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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Haven’t tested macos myself (and ain’t going to due to progressing hardware enshitification), but windows isn’t any better, in my experience.

    The only kinda benefit is that you often don’t need to install it and are likely accustomed to using it. But then come problems. First, you need to remove a metric ton of crap by both vendor and Microsoft, so much so it’s often easier to install a clean msdn image (which negates the benefit of windows being preinstalled). And if you happen to remove more unnecessary crap than expected by Microsoft, you also get weird and hard yo track issues.

    Then reliability… The last time I needed it, w10 bsoded (oh, yeah, the famous undifficult to repair “smth died, and we want tell you what exactly”; so much better than logs in Linux, am I right?) 5 mins after install from an original msdn image, and after reinstalling touchpad and trackpoint didn’t work properly, for example. So, that’s actually worse than any Linux distro I’ve tried so far. But idk, mb I’m just unlucky. Also, crowdstrike 🙃

    Then the usual way to install software on windows… Which sucks hard: heck, even Slackware is better in that regard, and it kinda says a lot.

    Soo, basically leaves us with “windows good 'cuz I know windows”.






  • Lobbyists later said that Apple would endorse repair programs at local colleges if the bill was dropped.

    Sure, first crapple designs a smartphone with 100500 different custom screws and a fair amount of concrete instead of glue (not even speaking about pairing parts), and then “endorse” teaching what can otherwise be performed by a monkey given the equipment (not necessary for lots of other phones, mind you) and manuals. Sb should require those politicians to know what they’re fucking speaking about before making moronic decisions.

    Although, I’m wondering why’d Google do shit like that given they don’t pair parts, and allow users to re-calibrate stuff like fingerprint sensors under the display, and allow firmware modification with no strings attached. Mb asking for schematics was too much for them?