Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story
As the Windows 10 EOL date is close I was wondering what fellow Linux users thoughts about it are.
Are you helping open minded people making the switch to Linux? If yes, which distro are you using? Are you using resources like endof10.org?
Or are you using the the opportunity to get your hands on some cheap hardware for your homelab? Are you keeping an eye on special websites or just ebay (or your local equivalent)? Are you talking with local companies to get the hardware directly from them?
Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?
Whatever it is, we are very interested to hear your stories concering this interesting time.
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Loops Joins the Fediverse
Loops Joins the Fediverse
We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.Daniel Supernault (Loops Official Blog)
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did they fix the feed and algorithm issues yet? or is it still doing the thing where it shows you the same feed every time you open the app.
edit: just reinstalled to check. it doesn't seem to have been updated since February and the feed issue still persists. that is a shame. I hope they can fix it.
What exactly are Palestinians going to "continue" to do? Be slaughtered, starved, and otherwise eradicated by the colonialists?
Whether you intended it or not, saying "Israel and Palestine will continue" implies that there's anything resembling an equivalence between the actions of the genocidal apartheid regime and those of Palestinians.
Never
Point 9 of the peace deal. means that Gaza will be controlled by Trump and Tony Blair, and will follow the guidelines of "Trump's 2020 peace plan"
amd Article 4 and 5 of the Palestinian statehood guidelines:
4 Take no action, and shall dismiss all pending actions, against the State of Israel, the United States and any of their citizens before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and all other tribunals;5 Take no action against any Israeli or United States citizen before Interpol or any non-Israeli or United States (as applicable) legal system;
The only way to stop the genocide was by forcing them on pain of starvation (Article 7&8) to become a colony and are barred from seeking any legal justice.
[Video] EDIT: Released Palestinian hostage finds out his family is still alive!He believed they had been killed because the IDF told him so.
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When I read "hostage", my mind raced to still black and white photos from WWII. Not full HD colour video footage.
What happened to the world, where its 2025, and there are STILL wars and hostages happening...
Here is a reupload on Catbox files.catbox.moe/9mymc6.mp4
Other people tell me that Catbox does not work for them so this makes it all very difficult. I usually try to upload sub1min stuff to Imgur. But I will try to include a catbox mirror in future posts
Indian textile exporters turn to Europe, offer discounts to offset US tariffs
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50939117
Indian textile exporters are seeking new buyers in Europe and offering discounts to existing U.S. customers to cushion the blow from steep U.S. tariffs of as much as 50%, industry executives said.
It is impossible to do so I tell you. They threaten to pack bags and leave if you dare take any action against them.
No government can control corpos. Hell they were using 'tax saving methods' that hurt the US, were in the panama papers. Also part of a dodgy scheme in the Netherlands.
I could go in detail but i can assure you that it is impossible to do so your way.
Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Evelyn Manfield (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Why do we still still use phone numbers for communication? It’s a terrible idea. One unifying piece of information that if anyone gets they can use. Bah.
We should have a communication method that both sides consent to before allowing the connection. Either side can kill that connection at any time by revoking permission on either side. The contact info shouldn’t be the same for everyone either, but something ephemeral instead. Unique. A burner phone number that’s different to each person and only useful if the connection originates from the one meant to have that number.
It’s 2025. We still have “you have been hacked, give me gift cards to save your Google Chrome” style shit going on.
Reminds me of SSH keys a bit!
What is an SSH key? SSH key pairs explained
Learn all about SSH keys, including how they work for authentication, what the key pair is, how to generate the public and private keys, and more.Sectigo
Korea's military faces officer shortage amid record exodus - The Korea Times
According to data obtained from the Ministry of the National Defense by Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), the number of voluntary resignations among officers and noncommissioned officers with 10 to 20 years of service reached an all-time high last year.A total of 1,821 personnel in that category left the military in 2024, up from 960 in 2021. As of the end of September this year, 1,327 had already filed for voluntary discharge.
The number of officers taking leave has also increased sharply, from 2,252 in 2021 to 3,412 last year, with this year’s figure already at 3,401.
