I remember buying a bunch of old HP ISA 100Mbit NICs to turn an old computer into a router/server combo. Naive as I was I put them all in and nothing worked. Turns out they were all configured to use the same IRQ (since they likely came from independent machines), and that caused them to overwrite each others settings… including the MAC adress. Thankfully I found some nice hacker that worked with these cards before and published a little C tool to rewrite their EEPROMs. I contacted him if he sees a chance to resurrect the cards and that saint indeed hacked the necessary features into his tool so I could rewrite the MAC adresses, change the IRQ one by one and ended up with a working network. Good times.

Heh, yeah. I had to fix that earlier this year on another machine, but that one was ooold and went through a bunch of upgrades so I figured it was due to its age (even though I still didn’t get how they could be so lazy to not automate this process as part of the update or … well… slim down the rescue tools again). But then they apparently didn’t even care enough to release a new installer that prevents the issue. So they either don’t give a crap or even do it deliberately to break Win 10 in favor of Win 11. Either case: that’s not what I pay for.

And that’s exactly what I said: the installer didn’t give me that choice. I had to use a MS account and I had to set up a PIN. Everything else required completely nonintuitive changes (plural!) afterwards.

I know. My point was that I don’t wanted any local auth at all. It should boot right to desktop, no PIN or password asked. The linked MS account is completely worthless and only used to satisfy the installer.

Just this weekend I had the pleasure of installing Win 10 on a blank disk. The install went ok, but then it bothered me logging into the MS Account. After cursing for a while and since it wasn’t my PC, I gave in. I know I can fight it, but it’s not worth it here. Then it continued trying to get me to consent to all kinds of shit. NO, I DON’T WANT FUCKING OFFICE AND I DON’T WANT MY FILES IN ONEDRIVE you assholes!

Then it forces me to choose a PIN for “secure login”. DUDE! That motherfucking PC is used for a bit of office work and gaming. Just let these poor people boot up the machine and use it! 0000? Too simple. 1234 too. Fuck you, MS. Ok, random PIN and a sticky note it is, asshats.

Anyway, after getting it to fuck off, I continue to the desktop. Oh wow, 10 updates and a ton of missing drivers? It’s a fresh install! What the fuck did it install?! Of course the installation of all these updates takes an hour and countless restarts… AFTER A FRESH INSTALL! Not even my overblown super slow Ubuntu server takes that long for updates; and that runs on a HDD not a SSD like that PC I set up.

But wait. One update failed. Why? Ah, the rescue partition is too small… THE ONE THAT DUMB SON-OF-BITCH CREATED ON ITS OWN AS PART OF THE INSTALL! How to fix? Ah, execute a bunch of commandline foo with diskpart and other tools. Wait, isn’t that exactly the kind of shit that Windows fans laugh about when looking down on us Linux nerds?!

So … ugh … just one simple anecdote of why Windows can fuck off.

I still rank OSX higher, simply because it’s at least consistent. Windows is a fucking mess.

What I find weird about Tumbleweed is, that updating is not integrated into YaST or another UI. You have to use the commandline to keep your system up to date. That makes it exactly as inconvenient as Arch for newcomers, but Arch has a whole philosophy behind this while SuSE is typically very GUI oriented. It’s weird.

Ich kenn seine Musik nicht… kann man als Fan politische Statements erwarten? Wenn nicht, kann ich mir schon vorstellen, dass man etwas angepisst ist, wenn man selbst auf einem Konzert mit der harten Realität (vor der man vlt flüchten wollte) konfrontiert wird.

Abgesehen davon: bei AfD und BSW Ergebnissen von zusammen knapp 30%, muss man wohl erwarten, dass auch im Publikum eine spürbare Anzahl Russlandfreunde rumhängen.

If you are so keen on correctness, please don’t say “LLMs are lying”. Lying is a conscious action of deceiving. LLMs are not capable of that. That’s exactly the problem: they don’t think, they just assemble with probability. If they could lie, they could also produce real answers.

Bist du etwa objectophob?! /s

Gern ebenso vor die Tür. Wer keinen Anstand hat andere ausreden zu lassen, hat da nix verloren.

Ich finde Gewalt im politischen Diskurs falsch, aber habe in solchen Fällen durchaus weniger Mitleid als in anderen Fällen. Die AfD heizt ja selbst seit langem den Konflikt an, da ist es nur gerecht, wenn sie die Früchte auch zunehmend selbst erntet.

Schon wenn ich deren Benehmen im Bundestag höre (ständiges reinlabern), wünschte ich mir, man dürfte sie für sowas unsanft vor die Tür setzen. So ein ungehobeltes, freches, aggressives Dreckspack.

Bei diesen Donauwellen helfe ich gern.

A capture card also makes sense if you have a camera that feeds into HDMI (vs a normal webcam that already provides USB).

Yup, I don’t understand it either. Many “how to fix …” articles involve quite a lot powershell magic. And I say “magic” because IMO they are often essentially API calls which I find far harder to grasp than config files that follow some logic and help me understand what is interacting how.

They said “in addition to registry editing”.

I said it’s possible, just much more effort than the current solution which only requires reading and and parsing the process name on startup.

They still need to know the key. If you publicly distribute your config, that’s a problem. But IMO one even the pro version couldn’t solve.

If it’s so easy to implement, go ahead and open a PR. The community will be thankful.

The apps are bundled completely differently on OSX and Linux. It’s technically not possible to do the same thing there. Also this is not a free/paid limitation at all.

They could maybe build a packaging tool that can customize the binaries (adding data to the PE executable in Windows and maybe a property file in OSX and Linux); but that’s quite some effort for not much gain.