Those of us who have been using desktop Linux for many years, in my case, 100% since 2010, and as much as possible, since 1994, would dispute your assertion that Linux on the desktop is a joke. I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin, and after seeing what turd_in_the_punchbowl Windows 10 is, I wouldn't go back to using Windows for ANY reason..
I love the way he says "the original OEM vendor is untrustworthy"... Umm.. Does he think that.. magically.. MS *is* trustworthy???? Geez I HOPE not.. MS deserves to get its collective ass kicked HARD for the nasty malware-style way it forced 10 onto systems, BUT this guy will NEVER get anywhere close to the figure he asks for... He's gonna be lucky to get a copy of Win7 out of the suit...
Your experience is why the only credit cards I have are Visa/Mastercard, issued by my credit union. I pay 5% interest on any balances AND the credit union fraud prevention department calls me fairly often to check on a transaction that doesn't fit my usual use. F'Instance, I live in Las Vegas, and went to Chicago late last year, and made a lot of transactions in Chicago, hotel/rental car/meals etc. Soon after the first charge I made *in* Chicago, they called me on my cellphone to see if it was me making the charges. Sounds like OP's bank is fucked up...
Most credit unions DO NOT do this... Which is why all of my families accounts are with a local credit union and have been for going on 30 years. Credit unions are NOT like banks, in fact, the motto of the credit union I belong to is "The bank that *you* own"....
The one and only time I ever flew on a 747 was back in July 1971, from Dallas to Los Angeles. I was in the Army at the time and was going home for a long weekend. Airlines back then had "military standby" fares, and I recall paying $97 round trip for a ticket from Dallas to San Diego via LA and back. Since this was the 4th July weekend and it was a standby ticket, I did some serious standing-by, to the tune of 13 hours. I arrived at Dallas Love Field at about noon, bought my ticket, and proceeded to check Delta's schedule. To make a long story short, EVERY flight from Dallas to LA or Dallas direct to San Diego was packed to the gills, and since I was not the only standby passenger, I was on a waiting list. Along about 6 or 7pm, I began to seriously wonder if I was going to get out of Dallas this day. I went back to the Delta ticket counter and asked if there was anything else going towards LA today.. The agent said "we have one more flight at 1am, and I can guarantee you that you will get on it...". The obviously question to him was "How can you be so sure?", and his answer was the fact it was Delta's Atlanta-Dallas-LA "redeye" and it was one of their new 747 jumbos. So buoyed up by this, I went and got some dinner and went to the gate that it would be arriving at in about 6 hours, and proceeded to wait/nap/watch planes.. It arrived, I got on, along with a couple of other standby passengers, and had my mind blown.. It was indeed a 747, with 10 cabin crew and.... TWENTY PASSENGERS.. Today that flight would have been cancelled...
Windows 10 IS IN ITSELF a MAJOR security flaw... I think its too precious to call out one tiny piece of Windows 10 and complain about its security flaw.... Of course I will be ruthlessly downmodded by the Windows astroturfing squad... Do your worst, as MOST of us with half a clue know I'm right...
I have several machines which run Ubuntu 14.04LTS. They work 100% perfectly under Ubuntu 14.04LTS, and shuts down IMMEDIATELY when I tell it to. Since I'm curious and have time on my hands, being retired and all, I decided I'd give a try to Ubuntu 16.04LTS. I slapped a fresh drive into my laptop and proceeded to install 16.04.. The install went fine, as Ubuntu installs always have for me since I started using it, around 8.04LTS. After the install completed, the reboot after removal of the USB install media took forever. My use of the system with 16.04LTS for nearly a week showed me that EVERY time I told the system to SHUTDOWN, it took minutes to do so, and pressing ESC to watch the system shutting down showed me a bunch of VERY suspicious systemd-related items that were NOT shutting down in a timely manner. After a week of use of this, I removed the 16.04LTS drive and replaced it with the original 14.04 drive and magically, I was back to shutting down IMMEDIATELY when I told the system to... My only conclusion is this is caused by systemd, so I'm planning on staying with 14.04 till near its EOL, and then evaluating other distros that have NOT drank the "systemd-koolaide", such as Slackware/Devuan... FUCK SYSTEMD
It is a really good idea to let users control this as it's easy to forget how many people across the world are still on very tight cellular data plans.
