Should've switched to a selfhosted solution earlier, damn.
As someone who routinely installs new Laptops for various reasons:
Installing
- Preinstalled Windows is unusable, due to preinstalled spyware
- No torrents
- No multiple versions
- No real support for actually chaning the locale, what you download is what you get. Even if that means redownloading 5 GB for every language, even though the interesting parts are just a few language files, which every OS can also replace while running (Note: OSes, not spyware with a program loader strapped to it)
- No live version
- Unnecessarily complex/long installation (Locale settings being required two times, circumventing the M$ account with cmd, denying all spying stuff)
- Installer does not have drivers for many things eg. some Touchpads, special storage setups etc.
- Installing takes a long time overall
- Removing bloat, with varying success (sometimes uninstalling Edge is one click, sometimes it requires powershell hacks) takes ages (my hand always hurts afterwards because removing one thing takes three clicks at different locations)
- Installing stuff is extremely annoying, inconsistent and insecure (VLCPlus ...)
- Everyone loves hunting down 10 different obscure drivers from various websites, each with unique installers, right?
- Windows fucks itself up within a few days with a non-insignificant chance ... eg. by entering S-Mode (halfway) somehow
Usage
- It may be in part due to me being used to a tiling WM with dozens of workspaces, but even with KDE I have much better workflow - somehow, Windows' way to multitask is really strange to me, and I can only use it like a 70 year old with only 10% sight in one eye and 0% in the other: very slow and inefficiently
- You can't integrate anything with anything, except if you have dozens of accounts of services, some even with costs, and only use everything exactly like daddy manufacturer wants you to
- Literally no support. Windows fucks itself up in so many ways, and the only "reliable" fix is a reinstall
- Even with the dumbed down nature of Windows, users are morons. I'd rather teach my grandparents (including my very loud grandfather and said nearly-blind grandmother) Linux from scratch (yes, also LFS) than teach them the "correct way" to use Windows
- Even when knowing how to use Windows properly, with all tricks applied, it's less powerful than a pregnancy test running BASIC
- Paying 250+$ to get served ads to pay even more, money and data, is obviously stupid
operating system
You misspelled "spyware with a program loader strapped to it".
You misspelled KeePass
I wish everything would just default to a unix socket in /run, with only nginx managing http and stream reverse sockets.
'Yes boss, I need 16-Bit, 32-Bit and 64-Bit Arm and x86_64 ASM as well as MySQL, SQLite, Postgres, Firebird, Mongo and all other stuff too, so I need a lot of computers ... of course all with Threadripper PRO 7995WX's.
So I can just return the phone after 4 years, and get a new one, to have updates for more than 2 years? Nice! Or they could open up the Bootloader again, like my Moto Edge 20 has.
Netcat is basically just a utility to listen on a socket, or connect to one, and send or receive arbitrary data. And as, in Linux, everything is a file, which means you can handle every part of your system (eg. block devices [physical or virtual disks]) like a normal file, i.e. text, you can just transfer a block device (e.g. /dev/sda3) over raw sockets.
Nah, it's probably more efficient to .tar.xz it and use netcat.
On a more serious note, I use sftp for everything, and git for actual big (but still personal) projects, but then move files and execute scripts manually.
And also, I cloned my old Laptops /dev/sda3 to my new Laptops /dev/main/root (on /dev/mapper/cryptlvm) via netcat over a Gigabit connection with netcat. It worked flawlessly. I love Linux and its Philosophy.
In the modern world it's completely subjective.
The lowest-level language is probably ASM/machine code, as many people at least edit that regularly, and the highest-level would be LLMs. They are the shittiest way to program, yes, but technically you just enter instructions and the LLM outputs eg. Python, which is then compiled to bytecode and run. Similar to how eg. Java works. And that's the subjective part; many people (me included) don't use LLMs as the only way to program, or only use them for convenience and some help, therefore the highest level language is probably either some drag-and-drop UI stuff (like scratch), or Python/JS. And the lowest level is either C/C++ (because "no one uses ASM anyway"), or straight up machine code.
Then, he inserted a trojan in multiple steps until he gained RCE as root.
manually FTPing the files up to the server seems ridiculously antiquated
But ... but I do that, and I'm only 18 :(
SteamOS? Hannah Montana Linux?? AmogOS???
Interpretierte Instruktionen falsch, Kind steckt in Toaster fest!
Zu 95% Bilder nackter/halbnackter Jugendlicher, vor allem. Die sie selber anfertigen und verbreiten. Und nicht nur an ihren Partnerin, sondern auch in entsprechenden Foren im Dunkelnetz.
I exclusively use Piped, and never have any problems. No ads, no bullshit, sponsorblock and DeArrow.
I did not want to suggest those features should be forced into the Android version, the normie user wouldn't like that anyway, but those are the exact cases where an actual desktop browser, via Termux, is useful.
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