I really love all the people calling Trump insane... Pot meet kettle.. Trump is the most sane President we've had in my lifetime (67 years old)... There sure are a LOT of completely unhinged people out there.. I pray to God daily for President Trump's safety...
I realize I'm in the minority here, but I actually like using Windows 10.
Well.. sure, Windows 10 arguably *looks* pretty spiffy and may actually *work* fairly well on appropriate hardware, but if you either don't realize (or don't care) about what a nightmare 10 is, prvacy-wise with its "telemetry", you are what I'd call a "sheep"... Those of us who know (and care) about this blatant in-your-face privacy violation by MS, don't use Windows.. In other words, the ONLY way to win with MS products, is to NOT PLAY.....
Everybody in this thread keeps talking about Wine, but everybody seems to forget about the paid, heavily-developed port of Wine called CrossOver. Sure, its not free, but since its not, and has a bunch of developers constantly working on it, it runs a LOT of Windows software, quite a few that won't run on the "free" Wine.. https://codeweavers.com/.. I gave up on Wine a few years ago, and now pay to use CrossOver for the several Windows apps I need to run, and flatly *refuse* to dedicate a machine to Windows to run...
Didn't Pat Volkerung (sic) the Slackware "head-honcho" say systemd was evil and would NOT appear on Slackware as long as he controlled it??? Seems I heard something to that effect a while back...
Actually at least two, the other being Slackware.. From what I gather, Pat Volkering, Slackware's head-honcho hates systemd with a burning passion......
Unfortuantly, its getting harder and harder to *find* a distro that isn't using systemd.. Obviously the BSD's don't (and never will --- thank goodness) and Slackware.. As I recall even the "build-you-own" distros, like Arch and Gentoo are sucking systemd's crank....
Those were the daze... I started with Slackware in 1994, on a 486DX2-66 with 8Mb of ram, Hercules mono video and an amber monitor. After I got the scads of floppies made and got the basic OS installed using the Herc mono video, I scrounged up a EGA monitor and if I remember correctly a Tseng Labs EGA card, and *tried* to get XFree86 configured correctly and get a GUI up and running.. What Fun!! I'll admit I managed to "release the magic smoke" on the first monitor trying to get the modelines set right.. After getting some info on irc, I managed to get X going and as I recall, fluxbox...
And PLEEEEZE get a competent one, one who is trained and specializes in copyright/IP issues.. Sounds like the one quoted earlier was likely an "ambulance-chaser" who did a quick google search before he posted his warning... Lawyers.. Can't live WITH them and you can't live WITHout them (sure would like to try though)...
Maybe Amazon ought to call it a "Telescreen" and use "Orwell" for its "wakeup word", as thats EXACTLY what it is.... There will be one of these in my home over my cold dead body...
I'm curious... do they have the authority to even tax what occurs outside of their state territory?
They sure seem to *think* so... Up till early 1994, my wife and I lived in San Diego California. We decided to move to Las Vegas, Nevada. Since I had a job that I liked a lot and it was making noises about having a layoff, we decided to move out of our apartment, wife move to an apartment in Las Vegas and I rent a tiny studio apartment in San Diego, near work. We only expected to do this for a short time, but the "noises about a layoff" lasted for close to two years, which we suffered thru, and I took 3 day weekends to fly up to Las Vegas. Finally the layoffs came in December 1995, and I moved to Las Vegas, where we'd bought a house. During the time that wife was in Las Vegas, working at a local hospital, I filed California income tax returns showing my California income but didn't show wife's Nevada income. About a year after I'd moved to Nevada, I start getting letters from the California "IRS" claiming I didn't report my wife's earnings. I wrote back telling them she'd left the state in early 1994 and all her earnings were earned in Nevada, and thus were not taxable by California. They kept at us for close to a year before I finally went and spent $$$ to get a tax attorney to shut them the fuck up. Since wife has a sister living in Calfornia still, we have to make an annual trip down there. We're trying to get sister to sell her house and move up here..
Wife and I left California in the mid 90s and moved to Las Vegas. Nevada *used* to be a "Red State", but all the "fruits and nuts" moving here lately have pretty much made Nevada a "Blue State", and since wife and I are staunchy conservative, we're none too happy about this...
What do you expect? California is trying to copy the old USSR, with all of its communist ideas, which will only work successfully *IF* they put up an "Iron Curtain" along their eastern border. Otherwise there will be (and IS) a mass exodus of people and companies who are fed up with California's bullshit.. The wife and I left in the mid 90s when "Dear Leader" Brown was elected governor the first time...
Dean Heller is one of my Senators and until this, I naively thought he was one of the "good_guys"... Looks like I was wrong... Wonder how much he got for his vote for selling us out? hehe maybe I'll call his office and ask that VERY question... Of course, his staff won't have the answer (or at least won't give it to a *mere* pleeb such as I)...
The only quibble I have is with the Windows Telemetry crap which is difficult to turn-off/thwart. It's do-able though.