Its not just the third-world, even right here in the good ole' USA, if you don't want to pay thru the nose for cellular, there are carriers (MVNOs) like Ting, where you pay for only what you used, at the end of the month. Their prices for minutes/texts are dirt-cheap, and data rates a bit higher. For example, 0-100Mb/mo = $3, 101-500Mb/mo=$10, 501-1024Mb/mo=$16, 1025-2047Mb=$20, and more=.10/Gb above that.. My bill averages around $30-$40 for my phone and the wife's phone, and I drive part-time for Uber, which puts me usually in the 501-1024Mb data range.. Not bad for not having a contract.
My girlfriend had an app that used 2 gigabytes of mobile data in 4 days downloading "ads"
This is the VERY reason I wil NOT have an Android phone that I cannot root. Said rooting allows me to install/use Adaway, the ONLY ad-blocker for Android (that I'm aware of) that completely blocks ALL ads, both in browser and internal ads in apps. Adaway requires root as it modifies the/etc/hosts file to actually BLOCK connections to ad servers. Since I do not have "unlimited data", but pay the data I use, I refuse to waste that data on mindless ads in both webpages and apps. I can VERY well believe the "2 Gb in 4 days" before root/adaway..
Just because *you* happen to be on "unlimited data" does NOT mean the rest of us are also.. Let me introduce you to Ting, my carrier, which is an MVNO running on both Sprint and Tmobile towers. With Ting I pay for ONLY what I use, so to keep my bill down I would LOVE an app like this.
These fucking corporations get their asses handed to them.. Including executives who signed off on doing this shit get a nice cell at Leavenworth for a few years, along with forfeiture of ALL pay and allowances...
I used to love Firefox, but over the years they've gradually begun "jumping the shark".. I started using Vivaldi, and loved it.. Just for shits/grins I decided to see what #57 looked/worked like.. First off, one of the plugins that I absolutely required back when I used to actually use FF now does not work, and there is no replacement. So Fuck YOU, Mozilla... I am so done with you...
The ONLY way to *win* with proprietary/closed-source software is to NOT USE IT.... Pretty simple concept, and would be quite hard to achieve if there wasn't a non-proprietary/open-source alternative... Been using it exclusively for the last seven years.. Wouldn't go back to that pile of dogs**t that comes from Redmond Washington for all the tea in China...
and among the first things each one of them did was to install Chrome.
That's all Edge is good for is as a downloader for Chrome/Vivaldi/Firefox/Opera... After 20 years of using/supporting MS products, I dumped them about 7 years ago when I retired.. Be a SUPER cold day in hell when I put an MS product on my Android phone (or ANYwhere else on my systems)...
It's like all modern Linux distros, with the exception of unusable niche ones like Slackware, Devuan and even Gentoo, have basically become shitty clones of Fedora with the main difference being what you type to install packages. Otherwise they're pretty much all the same, forcing crap like systemd, GNOME 3 and PulseAudio on you.
If you knew what you were talking about, you'd KNOW that distros such as Slackware and Devuan DO NOT use systemd, AND you'd NOT be saying they're unusable.. The fact you say they're unusable means you don't know squat about Linux..
