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#Microsoft recently wrote that TPM 2.0 is a "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows." This pretty much confirms it won't back down on its hardware requirements for Windows 11, an OS that is seriously struggling to gain new users (~35% of Windows users) after 3 years.
When October 2025 rolls around and support for Windows 10 ends, this will force tens of millions of people to unnecessarily buy new hardware.
More context: It's estimated that a staggering 240 million PCs currently running Windows 10 aren't "capable" of upgrading to Windows 11.
As you know, those PCs can easily run any flavor of #Linux. It's a massive opportunity to get people away from Windows (and its increasing invasion of privacy), AND prevent literal tons of e-waste.
Food for thought: In 2019, the Chinese Linux distribution "Deepin" released a series of short, polished trailers showing off its new features. A professional agency probably created them for less than $15,000.
Those trailers put Deepin on my radar. I wrote *ONLY TWO* articles about the distribution, and those 2 articles generated more than ONE MILLION views.
I bought a generic-ish laptop from kfocus.org. they specialize in making Kubuntu seamless. IT IS. Even CUPS worked as is. A boot up config process as easy as a new macintosh.
Drivers and apps, just wonderfully done.
So it can be done and today. It's a lot of fractal details.
The hard part is the gentle sell. Nobody likes being pushed to a change that wasn't their idea in the first place. If we push them anywhere near as hard as Microsoft is, they'll go with Microsoft anyway.
I tried the hard sell on Linux to family members ten years ago, and it didn't go anywhere. A few years later, two family members switched on their own.
people aren't going to just throw them away the second security updates stop appearing. They'll use Windows 10 for months or years beyond the deadline in blissful ignorance. Then when their machine "breaks" they'll go and buy a Windows 11 machine.
switched my main PC (which happily runs Win 11) to a dual boot system where I use Mint day to day and only keep Windows around for certain programs (primarily Affinity suite and Cinema4D). My Dad is intending on swtiching over entirely, so gonna be helping with that some point in the next year.
The problem I keep facing is "Linux cannot run this one singluar application, therefore the entire OS is garbage and should never be used for anything."
I honestly think Microsoft wants that and wants to distance itself from the operating system business. Why else would they be so hostile to users? They’re trying to make what profits they can, but know Linux and other OS’s are good enough. There is no insanely profitable future for them in that space, and the longer they hang out there, the higher the opportunity cost.
I'm not sure that convincing the masses to move to Linux (or anything else) is possible because the masses don't even know what an operating system is.
I told my mom and my little brother that they should at least give Linux a go before they consider buying new hardware.
My brother could possibly use the upgrade anyways, but my mom only uses the PC for browsing the web and occasionally edits a document or two using LibreOffice. Both of those activities are great under Linux, so yeah 😄
As a recent convert to...well, no, let me change that to recent adoptee of Linux (I've always been favourable to Linux even when I wasn't using it) I think technically we're pretty much there apart from the more specialized use-cases you invariably see haunting 'Move to Linux' threads. (But muh fotoshop/vijyo editing!)
Changing people's minds will be the nut to crack. There's also a lot of crusty stereotypes and old junk information out there that needs destroyed.
But an even bigger challenge than that will be readying some Linux spaces for the influx of more casual but more demanding users. Still pockets of Elitism out there that we'll need to either abrogate or funnel folks away from.
Gonna have a think myself for some solutions to this.
Excellent point. I think one thing that could make this transition viable is commercial software. We have seen Steam/Proton prove this out for gaming, my question is, how do we get more productivity software to follow suit?
I don’t think commercial software replaces FOSS to be clear, but I think if your goal is to bring in businesses transitioning from Windows, it’s easier if it feels like they aren’t giving up as much.
This makes community outreach and education just that much more important. A lot of people can't afford to buy new computers for a software upgrade, and it'll generate tons of unnecessary e-waste if we don't repurpose those old devices
I've been thinking about running a class at my local makerspace on fixing old laptops and installing Linux on them. The area we're in is pretty low-income, so especially if we can find a good way to reach local folks I think it could be pretty good
My mother-in-law texted me yesterday about this. We had a discussion about what she uses the computer for and at the end of the day we decided a Chromebook is really all she needs. Web browser for email, some shopping stuff she would rather do on the bigger screen and nothing really else.
The biggest work the Linux community has to do is not be condescending to Windows *Average End-Users* who WANT to get away from Gates-Of_Hell but find every tentative enquiry towards Linux and the various different types met with sneering, derogatory or just plain hostile responses.
This isn't all of the Linux community, but it is FAR TOO MANY, and they're more vocal than those encouraging people away from Windoesn't with offers of support and actual help.
I feel like the discourse around Linux vs Windows has always been "Windows bad, you dumb for using it". Clearly this helps no one. Familiarity is comfortable, maybe we can spin it in a way that acknowledges the good times they had on windows, and Linux is, while not being Windows, can be a great tool too.
