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I understood more than half of that. I feel so smart.
I understood more than half of that. I feel so smart.
sure. you create a parental control firewall, and tell them they’re not allowed to see anything fun until they can get past it, and if they do, tipping off the programmeans youll look for countermeasures after a few days. here’s some good leads on the right white papers for a temporary fix. good luck!
no I’m saying weirdshit that made me fudge things in Linux. and I could. it was easy.
in windows my issues were all ‘this isn’t supposed to work, this isn’t allowed’ and I had to fight the system rather than finding the right config file and changing a couple lines.
so my windows problems were much simpler shit. things like getting the taskbar to to what I want, or getting windows to not explode on top edge of screen (literally a checkbox in KDE plasma)
that was the conclusion I came to, yeah.
oh yeah that could happen, but just to be sure…
set them up with something disposable (or at lewst that you can reinstall the OS on every couple weeks) that runs on an architecture other than x86 to avoid viruses; pi is perfect for this.
try cinnamon with mint on a ‘live USB’ so you can try before installing. and see if your ram is broken, or if windows is fucking you for cheaping out on the license.
its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.
…burned out?
lots of versions of windows limit the amount of memory they recognize.
me?
okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture
which… weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.
but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.
and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don’t love them, I don’t think.
so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which…
also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by ‘exotic’ I mean ‘I don’t know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong’.
also some issues in qubes, but that’s literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn’t both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.
a few issues with bare arch, which is the ‘do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system’ distro. don’t use arch if you don’t know what youre doing.
my laptop has better battery life on qubes than it did on windows.
you know ten years ago you might’ve had a point.
but windows is fucking unusable garbage now, and if theres a windows feature you can’t bear ti go without, your only option is hope somebody makes it on Linux, because its not sticking around on windows.
and never will
Dude have you been in a coma this past decade?
I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.
Not sure I’d buy one used tho.
Yeah only garbage people use anything else.
When every decision is made by people alienated from every material or functional concern by like ten layers of abstraction, all decisions smell of recent severe skull deforming head trauma.
Then why are they enshittifying so hard?
heroes. we should support them more.