One of these was my first computer. Bought at the Yuma Arizona Radio Shack store sometime in 1977. I was in the Army at the time, stationed at the US Army Yuma Proving Grounds. Paid $795 for one of the Level 1 4K systems. Hard to believe today that you could actually *do* anything on 4K of ram, and an integer BASIC, but I sure did.. Wish I still had it, although I do still have my 8K TRS-80 Model 100, and it still works!!!
hehe Those dragons sure are big... First time I've heard of that crapware McAfee being referred to as McCaffrey.. When the original owner of McAfee, whose last name *IS* McAfee, tells you McAfee AV is crap, you *should* believe HIM... Last company I worked for before I retired used McAfee AV/ePo on our Windows XP systems (this was pre-2010, mind you.. I've been retired since then), and THEN they got the wild idea that our 100 node Linux compute cluster needed the Linux version of McAfee.. Oh how I tried to disavow them of that, since 1) these were Linux (CentOS5) nodes and 2) they were on a private subnet, and 3) they needed every cpu cycle to do their ONLY task, which was to COMPUTE... Finally cooler heads prevailed and we managed to get it down to only the master node and several of the workstations.. You think Windows McAfee was crap, heaven help you with the Linux version.... (shudders even today)....
Dear Ubuntu, I've been with you since 7.04/Feisty Fawn, and once you released 8.04LTS, I've upgraded with each new LTS with pleasure, however... I'm still on 14.04LTS, and WILL NOT be upgrading to 16.04 or 18.04 because you decided, along with Debian and quite a few other distributions to drop your -perfectly working- upstart init scheme and go down the toilet bowl with systemd. I'll be on 14.04 until its EOL in 2019, at which time, I'm planning on going to Devuan or back to my "Linux roots" with Slackware. Been using/admin'ing Linux for 20 years and systemd is by FAR the stupidest abortion to be inflicted on Linux since Linus gave birth to Linux...
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Those of us who have been using desktop Linux for many years, in my case, 100% since 2010, and as much as possible, since 1994, would dispute your assertion that Linux on the desktop is a joke. I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin, and after seeing what turd_in_the_punchbowl Windows 10 is, I wouldn't go back to using Windows for ANY reason..
I love the way he says "the original OEM vendor is untrustworthy"... Umm.. Does he think that.. magically.. MS *is* trustworthy???? Geez I HOPE not.. MS deserves to get its collective ass kicked HARD for the nasty malware-style way it forced 10 onto systems, BUT this guy will NEVER get anywhere close to the figure he asks for... He's gonna be lucky to get a copy of Win7 out of the suit...
Your experience is why the only credit cards I have are Visa/Mastercard, issued by my credit union. I pay 5% interest on any balances AND the credit union fraud prevention department calls me fairly often to check on a transaction that doesn't fit my usual use. F'Instance, I live in Las Vegas, and went to Chicago late last year, and made a lot of transactions in Chicago, hotel/rental car/meals etc. Soon after the first charge I made *in* Chicago, they called me on my cellphone to see if it was me making the charges. Sounds like OP's bank is fucked up...
Most credit unions DO NOT do this... Which is why all of my families accounts are with a local credit union and have been for going on 30 years. Credit unions are NOT like banks, in fact, the motto of the credit union I belong to is "The bank that *you* own"....
I'd call em REGRESSIVE web apps....
Fuck you, Nvidia.
Is that you, Linus???
The one and only time I ever flew on a 747 was back in July 1971, from Dallas to Los Angeles. I was in the Army at the time and was going home for a long weekend. Airlines back then had "military standby" fares, and I recall paying $97 round trip for a ticket from Dallas to San Diego via LA and back. Since this was the 4th July weekend and it was a standby ticket, I did some serious standing-by, to the tune of 13 hours. I arrived at Dallas Love Field at about noon, bought my ticket, and proceeded to check Delta's schedule. To make a long story short, EVERY flight from Dallas to LA or Dallas direct to San Diego was packed to the gills, and since I was not the only standby passenger, I was on a waiting list. Along about 6 or 7pm, I began to seriously wonder if I was going to get out of Dallas this day. I went back to the Delta ticket counter and asked if there was anything else going towards LA today.. The agent said "we have one more flight at 1am, and I can guarantee you that you will get on it...". The obviously question to him was "How can you be so sure?", and his answer was the fact it was Delta's Atlanta-Dallas-LA "redeye" and it was one of their new 747 jumbos. So buoyed up by this, I went and got some dinner and went to the gate that it would be arriving at in about 6 hours, and proceeded to wait/nap/watch planes.. It arrived, I got on, along with a couple of other standby passengers, and had my mind blown.. It was indeed a 747, with 10 cabin crew and .... TWENTY PASSENGERS.. Today that flight would have been cancelled...
