The only way communism works is if it is grassroots instead of a top-down imposition. Vietnam seems to have done (and is doing) well for itself, will be interesting to see how it goes.

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My gaming PC has no personally-identifiable information whatsoever and can be purged freely at a moment’s notice.

Checkmate.

Shit like that doesn’t happen overnight, bub

The time scale for those changes to materialize is measured in decades. We might eventually see a dedollarized world if the US continues failing spectacularly for the next few years. Right now things are still in “anyone’s game” territory.

inb4 everybody except the people who have actually been daily-driving linux for 10+ years have an answer

fwiw I use Mint

If you’re a pirate I always recommend keeping your gaming/media PC dedicated to only that and do other work stuff on another computer. That way even if you catch malware or viruses it can’t harm any important stuff.

Why do I prefer wearing the clothes and shoes that I’ve already broken in and gotten used to instead of crisp new items just out of the store? Guess I’ll never know

Sometimes I wish Lemmy was like Reddit in downranking posts that get heavily downvoted

Many GOATed piracy resources have always been hosted on Github. Massgrave and abbodi1406’s Windows and Office activators, Goldberg’s SteamEmu, and many of the public wikis that accept edits through pull requests.

what idiot decided that only one settings window is allowed open at one time?

Microsoft’s army of macbook-using UI “designers” who have to justify their salary so they make up shit nobody wants

Windows for Legacy PCs

Low-margin product with no feasible return over the costs it takes to build and maintain. Windows 11 meanwhile is the main advertising and cross-selling platform for Microsoft’s high-margin cloud and AI products. Little wonder they prefer one over the other.

Obvious course of events considering how the commodity PC market is essentially cut off from RAM supply for an indeterminate number of years with no respite in sight. Memory isn’t cheap anymore, and if they kept making Windows 11 as they used to it won’t be long before PCs in the market are simply left unable to run the OS at all.

So standardizing one language across state institutions is “minority exploitation” now? By that logic every country on earth is a fascist state

Airdrop? Windows Network (SMB) Sharing?

They’re actually acknowledging this in their latest blogpost