“We’ve been trying to resolve this for over a month, and getting nowhere. Support is non-existent,” Windscribe said in its post. “Anyone know a human with a brain that still works at Microsoft and can help?”
Microslop. The word is Microslop, for reasons you have just experienced first-hand.
Just another day in the life of an enshittificator.
Corporations like Amazon are a scourge. Switch to free and open formats, software and hardware. Ditch what you can. Hack and pirate what you must. Starve big tech.
the only decent version of Windows
Please stop romanticising Win 10 just because it's less shitty than 11. There is no decent Windows.
Reminder: Win 10 introduced
uBlock blocks ads. It does not make visible what isn't transferred.
This, however, does (the article, stripped of its paywall)
Last attempt to ~~squeeze some money before~~ get these formats ~~are~~ abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.
FTFY
At least for the kindle platform, they've stopped offering a USB option a while ago, precisely to keep people from circumventing their planned obsolescence.
I'm pretty sure everyone's birth date is 1/1/1970
FTFY
Corpos don't have any morale.
That's what makes you evil.
Video content eats storage like nothing else.
And now storage is being eaten by data centres in their quest to force yet more AI slop on people in order to keep the bubble going just a little longer before the inevitable collapse.
Very basically (ELI5):
You may now begin to understand why I wouldn't recommend Bazzite to beginners: it's a cool, but advanced concept, and you need to understand its limitations and workarounds. Otherwise, you will just be roadblocked at some point, or, like you are, hacking away on the command line without actually understanding what you're doing. On that note, props to you for succeeding so far! But also, at the risk of sounding like a gatekeeper, it shouldn't be that way, for two reasons:
As a beginner switching from Windows, you have enough things to familiarise yourself with: the file system structure is different ("Where's my C:\ drive?"), software installation is different ("Wait? I don't just download random binaries from the Internet like a caveman?") and a lot of software is different ("Where is Paint? Where is Outlook? And where did the ribbon menu in Office go?"). You really shouldn't have to tackle the command line to get basic functionality working.
If and when you start working on the command line, you must understand what you're doing, because the command line assumes you do. It lets you do anything with and to your system, which makes it a very powerful tool. But powerful tools need to be handled with caution, and as you can see from your experience, Bazzite does not teach you that: it expects you to use the terminal right away, and since you can't, you just resort to copy-pasting random commands off the internet. In Bazzite, this cannot hurt you much because of how the distro ist built. But it's an absolutely terrible habit for new Linux users to get into. Once you switch distros and move to something else than Bazzite, just running random commands on the command line can absolutely wreck your system.
Things are moving very fast right now with a lot of back end linux stuff changing rapidly to support more people and programs coming off Windows.
Please, indulge me. What exactly is it you're talking about here?
Imo, not having access to the most recent Thunderbird or LibreOffice version doesn't matter at all to beginners, making Debian-based systems perfectly viable.
Fedora KDE, on the other hand, may turn out to be an annoyance once they need to install proprietary drivers (as OP is due to their NVIDIA card).
No, unfortunately not. It's in the nature/maths of the system. Recommended ~~reading~~ watching.
Do you think it’s possible for companies or individuals to not comply with court ordered surveillance and search warrants?
Companies can't, no. That's precisely my point. Hence your argument that iOS is more "secure" than any other bar Graphene is disingenuous. iOS is developed by a company which can be (and likely already has been) pressured into compromising its users on behalf of three-letter agencies. The NSA slides are strong evidence of that.
Large collectives of devs spread out all over the world, however, can withstand such pressures since they're hard to get a hold of. The developers of OSs such as Graphene, Debian or Lineage could easily resist such attempts, simply because they're not a legal entity incorporated inside a single jurisdiction.
You're correct in saying that Apple is "selling" privacy and security (as in: marketing, pinky-promising). They may be selling that story, but I ain't buying it.
There's good reason to suspect that it's very terrible from its privacy and security perspective.
@Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works was faster than me (thanks!). Yes, as of now, firmware updates for existing models are only allowed for yet another year and must be discontinued after. As always in this administration, the reasons given for these measures (Chinese attacks on US infrastructure) are built on lies and misinformation (none of the attacks targeted consumer routers). Hence, this is likely just another shakedown: "pay us a bribe or we'll damage your opportunities to do business in the US." Depending on whether foreign router vendors opt to go this route and give in to the orange grifter's demands, things may be different in a years' time.
Could you in theory demand a refund from the government if you were willing to switch to their backdoor US hardware now?
From a government of the Epstein class, by the Epstein class, for the Epstein class? No. You most certainly cannot.
So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.
And ban firmware updates for existing models.
Meanwhile, Russian state hackers use vulnerabilities in old routers to poison DNS and steal credentials through MITM attacks. Agent Krasnow just keeps delivering.
