• @andioop@programming.dev
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    213 months ago

    My computer would often have trouble connecting to WiFi on Windows 11, literally to the point that the WiFi option wasn’t showing up at all. I switched that computer to Linux late December and I have not had that problem yet.

    • @boreengreen@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      In the long time before now, we had many problems with wi-fi. Now we don’t speak the word. Ethernet cable is the only way for connectivity.

      I recently drilled a hole through 21cm reinforced concrete, just to avoid wi-fi.

          • @Grass@sh.itjust.works
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            13 months ago

            oh in us and canada we have shitty hollow walls made out of 2x4 and gypsum sheets. it used to be pretty decent price to performance but its not really all that cheap any more

    • @brisk@aussie.zone
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      43 months ago

      My Windows (10) broke Bluetooth in an update over two years ago and the situation has not changed. Never had a problem with Linux on the same machine (dual boot).

      If “it just works” was ever true on Windows, those days are behind us.

  • Blackout
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    113 months ago

    Microsoft is in talks to buy Tik Tok and thereby make is so uncool it fails, so windows isn’t all bad.

      • TheFederatedPipe
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        143 months ago

        Your IP gets exposed to others since it has a p2p feature to share the bandwidth of the video with others.

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          13 months ago

          That’s true for a lot of services. Your IP address doesn’t really matter much. P2P is way better for performance.

          What are people going to do with your IP? The worst they can do is do a Geo lookup. However it doesn’t matter.

      • @florge@feddit.uk
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        63 months ago

        Probably because you don’t want your IP address to be associated with some of stuff on there.

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          13 months ago

          Why? You aren’t committing a crime

          Maybe you shouldn’t vote since they have cameras at the booth

              • @brisk@aussie.zone
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                33 months ago

                That would be illegal in Australia and I have to imagine most functional democracies since it has the potential to link voters to votes and undermine the electoral process.

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                  13 months ago

                  Welcome to mass surveillance. It is not illegal if it is in the name of crime stopping. Whats worse is that Australia has laws that require companies to back door everything.

  • @TheOfficial@programming.dev
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    43 months ago

    I started making a joke site https://windowsupgra.de/ (hosted on codeberg using codeberg pages). The goal is to make it look like some amazing way to upgrade Windows and actually install Linux. Like those product or marketing pages selling you something.

    It’s completely rough, but if someone with UI experience could spiffy that up, feel free to make a PR with screenshots. Don’t forget, codeberg doesn’t have a CI. So at the moment, deployment is literally copying src/ to another folder where the pages branch is checked out, committing, and pushing it.