unfucking believable… they are saying the quiet part out lout now
the least private operating system
Embrace, extend, and extinguish. They literally documented it as being their strategy. Now the justice department is chasing Google who despite being bad, at least provides enough source code where people have created privacy-focused derivatives of Android. I’d much rather see them go after Microsoft first but the government relies on Microsoft, and Microsoft relies on our tax dollars going to the government so they can get them.
Kill Google, kill Apple, kill Meta, kill Amazon. I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary - despite their problems, they at least have an honest business model (of profiting off a cult). I think yes, split them too.
I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary
They’ve taken to designing unrepariable e-waste garbage. let em burn
Decided then.
And that round building of theirs should be demolished, only Apple fans can think it looks futuristic.
I think it would make a wonderful homeless shelter.
I guess as a homeless shelter it’d be fine. There’s some value in all the glassy parts too - hydroponics would combine well aesthetically with a shelter.
However, the space inside it should be treated carefully, or it can turn into something similar to Soviet micro-districts in the criminal sense.
Again, maybe making it some kind of a huge pond and releasing fish there is a good idea? I dunno.
or it can turn into something similar to Soviet micro-districts
I think you’re on to a great start for a new post apoc Sci Fi novel
I’m not going to defend Apple against being broken up, but those other companies are on a whole different level when it comes to invasion of privacy.
I’d say Apple is just a step or two behind on that.
One most important to murder is Microsoft.
I don’t really understand how Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is relevant to this, would you mind explaining?
Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has advertised itself as a pro-opensource company despite never open sourcing its primary consumer-facing products like Windows & Edge. This initially attracted a lot of open source developers that Microsoft gladly hired, to turn around and turn their OS into a spyware organization.
Microsoft learned that if they collected a bunch of data and shared it with the intelligence agencies, while making their OS a telemetry warehouse that tracks nearly everything you do, then they’d be able to attract and onboard the entire US government while making it nearly impossible for them to switch away in the future. At this point forensic companies aren’t shy that Windows is the worst choice for privacy.
The most open ports
The most open CVEs
The most open complaint threads
Windows 🥇
Open to malicious actors, because of all the bugs.
because of all the opens.
ftfy
Linux has way more CVEs: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/
(Partially because they don’t respect CVEs and assign CVEs to everything)
I think it’s more because companies don’t usually run Windows on their servers. Like, internal domain servers, sure, but their actual services run on Linux, in almost every case.
Measuring number of CVEs is not a great metric anyway.
Linux is open source, so people can find more things wrong with it and fix it.
It just means that Linux users and developers are more diligent in finding and removing vulnerabilities.
When one backdoor closes, three more open.
Guys, come on. They clearly meant it in terms of security.
“Come on in, hackers, we’re always open.”
😆
So when does the false advertisement lawsuit start?
They didn’t say to whom it was open.
For whom would it be the most open operating system?
Advertisers and data brokers
By what definition would it be more open to advertisers and data brokers?
By showing ads and selling your data
I meant how that action would make it open for them?
Also, if those actions make it open, would it be open to everyone (if they have money)
if they have money
They’d be welcome
how that action would make it open for them?
Like with open source you can browse the source, but this time it’s ad-makers browsing your computer
Or what, even. Maybe they mean in workplace culture.
Even if there’s a law, they sure have genius lawyers for this purpose.
You literally cannot come with a better punchline? I generally don’t kinkshame but that’s a strange one.
Open to everything except the concept of unix.
Most open to making money at the expense of security.
"“What they were telling me was counterintuitive to everything I’d heard at Microsoft about ‘customer first,’” Harris said. “Now they’re telling me it’s not ‘customer first,’ it’s actually ‘business first.’”
DiCola, Harris’ then-supervisor, told ProPublica the race to dominate the market for new and high-growth areas like the cloud drove the decisions of Microsoft’s product teams. “That is always like, ‘Do whatever it frickin’ takes to win because you have to win.’ Because if you don’t win, it’s much harder to win it back in the future. Customers tend to buy that product forever.”
Who in their right mind would ever think that any publicly traded company is consumer first? Their only goals are short term profit followed long term profits. Everything else is in pursuit of those two things.
Exactly zero fucks are given about long term profit.
If any company cared about long term profit they wouldn’t be destroying the ecosystem.
enshitification cycle: First good for customers, then they abuse their customers in favour of their business customers, then they abuse those businesses to claw back everything for themselves.
They are on step 2.
Bitch I can’t even find basic settings cuz they are so hidden in sub menus
I’m no programmer or UX designer but I can imagine what a mess things are on the dev side
As an admin it gets so much worse. Twice a year your admin portal gets renamed, redesigned, merged with and/or split from another one, or removed, and all those changes are done halfway.
Which means some settings are only on the old version and others only on the new. Then the old one is discontinued even though the new one doesn’t have all its functions, yet.
So you completely rely on Powershell. But wait, there’s 2 incompatible versions of it now.I’m currently thinking about a career change, after reading in Microsoft’s official documentation that you need to install the new version of Powershell, import the beta version of several commandlets and then run a long script provided by them, only to keep every user on your org from creating their own Teams teams.
And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It’s called “self service”, enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.What the hell‽ Also who would buy Microsoft products for work with their own card‽
Middle management building a shadow IT. They’ll have their own company credit card for their department.
And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It’s called “self service”, enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.
LMAO that is a special kind of pathetic
It’s maddening, cause it’s so blindingly obvious what went on in their minds when they implemented it that way.
“If just 0.1% of the users do that, it’ll make us $XX million. Can you design a popup for it that we can show all users when they open Teams?”It tells me as an admin that the software I manage as my career isn’t designed to be useful anymore. It’s only designed to extract the maximum amount of money.
