they never really change, they just change clothing: torrentfreak.com/removing-annoying-…mca-violation-microsoft-says-200611

Windows 10 is... unpleasant

I remember needing to use it for one specific engineering program in grad school

We ran it on a VM with a Linux host and immediately trashed the whole damn thing when finished

they are sending DMCAs to themselves now. rich.

TorrentFreak articles are sometimes really hard to read since they include their opinions more than facts

guess thats better than not reporting on it at all 🤷‍♂️

it appears to me that the main issue was that they were shipping a full version of Windows for free right? Not just providing tweaks to easily change some features?

last paragraph covers that iirc

from the source video it says that you should still buy a license, but there is no "activate windows" or similar on the final installed version, so idk what to really make of it

basically since there's a good chance they were distributing full windows for free, I'm not going to read too much more into this, though of course Windows wants to make more money off ads and the like

DOWNLOAD CANDY CRUSH NOW OR THE AZURE POLICE WILL TAKE YOUR FIRSTBORN AWAY FROM YOU

DO IT. DOWNLOAD IT NOW!

Windows 10: now with 10 editions of Candy Crush!

I'm thankful to still have a Windows 10 Education license. It allows me to say "actually fuck off please, thanks" in more cases than even the Pro edition

no access to the gh repo but it says it was for disabling features and not distribution of win

Oh, you want to adjust some settings? Here are 4 slightly different versions of what you want, each of which is from a different era of this operating system

Have fun, user!

kinghat[m]: I know what they are saying but I also don't especially believe that they didn't include some other no-license-needed "tweaks"

Linux is a tool. Windows makes you feel like a tool

you need a license to tweak the OS after you've paid for it?

no that's not what I mean

I'm saying that I wouldn't be surprised if one of the "tweaks" was removing the "Activate Windows" watermark, among other things

hmm that could be, though, the author says thats not the case and required an active license 🤷‍♂️ not sure why you need an active license to install software or remove features as its just using removal methods that are built into the os already w/o the scripts.

nah, that's not how software distribution rights work

it's like removing a watermark from an image you didn't make

I'm not talking about removing the activation mark/method though.

oh it is windows Tuesday

need a restart just for their new edge browser

imagine having to restart your computer when you install a new piece of software

Ah yes, EdgeChrome =p

Firefox now supports syncing containers :D

imagine not having your OS force you to install updates so you just leave your IRC bots running on the same server that hasn't been updated since 2016 and probably has several gaping security vulnerabilities

just run them in several `screen` sessions, it's like a sandbox

like a psychopath

lol windows control panel

Yeah, lol! Real techies use regedit.exe

dsc_, I've heard that screen is basically what the NSA uses for cybersecurity

Yeah they swapped out SELinux for screen :P

I'm going to keep using the talking point that Monero is the only coin with REAL privacy: twitter.com/JEhrenhofer/status/1273013390580109321

as opposed to POTENTIAL privacy

the total privacy in the system is equal to the sum of the potential privacy and the kinetic privacy

minus each NSA contract times the sum of darknet market volume