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    From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 18 01:31:19 2024
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    $ uname -a
    Linux lm 6.11.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
    Thu Oct 17 14:53:09 PDT 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    ChangeLog:
    https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.11.4

    Building the kitchen-sink kernel took:
    real 390.04
    user 18175.87
    sys 3742.11

    ...using RAMdisk on a 64-thread AMD Threadripper.

    Find kernel source at https://kernel.org ... if you dare!

    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
    OS: Linux 6.11.4 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
    "E Pluribus UNIX."

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 18 03:18:28 2024
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    On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:58:45 -0700, % wrote:

    why don't i just buy a computer that does what i want

    A computer is a universal machine. It can do a thousand different things,
    with the right programming. Why limit yourself to a product that does only
    what the vendor wants it to do?

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to vallor on Fri Oct 18 04:04:36 2024
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    On 18 Oct 2024 01:31:19 GMT, vallor wrote:

    $ uname -a Linux lm 6.11.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct 17 14:53:09
    PDT 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    My Fedora 40 bix git 6.11.3 yesterday. I haven't rebooted in 30 days so
    I'm still at 6.10.9. One of these days I'll get around to it.

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  • From Nux Vomica@21:1/5 to vallor on Fri Oct 18 19:04:41 2024
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    On 18 Oct 2024 01:31:19 GMT, vallor wrote:


    Building the kitchen-sink kernel ...

    Find kernel source at https://kernel.org ... if you dare!


    Do "make menuconfig" ... if you dare!

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


    --
    Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Pancho on Fri Oct 18 19:37:31 2024
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    On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:25:02 +0100, Pancho wrote:

    Although to be fair, I spent yesterday at my Mum's and tried to scrap
    her old Windows 10 PC for a new windows 11 PC. I've never used a Windows
    11 PC. I lost the will to live, when the log on process demanded a PIN
    and a Microsoft account, no way could she understand that with her
    dementia.

    I don't know if they plugged the loophole but previously if it wasn't
    connected to the internet you could create a local user and go on with the install.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Sat Oct 19 02:13:28 2024
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    On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:44:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    I'm using Kubuntu 24.04 myself and it is a very polished distribution.
    If you hate Snap so much, enable Flatpak and move on. For my tastes,
    Snap is quite fine.

    I've got a few snaps but Brave and Firefox are the two I notice because of
    the warning to update. Others line Dbeaver or nmap that aren't always open quitely get updated.

    Oddly Brave is a flatpak on the Fedora machine but Firefox isn't.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Sat Oct 19 21:45:04 2024
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    On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 11:31:09 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I have nostalgia for the days when people spent money on developing
    better products, not on lockins and marketing.

    So long as the punters fall for the marketing, marketing will remain king.

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  • From Robert Riches@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Sun Oct 20 02:56:07 2024
    On 2024-10-19, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 19/10/2024 11:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    rbowman wrote:

    Pancho wrote:

    I spent yesterday at my Mum's and tried to scrap
    her old Windows 10 PC for a new windows 11 PC. I've never used a Windows >>>> 11 PC. I lost the will to live, when the log on process demanded a PIN >>>> and a Microsoft account, no way could she understand that with her
    dementia.

    I don't know if they plugged the loophole but previously if it wasn't
    connected to the internet you could create a local user and go on with
    the
    install.

    They make it harder and harder to avoid creating the MS account, there's
    still ways and means, but it's easier to install with a throwaway MS
    account, then create a local account, make sure you save the BitLocker
    encryption key which may get saved there, finally nuke the MS account
    from the machine.

    Its like owning an android phone. You seem to need a gmail account.

    Only if you want to install additional apps that aren't in the
    initial default set. The default set on a Schok Classic 4G flip
    phone includes a web browser, an app to take photos, and several
    other things. With a few/several steps to enable it, it even
    allows developer mode and USB debugging, so that adb can be used
    to retrieve the photos (but apparently not the content of text
    messages).

    I have nostalgia for the days when people spent money on developing
    better products, not on lockins and marketing.

    I'll second that. I also long for the days when development
    money was spent on making a product _WORK_ and not just on making
    it _SELL_. That's why I choose to use Linux. The only Microsoft
    product I'm aware of in my house is on the laptop that belongs to
    my employer.

    --
    Robert Riches
    spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
    (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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