Korea's military faces officer shortage amid record exodus
South Korea’s military is confronting a deepening personnel crisis as record numbers of mid-ranking officers — the backbone of its command structur...Bahk Eun-ji (The Korea Times)
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Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics“Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday, as new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics, endangering mi…UN News
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So super ebola is gonna come from the US.
American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Including Beatings and ‘Threats of Rape’
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with “extreme brutality” on Monday, including beatings and “threats of rape,” after being taken by Israeli forces from international waters while aboard the Conscience Freedom Flotilla.
In a video statement published to social media, Schnall – a Los Angeles-born photojournalist who had been reporting from the flotilla for Drop Site News – recalled the “extreme brutality” she allegedly experienced during her captivity.
“Any flotilla member who upset the Israeli guards was subjected to twisted and tightened handcuffs and some received beatings,” she said. “I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways.”
The journalist continued, “Many comrades, understandably, do not want their identity made public when recounting this treatment. During the evening, the men were tormented by guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened with pepper spray. Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”
American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Inclu ...
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with "extreme brutality," including beatings and "threats of rape."Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
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Israeli captives felt like they were going to get raped because their guard stared at them for a few seconds.
Palestinian captives should not feel like they were going to get raped because their guards yell at them that they are going to rape them.
American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Including Beatings and ‘Threats of Rape’
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with “extreme brutality” on Monday, including beatings and “threats of rape,” after being taken by Israeli forces from international waters while aboard the Conscience Freedom Flotilla.
In a video statement published to social media, Schnall – a Los Angeles-born photojournalist who had been reporting from the flotilla for Drop Site News – recalled the “extreme brutality” she allegedly experienced during her captivity.
“Any flotilla member who upset the Israeli guards was subjected to twisted and tightened handcuffs and some received beatings,” she said. “I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways.”
The journalist continued, “Many comrades, understandably, do not want their identity made public when recounting this treatment. During the evening, the men were tormented by guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened with pepper spray. Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”
American Journalist Says She Experienced ‘Extreme Brutality’ at Hands of Israeli Guards, Inclu ...
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with "extreme brutality," including beatings and "threats of rape."Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
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Venezuela's Maduro calls Nobel Peace laureate Machado a 'demonic witch'
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Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows [Jack Poulson and Wyatt Reed | October 13, 2025]
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37318212
The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighborhood. Known as ‘Site 81,’ the U.S.-built facility houses a hyper-secretive intelligence base.When Iran struck a series of targets in the heart of north Tel Aviv with ballistic missiles on June 13, Israeli authorities immediately cordoned off the area to prevent journalists from filming the damage. “The building on this compound was just hit,” Trey Yingst of Fox News reported as he arrived that evening at the site of HaKirya, Israel’s Defense Ministry headquarters, and the nearby Azrieli Center. But within seconds, Israeli police officers arrived to aggressively shunt Yingst away from where he was standing, just north of the HaKirya Bridge on the west side of Menachem Begin Road.
That day, Iranian missiles struck the north tower of the Da Vinci apartment complex roughly 550 meters southwest of Yingst’s location. The Grayzone has determined that the building sits immediately south of the “Canarit” / “Kannarit” Israeli Air Force towers and above an underground military intelligence bunker jointly administered by the US and Israeli militaries. According to an analysis of leaked emails, public documents, and Israeli news reports, the location is host to a highly secretive, electromagnetically shielded intelligence facility known as “Site 81.”
Israel aggressively censors information relating to its urban military and intelligence facilities while simultaneously accusing its adversaries of engaging in ‘human shielding’ – a practice of protecting military targets with civilian populations that is prohibited by international humanitarian law. While the existence of a U.S. Army project to expand Site 81 to a 6,000 square-meter facility was widely reported from government records circa 2013, the specific location remained unknown...
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How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon
For the early Zionists, settling Palestine meant settling the largest possible territory that vaguely overlapped with their biblical vision of the holy land.
Maps presented by the World Zionist Organization to the Paris Conference clearly show that Zionists sought to include in their territory southern Lebanon, including the Litani River and up to the coastal city of Saida - an estimated 60km from the current border.
