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CaptKoala

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CaptKoala ,

Stop giving them ideas.

CaptKoala ,

TIL, I use GOS and never thought to look, I just see a banner saying there's been updates and I've got "update and restart now", "schedule restart" and "I'll restart myself when ready" (or some such).

CaptKoala ,

I will give that a read. I have been unintentionally using this feature, anytime I expect I won't use the GOS pixel for a bit I restart it, I've also found it disables biometrics as a security measure. Cool stuff.

CaptKoala ,

Thank you for your in depth explanation, hope your comments help many others on top of myself.

CaptKoala ,

China seems to disagree.

CaptKoala ,

Lucky I already upgraded OS to not include any Micro$hit.

CaptKoala ,

I'm picturing in my mind, that they'll add an overlay that takes up your whole screen on login after October '25 that'll just say "Upgrade to Windows 11 now!" That you can't close.

CaptKoala ,

Can confirm, had a friend rent a room in a house I was staying in (privately rented from the owner) after months of issues, he was given a glowing referee from myself and the owner, and swiftly ejected from the house. Guarantee it got him out the door a shitload quicker.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

CaptKoala ,

Yep, assuming this new service lasts that long. Could be a year or less.

CaptKoala ,

I fuck up on the regular, should I be concerned about my karma scores in regards to exclaiming "ah, fuck" or classics such as "good job fuckknuckle"?

CaptKoala ,

Actually for those of us in the southern hemisphere it's more like twice a year, we see it when northern hemispherians post, and also post it ourselves 😂

CaptKoala ,

I hadn't considered (on more than a surface level) this viewpoint, I do agree wholeheartedly regarding getting your money's worth doesn't necessarily come down to ownership, but rather enjoyment/fulfillment.

I held a micro$hit game pass subscription for quite a while, and (almost) always felt I was getting my money's worth out of it, if not for game pass, there's quite a few games I'd never have considered buying, some of these have been the most enjoyable I have played.

With that said however, I much prefer not having to worry about a game in my library disappearing because a license ran out, or it was dropped from a service. I spend about 80% of my gaming budget on discounted stuff, usually a couple years after release, when most of the bugs are ironed out.

CaptKoala ,

This, I switched from win10 to Mint, the only issues I had with the transition were self-inflicted, or stemmed from me approaching it with a windows mindset rather than the mindset of learning a new OS.

I've settled in quite well now, and actively cringe when I'm forced to boot into my windows install for some reason or another.

I've been distro-hopping with my orangepi, however I can only do so much hopping on arm, I'm considering adding yet another drive to my rig with which to try out some other distros and see if I can find a better fit than (the already great fit) Linux Mint.

I would consider myself an intermediate-advanced user (not quite power user), do you think trying Arch is a good idea at this stage?

CaptKoala ,

I wasn't aware Arch had builds available for arm, I will certainly give it a look-see.

Unfortunately the Orangepi 5 is somewhat shitty to hop around with, many builds either don't support the RK3588 at all, or certain things just don't work at all on most (I'm looking at you GPU acceleration).

On top of this, the SPI flash can be quite a pain to work with, due to orangepi doing the bare minimum to ship the product, I would really love to see dual-boot in future for it, though my expectations have been seriously tempered when it comes to orangepi.

The result of this, is that any distro I installed to the SSD removed boot priority from the SD slot, ergo, without formatting/overwriting the SPI flash, it will refuse to boot from SD, even with no SSD present. Some builds boot fine from having been directly flashed to the SSD, so far Batocera, Ubuntu and the J-Reik Rockchip Ubuntu have all booted flawlessly when directly flashed to the SSD, no luck with most others though.

I must admit though, that RK3588 is blazingly fast for how little power it draws. The hardware is top notch, I just wish the software weren't lagging so far behind. If I remember rightly the incoming kernel should resolve many of these issues, I believe it's still running 5.10 currently.

Apologies for the rant, during my writing of this reply I came across a repo on GitHub that someone's been building for the Orangepi, I'll give it a shot and hope for the best I guess! Seems to have rkbootloader paired with it, which might help dodge the bullet that the SPI flash can feel like at times.

CaptKoala ,

I do actually have an RPi4, it's on full-time Kodi duty at present. I'll have to pick up a few more SD cards to load up and mess with.

I bought the Orangepi first funnily enough, because it was the peak of the RPi shortage and I didn't want to spend blood money on an aging SBC, I did pick the RPi up the moment stock was available though, no regrets, it's been rock solid since first boot, and even easier to work with than the community attests to.

I love that little fucker to bits, I just wish it had the power of the Pi 5 (orange OR raspberry), as it drops a fair few frames during 4k directplay, 1080/1440p runs butter smooth though.

