Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world myedition8 @lemmy.world 5 mo. ago

Protect your PC

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Good to know VGA and parallel port devices are safe.
- Nah, they'll just sue you if you're using VGA instead of HDMI since it obviously means you are trying to crack DRM and thus running afoul of DMCA.
  
  Everyone loves listening to their favorite purchased movie while watching a black screen
- What about my Hercules graphics card?
  
  Sorry, it put on a poisoned shirt and had to jump into a fire.
I swear, it's no longer possible to distinguish satire from reality.
- It does sound like something they would do.
  
  Advise people on installing Linux? Yes.
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
  
  They'd name it Microsoft Windows Deprecation Maker 2024 Enterprise 11 though.
  
  Not really.
  Microsoft won't explain further after "we end support".
  
  They are now the "Something went wrong" people.
- If you have a hard time telling this is satire, you might just be a bit dim.
It really feels like no matter what community you look at on Lemmy, every 3rd post is Windows bad Linux good. It's honestly a bit exhausting. And I've been running Linux for over a decade...
- For real lol makes me feel a little alienated. I just want to play games on my computer
  
  Sadly, you should feel alienated. When you choose to use proprietary software, you further the injustice that it creates over society. Windows is so shamefully harmful, even outside of just being proprietary that choosing it in 2024 is choosing the side of unjust power, and you should be rightfully alienated for making that decision.
- Ok but this one is funi
- This is how the Internet was back in the 90s
And it’s your fault if it happens to you, because we sent you EMAILS telling you it was going to happen!
Lol, SCSI
- You've got to give Microsoft credit for their dedication to backwards compatibility.
  
  but my DVI monitor doesn't get the love SCSI does 😔 what a society we live in....
- That's a term I haven't heard in a very, very long time. I keep one in a drawer with my Sound Blaster PCMCIA card.
  
  I work at a MSP, and we support a variety of customers, some with quite old hardware. I still on occasion have to assist in replacing 1.8TB SCSI 7200RPM drives in a RAID array. Finding compatible drives gets harder every time.
I'm glad this wasn't posted like 3 weeks ago when my laptop battery died on me. otherwise I woulda thought this was legit happening
Never mind that, Windows 10 did an update a couple of days ago, and now my dual boot screen has gone. I literally can't start my Linux Mint anymore, it boots straight to Windows :(

There is a way to get it back with the command line, but my computer nerd days are over.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/911963/dual-boot-with-windows-10-broken-after-update

I'm assuming that command needs to be edited to whatever my setup is, I have no idea.
- Windows might have changed the boot order in your bios, so just go into your bios and check if the mint partition is set to boot first
  
  Yeah with EFI the days of Windows completely overwriting your Linux bootloader are mostly over.
  
  I have no idea how to do this, but I'll keep looking for a tutorial. Luckily I only use my Linux for storing my music. I wish I could have got my art software to work on Linux, they just don't seem to want to cooperate. My WiFi adaptor also only wants to work about half the time, too.
- This is what can happen dual booting from the same drive. If the windows bootloader updates it can override grub.
  
  Usually you can still boot to the Linux partition from the efi menu manually. Then you can find dozens of guides to reinstall grub to fix this.
  
  But it's likely to keep happening. Best dual boot setup is to have a second drive dedicated to non windows.
  
  My Linux is on a separate hard drive.
Is that actually possible? I don't know how much privilege an operating system has. I would think if would need to go deeper
- i mean an os could definitely overvolt the gpu, that's how users do it
  
  Pretty sure the gpu BIOS is limited by default, nothing the OS can do about that.
  
  Same for other parts like the cpu - core voltage is determined by the motherboard.
  
  I doubt the os can just go “2V vcore” and blow up hardware.
  
  Ok that makes sense
Fedora 40 is also a nice intro distro, can attest to that
- Haven't given Linux a proper chance on my desktop on a few years, till windows 11 finally became too frustrating. Aside from a very short headache with my nvidia drivers, fedora has been absolutely flawless and much less of a pain in my aSs than windows..
What client is that?
- It's Moshidon
  
  oh, great. Thanks!
- Megalodon for mastodon
  
  Thanks!
I swear to God, if one more post on this goddamn site tells me to switch to Linux...

^... maybe I'll just switch ...
How do you downvote a post in Lemmy?
- Your instance doesn't support down voting.
- Our accounts are on lemmy.blahaj.zone, which doesn't support downvoting. We can't downvote or be downvoted. I know other instances do this as well.
  
  You can definitely be downvoted... @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone's comment is showing -3 points as of this writing.

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