Zionists, like all European settlers, were also keen to secure the most fertile land and fresh water sources. Eastern boundaries of the proposed map included large swathes of Syrian and Jordanian territory that fully engulfed Lake Tiberias and the Jordan River. French counter-proposals forced the Zionists to confine their activities after WWI to what is now referred to as historic Palestine.
Initial ambitions to colonise southern Lebanon were shelved but never extinguished. During this latest war, Michael Freund, who previously served as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deputy communications director, claimed that “historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel”. He cited the Book of Joshua as mentioning “Sidon explicitly as being promised to the Jewish people”. Freund also listed several shrines in the south as Jewish and evidence of the right to the land.
The invocation of religious sites as justification for colonial conquest is an old and debunked Zionist trope. Freund was not alone in reviving it. One of Israel’s pseudo-archaeologists, Zeev Erlich, was embedded in the Israeli army during the recent invasion of Lebanon. Israeli troops burned and destroyed parts of the shrine. Before withdrawing, they demolished the surrounding historic buildings of the village’s old quarter, the very place they claimed as theirs.
How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon
Domestic haggling over the disarmament of Hezbollah is overshadowing the long-term and regional dimensions of Israel's warMiddle East Eye
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Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan opposition, led by former presidential candidate María Corina Machado, the far-right extremist who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, used the UN General Assembly (UNGA) as a lobbying platform, courting the Trump administration and sympathetic foreign governments to support a coup to depose President Nicolás Maduro. She has been part of multiple calls for US interventions in Venezuela, including to, in her words, secure the “total asphyxiation of the Venezuelan economy.”
The opposition organized demonstrations in front of the Secretariat Building to denounce Maduro and call for the world to intervene. Pedro de Mendonça, Press Director for Machado’s campaign, hosted a protest saying, “Maduro is not the legitimate president of Venezuela, but the head of the Cartel of the Suns and the Tren de Aragua.” Mendonça called for “a free Venezuela and a secure West” through an “international coalition.” This is as direct a call for intervention as you could get. Machado retweeted it.
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup | naked capitalism
The so-called opposition, with a much-needed rebranding assist from the Nobel Committee, proposes total economic surrender to US oligarchic interests.Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism)
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Ceasefire Sparks Fresh Calls for Global Media Access to Gaza
Ceasefire Sparks Fresh Calls for Global Media Access to Gaza
Press groups are also demanding justice for the more than 200 journalists slaughtered in Palestinian territory over the past two years.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
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Katie Porter's meltdown proves candidates can't be shamed into quitting anymore
Katie Porter’s video meltdowns won’t make her quit her California governor campaign
In the digital era, candidates have no incentive to drop out; given the ocean of information, any attention is now good attention.Christian Schneider (MSNBC)
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What ever happened to Nicole the fediverse chick?
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UK arms received by Israel reach record high value in 2025
Last week, FactCheck revealed that Israel imported over £400,000 worth of arms from UK companies in June 2025 – the highest monthly amount since these records began in January 2022.
The exact nature of the items wasn’t specified in the data, but they were listed under a category that includes bombs, grenades, torpedoes, missiles, and ammunition.
And we can now exclusively reveal that September was the second highest value month on record, with over £310,000 worth of UK munitions under this same category arriving in Israel.
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Israel dismissed the Commission’s report as “distorted and false” and said the expert panel were acting as “Hamas proxies”.
The UK government told us it does not “export bombs or ammunition for IDF use in military operations in Gaza or the West Bank”.
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Aaand this is why UK has been so adamant to quell protests against Israel’s genocidal actions: money
Enjoy the MMOG of capitalism, where only a few griefers using exploits get to win.
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
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Here in South Australia we are starting to see the effects and it's pretty chilling.
The algae bloom affecting many of our suburban beaches (which is most of Adelaide) and a lot of country ones are seeing huge numbers of dead marine life being washed up.
Anything from leafy sea dragons to fish, stingrays, and sharks. The foam created on some days covers whole sections of beach.
While apparently it's safe, there are warnings that you may experience breathing issues and rashes so your supposed to bring your inhaler and rinse off after you have been in. On windy days it can affect you even if your walking close to the beach.
As we head into summer the damage to local seaford providers (the seafood is fine to consume but people are wary) and cafe owners will be huge and is already starting to take effect.
