Fortunately...
several of our charity staff run Linux at home, so I will be switching charity kit OS to Mint with LibreOffice as our workload suite.
I have wanted this for a couple of years and now am fully justified.
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I am surprised that ronald rump hasn't installed a golden throne behind the resolute desk yet. He does have a frightening attitude in thinking he is King of the World.
I was going to say that the sooner he has a heart attack the better, but that would then leave jd vance in charge - possibly even worse.
"might block ODF files as email attachments for feat they might be malware"
Something there just doesn't ring true. Have you forgotten how much malware was spread by nasty MS Office macros and VBA?
I have been more than happy with Libreoffice for several decades and am proud to support it.
no steenken ai on my os.
My productivity machine is now FOSS only, it used to run w10.
My other machine is new, w11 and is purely for my gog account. I have been fighting with it for several weeks trying to remove all the bloat and other crap that was installed during the build.
I don't need or want ai.
I don't need or want one drive, MS orifice, outlook in any form.
I don't need or want all those fucking annoying services running.
I certainly don't want a microshit account.
What I do want is an os that respects my needs and choices and doesn't slurp all my system resources, leaves so many attack vectors open and just wants my fucking data.
If it wasn't for gog I would have a well behaved box with very few issues.
End rant; sorry.
Ah, Art Slarti, oh it doesn't matter, you seem the perfect customer for me. I can sell you subscriptions to The Light, The Epoch Times and The Telegraph if you would be so kind as to give up your money to right-wing, conspiracy "newspapers" who share your views (or probably initiated them.)
Sorry, I should have qualified my downvote sentence.
What I ought to have said was something along the lines of;
"I should have thought more carefully and got a lappy I wanted, had a Linux installed with a driver for the graphics card and then, if I knew how (but unfortunately don't) run win11 as a vm for my gog collection." The gpu is a something or other 4090 or something like that, too much Guinness on a Friday, unless that's the problem.
Phew, sorted that out in my own head now.
I recently, scant days ago, got a new £2.5K MSI gaming lappy. I left it for 24 hours to acclimatise and charged it. The stat of setup seemed OK, it accepted my non Microsoft account and with no warning, apart from "do not turn your computer off" it happily tried updating and then failed into a reboot cycle. I have tried all I can think of to get it working again, but the fucker is bricked.
I can't even refer to a user manual because that is on disk, there is no backup or restore media, so it looks like I might have to USB it into a flavour of Linux, get my own win11 for dual boot and pray.
Reason for windows? I have over 300 games on my gog account and I still want to be able to access them and play them - so many memories of the old games that I need to relive.
I know I could return it, but this is a situation I will not let beat me. I will not allow myself to be bested by microshit.
Can't wait to see the downvotes accumulate.
Thanks Joker.
My only notepad files are html, fortran and occasionally cobol code.
I only want this new device for gog games, two of which are crysis and cyberwotsit2077. The rest of the games are old school, including the brilliant tex murphy series. I'm proud to admit I am an old greybeard.
Dyl
I've just bought a new msi lappy to gog on. Before I power the thing up for the first time, does anyone know of a superior site with instructions of how to tame win11 telemetry and successfully remove all the crap and bloat that comes with a new windows device? I have DDG'd it but not found any comprehensive information that proves useful.
Many thanks and beers in advance (beers applicable if we meet in Bristol by the Clifton Suspension Bridge.)
Old school gamer.
The title says it all.
They start with the models in industrial robots, next comes an internal LLM mutation for actual AI development, they then take over factories to start self-builds and finally the human race is wiped out.
Hopefully, given my age (greybeard cobol and fortran coder) I shall be long dead.
If only microshit would introduce bloody simple, and easily found, switches into the os to turn features or attributes on or off. Their insistence on knowing what is best for users is at least disingenuous and at worst disastrous for privacy issues.
The only reason I still have an MS run laptop is for my gog collection; there is no other reason I can see for paying the MS tax and opening myself up to multiple and oh-so-frequent security issues.
One penny on the first square, two on the next...et.c
Not too long until bankruptcy.
eighteen quintillion, four hundred forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred nine million, five hundred fifty-one thousand, six hundred and fifteen give or take a few pennies whilst counting. Oh shit, I have to start a-fucking-gen. One, two, three...
In the UK, grilling food, whether gas or lecky, is heating food from above. Plain and simple.
One places ones food "under the grill". At least my manservant says and I trust Jeeves implicitly, apart from with the dry sherry after I retire for the evening.
I still have several Nokia feature phones that work perfectly for voice and text comms. A great pair of bonuses are the standby times and battery longevity; I also bought several spare batteries when I purchased the handsets.
I don't use map apps as I know how to read paper maps. I don't need GPS as I always know where I am. $deity$ knows how most modern western-dwelling folks will survive in a major global net/lecky/satellite outage.
I have portable solar panels, several bows with plentiful arrows, a well and huge veg plots and chickens in the back garden and the complete set of The Avengers on dvd to keep me amused.
No, not an oddball yank survivalist: just an Englishman in his castle.
I still fondly (?) remember in the very early 80's interning as a night shift operator as part of my COBOL course at uni. It was a large finance house in Bristol (the original and best) with a fantastic Burroughs mainframe setup including a couple of B5900's and a B7900, punch cards, tapes, disk packs and associated sound-proofed high speed printers. There were two permanent onsite engineers that fixed down to component level.
There was an onsite restaurant and we were all, staff and interns, issued with 25pence a day Luncheon Vouchers. I seem to remember preferring school dinners to the slop that 25p could buy.
Aside: eventually the two engineers were sucked into Unisys after the Sperry merger, where, a couple of years after my internship, I ended up at Unisys working with those two geniuses.
It seems like melon husk has eaten the trump playbook - I'm so rich I don't need to pay any bills.
It reminds me of a section of the 1954 film with Gregory Peck, where the mere knowledge he held the million pound note was enough to feed, clothe and get lavish accommodation for himself.