Oh you are sooo precious... You *actually* believe that the "telemetry" you turn off is actually turning OFF?? or if it does actually turn off that it will STAY turned off... This is Microsoft we're talking about here.. Not the most trustworthy entity out there.. I trust them exactly how far I can throw them... hint: NOT very far at ALL...
Oh the entertainment value of these endless stories about the latest way MS has found to abuse those who still use their products... I've been MS-free for the last seven years and it certainly does feel GOOD....
Dunno what you're doing wrong, but lately with Ubuntu (14.04 and 16.04) and Debian 8 and Broadcom B43, I've had absolutely ZERO problems on several systems I've installed on other than the minor need to add non-free to the sources.list on Debian 8 to get the b43 firmware..... I recall WELL when using Broadcom wifi on Linux WAS a big pain in the ass... it isn't anymore.. at least on Ubuntu and Debian
Yeah.. SERIOUSLY... I'd check that REAL closely if you are going to actually *use* Windows to create media... I trust MS as far as I can throw them.... (hint: not very far at ALL...)
Don't you worry, MS, theres a growing number of us out here in the "real world" who won't EVER install your crap on *our* computers.. Since I gave up the "MS addiction" in 2010, I get endless entertainment from all the new ways MS finds to abuse those who still use MS products..
In my case its Ting, an MVNO that operates on both the Sprint and Tmobile infrastructure.. I buy my own phones, currently a Nexus 4, and refuse to do contracts.. With Ting, you only pay for what you *actually* use. My only nit with them (and its not just them) is their data usage prices are a bit steep.. For instance, my phone bill for TWO phones this month was $21.. It was that low as wife's phone was turned off most of the month, and I only used less than 100Mb of data.. On average, in normal months, the bill for two phones is between $35-$45.... Can't beat that with a stick...
Man, you ARE delusional.. Linux is the ONLY OS that doesn't treat *your* data as belonging to either Microsoft or Apple.. I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin but when I retired I decided I was DONE with anything MS.. And after seeing what a nightmare shitfest Windows 10 is, I thank my lucky stars that something like Linux exists..
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I really love all the people calling Trump insane... Pot meet kettle.. Trump is the most sane President we've had in my lifetime (67 years old)... There sure are a LOT of completely unhinged people out there.. I pray to God daily for President Trump's safety...
I realize I'm in the minority here, but I actually like using Windows 10 .
Well.. sure, Windows 10 arguably *looks* pretty spiffy and may actually *work* fairly well on appropriate hardware, but if you either don't realize (or don't care) about what a nightmare 10 is, prvacy-wise with its "telemetry", you are what I'd call a "sheep"... Those of us who know (and care) about this blatant in-your-face privacy violation by MS, don't use Windows.. In other words, the ONLY way to win with MS products, is to NOT PLAY.....
Everybody in this thread keeps talking about Wine, but everybody seems to forget about the paid, heavily-developed port of Wine called CrossOver. Sure, its not free, but since its not, and has a bunch of developers constantly working on it, it runs a LOT of Windows software, quite a few that won't run on the "free" Wine.. https://codeweavers.com/ .. I gave up on Wine a few years ago, and now pay to use CrossOver for the several Windows apps I need to run, and flatly *refuse* to dedicate a machine to Windows to run...
Didn't Pat Volkerung (sic) the Slackware "head-honcho" say systemd was evil and would NOT appear on Slackware as long as he controlled it??? Seems I heard something to that effect a while back...
Actually at least two, the other being Slackware.. From what I gather, Pat Volkering, Slackware's head-honcho hates systemd with a burning passion......
Unfortuantly, its getting harder and harder to *find* a distro that isn't using systemd.. Obviously the BSD's don't (and never will --- thank goodness) and Slackware.. As I recall even the "build-you-own" distros, like Arch and Gentoo are sucking systemd's crank....
Those were the daze... I started with Slackware in 1994, on a 486DX2-66 with 8Mb of ram, Hercules mono video and an amber monitor. After I got the scads of floppies made and got the basic OS installed using the Herc mono video, I scrounged up a EGA monitor and if I remember correctly a Tseng Labs EGA card, and *tried* to get XFree86 configured correctly and get a GUI up and running.. What Fun!! I'll admit I managed to "release the magic smoke" on the first monitor trying to get the modelines set right.. After getting some info on irc, I managed to get X going and as I recall, fluxbox...
And PLEEEEZE get a competent one, one who is trained and specializes in copyright/IP issues.. Sounds like the one quoted earlier was likely an "ambulance-chaser" who did a quick google search before he posted his warning... Lawyers.. Can't live WITH them and you can't live WITHout them (sure would like to try though)...
Maybe Amazon ought to call it a "Telescreen" and use "Orwell" for its "wakeup word", as thats EXACTLY what it is.... There will be one of these in my home over my cold dead body...
I can't even make sense of liberalism anymore.
Thats because you're not insane.... If you were, liberalism would make perfect sense to you..
I'm curious... do they have the authority to even tax what occurs outside of their state territory?
They sure seem to *think* so... Up till early 1994, my wife and I lived in San Diego California. We decided to move to Las Vegas, Nevada. Since I had a job that I liked a lot and it was making noises about having a layoff, we decided to move out of our apartment, wife move to an apartment in Las Vegas and I rent a tiny studio apartment in San Diego, near work. We only expected to do this for a short time, but the "noises about a layoff" lasted for close to two years, which we suffered thru, and I took 3 day weekends to fly up to Las Vegas. Finally the layoffs came in December 1995, and I moved to Las Vegas, where we'd bought a house. During the time that wife was in Las Vegas, working at a local hospital, I filed California income tax returns showing my California income but didn't show wife's Nevada income. About a year after I'd moved to Nevada, I start getting letters from the California "IRS" claiming I didn't report my wife's earnings. I wrote back telling them she'd left the state in early 1994 and all her earnings were earned in Nevada, and thus were not taxable by California. They kept at us for close to a year before I finally went and spent $$$ to get a tax attorney to shut them the fuck up. Since wife has a sister living in Calfornia still, we have to make an annual trip down there. We're trying to get sister to sell her house and move up here..
Aint THAT the truth!!
Wife and I left California in the mid 90s and moved to Las Vegas. Nevada *used* to be a "Red State", but all the "fruits and nuts" moving here lately have pretty much made Nevada a "Blue State", and since wife and I are staunchy conservative, we're none too happy about this...
What do you expect? California is trying to copy the old USSR, with all of its communist ideas, which will only work successfully *IF* they put up an "Iron Curtain" along their eastern border. Otherwise there will be (and IS) a mass exodus of people and companies who are fed up with California's bullshit.. The wife and I left in the mid 90s when "Dear Leader" Brown was elected governor the first time...
Dean Heller is one of my Senators and until this, I naively thought he was one of the "good_guys"... Looks like I was wrong... Wonder how much he got for his vote for selling us out? hehe maybe I'll call his office and ask that VERY question... Of course, his staff won't have the answer (or at least won't give it to a *mere* pleeb such as I)...
hehe theres "some guys" at Linux laughing our asses off at it too....
The only quibble I have is with the Windows Telemetry crap which is difficult to turn-off/thwart. It's do-able though.
Oh you are sooo precious... You *actually* believe that the "telemetry" you turn off is actually turning OFF?? or if it does actually turn off that it will STAY turned off... This is Microsoft we're talking about here.. Not the most trustworthy entity out there.. I trust them exactly how far I can throw them... hint: NOT very far at ALL...
Oh the entertainment value of these endless stories about the latest way MS has found to abuse those who still use their products... I've been MS-free for the last seven years and it certainly does feel GOOD....
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
Geez, I'm sorry for your loss.. Perhaps you might find a less obnoxious employer, like maybe the IRS??
Which makes a SUPER-good reason to dump the MS habit.. Ubuntu is patiently waiting for you....
Dunno what you're doing wrong, but lately with Ubuntu (14.04 and 16.04) and Debian 8 and Broadcom B43, I've had absolutely ZERO problems on several systems I've installed on other than the minor need to add non-free to the sources.list on Debian 8 to get the b43 firmware.. ... I recall WELL when using Broadcom wifi on Linux WAS a big pain in the ass... it isn't anymore.. at least on Ubuntu and Debian
Yeah.. SERIOUSLY... I'd check that REAL closely if you are going to actually *use* Windows to create media... I trust MS as far as I can throw them.... (hint: not very far at ALL...)
Maybe dont install Windows PERIOD.. Then you won't get all the abuse that MS heaps on you... Just sayin'
Don't you worry, MS, theres a growing number of us out here in the "real world" who won't EVER install your crap on *our* computers.. Since I gave up the "MS addiction" in 2010, I get endless entertainment from all the new ways MS finds to abuse those who still use MS products..
In my case its Ting, an MVNO that operates on both the Sprint and Tmobile infrastructure.. I buy my own phones, currently a Nexus 4, and refuse to do contracts.. With Ting, you only pay for what you *actually* use. My only nit with them (and its not just them) is their data usage prices are a bit steep.. For instance, my phone bill for TWO phones this month was $21.. It was that low as wife's phone was turned off most of the month, and I only used less than 100Mb of data.. On average, in normal months, the bill for two phones is between $35-$45.... Can't beat that with a stick...
Man, you ARE delusional.. Linux is the ONLY OS that doesn't treat *your* data as belonging to either Microsoft or Apple.. I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin but when I retired I decided I was DONE with anything MS.. And after seeing what a nightmare shitfest Windows 10 is, I thank my lucky stars that something like Linux exists..
Cue Apple Lawsuit in 3.. 2.. 1.. Gotta keep those liars err lawyers in work, doncha know??