Because our beaches are so close, people would go down after work for a dip or have a drink at the suburban pubs and cafes.
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ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jessica Haynes (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
From the Abstract:
"Our analysis reveals three critical success factors: (1) higher carbon prices per capita are essential for carbon reduction, (2) the necessity of penalties on carbon price per capita from EUR 20–EUR 100, and (3) expanded market coverage maximizes impact. To address global disparities, we propose a Uniform Carbon Pricing Mechanism under the Global Carbon Resilience Framework (GCRF), based on carbon price per capita tiered pricing: EUR 100/t (developed), EUR 30–50 (developing), and EUR 5–15 (least-developed countries). This balanced system supports vulnerable regions while cutting emissions, proving that fair carbon pricing is crucial for climate goals and economic stability."
Those points look sane, to me.
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Forty-two killed as bus crashes on South Africa mountain pass
N1 crash: Forty-two Zimbabweans and Malawians killed after bus veers off road in South Africa
The dead were nationals of Zimbabwe and Malawi returning home, officials say.Khanyisile Ngcobo (BBC News)
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India and Canada reset ties after strain of Sikh leader's murder
Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties
Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.Neyaz Farooquee (BBC News)
German club condemns fan behaviour after tourists attacked
Dublin: FC Schalke 04 fans' behaviour condemned after tourists attacked
The incident on Abbey Street was said to have happened on Saturday, as supporters marched through the city centre.Mike McBride (BBC News)
Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan tells BBC
Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan says
In an exclusive interview with BBC Panorama, the king says a two-state solution is the only answer.Fergal Keane (BBC News)
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At least 27 people killed in fierce clashes between Hamas and clan members
Gaza City clashes between Hamas and clan members leave 27 dead
At least 27 people have been killed in one of the most violent internal confrontations since Israeli troops withdrew.Rushdi Abualouf (BBC News)
Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary electionsJon Henley (The Guardian)
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Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say
Mexico floods leave at least 64 dead and 65 missing, authorities say
Overflowing rivers swept through entire villages, triggered landslides and swept away roads and bridgesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Trump’s stance on Gaza shifted after Israel’s attack on Qatar — a close ally where he and his family have key business deals.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
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Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist"
Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist" - LGBTQ Nation
The politicians held signs that said "genocide" and "recognize Palestine" while Trump spoke.Daniel Villarreal (LGBTQ Nation)
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Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50903066
Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables
Carmakers accused in huge UK lawsuits of cheating diesel emissions tests
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50902884
Owners of diesel vehicles made by Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Nissan, Renault and the Stellantis-owned brands Peugeot and Citroen between 2012 and 2017 allege the companies cheated emissions tests.The manufacturers are accused of using unlawful "defeat devices", which detected when vehicles were being tested and ensured nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions were kept within legal limits under test conditions.
Powering the deadly EV boom: 30,000 Chinese migrant workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44006161
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Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry, which has sprung up in the last decade. Just as critical minerals crisscross the globe before they’re incorporated into cutting-edge products, so too do some of the people who make the world’s green dreams a reality.
[According] to more than a dozen of these Chinese workers and their family members, as well as Indonesian labor leaders who have negotiated factory conditions with top Chinese executives [it was found] that, even following fatal accidents at the smelters, efforts to improve working conditions have been slow, hindered by a lack of oversight from companies, governments, and international labor groups that were dependent on U.S. funding terminated by the Trump administration. We also obtained an internal company review of a nickel smelter expansion that shows facilities are likely spreading pollution and illness well beyond factory walls. Despite the challenges, new nickel processing plants continue to emerge in Indonesia and hire from China.
Before joining Indonesia’s nickel rush, most of these Chinese men had spent almost all their lives in their home country, working in declining steel factories. [...] they had never before owned a passport or boarded a flight. Their leap into the nickel refining industry has helped create entire towns on remote islands in Indonesia, and it’s made them an unlikely backbone of the world’s green energy transition.
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Nickel is a crucial component of EV batteries and energy storage systems. More nickel in an EV battery pack means longer mileage and improved performance from a single charge.
