Because no one wanted to?
You haven’t, right? Why? As you said, you don’t have the programming skills (neither do I).
It’s always just that simple - someone with the expertise doesn’t feel like doing it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sometimes, people like you and me get motivated enough to go learn how to do these things, or find people with the skills.
The refuse to sell penalty is smart. Keeps people from being overly attached/invested in their car, keeps the focus on the race
Good approach. Start with the momentum of the rotational masses, assume no suspension (to make the math simpler).
My guess, a few feet. There’s surprisingly little momentum in all those components compared to the mass of the vehicle.
Meh, end of support from MS. If you think an OS dies or becomes “unsafe” just because support has ended, you’re probably not doing security layering.
I have never unintentionally gotten a virus or malware (and my experience predates any version of Windows). (I say unintentionally because I’ve unzipped untrustworthy shareware on test machines in the days before virtualizatiom).
I just shut down a Win7 box in 2024. There are still DOS-based Windows boxes out there running things like CNC machines.
They aren’t “unsafe”, because they’re properly isolated, properly managed.
The problem with user machines is the user themselves. Don’t run as admin, don’t click on shit you don’t know what it does. End users see a dialog box as a barrier, not information - they just click it away. No amount of OS upgrades are going to protect them from their own laziness. And frankly, I have no sympathy for them.
Simply not running as Admin prevents 90%+ of consumer security concerns.
As support for family and friends, I’m not sending them to Linux (though I use 3 distros every day). I don’t have time to handhold them when problems arise - things like “my mouse doesn’t work”. Oh, you’re running a distro that doesn’t support the most common mouse in the world, but I only found that out by doing a web search. Yet other distros have no problem. But those other distros have their differences that will eventually show up. Laptop power management in Linux is practically non-existent.
I copied this from a post a while back. Want to know why “just switch to Linux” is a poor response? These 2 people laid it out far better than I can:
My standard response to “just go Linux” :
I keep having to say this, as much as I like Linux for certain things, as a desktop it’s still no competition to Windows, even with this awful shit going on.
As some background - I had my first UNIX class in about 1990.
I run a Mint laptop (for the hell of it, and I do mean hell) . Power management is a joke. Configured as best as possible, walked in the other day and it was dead - as in battery at zero, won’t even boot.
Windows would never do this, no, Windows could never do this. It is incapable of running a battery to zero, it’ll shutoff before then to protect the battery. To really kill it you have to boot to BIOS and let it sit, Windows will not let a battery get to zero.
There’s no way even possible via the Mint GUI to config power management for things like low/critical battery conditions /actions. None, nada, zip, not at all. Command line only, in the twenty-first century, something Windows has had since I don’t recall, 95 I think (I was carrying a laptop then, and I believe it had hibernate, sorry, it’s been what, almost thirty years now).
There are many reasons why Linux doesn’t compete with Windows on the desktop - this is just one glaring one.
Now let’s look at Office. Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel. Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort. The devs of open office refuse to support tables, saying “you should manage data in a proper database app”. While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, no, I’m not setting up a DB in an open-source competitor to Access. That’s just too much effort for simple sorting and filtering tasks, and isn’t realistically shareable with other people. I do this several times a day in excel.
Now there’s that print monitor that’s on by default, and can only be shut up by using a command line. Wtf? Again, in the 21st century?
Networking… Yea, samba works, but how do you clear creds you used one time to connect to a share, even though you didn’t check the box for “save creds”? (Wait, so what does that checkbox do then?) Oh, yea, command line again or go download an app to clear them for for you. In the 21st century?
Oh, you have a wireless Logitech mouse? Linux won’t even recognize it. You have to search for a solution and go find a third-party download that makes it work. My brand new wireless mouse works on any version of Windows since Win2k (at the least) and would probably work on Win95. Linux didn’t even recognize my ten year old Logitech mouse. And you folks keep saying Linux supports more stuff than Windows? Right.
Someone else said it better than me:
Every time I’ve installed Linux as my main OS (many, many times since I was younger), it gets to an eventual point where every single thing I want to do requires googling around to figure out problems. While it’s gotten much better, I always ended up reinstalling Windows or using my work Mac. Like one day I turn it on and the monitor doesn’t look right. So I installed twenty things, run some arbitrary collection of commands, and it works… only it doesn’t save my preferences.
So then I need to dig into .bashrc or .bash_profile (is bashrc even running? Hey let me investigate that first for 45 minutes) and get the command to run automatically… but that doesn’t work, so now I can’t boot… so I have to research (on my phone now, since the machine deathscreens me once the OS tries to load) how to fix that… then I am writing config lines for my specific monitor so it can access the native resolution… wait, does the config delimit by spaces, or by tabs?? anyway, it’s been four hours, it’s 3:00am and I’m like Bryan Cranston in that clip from Malcolm in the Middle where he has a car engine up in the air all because he tried to change a lightbulb.
