Cry inside

I have to for work and I’m genuinely considering putting together a presentation about how big of a HIPAA problem it is for us to have ai integration everywhere.

I’m pretty sure that can be disabled with Active Directory shenanigans and whatnot. I have to use Windows for work as well, in a HIPAA-esque-compliant manner, and I never see the constant AI integrations that people often complain about in Windows. I know our IT team heavily modifies and manages our Windows environments for us.

Ours does too, but only to disable your ability to do so yourself, so both the Dell ai and the teams ai periodically kill the machine’s limited memory to ask if I want them to harvest patient data.

Do as much work as possible in WSL or a Linux VM in hyperv.

grab a knives and some sticks and make things instead.

fuck microslop

The first thing I did when I had to move to it at work was install ExplorerPatcher.

It’s amazing.
It makes the experience much more like win10. I couldn’t cope without it.

Probably be mildly grumpy about it 😆

I would use it to download Linux.

Same but I will use it to download freebsd

EDIT: because I misspelled freebsd as ferbsd so I use EDIT to fix my spellings

fair enough

I have to for work, most of my job is in the cloud but I still find myself going “fucking windows goddamn shitty operating system” every once in a while. And man when I do have to use powershell damn is that shit ass

A coworker put it better than I ever could:

“Microsoft is the only company which has ever managed to make a shell that takes 10 seconds to autocomplete”

And I think that’s poetry.

(Yes, I know there are many more reasons why pwsh sucks, but there’s beauty in the simplicity of this one)

Imagining if trusted computing became legally enshrined and windows was the gateway to the internet. Would keep my use of it to a minimum, perhaps to fulfill work obligations, do taxes, pay bills, etc. and do anything that didn’t need the internet on another machine running Linux. I’d also consequently make much greater use of my hoarded media and ebooks.

In that case wouldn’t we just make local networks with our family, and then maybe neighbors. Just have a network that’s not connected to the Internet but still connected to each other. I think we’d just have couple of programming tools, make things, and still use computers, but just the way it was in the beginning, and with everyone making their own things.

Maybe there’d be people using long distance communication protocols to make something that is not the current Internet. Unless that becomes illegal. But can radio waves be illegal? We just need to transmit data somehow

I use windows 11 for work as a linux/hpc admin, as it’s a mostly microsoft shop. Most of my work is done in a wsl almalinux terminal, which works fine.

The most important things I’ve done to make the rest of it more comfortable all come from the powertoys suite:

• fancyzones, to replicate a tiling window manager (I really hate floating windows)
• workspaces, to group apps and window placements so I can easily launch mail/chat/terminal/browser into predetermined places, etc
• keyboard manager, to set up shortcuts to everything
• run, for a keyboard-driven launcher

With all of that, if you squint and don’t think about it too much, it’s almost like a dreadfully slow sway desktop haha

I had to use Windows 10 in my last job. First thing I did was to install classic shell and start menu and Linux subsystem (wsl). And I always went through Windows services to disable what I don’t need. I guess I’d do the same on Windows 11.

It depends why I need to use it.

To help someone on their Windows computer with an otherwise unrelated issue? I just help them. Pushing Linux unasked all the time just pushes people away. Better keep it for when that is a relevant answer to their problem.

If my boss decides Linux is no longer an option? I would fiercly contest it, but if that’s to no avail I would seriously consider switching jobs. Even outside worries about loosing sovereignity I simply won’t be very happy working on Windows every day.

I see no reason of this happening at my personal devices. If something doesn’t run on Linux I just don’t use it, same for hardware that’s incompatible with it. Worked well for years now, never felt like I missed out much.

cry

Friends don’t let their friends use a Microsoft products

lose 85% of my cpu and ram resources

Complain, as I usually do at work where we are forced to use windows and WSL crashes are frequent.

LibreOffice

Gimp

SumatraPDF

ImageGlass

VLC

Argue with IT that it takes 4 minutes for their new machine to confirm I typed the password correctly.

I do this every day. They are telling me it is a security measure. I hate our IT dept.