I don’t know how these laws work when everything you and your environment use is self-hosted, but where I am it’s the one thing you can do to control your data, by law. Not even a warrant allows checking personally owned or company owned devices. However, most, if not all, institutions and companies rely entirely on US based tech hosted in the US. That shit needs to end.
Don’t get me wrong, it is (Jesus, I have a hard time using this word for ANY Winblows, but I can’t think of anything else before coffee) good, no real complains other than the ridiculous resources usage, and the UI certainly beats the hell out of XP. But resources use is my issue, unnecessary background shit running all the time, whereas XP remained way lighter. As I said, anything after 7 has been consistent crap and has just been getting exponentially worse.
Anyway, Linux and Gnu has been my life for way too long now. I only know about Winblows issues because I come in here and hear my circle of acquaintances complaining, which only makes me laugh because they choose to keep dealing with that crap when there are so many options.
Ain’t that the truth? I feel like Distro hopping is an integral part of falling in love with Linux. In my case, I get distro hopping zoomies every few months 🤣
My bad, I apologize, and thanks for clarifying. I think my brain automatically changed shell for terminal, and I could have sworn your reply had a question mark after ‘terminal’. Gotta stop replying here when I’m almost asleep.
For shell, I always end up switching to Zsh, mainly because of the extensive and easy customization.
The reality is, and I say this with a heavy heart, that Crapple is ahead of everyone else in how to keep the money and stock prices moving in their favor. They ‘rent’ AI capabilities from OpenAI and Google and put their money where they always have, making new devices, some good developing and fucking over everyone in their walled garden. Microslop, on the other hand, has completely lost its north.
Full disclosure, I fucking hate Crapple almost as much as I hate Microslop, but they evidently know what they’re doing. How long they can keep their shit up is another conversation for another time.
I think W7 would be the very last option, everything after that has been shit, and getting worse. I still prefer XP though, except for the hideous UI.
And again, see comment below 😂
I used to be a diehard Fedora user and suggested it to everyone. Then they started allowing AI generated code, and I flipped. Moved to CachyOS on both my PC and Laptop, and they have been incredibly solid for about 3 months now.
37 between ProxMox and CasaOS.
Alacrity or die
See comment below.
In my opinion, you’re better off backing up your data, then nuking the drive, and installing the standalone Linux distro.
XP would be enough.
Story of my life (minus the dev part). I self host everything out of a Proxmox server and CasaOS for sandboxing and trying new FOSS stuff out. Unless the internet goes out, everything is up 24/7 and rarely do I need to go in there and fix something.
So, 2+2= whatever the hype says it is. Got it.
My wife and I have BYD vehicles. My first EV was a Model 3. BYD is decades ahead of Tesla as cars go. We’ve had themfor 3 years, and have nothing bad to say about them. We’ll, that’s not entirely true, the original floor mats are shit, pretty, but shit.
Fucking stocks are like gambling. There’s no rhyme or reason to them.
And me, living in the dark woods of Lemmy and Mastodon, have never, until now, heard of this ‘upscrolled’. I really like my ignorance-laced way of life.
My family still uses WhatsApp all of them, except my kids (I never allowed them and I have very tight control of their devices). After a few months of not being able to send me memes and shit, they started installing Signal one after the other. Long story short, the family group is now on signal.
It does say Meta, so it stands to reason that WhatsApp would be part of it. My brain works (using the word ‘works’ very lightly here) in a very similar fashion 🤣
This is exactly right. Which brings us to the ‘half-baked’ option of self-hosting anything. For example, if you self-host a matrix server for you and your friends and family (assuming you’re able to get them to use it), your data, on your end, is relatively safe and you’re in control, however, the others may have their devices compromised either by Google on stock Android, Microslop on Windows or iOS on Crapple devices, so whatever you share with them is still at risk of being gathered by these tech giants anyway. It’s a very hard problem to solve. The technology for the solution is there, but it’s unrealistic to expect everyone to just drop everything they know and are used to, since lack of convenience and friction is just too much for most normies to even attempt to deal with.