I'm not a writer, but I feel compelled to help. What can we do as a community
support for windows 10 doesn't, in reality, mean everyone goes and buys new hardware. It really means a bunch of people stop getting software/security updates. Which is a whole other issue.
In all seriousness, I think we need to just tweak our messaging a little bit around that event. Instead of saying that Microsoft is forcing people to buy new hardware, let's say that they're forcing people to move to Linux. Because this is the easiest and most ethical path, and also the cheapest, which (gestures "in this economy?") matters for a lot of people.
I made my father switch to xubuntu (his computer is >10yo) about a year ago. He’s 65 and always struggled with computers. Early in october called me because he had trouble with it. I was very anxious about it because he lives ~500km from me. But then a couple of weeks later he called me back : he found someone to help him out and fix the issue. For me that’s the best proof that it’s a completely viable option for those kind of usecases now.
Stop blaming #Microsoft for the critical, remotely exploitable, #vulnerabilities in the #CPUs themselves. There are known #hardware #critical security #flaws in both #Intel and #AMD CPUs that can not be patched. Microsoft didn't cause this "#e-waste". Intel and AMD did. The #TPM 2.0 requirement at least helps prevent credential theft. The same #credentials that can be used to #ransomware a PC or steal your money from your bank. Installing #Linux does fuck-all to mitigate the vulnerabilities and provides nothing more than a false sense of security to people.
More context: It's estimated that a staggering 240 million PCs currently running Windows 10 aren't "capable" of upgrading to Windows 11.
As you know, those PCs can easily run any flavor of #Linux. It's a massive opportunity to get people away from Windows (and its increasing invasion of privacy), AND prevent literal tons of e-waste.
@mookie@shumai.xyz Maybe after a couple more are killed. If anybody wants to kill a couple more CEOs I sure as shit won't stand in their way. There's a couple of bank CEOs that have fucked over a few people and have definitely ruined some lives. Hopefully they're a little scared right now.
Perhaps companies and CEOs should take this time to reflect on why they should be afraid, what is causing the public to look so disapprovingly at them and, most of all, how they can change themselves.
In an era when online anger and social tensions are increasingly directed at the businesses consumers count on, Meta last year spent $24.4 million to surround CEO Mark Zuckerberg with security.
Perhaps companies and CEOs should take this time to reflect on why they should be afraid, what is causing the public to look so disapprovingly at them and, most of all, how they can change themselves.
In an era when online anger and social tensions are increasingly directed at the businesses consumers count on, Meta last year spent $24.4 million to surround CEO Mark Zuckerberg with security.
On December 3, 2024, a Texas federal district court judge in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., No. 4:24-cv-00478 (E.D. Tex., Dec. 3, 2024) issued a preliminary injunction nationwide…
It's hard to comprehend the sheer depravity of the west now actively pushing to force teenagers into fighting their proxy war. Everybody who is cheering this shit on really needs to take a long hard look in the mirror.
imagine getting killed and hundreds upon hundreds of people coming ready with spreadsheets and government findings explaining why you, mathematically, deserved it. the working class has not been this happy since that submersible
America’s biggest immigration problem seems to be white guys from South Africa coming into our country in order to infiltrate our government, dismantle our civic institutions, take away our freedoms, and burn down our social networks.
Strongly disagree. Eventually the good people running the company will sell the company to bad people, or shut down the company when they can no longer run it well. See LiveJournal, or maybe Cohost.
We've started seeing visions of alternatives, like "exit to community", but this seems almost impossible for a conventional company. I think the community would struggle to outbid the oligarchs and corporations unless this was always planned as the end goal.
Any time you can just "buy" control over millions of people's social lives, it's a bad thing. Doesn't matter who's hat the helm now, because *someday* it will be bought by a bad person and everyone's lives will be turned upside down.
Whoever designed ActivityPub/Fediverse....
that was brilliant. There's literally no way to "own" it.
It's never about the people running the show. They're entirely under the control of the board and the owners. The question is: what power do the investors have over the organization and their product decisions?
SD Bad management made it worse, but the deep structural problems of centralized social media are inherently toxic and prone to capture. They present central choke points to attack.
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theepochtimes.com/world/mexica… President-elect Donald Trump recently threatened a 25 percent tariff against Mexico if it didn’t act to curb illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking.
TL;DR: They tested the genome of all the bat viruses that were in the Wuhan labs in 2021 and found that none are related to the Covid-19 one. Meaning that we have one more proof that Covid-19 did not "escape from a lab".
This is too good to be true. Looking at this level of retardation is really something for the ages. Hahahaha 🤡 But bitcoin is somehow different they say. Normies in all their splendor. @Tfmonkey Might be an interesting tale for the saturday show. x.com/doaenel/status/186466743…
Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz appeared to celebrate UnitedHealthcare CEO Brain Thompson’s brutal murder on her Bluesky account Wednesday.