And then I get a new monitor, and it happens all damn over again. Oh shit, I got a new mouse too, and the drivers aren’t supported - great! I finally made it to Friday night and now that I have 12 minutes away from my insane 16 month old, I can’t wait to search for some drivers so I can get the cursor acceleration disabled. Or enabled. Or configured? What was I even trying to do again? What led me to this?
I just can’t do it anymore. People who understand it more than I will downvote and call me an idiot, but you can all kiss my ass because I refuse to do the computing equivalent of building a radio out of coconuts on a deserted island of ancient Linux forum posts because I want to have Spotify open on startup EVERY time and not just one time. I have tried to get into Linux as a main dev environment since 1997 and I’ve loved/liked/loathed it, in that order, every single time.
I respect the shit out of the many people who are far, far smarter than me who a) built this stuff, and 2) spend their free time making Windows/Mac stuff work on a Linux environment, but the part of me who liked to experiment with Linux has been shot and killed and left to rot in a ditch along the interstate.
Now I love Linux for my services: Proxmox, UnRAID, TrueNAS, containers for Syncthing, PiHole, Owncloud/NextCloud, CasaOS/Yuno, etc, etc. I even run a few Windows VM’s on Linux (Proxmox) because that’s better than running Linux VM’s on a Windows server.
Linux is brilliant for this stuff. Just not brilliant for a desktop, let alone in a business environment.
Linux doesn’t even use a common shell (which is a good thing in it’s own way), and that’s a massive barrier for users.
If it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would’ve had a chance to beat MS, even then it would’ve required settling on a single GUI (which is arguably half of why Windows became a standard, the other half being a common API), a common build (so the same tools/utilities are always available), and a commitment to put usability for the inexperienced user first.
These are what MS did in the 1980’s to make Windows attractive to the 3 groups who contend with desktops: developers, business management, end users.
All this without considering the systems management requirements of even an SMB with perhaps a dozen users (let alone an enterprise with tens of thousands).
I seem to recall there being serious side effects for some people, though it was widly effective for weight loss.
Resilio Sync or Syncthing
Ah, just saw the browser requirement.
In nextcloud discussions I’ve heard of Seafile. I’ve never used it, so not sure what it’s capable of.
Because I don’t need a reverse proxy?
Also, as for ease of setup, with Tailscale I install an app and login. Done.
Hahahaha, you’re kidding, right?
Should mods be able to alter the body too, “for clarity”?
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But I would quietly edit it
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The same ones you’d use with a wire.
WiFi is just Wireless Fidelity… A play on HiFi. It’s just a wireless equivalent of wired ethernet. You still have an IP address, you still have a router (without a router only one device in your house could connect to the internet, typically your wireless access point is a combination router with a wireless access point in it).
For backup check out SMS Backup/Restore. I have 10+ years of sms backup with it, all readable as text or using Excel.
I’ve never found a good solution to this SMS problem - there’s seems to be nothing out there (probably because FOSS devs think SMS needs to die, and I agree).
I did find my solution last year: JMP.chat - I think they’re considered a virtual cell provider. Port your number to them, then all your SMS/MMS gets piped into XMPP, which you can access with an XMPP client on any device - Gajim on Windows/Linux, Cheogram and Monocles (plus others) on Android, Snikket and others on iOS. My SMS works even if my phone is off. Prices are really good, so good that I use a different SIM in my phone for a data connection, as I no longer need an SMS/voice connection (calls are routed via VOIP in Cheogram/XMPP).
As others have said, open it up and check the fans.
I’d boot it with it open, my guess is a fan is slow to start because the bearings are worn, and you can see this when booting with the case open.
I’ve replaced a few on Lenovos over the years, cheap on ebay.
Yea, I’ve had a few Lenovos over the years, excellent machines.
But…they do seem to have fan problems more than other machines. I’ve replaced a few, sometimes the same fan (admittedly, over a 10 year period, so can’t complain) and
Interestingly I just watched the Archer fugue state episodes yesterday…
Dammit, I don’t even have to listen to it and I now have that yodeling in my head.
Thanks.
Yea, eff those damn balls, and I had some nice mice back then.
I recently cleaned up several large boxes of cables, parts, etc. Found a track ball, but not a single ball mouse in there.
BlueSky has the misinformation blocking list enabled by default for all users
Yet another reason why I won’t be using BlueSky. Pre-determining what I get to see?
Who decides what’s misinformation?
Can’t fight for shit with OP’s attitude.
OP needs perspective and needs to read stuff like Studs Terkel. Hardship takes on a whole new meaning.
Did this forever first with Google, at least them I’d know instantly who sold my info.
Now I do the same with my mailbox.com account, and delete the aliases occasionally.
When you embarrassingly realize it’s your own stank, will you have the humility to come back and admit it?
So what happens if you don’t vote?
Interesting summary, but I don’t see any discussion of the repercussions, or pros/cons, just “this is a great thing”. I don’t feel compelled to read the article because of this.