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Indonesian workers, the Chinese companies that run the nickel factories, and international labor and environmental organizations have been attempting to improve working and living conditions. But the few changes that have taken place have come slowly. And such efforts have been hamstrung by the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which terminated almost all international grants from the U.S. Department of Labor. Those grants funded various initiatives to improve labor rights, occupational safety, and health, including in Indonesia.
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“Tsingshan [Holding Group, a Chinese metal and stainless steel giant Tsingshan that was among the first companies to set up production in Indonesia in the early 2010s] started to snatch up economically strained factory workers nonstop in droves,” said Jiahui Zeng, an anthropologist studying eastern Indonesia’s nickel belt at Tsinghua University in China. “For Chinese nickel workers, migration is pushed by family pressure, such as buying an apartment in a better school district for their children or preparing for a son’s marriage.” But these pressures make Chinese workers extremely vulnerable.
“Terrified of losing their income, they are reluctant to organize and wary of speaking out in Indonesia,” she added.
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[Chinese migrant worker] Wong recalled the instructor telling them there were more than 40 accidents in the industrial parks [in Indonesia] each year that resulted in severe injuries and even deaths. [...] “I didn’t understand much at the time,” said Wong.
But before long, Wong had two close calls of his own. First, he burned the back of his right hand when metallic liquid from the furnace splashed at the exit of the waste tunnel as he was walking past. And one night after heavy rain, soon after he clocked out and left the furnace, Wong stepped on what he thought was a puddle, only to find out that it was a neck-deep pond. Not knowing how to swim, he was only able to save himself by grabbing a nearby pole and pulling himself out of the water.
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Some workers he knew weren’t so lucky. An Indonesian colleague suffered severe injuries to his fingers after disregarding safety protocols to manually fix a glitch in the pouring chain. Another Chinese worker walked onto the top of an electric furnace in wet working boots and was instantly electrocuted into unconsciousness.
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[A] review showed workers at the nickel-processing facilities, as well as residents nearby, were increasingly seeking care for respiratory diseases like tuberculosis, acute pharyngitis, and acute rhinitis. Despite the industrial park being operated by multibillion-dollar corporations, the villages surrounding it still lacked wastewater drainage systems and access to clean water. In six villages outside the complex, a quarter of the residents live less than 30 feet from polluted water sources, and 41% of the residents have symptoms of dry cough.
In 12 nearby villages, the number of children with signs of stunted growth due to malnutrition and gastrointestinal infections increased by 50% in two years. “Officials and agencies know about all this,” an environmental consultant and author of part of the report, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution at work, told Grist. Hardly any of the health and environmental risks were present before the construction of the Morowali Industrial Park [in Indonesia] they said.
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Yet as eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry grows, Chinese migrant workers still don’t have a seat at the table in discussions about their careers and safety.
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Chinese migrant workers drive Indonesia’s nickel industry for EVs - Rest of World
Over 30,000 Chinese workers travel to Indonesia’s remote islands to work in nickel smelters, fueling the global EV transition while facing dangerous conditions.Kate Bubacz (Rest of World)
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I guess if it looks like something commissioned by the oil industry, people assume it is. The headline looks like something a bot would link me to try to convince me how "an electric car is the same as an f150 in the end".
Mining nickel looks like it sucks and there's some real consequences to it, but I feel like I'm hearing about it for an other reason.
Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.
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It’s back! The 2027 Chevy Bolt gets an all-new LFP battery, but what else?
255 miles of range, new infotainment, but where did all the torque go?Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns
cross-posted from: lemmings.world/post/35384425
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Russia ready for 'hot confrontation' with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns
"We can’t simply wait and assume that a potential Russian attack won't come before 2029," German intelligence chief Martin Jaeger said. "We’re already under fire today."Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
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Germans say Russia plans to invade any day, likely tomorrow.
uh huh, Germany to annex poland when?
lots of fucking cretins in this thread smdh
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Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50900195
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Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.
Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.
“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.
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Worked for a chinese company and here to tell you- that is their approach, always has been.
Wouldn't be surprised if everything the "western execs" saw was a charade put on especially for them that falls apart as easily as Elon's cybertrucks on closer inspection. Don't believe everything you see at an expo or read in The Telegraph.
