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CarbonatedPastaSauce

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CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

They sell your data.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I just don’t believe them. And even if it works as described, they’ll change the terms quietly to screw you as soon as they need the next quarters line to go up. I’m tired of watching their every move to protect myself.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Been using it as my daily driver for a couple months now. And even though my day job involves Microsoft servers and enterprise applications, I’ve become an anti Microsoft advocate when it comes to consumer OS stuff.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

It would be pretty trivial to write a 1 line ‘script’ that deletes everything in the directory older than X hours.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I did not expect to see Lowly the worm on Lemmy today. Nice.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Oh shit. Sorry for my inadvertent wormism. I haven’t seen the guy in like 40 years!

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Obligatory "I was a Windows user for decades until a couple months ago but Microsoft's enshittification drove me to Linux and I have no regrets" post.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

https://www.linuxmint.com/ is an excellent place to start. If you have bleeding edge hardware there are better options though, as Linux Mint prioritizes stability over newer packages and drivers. Not a bad thing, just not the OS if your hardware is so new it needs a very new set of packages or kernel to work properly.

I eventually landed on https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ which has been very good to me over the last couple months.

There are instructions on the sites for how to use Linux from a USB drive, so you don't even have to install them or overwrite your current OS to give them a whirl.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Nice. One of the only things I really miss about Windows. I hope somebody makes a linux port.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company's return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Where I work they are so fucking stupid they are making everyone go back to the office to 'foster collaboration' but all the seating is random - you sit somewhere new every day, first come first served. What useful tasks am I going to collaborate on with random people from all different parts of the company sitting around me each day? It shows that the executives are just fucking liars and aren't willing to tell the truth, which is that they need people spending money in the cities to help with their portfolios. Or they are just doing what everyone else is doing. Or they're just on a power trip. Or all of the above.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Ahahahaha, the executives don't have to come in to the office.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Mine told everybody "if you have a local office and want to go there fine, otherwise you're laid off. Also we're closing a bunch of offices so if you don't live near one anymore you have to move at your own expense. Otherwise you're laid off. Also no job guarantee even if you do move, we might lay you off the next day. Hey why is morale in the toilet?"

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t be using any Google products.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Radarr and Sonarr. Look them up and stop giving Amazon money.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Is it? Well let me go hang my head in shame while I read news every. single. day. of the scummy illegal shit the corpos are getting away with.

Amazon can die in a fire for all I care.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

If you don't have your browser set to delete all cookies you haven't made exceptions for, every time you close it, I don't know what to tell you. Except... "you should do that".

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Privacy. By using containers and deleting cookies frequently, you can minimize the amount of tracking and data collecting these scum sucking corpos are doing.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

You add an exception to your browser to not delete them for that domain, if you need the cookie for the website to function.

That way your sites keep working, and everyone else putting shit in your browser gets their stuff deleted.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

That's not been my experience. I've been using DDG for years, and when I first switched I would occasionally have to go find something on Google instead. That slowly fell off as the years went by because going to Google and getting better search results became rarer and rarer. It's to the point now where I don't even do it, unless I need to look at something on street view.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

This confusion is Microsoft's fault because they're being incredibly vague about the whole thing. Of course people are going to freak out when the only thing they have to go on is "Windows devices might face VPN connection failures" which is less than useless information. They might as well have said "Between 0 and 100 percent of your remote users may suddenly be unable to work for reasons we can't or won't tell you"

Which protocols are affected? In what circumstances? Is this specific to certain software or hardware? WHAT DID YOU FIND? TALK TO US. etc etc

But Microsoft's documentation has been in a death spiral for a decade now and it's just going to keep getting worse. We bitch at our account manager regularly about all the problems we find with it.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I don't disagree with anything you've said. But I know Microsoft can do better, because they used to before they gutted their documentation team. That's only one symptom I've seen of their recent decline though.

Lately I've had support engineers answering support cases with stuff they clearly got from Copilot or ChatGPT because they do things like giving me PowerShell cmdlets to run with parameters that don't even exist and never have. I even recently had one engineer argue with me and tell me I didn't run the command correctly when I pointed out to him that he gave me incorrect syntax, parameters that don't exist, so I had fixed it and ran what was really needed to get the data he was after. I got the case reassigned to an engineer who didn't have his head up his ass. But it's not a great sign.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

It's not difficult. Corporations won't put up with this shit and MS knows it, so there are (almost) always documented registry entries or GPO policies you can set to disable this crap.

But you shouldn't fucking have to. Which is why I'm now on Tumbleweed instead of Windows for my daily driver.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

They could try but anything over a medium size business likely has a specific contract with Microsoft and they probably have language preventing this kind of thing. I know my company does. And there would be a ton of pushback from any security org that knows what they are doing, since ads are a common vector for security incidents.

Microsoft is already getting their money from the corpos, it's the 'freeloading' public they are trying to squeeze revenue from.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

If you saw an enterprise licensing agreement you'd know just how true this is. We pay for this shit over and over and over.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I think you'll like it! I sure do. Been on it about a month now, maybe 5 weeks. No complaints.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

That sounds awesome.

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    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Have the admins of lemmy.world ever given a reason for this decision?