Windows 10 IS IN ITSELF a MAJOR security flaw... I think its too precious to call out one tiny piece of Windows 10 and complain about its security flaw.... Of course I will be ruthlessly downmodded by the Windows astroturfing squad... Do your worst, as MOST of us with half a clue know I'm right...
I have several machines which run Ubuntu 14.04LTS. They work 100% perfectly under Ubuntu 14.04LTS, and shuts down IMMEDIATELY when I tell it to. Since I'm curious and have time on my hands, being retired and all, I decided I'd give a try to Ubuntu 16.04LTS. I slapped a fresh drive into my laptop and proceeded to install 16.04.. The install went fine, as Ubuntu installs always have for me since I started using it, around 8.04LTS. After the install completed, the reboot after removal of the USB install media took forever. My use of the system with 16.04LTS for nearly a week showed me that EVERY time I told the system to SHUTDOWN, it took minutes to do so, and pressing ESC to watch the system shutting down showed me a bunch of VERY suspicious systemd-related items that were NOT shutting down in a timely manner. After a week of use of this, I removed the 16.04LTS drive and replaced it with the original 14.04 drive and magically, I was back to shutting down IMMEDIATELY when I told the system to... My only conclusion is this is caused by systemd, so I'm planning on staying with 14.04 till near its EOL, and then evaluating other distros that have NOT drank the "systemd-koolaide", such as Slackware/Devuan... FUCK SYSTEMD
It is a really good idea to let users control this as it's easy to forget how many people across the world are still on very tight cellular data plans.
Its not just the third-world, even right here in the good ole' USA, if you don't want to pay thru the nose for cellular, there are carriers (MVNOs) like Ting, where you pay for only what you used, at the end of the month. Their prices for minutes/texts are dirt-cheap, and data rates a bit higher. For example, 0-100Mb/mo = $3, 101-500Mb/mo=$10, 501-1024Mb/mo=$16, 1025-2047Mb=$20, and more=.10/Gb above that.. My bill averages around $30-$40 for my phone and the wife's phone, and I drive part-time for Uber, which puts me usually in the 501-1024Mb data range.. Not bad for not having a contract.
My girlfriend had an app that used 2 gigabytes of mobile data in 4 days downloading "ads"
This is the VERY reason I wil NOT have an Android phone that I cannot root. Said rooting allows me to install/use Adaway, the ONLY ad-blocker for Android (that I'm aware of) that completely blocks ALL ads, both in browser and internal ads in apps. Adaway requires root as it modifies the /etc/hosts file to actually BLOCK connections to ad servers. Since I do not have "unlimited data", but pay the data I use, I refuse to waste that data on mindless ads in both webpages and apps. I can VERY well believe the "2 Gb in 4 days" before root/adaway..
Just because *you* happen to be on "unlimited data" does NOT mean the rest of us are also.. Let me introduce you to Ting, my carrier, which is an MVNO running on both Sprint and Tmobile towers. With Ting I pay for ONLY what I use, so to keep my bill down I would LOVE an app like this.
These fucking corporations get their asses handed to them.. Including executives who signed off on doing this shit get a nice cell at Leavenworth for a few years, along with forfeiture of ALL pay and allowances...
I used to love Firefox, but over the years they've gradually begun "jumping the shark".. I started using Vivaldi, and loved it.. Just for shits/grins I decided to see what #57 looked/worked like.. First off, one of the plugins that I absolutely required back when I used to actually use FF now does not work, and there is no replacement. So Fuck YOU, Mozilla... I am so done with you...