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in reply to Señor Mono • • •You can strip ISOs of some bloat but you cannot strip M$ out of it
, tho. And there's always a chance an update adds it back in.
I had outlook appear back on one of my laptops after an update. I had removed it ages ago. Some services do the same.
So, are you going to limit updates too? That'll make it vulnerable.
My point is, it's just going to be cat and mouse game with "cleaning or stripping" Windows.
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in reply to 0_o7 • • •See, I run a stripped Windows for playing games that don’t run under linux. I update it regularly and nothing intrusive was re-added by updates.
The other systems I use are linux and macOS, with each OS having its purpose.
In acknowledge that Linux is not intrusive and that you have to have PiHoles and other DNS sinkholes for a basic protection, which is hard for regular people. But in the end you have to look at peoples needs and if somebody insists he needs Windows, and you are knowledgeable in IT stuff, make it as secure and clutter free as possible.
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in reply to Señor Mono • • •mullvad's free dns. free for all, not just their subscribers. encrypted doh or dot only. a basic ad and malware blocking dns sinkhole is a fairly simple configuration away if your os supports it (win11 and android do.. those are what i've set it up on for others so far).
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DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS
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in reply to theorangeninja • • •I had already dabbled in Linux on and off years back. I already wanted to switch, but I'm a moron at computer stuff, so Linux was always a bit out of reach. Too much to learn and memorize for the basic things I needed it for. (addendum: We're talking about 25 years ago)
But Win 10 annoyed the piss out of me. Like, to the point of breaking my laptop in a fit of explosive anger. I'm not usually a "throw-the-controller" kind of guy. But that shit got to me.
So around the time Win 11 was first announced, I decided to give Linux yet another shot. And lo and behold, I found Mint. Everything was setup and streamlined exactly for a moron like myself. It was literally easier and more straight forward than Windows.
And with a little bit of reading and copy/pasting commands smarter people than myself have written around the internet, pretty much any problem I've encountered have been solved within a few minutes.
So I recommend Mint to anyone looking for alternatives to Win 11.
It has been good to me.
And a big Thank You to all the glorious nerds that take the time to not on only make this, but also take the time to help us hapless dummies fix the small problems we encounter in the process of switching.
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(This is not an insult. Quite the opposite)
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in reply to theorangeninja • • •Moved family mostly to Zorin. I stay with Tumbleweed.
Keeping Windows on dual boot for some edge cases. For the app or two that doesn't run with Linux I keep Windows in a virtual machine (which sadly I need once or twice a day).
95% of my daily business runs on Linux.
Now I wish my phone would do that too.
dubyakay
in reply to Einar • • •Einar
in reply to dubyakay • • •Work. Sadly Linux cannot run most Windows Store apps.
And there's some niche software that runs, but crashes too much for my liking. So unfortunately in these cases: Windows.
dubyakay
in reply to Einar • • •Well damn.
My hatred of Windows got so much in the past two years, when I abandoned ship last year for Linux (using Arch btw), I was ready to ditch software that was not available native, without even bothering with trying to run them through Wine. In the end I had to abandon three of my absolute favourite software, totalcmd, notepad++ and foobar2000. Luckily I was able to replace them with nearly similar quality equivalents in Krusader, Kate and DeaDBeeF. Bit less polished, but very configurable.
My work requires me to have a windows based laptop or a Macbook. They've told me that they've been trying Fedora workstation before, but supposedly the VPN doesn't work on it. I've checked and the VPN expressly supports certain distro, including fedora. But they've simply disabled VPN access from non-win/mac based systems since. I suspect there's either some skill issue or something fishy going on. I know they are monitoring incoming and outgoing files to the system via some tool, which may indeed be not supported on Linux workstations. However the way I use this laptop is simply by accessing it through RDP, and then share files between it and my personal desktop via SMB on LAN, and no one ever complained. I have the lid closed on it all the time. So in essence I just use it like a terminal, and only run work related webportals through a browser on it, like JIRA and shit. Most of my work related to our platform I'm running on my own desktop, because it's significantly faster.
Not sure what I'd do if I still had to run Windows or even VMs for stuff.