It also tells me it’s time to get off this ride, cause Microsoft is evidently pushing towards a future where they administer the system, not me.
Jesus Christ.
I’ve been doing linux admin and honestly I haven’t been looking back. My breaking point was Microsoft pushing a kb that rebooted domain controllers for no reason.
I’m shopping for an MSP that is Linux-centric. 70 workstations and a handful of servers but I will drop MS in a heartbeat if I had the right support to fall back on.
I still remember the update that sent domain controllers into a bootloop.
That was fun!And the one that bluescreened all Windows servers.
No, the other one!Oh, and the one that did an in-place-upgrade by itself, then locked your server cause it wasn’t licensed for the new OS version.
If we can generate energy from outrage, /r/sysadmin could’ve powered the whole planet multiple times in the last 6-8 years.
They’re doing it on purpose, they’re using sysadmins for electricity for AI obviously
Oh, and the one that did an in-place-upgrade by itself, then locked your server cause it wasn’t licensed for the new OS version.
Wasn’t that primarily an issue with a third party software? And the server shouldn’t be locked by now since I believe you get a trial period of a few months. Our servers didn’t upgrade to 2025 but we use WSUS.
Or are you talking about something older?
The third party software did exactly what it was designed to do:
Push security updates automatically, while holding back feature updates for testing.
This is standard operating procedure. Security updates are not supposed to change anything about how a server works, so the risk of breakage is very low.
And they need to be installed as fast as possible, to patch holes that are now known to every attacker.Microsoft were the ones who pushed out a new Server OS installation and labelled it as security update.
I love how this doesn’t even begin to cover bad kbs ms pushed out. The fact that windows admins think testing updates before deploying them is a routine operation that should always be done boggles my mind.
What happens when you favor marketing over anything else?
You just lie, lie, lie, so many times that you actually believe your own shit
Corporations can’t live without bullshit, the irony of this shit is next level
I mean, there are open things about it. As in - TCP/IP is open. APIs to develop Windows programs are open.
In the same way as Solaris, HP/UX, Digital Unix and something else were open. Except Sun would even send OS sources in addition to documentation to customers interested in optimizing something they’d do, or so I’ve heard.
But the “most open” thing looks like 2003 “get the facts” style propaganda, except back then they had technical competencies, now it’s purely the oligopoly.
Most open though? No.
But the “most open” thing looks like 2003 “get the facts” style propaganda, except back then they had technical competencies, now it’s purely the oligopoly.
Haha, perfect.
I had just hit the button on a recording session last night, and a fucking full page “ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE EOL OF WINDOWS 10!!” (paraphrased) popped up over my DAW. Yeah, I’m prepared alright Microsoft. I’ve got a flash drive with Linux ready to install if you keep pulling shit like this. It’s going to suck because a lot of audio software developers are garbage with Linux support, but if Windows is just as garbage, there’s no reason not to migrate.
They’re actually trying to force people onto 11 now? That windows partition that never gets booted sounds really close to becoming more storage for a windows-free life
Mine went bye-bye a while ago.
I initially installed linux on an additional smaller ssd. I recently set out to swap that setup around, so that windows gets to be on the smaller drive.
Except that after moving Endeavour to the big ssd… I just didn’t bother with setting up windows again. Haven’t needed it yet.
Go DAWless. Buy a Synthstrom Deluge for example. Still need a DAW for recording and mastering though :/ I wish there was Ableton for Linux. “-if you keep pulling shit like this” I can tell you without a doubt they are just going to intensify shit like this instead of stopping. I’m thinking of switching my main pc to Linux and use my old win10 pc disconnected for DAW. No viruses and hackers when there’s no internet. No Microsoft ads either.
If I could make a suggestion, try already swapping to FOSS while ok windows to make the transition to linux easier on yourself. That is what I did, and it did wonders to help me become better acclimated to Linux.
You could also see if you can run DAW on a VM in Linux or see if your software is supported with WINE. That way you could potentially just run the windows application in Linux without a VM. Most of the time, a “Silver” rating is enough, but a “Gold” rating or above is recommended.
You don’t want to run a DAW in wine or VM. Also, I’m familiar with Linux environment, I just can’t live without Directory Opus (mainly) which is a big reason for not switching my main OS away from windows. Also, I’ve had loads of issues working with my NAS from Linux. In Windows network drives are just visible, in Linux not. Getting access has been a major pain, mostly I haven’t been able to get it running with my RasPi. Every time I try a tutorial online I do every step exactly as shown but the result is always different and I get errors no one else ever had (unable to find a solution).
You may be interested in Wine compatibility of DOpus https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=7453
upvote because you’re not wrong, But If they can’t handle mounting smb shares, wine is probably off the table ;)
DOpus is one thing I can’t really understand why is not ported yet. It comes from Amiga anyway, I understand they might have done a lot of OS-dependent things since moving to Windows, but it should be doable, no?
I just sent them an email begging them to look into a Linux version :)
It’s good to bug them about it, but last I checked they just didn’t want to.
*major sad face
Reaper is available for Linux. I can’t vouch for it as I’ve not used it on there, but I’ve used it on Mac and it’s great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.
For audio specifically you might find FreeBSD easier to set up. As a DAW, not as a desktop in general.
ALSA+PulseAudio\Pipewire+JACK are kinda messy compared to newpcm+JACK .
The goatse OS, if you will
I did not need that image in my head right now
What about later? Around noon, maybe 1 in the afternoon?
Remind me later
!RemindMe (4 hours)
Sorry, my alarm didn’t go off! Would now be a good time for you to think about goatse, @[email protected]?
Thanks! Perfect, right for bed time.
Shit, I came here to say the same.
Your computer: a yawning maw
We: watch
