• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    Time to start a nonprofit that cleans up old machines and installs Linux on them for deserving poor folks.

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      11 months ago

      That’s what I’m talking about. I just picked up a dell optiplex micro for about $100 on ebay.

      Can’t wait to see what the corps dump onto the market post-win11 apocalypse!

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      11 months ago

      Time to make cheap Linux servers out of Windows 10 unknowledgeable seller’s hardware

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        11 months ago

        Why am I just learning about this $80 thin system right now?

        My current server runs around 80 watts idle,but it’s also my gaming pc. I’d love to replace it with something dedicated that can handle direct streaming 4k with the occasional transcode around the house, at less wattage.

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        11 months ago

        Why not a N100 though? Faster, lower TDP, and it’s built in graphics supports hardware AV1 decoding (J5005 doesn’t).

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            Yea, that’s what I’m seeing. $200 for an N100 based machine , $80 for a j5005. CAD with shipping.

            N100 is technically superior, but my use case is the *arr suite with plex, NAS attached so the j5005 will likely suit no problem.

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    11 months ago

    TLDR;

    Microsoft has already announced it will offer extended security updates for Windows 10 to 2028.

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      ESU is a paid service for enterprise. They didn’t even offer ESU for windows 7 home.

      Windows 7 pro ESU per device cost $50 for 1 year, $100 for the next year, $200 for the final year.

      Windows 7 enterprise was per device 1 year $25, second year $50, and 3rd year $100.

      Micro$oft is not going to give win10 ESU away for free and they probably won’t supported home edition.

      You can however bypass the win11 hardware checks to upgrade unsupported devices.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, or just windows 10 even. My custom build still smokes most mid and entry level off the shelf pcs but is ineligible for win11 BS requirements. As a result, my start button is still way over on the left side! What in the hell is the alure of 11 that people feel the need to toss their system? I don’t see it.

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        11 months ago

        I’m not gonna tell them to install Arch from scratch. I’d wipe-install Pop for 10$ because it’s literally just clicking “next” a couple of time while watching TV.

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          Installing Lime and Untabu is easy as hell. The issue is games. I cannot with good confidence intall it on my kid’s laptop and think it won’t break to play what he wants to play. We are divorced. It happens. But devs for Pete’s sake, make games work on every OS. It’s not your choice what we need for our PC needs.

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            11 months ago

            I used to feel that way too, but after trying games on Linux again recently (got a steam deck) I have yet to find a single game that doesn’t work on Linux at this point. I’m not even exaggerating, literally every game I’ve tried works without issue, even if it’s “Windows only”.

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              11 months ago

              I have yet to get Fortnite and Fall guys to work. I know there is a steam deck work around. But getting them to work has not ended in a success yet.

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      10 months ago

      Oh man. What a headache. I’m a seasoned Linux user but I couldn’t get my Nvidia GPU working on my Linux machine.

      I had to switch back to Windows to be productive

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      I used to have a positive attitude to Linux and even used Tails but you Linux bros are so annoying I really dislike the OS

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        11 months ago

        That’s a very weird sentence. I don’t like X because X enthusiast are so annoying.

        It’s like saying “I used to have a positive attitude to pasta and even cooked rigatoni but you Italians are so annoying I really dislike the pasta.”

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    11 months ago

    Send Windows 11 and their stupid trusted computing initiative to the landfill instead.

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    11 months ago

    Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills

    Researchers warn Microsoft that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to run Linux. FTFY

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        I know that unfortunately it’s not going to happen.

        I also know that there are numerous NGOS and less fortunate people who could really take advantage of using a pc and use it for a good cause or just enjoy it.

        I also realise that there is a great number of students, even in the developed world, who could use a laptop for school and fun as well by running Linux.

        instead of throwing the hardware away it could be repurposed.

        Also i could use a couple of new old pcs to build a NAS for local cloud and jellyfish as well as a Batocera based emulation console for my living room.

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          They could be, and probably should be repurposed

          But also, brand new chrome books are ~$80

          By the time you collect, clean, repair, and reimage the older computers, it may well be cheaper to just buy Chromebooks.

          I hate seeing anything useful going to the trash but the economics aren’t great in this case

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        11 months ago

        And from a consumer standpoint, practically no one outside of our nerdsphere is going to switch to Linux out of spite. It’s much more likely that anyone with a sour attitude on Microsoft because of this will replace their computer with a Mac instead.

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    11 months ago

    It was said in the previous thread that the TPM and Microsoft account requirements can be overridden with Rufus, so anyone can update to Win 11.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, but Windows 11 is a pain in the ass. My Internet was lagging the other day so my start menu wouldn’t find a locally installed program because it couldn’t search the Internet too.

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      11 months ago

      But will microsoft attempt to block bypassing those horrible requirements or they cannot do so as its a registry hack.

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      11 months ago

      I think most people would rather throw away their computer than learn to click a different icon.

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    11 months ago

    How dangerous can it be to run an old OS anyways? Been doing it for years. Might actually be a good thing now that the forced updates are gone.

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      Hmmm… I guess it’ll be a new thing, you know, new problems for old tech… Maybe some of the guys from ReactOS will find some old canonical guys to work with and build a new alternative to windows 7 for all the old computers out there. As for how they’ll make money it’ll probably be great for keeping all the old OEM’s and engineering software companies by keeping their old product lines somewhat relevant

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      Sometimes very dangerous, as an example a company may pay for security updates for windows XP, but you won’t get these updates. Say someone takes a look at what changed, finds a buffer overflow or other easily exploited bug, embeds that in a program, and pays to have it bundled with some freeware. One of these exploits could even infect you just from visiting a webpage.

      Security updates are annoying but they’re the one kind of update Microsoft is actually justified in pushing