Saw a notice on my lock screen of my Windows 10 "We can help you find your new Windows 11 PC" my immediate reaction, "Fuck you." Micro$oft has gotten millions of people to throw away there computers because of the artificial limitation on what computers the Windows 11 installer CHOOSES to give the privilege of running #Windows11 Fuck you #Microsoft and fuck you encouraging people to make tons of e... » Continue Reading
So after some reading I see that a clean install of Windows 10 or 11 can cause the drive to be encrypted with #BitLocker without your consent and without telling you. And then the key is then saved on your Microsoft account without it telling you and it doesn't even prompt you to backup your key. "device encryption is initialized on the OS drive and fixed data drives"!! This is just total shit des... » Continue Reading
People are losing access to there files from #BitLocker being forced on them without there consent. I keep reading reports of people not being able to get access to there files because of this https://iboysoft.com/questions/what-to-do-i-have-no-way-to-access » Continue Reading
Microsoft #Windows is #BitLocker encrypting people's drives without there consent! ( Bitlocker automatically activated on private windows computers - Microsoft Q&A ) Another disgusting practice by #Microsoft! If your drive gets encrypted with BitLocker BACKUP your key! Store it in your lockb » Continue Reading
We have gradually been losing more and more privacy. Let's take a look at this in this video: Surveillance: The New Normal by Naomi Brockwell TV Naomi Brockwell TV is a great YouTube channel to help us take back our privacy. » Continue Reading
The Windows Command Prompt is NOT DOS Second Life is NOT OpenSim (OpenSimulator, the virtual world one.) Unix is NOT Linux Just because two things are similar that does NOT mean they are the same. I've seen people making these mistakes. And at times it's frustrating because of having to explain the same thing to multiple people or when the other person insists they ARE the same. » Continue Reading
Warning you may want to avoid buying an #Intel 13th or 14th Gen processor until Intel fixes there overvoltage bugs. Intel is selling CPUs that destroy themselves by over-voltageing. There is no recall by Intel but apparently they finally decided to accept refunds. Intel is being sued for this because they have been refusing to accept refunds on CPUs that have destroyed themselves do to this bug. I... » Continue Reading
Here is a screenshot of my laptop running the KDE Plasma desktop environment in Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition). Not recommended unless you want to troubleshoot and risk breaking your system. Apparently switching my display manager (which just gives you the login screen and lets you change » Continue Reading
I'm working on a video introducing Linux Distros for use as a desktop OS. I'm having trouble thinking up the script. Any suggestions. What would you like me to talk about? How best to introduce this as an option for people? » Continue Reading
I just wrote this article about the free user friendly server operating system StartOS. It also talks about mDNS which lets you create free custom domain names within your network. And it talks about Tor which allows you to set up a server without configuring your router, masks your IP address (though it's not 100% fool proof IP masking) and gets you free internet accessible domain names: » Continue Reading