for about two years. I discovered all the benefits of membership were available elsewhere at little or no cost, and fast forward to today, I'd NEVER join that organization again, after seeing the kind of crap they pull on people who are members.. Just ain't happening...
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Yup.. Devuan is the "cat's meow"... I had been a Debian and Ubuntu user since about 2007, and other distros going back to Slackware in 1994. When Debian (and now Ubuntu) went down the blackhole that is systemd, I decided I was done with those distros. I MUCH prefer a Debian-based distro and Devuan/Ascii fills the bill perfectly...
Yeah.. Those of us who spent most all of our working life playing a "Windows janitor" and left that shitshow behind when we retired, and now strictly use Linux don't give a rats ass for this bullshit... If EVER I found a need to run Windows, it would only be as a seriously locked down virtual machine, but I really don't see that ever happening.. Come on, say it with me, "FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!" (you KNOW you want to..)
California Franchise Tax Board (California's version of the IRS) is like that.. My wife and I bought a house in Las Vegas in 1994, and she moved into the house then and went to work for a local hospital. I got a tiny studio apartment near work in San Diego, as I had a job I liked and there was a rumor going around that there were going to be layoffs in the near future and I'd hoped to get laid off vs quiting. The wait for the layoffs wound up being close to 2 years, so I did quite a bit of flying up to Las Vegas over the weekend for that time. The layoffs finally happened in Dec 1995, and I was laid off. I moved my stuff up to Las Vegas and got unemployment. During the nearly two years I was still working in San Diego, I filed state income tax returns showing my California wages but did NOT show wife's Nevada wages. To make a long story short, I had to pay a tax attorney quite a bit AND nearly two years to convince the FTB that Nevada wages were NOT taxable by California, even though I had California wages. The CalFTB can FUCK OFF.. Soooo damn glad we escaped that nuthouse...
Its obvious theres a LOT of people who like it, I, being one of them.. If it wasn't so well-liked it wouldn't have lasted 12 years, I, for one, will be sad to see it go...
I guess if you're one of those who MUST have the latest/greatest of EVERYthing, and you have money to BURN, this could be considered a good deal, but I sure the hell don't.. My phone is a well-used rooted Nexus 5, that I bought for $65 on Glyde, and it uses the Ting MVNO, that saves me a lot of $$$ on monthly charges. I guess to each his own...
A LOT of us who *used* to use (and support) Windows KNOW this will NEVER EVER happen, so we've left the MS ecosystem, and now life is beautiful and we reboot our systems ONLY when we want.. Its called Linux.. Thank Linus for Linux.....
It astounds me how much just plain ABUSE users of Windows put up with, since MS released the steaming pile of shit that is Windows 10. I spent a 20 year career supporting Windows as a sysadmin, from Win311 to Win7, but if my job required working with the current version of Windows, I'd quit.. Needless to say, I've been 100% Linux since my retirement in 2010..
Shit like this makes sooooooo VERY happy I no longer allow ANYthing MS on any network I control...
Dunno WHY I'm replying to an AC, but in the case of said XLS that Windows has decided it doesn't want to handle anymore, you might try LibreOffice. I deal with some small businesses that, for one reason or another, have to continue to use Windows/Office. One of them a while back had an Excel spreadsheet that was older than the hills, and the Office2013 installed on the machine in question, did not like this spreadsheet AT ALL.. Since I only use Linux/Opensource stuff on my personal systems, I decided to copy the xls to a memstick and tried opening/saving in LibreOffice 6.. Was able to open/modify/save said xls just fine, and as a bonus, WHATever Office didnt like about the xls before, once LibreOffice did its thing, the "fixed" xls was now working fine under Office... Go figure..
The obvious question is "Will Uber eat the lower fare or will the driver???".... Come everybody, you KNOW the answer that.. THE DRIVER, OBVIOUSLY...
I feel sorry for anybody on the street below when these "shorties" take their "swan-dive"...
I have an Asus RT-N66U running Advanced Tomato.. Would it be affected with this issue???
Sooooo damn glad I quit pissing up a rope while using MS software. I used/supported Windows (and everything that goes with it) for 20 years as a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was DONE with anything MS.. Now Linux powers all my personal computers and quite a few friends/neighbors/relatives. These were done after they learned what *their* computers were spewing out into MS's greedy servers.. Now, reading these endless reports of the latest effort on MS's part to fuck up the world's computers, I regard it as a very high form of entertainment, with a sprinkle of pity for those who are forced to continue to use the shit from Redmond....
This little tidbit from their Windows 10 EULA *should* make ANY intelligent computer user run SCREAMING away from ANYTHING Microsoft..
We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.
If you're recycling computers and putting an MS OS back on it, you're nuts and deserve this kind of abuse. Most of the computer recyclers I've run into put a lightweight Linux distro on their recycled machines..
So now Microsoft is patching their patches... Kinda makes one think of the little dutch boy putting his fingers in the dike, till he ran out of fingers/toes to plug all of the holes in the dike... Sooooooooooo damn glad I got off the "Microsoft train" 8 years ago when I retired after 20 years of supporting the insanity that is Microsoft and its products... LINUX FTW!!!
I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with anything MS, and switched my home systems from dualboot Win7/Linux to JUST Linux. Since I'd been using Linux off/on since 1994, starting with Slackware, it was a particularly easy "switch".. Now I laugh my ass off at the abuse MS heaps on those who, for whatever reason, STILL us MS products, especially Windows 10. Being retired, I have copious "playtime" and I tried Windows 10 when it first came out and was astounded at the lengths MS went to to get their product on every possible machine. They took a LOT of tricks out the malware writers playbook to shovel their shit everywhere they could.
These endless reports of Windows doing whatEVER the hell it wants on computers *should* tell all you need to know about *your* computer, if you still use Windows.. hint: *YOUR* computer has become MS's computer, and they just let you use it, except when they want to use it.. As I said, ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT....