• melroy@kbin.melroy.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      4 months ago

      Well… at least at home you can run Linux. That’s a start. And otherwise try to switch or create your own business. It seems the latter is the only option to fully get rid of Windows, since soon companies will move to Windows 11 with Windows Recall and other AI bs. No thanks, I’m out.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        Any company worth anything will keep recall disabled. Obviously, with Microsoft, it will get “accidentally” activated in an update, so admins will have to play whack a mole, but nobody should enable that malware when it’s released.

          • BassTurd@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            ·
            4 months ago

            Everything about it is so bad. It’s like someone woke up one day and thought, what is the legally worst piece of software I can make and force in people?

            • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              8
              ·
              4 months ago

              Users of Microsoft accepted more and more. And slowly we are all in this situation (if you would still use Windows). Similar to the The Boiling Frog Syndrome. Get out now, while you still can. Try to search for alternatives. You have been warned.

              • BassTurd@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                4
                ·
                4 months ago

                I went cold turkey to Linux this past December. Best choice I’ve ever made. I am still stuck on Windows for work and I assist friends and family with their stuff, but otherwise I’m happily out of the system.

                • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  3
                  ·
                  4 months ago

                  Great nice to hear! Which distro did you choice (No wrong answers)? Do you still need help or have questions or issues?

                  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    2
                    ·
                    4 months ago

                    I jumped right in the deep end with Arch. I’ve been a sys admin for about a decade and in IT for another 5 years, so I’m good with computers, but more importantly, I’m good at searching for and finding solutions to my problems. It was a bit rocky for the first setup, but been mostly smooth sailing since Jan or Feb. I reformatted to change to btrfs and snapper after the first month or two.

                    I still don’t know a lot about how Linux works or where any of the config files are, but I’m learning. I’m all on the bandwagon.

            • OpenStars@discuss.online
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              4 months ago

              Oh that’s no accident, nor do your words go far enough, unfortunately, bc they are doing stuff now that actually was fully illegal, back when the US government was more functional and pursued antitrust laws against Microsoft. :-(

      • OpenStars@discuss.online
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        4 months ago

        Oh yuck. I also switched away - half Linux, two-thirds Mac (hehe, all fun:-) - but not everyone can manage that.

        • KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 months ago

          How does the interoperability work for your setup? Did you set up something special? What backup system do you use?

          I ask because I plan to integrate some Apple stuff so my family can interact with it, like local-only backups, interacting with the TV (kodi) and music (mpd). I will not use software from apple on my side (well, beside the FOSS stuff from them, like bonjour or the printer stuff).

          • OpenStars@discuss.online
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            4 months ago

            I meant like a daily usage situation - e.g. working from a terminal, running MacVim, and things like Firefox and Slack etc. all work fine from a Mac - but I don’t self-host, and I run actual Mac OSX itself, so my answers may be of limited utility to you.

            If someone else is reading this I would look into running a Jellfin server from a machine running Linux, which can be connected to from a device running iOS or Android or whatever they want - but your kodi+mpd already sounds like it should do the trick.

            Hopefully you can avoid running Mac OSX itself, but if that’s not possible then perhaps at worst you could get a machine that does that and then partially isolate it on the network? (though that is beyond my skillset:-)

            For TV I just an ancient ChromeCast (iirc it’s a first-generation even!) and that works from everything (ironically one of the harder solutions was from Samsung mobile, though even ancient iPads have apps that will make it happen). I worry about when my TV and especially the ChromeCast dies what will I do - it will take so much time to investigate a replacement, it seems all/most of the newer solutions are trying to inject ads or whatever into the stream, or even just not working as simply as the old. Mine is security through obscurity, which only works for so long until the hardware flat wears out:-).

            And I barely have a backup solution - just a single SSD that I put stuff onto when I think about it, and is aging so when it too wears out… I have so much catching up that I need to do, I’m setting myself up for pain most likely:-(. But also I tend to “stream” most things rather than “download”, so my need for thus is extremely much smaller.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      4 months ago

      At my job I run what my employer wants me to run. I get paid for it, they get to decide the OS.
      But at home I’ve been running Linux since 2006.