KernelTale
in reply to theorangeninja • • •untidy_configuration
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I hosted an endof10.org event at my local public library. Advertised like crazy, posting flyers around town, posting online, etc. I had over 30 USB installers ready to go with Debian 13. I was worried that I was advertising too much and wouldn't have room for everyone.
Only 2 people showed up, and neither were prepared to go through with an install. In a town with well over 70k people and a major university, I expected more.
Now I'm thinking an event like this would only be viable in a major metropolitan area.
In my circle of friends and family, I only knew of one person who was faced with the Windows 10 dilemma, and he chose to purchase new hardware (granted he's nearly 80 years old).
the_q
in reply to untidy_configuration • • •cyborganism
in reply to untidy_configuration • • •PlutoniumAcid
in reply to cyborganism • • •No offense, but this question is what is holding many people back that would otherwise be on the fence or ready to go.
If there were just Mac / Windows / Linux, it would be an easy sell.
But we have Mac / Windows / two million Linux flavors.
It does not matter which one you pick, it is bound to cause questions or issues. And once you've chosen a Linux flavor, someone asks you why you chose that desktop and not foobar9000 instead which everyone knows runs much better on your Linux flavor anyway.
I honestly think that Linux' biggest enemy is Linux. Sure, choice is good, but this is too much. Way too much.
cyborganism
in reply to PlutoniumAcid • • •While I agree with you, my question implied that Debian might not be the right choice for beginners. It's not that easy to use compared to Mint that comes with many quality of life features which makes it the perfect introduction to Linux.
All the important software is there, you have all the necessary codecs to play the most popular media files, you have an easy to use software store with a friendly interface, and you don't have any complicated concepts like immutable or atomic OS.
LeFantome
in reply to PlutoniumAcid • • •I understand your frustration. And I agree that choice is an impediment to adoption.
That said, I am not that comment deserved your reply.
As far as I can tell, the OP was only offering one option—Debian. So your concern does not apply there.
And the next comment did not suggest having more options or adding confusing choices either. I think they were ok with offering just one distro. They just wanted to know why the single recommendation was not Mint.
He was not asking a new user why they chose Debian. He was asking the Linux expert why he chose Debian over Mint. Your comment does not seem to apply.
There is nothing wrong with Debian so I certainly think it is an acceptable choice. That said, Mint probably would offer a less jarring transition than Debian for Windows users. Mint defaults to Cinnamon (very Windows like). Debian defaults to GNOME (a less familiar desktop metaphor). Mint also comes with just a few extra tools and touches that can keep new users off the command line (unless they want to go there).
And if you like Debian, LMDE gives you Debian with the Mint GUI and tools.
Honestly, it seems like a fair question.
If you are only going to give them one option, why not one more likely to work for them? Them being everyday Windows users.
And all that said…I do agree that keeping it simple is the most important thing and offering a single recommendation is the right strategy regardless of which distro you choose to recommend.
spaciouscoder78
in reply to cyborganism • • •Debian is a stable operating system and as user friendly as mint once you get past the installation.
Mint also uses a Ubuntu base but Debian has better quality of packages and is less likely to break.
LMDE is also a good option in this case
cyborganism
in reply to spaciouscoder78 • • •Yeah Debian is stable, but it also doesn't come with an easy to use app store or pre-installed codecs for multimedia.
The installation process isn't exactly user friendly either. And if you plan to use BTRFS with Timeshift for easy snapshot creation, you have to do some pretty technical stuff.
And finally, there's stable and stable. Linux Mint being Ubuntu based is already VERY stable, but you still get fairly recent packages. With Debian you have to wait much longer for the latest software.
spaciouscoder78
in reply to cyborganism • • •Wdym not user friendly? I use Debian everyday and the stuff you were talking about dates back to the bullseye days.
Trixie is a lot more user friendly and even includes the calamares installer now which is a GUI installer that’s similar to mint’s one
It also comes with gnome software and you can enable flatpaks with 2 commands. I don’t see how that’s not user friendly in any way.
Of course nonfree software is a different case but you can always use snap or flatpak for it
frongt
in reply to untidy_configuration • • •Yeah nobody in real life really cares about this. Anyone techie enough has already replaced their system and runs Win11, or has already switched to Linux themselves.
