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Wispy2891

@ Wispy2891 @lemmy.world

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  • Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3

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  • Steps to slowly escape are this:

    1. Install Debian + samba 4 on a server, configure to run it as an active directory server
    2. Join that server to the work domain as a backup domain controller
    3. Install onlyoffice on all computers and set it to use onedrive
    4. Meanwhile install nextcloud and get used to that with a small part, with onlyoffice.
    5. Migrate the users that don't use too much Microsoft 365 to nextcloud instead of onedrive, onlyoffice+nextcloud instead of office, nextcloud talk instead of teams
    6. Start to decommission one windows domain controller and let the Debian domain controller do its work.
    7. The escape door is open, start to escape

    Alternatively can do the same with "Univention Corporate Server (UCS)", which is the same stuff, but packaged with a nicer UI (it's a paid product, based on Debian)

    In the short term, even if it's free, having someone do this work will definitely cost more than paying the license for windows server + all the user CALs + the office 365 subscriptions but I think ROI in 5-7 years

  • Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3

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  • I think it's more comparable to say the same kind of mistake that Microsoft made with the Xbox One. Sold at a $100 premium over the playstation 4 because Microsoft assumed that everyone would love to get a bundled Kinect when actually nobody did.

    Also when they announced the stupid DRM that they wanted to use on the Xbox One (console must be always online to work, games on disk to become single use gift cards that get redeemed to a Microsoft account and can't be used on a different console) Probably Sony won the console war with this single 20 second video even if Microsoft backtracked immediately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

    With windows 11 Microsoft is doing similar mistakes:

    • With x86 processors, assuming that everyone has the money to buy a new computer even if their old one could work perfectly for what they need. Last week I went to visit an elementary school in my country and at the wall in the computer room they still had a poster comparing Netscape and Internet Explorer. They definitely don't have the funds to throw and buy again 30 computers. Time for Linux to shine?
    • With arm processors, making it an exclusive for the expensive snapdragon x. Result: those laptops cost even more than comparable x86 ones, while could be cheaper. Look at the recently launched Minisforum R1. A full desktop computer with 32gb RAM and an ARM CPU that is comparable to a core i5-10400F while costing only $500. But because Microsoft chose to support only the most expensive snapdragon processors, this brand new computers can exclusively run Linux. Time for Linux to shine?

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • Afaik don't need to uninstall yet, f-droid won't automatically get new builds from this repo until the situation is cleared

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • No.

    In my case I was using syncthing to backup /storage on my phone and turns out there are faster ways to do that

    My alternative:

    1. Ente for photos
    2. Borg via termux for the full /storage backup (including the photos)

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • Maybe it's actually true that catfriend1 knows the new owner in real life but... this is not a calculator app, this is something that has complete access to the phone storage... handing the keys without any communication is concerning...

    And the issues are locked so if something nefarious happens, discussion will only occur somewhere else instead of the repo

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • I think everyone misses the upgrade except new installs, how users (including power users) can know that they have to uninstall the old app, potentially lose all the settings , then reinstall and reconfigure?

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • Google decided to start asking for my drivers license

    I wish it was only the drivers license, I had to give up my Android dev account too because having my private home address + phone number + email publicly available on the dev profile page is completely unacceptable

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • The DRM measures of blurays make a hassle to play any legitimately purchased movie, especially 4k ones, a big hassle on any operating system. Not as plug and play like with DVDs...

    I don't want to rip them before watching them or search hours in obscure forums for a leaked description key...

  • Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

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  • They forgot the quotes on "fact checked" and maybe a wink emoji at the end of that sentence

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • I do not understand that, in my country abortions are free

    (ok, not actually free. You need to pay 15 euro for the blood test, a 30 euro tax, 2 euro for the hospital parking fee and around 10 euro to buy the painkiller or antibiotics after the operation)

  • These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended

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  • Otherwise they wouldn’t have pirated thousands of porn movies

  • What are some less known or underused open source fonts?

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  • I really like Open Sans

  • Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism?

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  • In elementary school we had a cheap (literally cheap, 5 euro) uniform that covered everything so it would protect the underneath clothes from inks, foods, spills. Also it didn't matter if someone wore some expensive clothes as they were covered.

    I noticed immediately from the first days in high school how something like that would have been useful as bullies would pick anyone about their clothing appearance. So there was an "unofficial" uniform, if you didn't wear a brand name sweater then you were a loser to bully.

    Now, I saw the elite schools uniform, expensive shirt under an expensive cardigan and a tie... that is ridiculous and I feel a way to take more money from the rich families as the expensive uniform can be bought only from them and need to purchase multiple sets to wear over a week

  • What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends?

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  • ADVICE: Running out of storage

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  • I bought a drive like that from Amazon Germany for that price, found it using diskprices.com. It was "brand new" and indeed the smart reported 0 hours, but it died within a few hours when I sent a dd wipe operation to stress test it.

    Conclusion: it was a scam, the drive was already dead and had thousands of hours of life in a server. They used some low level diag tool to reset the counters and make it look like new instead of having 50k hours of life

    Fun fact: they shipped it in a paper mailer, completely inappropriate for an HDD. Probably in this way they can blame Amazon warehouse "it's them, they packed it like that!" if someone reports is as DOA. If instead it still works after 50k hours of 24/7 abuse and shipping it across Europe in a paper mailer, then it's indestructible and will outlast the user.

  • Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?

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  • Not every night but twice a week I got social pressure to go to the bar to drink. I hated it because those were eight perfect hours that could be used for playing with my PC 🤓

    Nowadays I couldn't afford it anymore even if before I was a broke student and now I have a job

  • Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?

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  • As an user that paid for windows home server, why windows home server 2(011) was a complete failure

    1. Updating to whs2 required a full wipe - unacceptable by everyone
    2. Updating to whs2 required to pay full price and not upgrade price - lol
    3. The system drive wasn't covered by redundancy and you would lose all the settings if the drive died
    4. The data drives also couldn't get any kind of redundancy as they REMOVED the feature from the server and moved it to clients! What the fuck? It was the main selling point! Easy raid for everyone. What's the purpose of the "home server" if it couldn't pool drives, while the clients with Windows 8 home instead could set a massive, redundant, pool of 10 drives???
    5. They removed the useful feature that backed up automatically all the windows computers in the network
    6. They removed the basic features like the media gallery and such, to see that you would need windows media center... but 6 years after they killed windows media center

  • Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ?

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  • They had the right product at the right time. No other free or paid alternative was that user friendly in allowing laymen in mixing and matching multiple disks and having redundancy

    Doing that with pure Linux command line at the time it was inconceivable for 99% of users (at most a raid1 with mdadm over two drives could be easily attained) and windows home server initially was an alternative but Microsoft was completely misguided and "improvements" in Windows home server 2 completely killed it

    Then they added docker support and it was even easier to self host everything.

    But if they tried to launch today, with how mature are free alternatives, they would never reach critical mass adoption to be sustainable.

    For example, I don't think that the paid fork of truenas that LTT has economically backed is going to be successful

  • hmmm

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  • I found a workaround for this:

    I start with "a buggy LLM wrote this piece of code..." then i paste my code for review, so they can shit and bash on it "you're absolutely right: that LLM done a disaster, this is a mess, look how inefficient is this function, here is how it can be improved..."

  • Lemmy Android app recommendation

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  • Voyager in the browser