The ONLY way to *win* with proprietary/closed-source software is to NOT USE IT.... Pretty simple concept, and would be quite hard to achieve if there wasn't a non-proprietary/open-source alternative... Been using it exclusively for the last seven years.. Wouldn't go back to that pile of dogs**t that comes from Redmond Washington for all the tea in China...
Gotta give the progressive morons in Sacramento credit for this one..This should be the law everywhere...
and among the first things each one of them did was to install Chrome.
That's all Edge is good for is as a downloader for Chrome/Vivaldi/Firefox/Opera... After 20 years of using/supporting MS products, I dumped them about 7 years ago when I retired.. Be a SUPER cold day in hell when I put an MS product on my Android phone (or ANYwhere else on my systems)...
No shit.. You stated
It's like all modern Linux distros, with the exception of unusable niche ones like Slackware, Devuan and even Gentoo, have basically become shitty clones of Fedora with the main difference being what you type to install packages. Otherwise they're pretty much all the same, forcing crap like systemd, GNOME 3 and PulseAudio on you.
If you knew what you were talking about, you'd KNOW that distros such as Slackware and
Devuan DO NOT use systemd, AND you'd NOT be saying they're unusable.. The fact you
say they're unusable means you don't know squat about Linux..
Too little too late.. Already switched to Emby... SOOOOOOOOOO much better than Plex.... Wish I'd known about
Emby sooner...
One of these was my first computer. Bought at the Yuma Arizona Radio Shack store sometime in 1977. I was in the Army at the time, stationed at the US Army Yuma Proving Grounds. Paid $795 for one of the Level 1 4K systems. Hard to believe today that you could actually *do* anything on 4K of ram, and an integer BASIC, but I sure did.. Wish I still had it, although I do still have my 8K TRS-80 Model 100, and it still works!!!
hehe Those dragons sure are big... First time I've heard of that crapware McAfee being referred to as McCaffrey.. When the original owner of McAfee, whose last name *IS* McAfee, tells you McAfee AV is crap, you *should* believe HIM... Last company I worked for before I retired used McAfee AV/ePo on our Windows XP systems (this was pre-2010, mind you.. I've been retired since then), and THEN they got the wild idea that our 100 node Linux compute cluster needed the Linux version of McAfee.. Oh how I tried to disavow them of that, since 1) these were Linux (CentOS5) nodes and 2) they were on a private subnet, and 3) they needed every cpu cycle to do their ONLY task, which was to COMPUTE... Finally cooler heads prevailed and we managed to get it down to only the master node and several of the workstations.. You think Windows McAfee was crap, heaven help you with the Linux version.... (shudders even today)....
Dear Ubuntu, I've been with you since 7.04/Feisty Fawn, and once you released 8.04LTS, I've upgraded with each new LTS with pleasure, however... I'm still on 14.04LTS, and WILL NOT be upgrading to 16.04 or 18.04 because you decided, along with Debian and quite a few other distributions to drop your -perfectly working- upstart init scheme and go down the toilet bowl with systemd. I'll be on 14.04 until its EOL in 2019, at which time, I'm planning on going to Devuan or back to my "Linux roots" with Slackware. Been using/admin'ing Linux for 20 years and systemd is by FAR the stupidest abortion to be inflicted on Linux since Linus gave birth to Linux...
Bye Bye, Ubuntu
You could have prevented this.
https://debian.org/
Umm.. Fuck Debian, and its sucking Poetterings dick wrt systemd..
https://devuan.org/ .... Debian WITHOUT Poetterings shitbaby....
Android is only worth a shit if its rooted and has something like AdAway installed, which uses the /etc/hosts file to actually BLOCK the ad servers.
hehe Guess you don't know about Microsoft's latest turd_in_the_punchbowl, called Windows 10 ... or as I call it, Windows NSA Edition....