Over the past few years, many people have unfortunately become more dependent on streaming media. But it's important to remember how streaming services can deprive you of important rights. Dis-services like Disney+ and Netflix mandate the use of a hardware-level backdoor called Widevine, giving them permanent access into deep components of your machine. Try video sites like the Blender Open Movies project instead.
"Why are we paying so much attention to Silicon Valley pump-and-dumps and ignoring all this incredible, potentially planet-saving, real innovation?" — @pluralistic at doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…
This is the last day to get my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook! If there was any area where we needed a lot of “innovation,” it’s in climate tech…
"Climate tech is unselfish tech. It’s a gift to the future and to the broad public. It shares its spoils with workers. It requires public action. By contrast, Silicon Valley is greedy tech that is relentlessly focused on the shortest-term returns that can be extracted with the least share going to labor." — @pluralistic at doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…
This is the last day to get my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook! If there was any area where we needed a lot of “innovation,” it’s in climate tech…
> “Every one of the things you would do to ameliorate [climate change] makes sense on completely separate grounds, they are worth doing apart from [climate change].”
This surprised me. Do Democrats not really know what they have been doing for years? theepochtimes.com/us/house-ove… WASHINGTON—The House on Dec. 6 passed the Crucial Communism Teaching Act with a vote of 327–62. The bill, introduced by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and cosponsored by 33 members of the House, seeks to address a gap in the education system related to the history of communism. “Communism is one of the most destructive political ideologies the world has ever seen,” Rep. Salazar said when reintroducing the bill earlier this year. “The Crucial Communism Teaching Act is important because our youth must remember the crimes of the communists, including those inflicted upon my constituents and their families in Florida’s 27th district.”
She first introduced the bill in September 2021, but it was not brought up for a vote at that time.
Specifically, the bill seeks to educate American students that “communism has led to the deaths of over 100,000,000 victims worldwide,” and that “1,500,000,000 people still suffer under communism.”
The legislation seeks to educate American youth on the dangers of communist and totalitarian ideologies by allowing survivors to tell their stories firsthand.
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“Killer Feature” Odin is a weird programming language to advertise/market for.
Odin is very pragmatic in terms of its design and overall philosophy.
youtu.be/8keHGj47I5Y We passed a bar and she needed a toilet. So I waited. There was kind of a 50's dance party inside and from the window I could have sworn they were playing exactly this.
In some alternate reality, The Misfits' song "Saturday Night" from their record Famous Monsters was a horror punk cover of an obscure 1950s slow dance song.
Hey, have you seen this? Elon Musk is trying to pump £78m into Nigel Farage’s Reform party, meaning he’d effectively be buying control of British politics. He might have gotten away with it in America, but we can’t let it happen here. Let’s stop him. Sign here: 38d.gs/ProtectDemocracyFromBil…
🚨 WORLD’S RICHEST MAN BUYING OUR DEMOCRACY 🚨 Elon Musk is set to pump £78m into Nigel Farage’s party—a sum that would allow Reform to flood our politics with targeted ads. Maybe other countries allow billionaires to buy elections, but not here.
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The media seems so keen on Ozempic etc - but IMO it seems weird that people have to routinely inject a medication with unpleasant side effects simply to counteract the unhealthy food environment which capitalism has created.
And this is a perfectly normal, long-term viable thing? Waiting for the other boot to drop, as it usually does with these miracle cures.
Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are transforming the fight against obesity, but they are forcing us to face crucial questions about equity and whether they should be prescribed to children.
While drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy can help people lose weight, they can also alter the way food tastes and may even impact your ability to derive pleasure from activities you enjoy.
the more important question is why so many people have insufficient natural levels of that hormone and therefore need supplementation. We know very little about how the gut works or doesn't. Always easier to blame the person. We don't apply the same judgement to people who need to wear glasses to correct their vision, for example.
The thing which angers me is that people with #Diabetes have found this (and related drugs) to be a huge help, and there is a real need there -- and it has been hyped to the max as an obesity drug, which is used by people who don't need it, thus creating a worldwide shortage for the people who do need it. This ENRAGES me, and is yet another demonstration that the corporate "going viral" model of social media causes real harm.
Ok - I didn’t eat crap food, and I was still large, (at one stage about 130kg, and I’m 5’6”) due to a medical condition (PCOS) and genetics, and it took a pretty severe medical intervention (a complete hysterectomy including removal of ovaries) and probably 8 years to get to a healthy weight. It wasn’t due to an unhealthy food environment in my case. Maybe I’m an outlier, but I wasn’t stuffing my face with chips and lollies and sugary soft drinks and take aways; I was always cooking healthy meals and bringing my own healthy lunches. Would I have tried something like Ozempic if it had been around then? Probably, because the stigma of being fat was such a burden.
I recently had a doctor use that I would likely spend less on food as a rational for why a VERY expensive, non-PBS drug similar to Ozempic might be worth it.
I wish people would stop treating ozempic as a miracle drug. It doesn't guarantee weight loss. I took it for its intended purpose. While it did help with my blood sugar I lost no weight at all
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