    I would very much like to see Meta kneecapped in the Fediverse. They are a blight on the world that needs to be dealt with.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Yikes! That's not great, if true, but it seems like no evidence was provided.

    I wouldn't want to be in the business of refuting baseless allegations hurled at me either, so I don't regard their silence as incriminating.

    At the same time, where there's smoke there's usually fire so I'll be paying more attention now. I would hate to have to leave the instance after all the time I've spent here, but if any evidence pops up showing that lemmy.world wants to play nice with Meta then that's what I'll have to do.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Thanks for posting that. I think I even read through it when it was posted as it seems awfully familiar. I was wondering if the issue had been more recently revisited though.

    It does kinda bother me that lemmy.world admins don't just flat out say "screw Meta", but it's their choice.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    That's where we differ. My feelings aren't affected by what impact it has on them, hurtful, helpful, or neutral. I just don't want them around because they ruin everything they touch. Why give them a chance here? You don't have to wait for a problem to appear before you start working to prevent it.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Are you me? This is exactly why I switched to Linux recently. Got tired of protecting myself from my ‘vendor’.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    And we’re saying “You shouldn’t fucking have to.”

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    I also recently switched to Linux on my main PC which is also my gaming PC. I tried Mint first but had too many hardware issues, mostly related to motherboard audio chip. Manjaro was next and it resolved my hardware issues but I didn’t like the package manager. Third was openSUSE Tumbleweed and that one stuck. Been using it for several weeks now and I love it.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    This is troubling. I've been using ASUS motherboards for a very long time. I haven't noticed any problems in the last 3 systems I built, but I also usually go for the workstation type motherboards instead of gaming motherboards, so I can use ECC RAM and dispense with the LED bling I don't need or want. I wonder if they are still putting enough effort into the business/workstation stuff that it's not having too many quality issues yet. I hope they can turn this around, because the list of quality PC parts manufacturers is growing smaller all the time.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Worked on me. I left Win10 behind for linux a couple months ago. I installed Win11 in dual boot with an eval license but I just don't use it anymore. I'll probably just nuke it when the eval expires.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Reading between the lines here, does that mean you HAVE tried barbed wire hot sauce dildos?

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    It's bursty; I tend to do a lot of work on stuff when I do a hardware upgrade, but otherwise it's set it and forget it for the most part. The only servers I pay any significant attention to in terms of frequent maintenance and security checks are the MTAs in the DMZ for my email. Nothing else is exposed to the internet for inbound traffic except a game server VM that's segregated (credential-wise and network-wise) from everything else, so if it does get compromised it would be a very minimal danger to the rest of my network. Everything either has automated updates, or for servers I want more control over I manually update them when the mood strikes me or a big vulnerability that affects my software hits the news.

    TL;DR If you averaged it over a year, I maybe spend 30-60 minutes a week on self hosting maintenance tasks for 4 physical servers and about 20 VM's.

    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....

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    I used to post comments like this on Reddit. I’m an expert in PowerShell, group policy, and Windows enterprise management in general. Point being I know how to do all that stuff. Over 99% of Windows users do not. But I completely decrapified my Win10 install and was mostly happy with it.

    When it was time to go to Win11 I realized all this effort is just Stockholm Syndrome. I shouldn’t have to protect myself from the maker of my OS. And it’s clearly getting worse so why put in the continual effort?

    Moved to Tumbleweed a month ago on my main home PC. Microsoft is just my day job again, and I feel so much relief not having to be on guard for whatever shady shit they pull next.

    Edit: to be clear I’m not critical of your post. It’s nice to educate those that want to protect themselves. I’ve just come to realize there’s a better way for me.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Dude he said “introduced”, not forced to learn it well enough to duel Torvalds on the mailing lists.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Make sure you disable fast boot in Windows. I’ve read that can put devices into a state where Linux can’t use them.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    I write automation code for devops stuff. I’ve tried to use ChatGPT several times for code, and it has never produced anything of even mild complexity that would work without modification. It loves to hallucinate functions, methods, and parameters that don’t exist.

    It’s very good for helping point you in the right direction, especially for people just learning. But at the level it’s at now (and all the articles saying we’re already seeing diminishing returns with LLMs) it won’t be replacing any but the worst coders out there any time soon.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Tumbleweed, btw.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    I looked it up. Commission on Dietetic Registration. Or possibly Colorado Department of Revenue. Or Chadron Municipal Airport (airport designation CDR) in Chadron, Nebraska.

    Definitely one of those.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    It would have taken so much less effort to just not make this. lol

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    looks over at usenet-only arr stack

    "Ok, whatever."

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    Depends on your country’s laws, but where I live you get busted for PROVIDING copyrighted material for download - not for downloading it. Unlike a torrent, you aren’t sharing with anyone else.

    Couple years ago when I first set up Radarr, I found the same shit was on Usenet as the private trackers I was on, so I just stopped torrenting.

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    shrug that’s their problem not mine

    CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

    We have an absolute shitton of fresh water on the planet. It’s just being horribly mismanaged most of the time.

    Once the AI gets rid of the pesky humans using it frivolously to do stupid things like “drink” or “bathe”, there will be plenty to go around.

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