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  • Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

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  • This right here, the whole tpm requirement was most likely pushed from OEM's wanting to sell new hardware.

  • Google loses DOJ’s big monopoly trial over search business

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  • That's never going to happen. I'm not sure on what stipulates a monopoly in this scenario, but the fact that there's bing, duck duck go, kagi, and a handful of others means it's not really a monopoly which tells me there is some specific ruling here that they've determined is monopolistic behavior.

    Edit: yeah after reading the article, wtf Google....

  • Principal Skinner on Immutable Distros

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  • I tried bazzite, unfortunately I had some odd quirks that I can only attribute to an immutable OS. Things like window and UI scaling wasn't consistent. My mouse cursor would blow up to twice the size when hovering over one window then shrink back down on another. I can only guess this is because the base filesystem is only readable and it can't write any values for scaling on certain themes/window decorations. While not a huge deal, it comes off as sloppy and inconsistent. It's not a great user experience and first impressions are everything. It's easy to make a first impression, it's damn near impossible to make a second one, and my first impression of an immutable OS has been soured. I installed mint 22 and it's been a completely different experience, from window decorations, to time shift backups, system updates, Bluetooth, cinnamon theming, it just works out of the box with little to no setup.

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  • My main issue with mint has always been the reluctance to use a newer package base. Fortunately I think that's changing since they're adopting Wayland support and have their edge iso now. Currently running bazzite and it's pretty rock solid with a couple quirks, but I've always thought about going back to mint when they start updating their package base.

  • An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience

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  • A word of caution, I've done this over a dozen times today and I did have one server where the bootloader was wiped after I attached it to another EC2. Always make a snapshot before doing the work just in case.

  • Gaming with Wayland with NVidia 550 and 555 drivers

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  • It would if I were using Nvidia but I use AMD.

  • Gaming with Wayland with NVidia 550 and 555 drivers

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  • Latest mesa + plasma 6.1.1 = janky as well

    Window dodging recently broke on me so I can't dodge windows on any of the panels properly anymore, was working great on 6.1. Certain windows will cause the desktop to lock up and I can't click on any windows or icons in the panel task manager. The global menu only works half the time now. I'm getting severe mouse cursor stuttering on a 120Hz display on the desktop, certain games running proton that were fine before have micro stutter. It's been a pretty terrible experience on the AMD side recently.

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    Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter

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  • So what happened to Blackroom? I'd love to know what happened to that game and the fallout of them pulling the Kickstarter. He clearly moved on to sigil but man I really think he could make a cool new IP with gzdoom if he actually tried, instead of just living in the past with sigil.

  • Introducing ink.key, a fediverse music collective/net label.

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  • I've looked at revolt and well, when I tried using it it was filled with less than reputable individuals. I don't remember specifics but I remember noping the fuck off revolt real quick. If you want text chat, try matrix, if you want voice well, then idk what to say other than discord, team speak or guilded. Guilded is pretty cool, I actually like the client way better than discord but my friends all use discord and guilded isn't a huge platform. It is backed by the Roblox company so you at least know it's gonna be supported, but then again, it's the Roblox company...

  • Nearly 20% of Microsoft SQL Servers running have passed end of support

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  • Because no one wants to learn something new like postgres, vendors haven't adopted other databases platforms other than SQL, and licensing is absolutely stupid expensive for SQL, so most companies just stay on what they currently run. It costs money to hire new employees who know other databases types, and it costs money to train current employees, it's just an absolutely stupid vicious cycle Microsoft has created. The barrier of entry for new versions of SQL is so high, that it's just not worth the hassle and the price.

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    Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

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  • Gaming is absolutely there, if you want to say something about anti cheat and whatnot that's fair, but my gamescope enabled, AMD fsr utilizing arch install is performance parity to Windows 10, if not more performant. I'm not giving up that performance gain for an insanely small handful of games. You do you I guess.

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    Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

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  • I'll just jump ship completely and use my Linux install 100% of the time. If I need to use a more mainstream OS for some stupid reason I'll just use my Mac.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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  • Good thing I exclusively use Firefox.

  • Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper

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  • The scammer even looks high AF every time he does an interview. This guy is a fucking joke.

  • Windows 10 is EOL in October 2025

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  • Running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed right now and it's great!

  • Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion.

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  • They already are, Intel is building new foundries in NA with government funding specifically for the purpose of not relying on Taiwan for chips. The problem though is TSMC has the smallest and most efficient chip dies, so everyone wants those chips, Intel still has a ways to catch up.

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    Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs

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  • They've tried this before, it didn't work out, apple Rosetta is pretty damn impressive for what it does but they have the advantage of having the same hardware specs to go with the software, Microsoft didn't have that luxury, and no, surfaces don't really count.

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  • That's fair, just tired of explaining shit to uninformed windows fanboys that don't understand what they're talking about.

    Want low latency audio production? There's a distro with a low latency kernel for that.

    Need a hyper focused gaming distro? Guess what, there's a distro for that.

    You want something so easy to use that even your tech illiterate grandparents can't fuck their PC with something as stupid as updates? Well what do you know, there's a distro for that as well with immutable OS's that look and feel like Windows.

    Windows fanboys spew bullshit like ease of use and not breaking their shit when they click buttons, but the reality is Linux is no different, it can be as easy or as difficult to use and break as you want.

    The sad bullshit fact is if you use Windows, your PC is Microsoft's and not yours, if you use Linux your PC is yours to control, and nothing hits that home like bullshit advertisements on your start menus and settings app.

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  • I don't think you understand how much I don't give a shit that you have an "ultimate gaming PC" just lying there...I gave you options, take em or leave em, but ultimately you're choosing not to do a damn thing about it and will just keep eating Microsoft Windows ads with every update. At least an Xbox is kind of expected to have ads since it's somewhat subsidized. As for group dynamics, if your friends won't try other games with you, sounds like you need better friends.