It's a shame really, I'd be first in line to buy the Orangepi Neo (their incoming 7840U handheld) were it not for the piss poor experience I've had with the Pi. Now I'm firmly planted in the "wait and see, but probably not" camp.

CaptKoala ,

It's a ballache through and through. I am (cautiously) optimistic for the Orangepi 5's future, Raxda and several others have release RK3588 powered SBCs, my hope is that through some level of market saturation and community development to prevail.

CaptKoala ,

I'm actually attempting to convert my windows install into a VM these past few days, it's most of the way there now, just need to get the VM to actually boot from that drive.

It was my original intent upon switching to Linux that I would VM my windows, however only in the last few days of trying (read: failing) to get mods for a few games working under proton, that I've really upped my effort.

If there are any resources you recommend, I'm all ears.

CaptKoala ,

I'm not sure this will help, though I'll suggest anyway that you poke around looking for (I hope I got this right) "rkdevtool", I believe you can get it from somewhere in the Orangepi tools, I found it while looking into putting orangepi os (droid) onto it.

Do let me know how you go, I have a copy if you can't find it that I'm happy to share. I haven't yet tried it so I can't speak to whether or not it works.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

CaptKoala ,

Yet another bullet dodged since my move to Linux, thank fuck. Fuck you cunts at Micro$hit.

CaptKoala ,

Welcome to the good life, with the exception of VR and (rootkit) anticheat for multiplayer, it's all smiles over here.

Hope Mint treats you as well as it's treated me!
(Even though most of my tinkering breaks stuff, reinstall incoming I suspect)

CaptKoala ,

Meirl

CaptKoala ,

Wouldn't be if they weren't constantly trying to load hardware I own with unwanted ads, software and unnecessary shit nobody asked for.

CaptKoala ,

You accept must the frog?

CaptKoala ,

Second this. I stumbled across this thread, and the arguments are solid, could absolutely bring greater benefit to the community as its own post in my opinion.

CaptKoala ,

I exceed the average human at idiocy.

CaptKoala ,

I wish I didn't feel somewhat similar, yet here I am...

CaptKoala ,

One of many reasons I wish it snows more here in Oz.

CaptKoala ,

Eskate is such a fun way to get around, pretty dangerous though.

CaptKoala ,

But if I stop breathing in my sleep I don't have to wake up

CaptKoala ,

TIL, I may do a sleep study in the near future, I sleep like shit these days (injury + sleep disorder, may also be apnea).

CaptKoala ,

Second this, works a treat.

CaptKoala ,

Yet another reason I'm glad I already did.

I've booted into windows twice total since I switched last year. And as such my hardware has remained untainted by W11.

CaptKoala ,

That's an interesting way of saying it gives a million hugs all at once.

CaptKoala ,

Kirby would just inhale him tbh

CaptKoala ,

I did the same many months ago, though I suspect I may need to redo as I've been getting some really long notification piles when I don't check my phone for a day...

CaptKoala ,

What do the Lemmings recommend as a replacement for discord?

I'm happy to revert back to teamspeak if need be, I heard it's app recently got an overhaul (or at the very least a facelift).

I'm disgusted (though not shocked, I fucking called it years ago), that discord would go down this rabbit hole being that their main demographic is gamers. The stats are in, gamers (among every other living being) hates ads.

In fact, I pay for YT music because I think it's good value, but ive never once had YT premium, and I haven't seen an ad on their site for close to a decade now. (Still no pihole, that's likely next).

To circle back, if possible Lemmings, I would like to find a discord replacement that my folks would be willing to install/try out. I've got a couple people who have said "hey man, find a better spot and we'll tag along", however I have yet to find a suitable replacement on my own time.

CaptKoala ,

Appreciate the response, I'll give matrix and elements a look-see.

Unfortunately I'm the only among the group that interacts with(or even knows of) the fediverse and it's associated softwares, so I expect there to be some drama involved, hopefully I can be the salesman they need.

CaptKoala ,

Maybe if everything wasn't designed to be unrepairable and fragile as fuck this wouldn't be an issue.

CaptKoala ,

This sign won't stop me because I can't read!

CaptKoala ,

My thoughts also. Break. Them. Up.

CaptKoala ,

I also want the DOJ to peg Apple.

CaptKoala ,

Ubuntu on an orangepi 5 when it released, now Linux Mint dual-booted to windows (haven't booted into windows for ages now) on my main rig.
I'll figure out making VR work at some point I hope, it's all I really use windows for now.

CaptKoala ,

All 35 seconds magnificent missionary.

E: that includes undress/redress.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

CaptKoala ,

Nearing 6mo since I booted into my windows drive (been a daily user since 98)

CaptKoala ,

Gustave knows what Gustave wants

CaptKoala ,

I want "traffic laws enforced by sniper".

CaptKoala ,

Our bike

CaptKoala ,

At the rate we're going it won't be that long I reckon.

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