Dyskolos

Yeah me neither. It was just a remnant of my optimistic yesteryear ass speaking 😒

Too bad they’re sold out, I would so get one for at home. Unless it’s cloudbound. I would want an open sourced or locally controlled.

lol yes, but close. Since server 2008/2008R2 there is the “core”-option. Since 2016 even a nano-core, with just basic container-options and one cannot even login locally. Plus a ton of corpo-stuff that is already there, and “easily” to setup (the gui seems so simple, but it’s still just a do-it-quick-stuff in the front, most of the actual work is scripted/console anyway). I must admit I do have all MS-titles and -certificates and it often is as trivial as it seems. But still more trivial than doing the exact same thing in linux.

Despite not ever have cared for MS-licenses (except for back then, when i still ran the buisiness), i still choose linux most of the time as it’s still much less overhead for simple tasks than even the lightest of core-installations.

But you know the UI is optional in the recent server versions? Can all be done in console, for an added layer of security and less overhead. Way too late they included that, but still…

I didn’t mean to start a what’s-best-for-companies (as i really don’t care, i stopped working 30yrs ago and am doing server-stuff just for fun at home mostly), but just said that their server-OSs are tremendously better than their office-shit and their desktop-OSs. Since NT they surely matured a lot, also i’d argue that with 2019+ i fail to see the appeal anymore. Having said that, of my 15+ machines here, there are only 2 windows left and that is just for that decades-old-domain plus some essentials.

Not to defend MS’s bullcrap, but their server OS are much better than their fucking aweful office.

Starting with WinNT back in the days.

Sure. That stuff will stick. And because everyone forcefully tries to include it everywhere, you can’t even blame them for wanting a piece of the cake. Even sucksuckgo now has an “AI”.

I’d just wish for a simple opt-out outside of firewalling it hard.

Also, I was just hoping they’d follow their shitty, good, shitty, good principle in releases 😐

Yes. I can’t nail the reasons after that time though. I think it was mostly the stability for me, but wouldn’t swear on it 😁

I was there since the first dos and windows emerged. I was a MS-enthusiast. Kinda. I have all titles and certificates MS offers, just for fun. I know what I’m doing.

I hated 95, I hated vista, I hated win8…but 11? The only good thing is HDR and…err…yes. Everything else pisses me off so much. And wouldn’t it be due to aggressive anti-cheats I probably would’ve mained Linux and would just have the servers for the domain. I have 18 machines running and 15 are Linux already.

I don’t understand why they have to fuck up so badly. The horrible crappy “new” Startmenu alone gives me STDs. Would be even survivable if they gave me the option to not use it. I absolutely despise changes I have to gulp down without options.

Even the server versions…I loved winnt and everything up to 2019. Then that went downhill too.

Ah, who cares. Win12 will be decent again, win13 the absolute total nightmare garbage that makes you long for having win11 back and will probably be the end of microsoft’s consumer market. So stupid fucking apple can take over the last remaining sheeples.

I’d take a “my first Sony”-notebook over those crapbooks for the technologically challenged 😁

Nooooooo that’s totally unlikely. It’s probably just for our best!

Sure, I still have all physical media as a backup 😁 As for the NAS, I have a triple backup of it. I learned that the hard way a long time ago 😐

Actually I would just be FLACing my records for convenience, as I did with my whole (SA)CD/BR-Archive. And yes, I do like Bandcamp. It’s really nice to discover indie-artists noone knows (yet). If the bands do make decent money there, I dunno. Hence I said “maybe bandcamp”.

Who’s fault is it that there’s no fair systems one could use (except maybe bandcamp)? Not mine at least, I don’t use Spotify at all. I would not sell my music there if I would be an artist.

Non USA here, so no best buy. Got a google-tv now with basically nothing on it, heavy firewalling that device off and using only jellyfin. I hate it but…

Really sad. We could even save a good portion of bucks due to all the shit noone needs. I can only imagine the crap pre-installed on Samsung TVs or other of those horrible bloat-brands.

I’d actually prefer a dumb TV, we only use jellyfin anyway and that could be served by some raspy or similar. But they’re extinct it seems. At least modern ones with 4 or 8k.

I hate this dumbing down of everything.

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Yeah sure, i hear you. Though one could argue if having the (silly) opinion to scratch modern gendering off the agenda is actually “evil”. It’s stupid, but it’s just a political opinion one is allowed to have and share. And fully live out in one’s company. So, quitting here just because they’re narrow-minded and stupid would be a bit overkill. But just staying there until you find something better: Totally acceptable I’d say. I might’ve sound very harsh and black/white-ish, but i often talk in principles, not in simple 100%-always-appliable-rules-for-everybody.

And kudos that you do your protest in the means possible :)

Sounds exactly like the kind of evil to leave. Well done! “Gross” nearly fits. It’s disgusting. Preying on the weakest amongst us is plain disgusting.