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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • I hooked her up with a local computer repair guy that will do house calls and knows Linux because I live very far away.

    ...is vastly different than what first post suggested, and literally ignored the major point of my original post which was that most people simply don't have the time to figure it out and most also don't have a Linux-repair-guy on hand. Talk about shifting goalposts here.

    Of course people have issues on Windows, that's why they're always bitching about it. You don't think someone who likes to bitch wouldn't bitch to their Linux-repair-guy when they had Linux issues?

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  • Those who do their own troubleshooting will learn no problem.

    That stance I can agree with, but I fundamentally do not agree that Linux is appropriate for the kind of people who don't do their own troubleshooting. Because my point is that is specialized knowledge that not everyone has the time to give to, which is why a lot of people don't troubleshoot their own shit, because they have spent their skill points elsewhere.

    Trust me I have met lawyers and doctors who are fucking mystified by computers and don't even want to get into learning the troubleshooting. That's what they have IT departments for. Similarly, changing a tire might just be too much trouble for them and that's why they pay other people to do it.

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  • I literally use Linux in my daily life non-stop. My desktop is free from Windows and I run numerous servers for various services and microservices.

    I just fundamentally disagree with the hivemind that Linux desktop of any flavor is ready for casual user prime-time. Even if they don't have technical issues with now that doesn't mean they won't have technical issues with it ever. In my personal experience, I have only ever had successful long-term rollouts of non-gui cli-only servers. I have always had issues of some sort crop up with desktop Linux eventually.

    Further, depending on the DE, getting things set up properly for someone who has, say, vision issues so everything is easily visible for them can often be a fucking nightmare of numerous different config files for different parts of the GUI. Linux accessibility options are notoriously bad.

    If you want to pretend Linux is a perfect solution for grandmas, go ahead, but as someone who is a Linux heavy user who doesn't even use Windows anymore and hasn't in a while I think that this attitude from Linux evangelists is deeply rooted in a rose tinted view of the OS and it's user friendliness. And yes I use the term evangelist for a fucking reason, and that is because you people are as fucking pushy about your ideology as evangelical Christians.

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  • They literally pointed out that a lot of the people saying this kind of stuff may genuinely be unskilled when it comes to computers in general.

    Why is it "trying nothing" when the other option to get up to speed enough to use Linux is to basically be taking some college-level courses on the side of their every day life just to be able to use their device appropriately?

    For people who aren't tech savvy at all, "Ain't nobody got the time for that!" is a completely fucking reasonable response to being told they need to go learn a bunch of shit about some subject they could give a rats ass about.

    It's like telling someone who has a law degree and works 50 hours a week at a law firm that if they want more control over their car they need to take some courses on automotive repair so they don't have to deal with an annoying repair shop. As above, ain't nobody got the time for that!

    Literally every Linux nerd seems to forget that this is specialized knowledge that not everyone has dumped skill points into.

  • Say your partner is gone for around a week, and you're home alone. What are you going to do that you wouldn't normally with someone around?

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  • Phone Purgatory

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  • The reality is that security/privacy will always be a balancing act with convenience.

    If you increase your security and privacy, you will lose convenience.

    If you increase your convenience, you will lose security and privacy.

    It's always a tradeoff.

    It's up to you what things you're willing to trade off, in the end. Everyone can give valuable input, but it will always be up to you to make the final decision on what level of tradeoff you're willing to accept and what level fits your threat model.

    For total security and privacy you would basically have to not use electronics at all and live in a cabin in the woods and have a good grasp of chemistry, scavenging and farming to take care of yourself. I think a guy named Ted did that once and it didn't work out so great for him, but of course, he also didn't actually just keep to himself in those woods.

    And to be fair, these days even that's not a guarantee of total privacy with satellite imagery, drones, etc.

  • the self checkout machines at Walmart need a reboot. syslinux 6.03

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  • You are in fact correct. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the modernized version of the very very old BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).

    It brought a parade of improvements including the GPT (GUID [Global Unique Identifier] Parition Table) partition table replacing the old MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table.

  • the self checkout machines at Walmart need a reboot. syslinux 6.03

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  • No EFI environment detected?

    Sounds like someone deleted the EFI partition maybe.

    Or the machine is so old it still has a BIOS.

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  • I wasn't ever even looking for support. I just wanted to not be treated like I was a burden and that their money and physical possessions, inanimate objects, were more important to them than me.

    Like why even fucking have a kid if you're going to act like they're a fucking burden by the time they're fucking 8? Yeah, because I totally asked to be here, mom. You didn't fuck me into existence or anything.

  • How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot)

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  • I wouldn't delete stuff from the laptop manufacturer right away, but the AdwCleaner is an AdWare cleanup app from Malwarbytes and can be safely removed as it had nothing to do with Windows Defender.

  • How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot)

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  • Even if you were running a VM, bare minimum suggested space for Windows without many apps installed is anywhere from 60GB-80GB. 100GB is really about as low as you really want to go in terms of partition size. If you wanted a performant Virtual Machine, with ability to install other applications, you would want to give it that much space, which means it would still be taking up that much space on your drive. Depending on how much RAM you have and your page file settings, a significant portion of that space you're looking at could just be a page file for swapping data in and out of RAM.

  • When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day"

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  • Have a good none, Bob

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  • Because Omarchy is put together by a pile of shit (DHH) and it's a derivative of Arch.

    So, cooking Arch with a pile of shit you get Omarchy.

  • What's a movie quote that gives you goosebumps?

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  • Bob Dole: The average American’s dead!

    Savage, and true, in the case of that film.

    But Jeff Goldblum is still alive, so you've got that going for you, in that universe.

  • What's a movie quote that gives you goosebumps?

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  • I am the walrus

    Donny, The Big Lebowski

    Is this the Steve Buscemi quote part of the thread? Because if it's not it should be.

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  • There's just something enticing to me about the "man vs. nature" theme when it comes to an alien planet's flora and fauna, which both Pitch Black and Riddick offer in spades. I can understand why you like it for the reasons you laid out, I just found the world building and politics boring myself.

    Also, Riddick has Katee Sackhoff while Pitch Black has Keith David.

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  • I feel like Chronicles of Riddick is the weakest of the three Riddick films personally. Very big on world building but feels like a slog compared to Pitch Black or Riddick.

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  • Sorry, added the film title. Fight Club.