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@ rmuk @feddit.uk

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  • Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

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  • Any IT department worth their salt will have solved this problem years ago. It's hard to explain if you've never managed Windows in an enterprise setting but there's a reason that profit-hungry corporations all use Windows. Here's the full process for getting any Windows laptop to work perfectly:

    • unbox the laptop and turn it on
    • insert the USB key with the provisioning package
    • wait about two seconds for Windows to tell you to remove the USB key.
    • go to lunch

    If they have a channel supplier that offers 'white glove' service they don't even need to do that and they can even have brand new laptops drop-shipped to a user at home without ever needing to touch it. And if that laptop fucks up down the line it can just be wiped and as soon as Windows connects to the Internet it can automatically re-enrol itself into the organisation's management system.

  • Do you make a grocery list, or do you just go to the store and wing it?

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  • Depending on the store TGTT bags can be amazing or... not so much. One store near me will always include fresh fruit, veg, meats, rolls, cans... another will just hand over a bag with like ten kilos of sliced ham in it.

    TGTT with a freezer is a game-changer, though.

  • 2026 is the year of the linux desktop

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  • Yeah, that's not a straw, though. It's like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.

  • Hacker Congress CCC talk by Cory Doctorow: 'A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet'

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  • Yeah, it's kinda like how you can go years without hearing any stories about someone winning a medal at the Olympics then suddenly the news is full of stories about people winning Olympic medals. Clearly it's a conspiracy.

  • What are some good vps recommendations from Ukraine?🇺🇦

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  • I've used Hostpro in the past. The VPS I used was hosted in the Netherlands but they're a Ukrainian company IIRC and they have Kyiv as an option. I recall them being fine, nothing special, and fairly cheap.

  • What are some good vps recommendations from Ukraine?🇺🇦

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  • Do you mean that as in, within reasonable latency of Ukraine? Because if so, Hetzner have locations in Nuremberg and Helsinki which should be useful.

  • Today in “Google Broke Email”

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  • This guy reminds me of an asshole I used to work for. The company was called ABC, say, so he set everyone up with ABC-Alice@gmail.com, ABC-Bob@gmail.com, and so on. He got really, really pissed off when ABC-NewStarter wasn't available to the extent that he wrote non-stop emails to the person who registered it, Google, his solicitor, even the police demanding it be relinquished and moaned non-stop that the world wasn't bending to his whim.

    I'm not supporting Google - it's annoying that they're revoking a feature - but this is a real XKCD 1150 situation.

  • Hey. Aren’t you supposed to be paying attention to ME?

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  • Every day we stray further from God's light.

  • How do you say age in your language?

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  • I'm from the North of England and we say "aye! t'was onna night most un'nartual, when good folk did pull down the shutters and bring their children reet close and 'uddle themselves away, for they couldn't rightly say if they wus hearing the howling of t'wind, the shrieking orra newborn, or the wailin of the beast, in this very valley [x] years/moons ago" and I think that's beautiful.

  • Europeans with cable/satellite/other TV subscriptions: Do you get Fox "News" or other US-based right-wing channels? | Let's demand they drop the channel

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  • JFC, that description though:

    Newsmax TV is America's first truly free 24/7 live channel with real news.

    I've edited it so it has a more accurate description:

    Newsmax TV is an American television channel owned by Newsmax described as conservative, pro-Trump, right-wing, and far-right.

  • What's some small, completely meaningless detail in life that you can never unsee?

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  • Another song by The Killers has the line "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" repeated over and over again with increasing intensity. It's hard to imagine a less meaningful lyric without actually resorting to nonsensicalness.

  • What items do you have multiple of even though one would suffice?

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  • Headphones. I have my commuting headphones, walking headphones, working headphones, video game headphones, music headphones... I also have two pairs of earphones.

    I could get down to two pairs of headphones and one pair of earphones.

  • Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor

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  • The PSU isn't just for the PI, but you'd not know that from the article which seems to have been written by someone with literally no imagination. If you're looking for a setup that lets you use a RasPi as, say, a file server with a fibre channel card, or a media hub with a GPU that can transcode several streams at once, then it's a really neat product and that justifies a decent PSU.

  • How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...

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  • It is a fraction of a percent. ⁶⁰/₂ is a fraction.

  • i wish this were incomprehensirule

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  • female yaoi gooners

    My new band's name. We're all bears.

  • Does he think he is The King?

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  • It's the same as having kids who don't speak English as their first language, or having an EU passport so they have access to all the opportunities and freedoms that provides:

    It's a privilege reserved for members of the Inner Party only and will not be tolerated amongst the Proles.

  • Apple Hit With Supersized Fine in Italy Over an iPhone Privacy Feature

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  • The author of the article seems to be jumping through hoops to make Apple sound good and avoid mentioning the crux of the problem: users have to be informed of what tracking they're agreeing to - or denying - and once someone gives/refuses consent you're not allowed to keep badgering them about it, but because Apple's prompt is so fucking vague and generic it fails at the 'informed' point, so the app has to ask again. Apple's prompt isn't about empowering users or respecting GDPR: it's just an interruption that tried to manipulate users into thinking that Apple is on their side.

  • What do you think is an overrated food?

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  • See also: Dubai chocolate, affogato, "two best buds running a burger shack" tall burgers... all were amazing, until they became a marketable meme, as you said. And now they're shit.

  • What do you think is an overrated food?

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  • Yeah, and some people insist on steaming or, worse, boiling broccoli for far, far too long.