Anyone not techie enough doesn't care and will continue using Win10 (or just follow the Windows nagging and buy a new PC from Best Buy).
eatCasserole
in reply to frongt • • •LeFantome
in reply to untidy_configuration • • •CodenameDarlen
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I'm still using Windows on dual-boot with Arch because of games, that's the only reason. I've Windows 10 LTSC IoT, which is the most debloated version available, plus I ran a debloater script, so the OS is basically raw now, no Microsoft account linked.
Unfortunately Windows still gets more performance, at least on my experience, I've a Laptop 16GB RAM, Hybrid GPU (GeForce 1650 4VRAM + AMD).
I'm still not prepared to give up from this little extra performance just to switch to Linux, it really makes a difference, and I pass the whole day dealing with Linux so at the end of the day I just want to boot into something that just works without major tweaks.
I know it's not Linux fault, but most games are made to run better on Windows. If and when W10 become unusable, I'll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it's my last Windows.
altkey (he\him)
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Depending on your usage, it may mean years, especially as it's IoT that iirc has longer update cycle.
Microsoft didn't lock anything meaningful behind w11 upgrade, like they did with DirectX versions, RAM limits etc. So as long as your software doesn't drop Win10 support (like Steam dropped Win7 just a couple of years ago), you'd be fine.
It would be pretty interesting to see where Linux would be by that time tho.
lonesomeCat
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I got my new laptop back in April, had a Windows 11 preinstalled (I wish it wasn't the case, it would've been cheaper but it's very rare to find OS-less PCs in my country)
Anyway, I prepared a Fedora installation before the laptop got home, booted Windows once to make sure everything (regarding hardware) works, and the rest is history.
Tenderizer78
in reply to lonesomeCat • • •lonesomeCat
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •cyborganism
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I've been dual booting since 2000 starting with Mandrake. Then Ubuntu and stuck with it or Xubuntu or Kununtu ever since.
I had been using win 10 a lot more when I eventually installed it. It was a great OS in my opinion. Until it wasn't because Microshits decided to make it bad. I was getting angry with that and learned last year that it would reach EOL this October. So I booted in Linux and started experiencing with Steam and Proton and Bottles and I was blown away by how easy it had become and how well the games played. So last December I wiped the disk, installed Kubuntu 24.04 and it's been a great experience ever since. Honestly it's insane how easy it has become. To think I had to recompile my kernel to have all the features of my hardware back in the early 2000s. LoL!
I tried to convince my GF to move to Linux but she can't due to her job. It's complicated.
mybuttnolie
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Broken
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I switched to Linux about a year ago.
I was a windows power user and now I'm a Linux noob, but couldn't be happier.
I hate to say it, but there's still reasoning to have Windows. I use a VM with ameliorated windows running for the few things I can't get away from.
For others, I tell them my story. Most people I talk to won't or can't make the switch, which I'm respectful of. To those that would benefit, I recommend at the minimum O&O Shutup but highly recommend ameliorated. This has been more welcomed.
People won't care until they have a reason to care. I'll still be around when they do.
chillpanzee
in reply to Broken • • •For sure. There's a lot of software that's built for Windows only. I have some Garmin aviation software that only works on Windows or Mac. It's pretty shit software, but I have to use it, and since I can do windows in a VM, that's what I use. Similarly, there's another bit of software I use all the time that's only built for iPad. So I have an iPad for that app. There's not always a choice.
Kr4u7
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Distrochooser
distrochooser.deCreat
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I've finally swapped over my main personal (gaming) PC 6+ months ago. Should've probably done that a lot sooner, but lazy. I knew I wouldn't upgrade my Win 10 to 11, and didn't wanna wait until the last minute, but have fallback options and time to distro hop if needed.
I'm not new to Linux at all, as most servers I'm running (personally or in my job) are Linux based. Debian, usually, cause servers. But I haven't used a Linux desktop in well over 20 years.
My choice fell on CachyOS, as I wanted something pre-configured for performance/gaming/wine, but kinda dislike fedora (rules out Bazzite, Nobara, and actual fedora). Also in the running was PikaOS, but I tried CachyOS first and stuck with it. I had no experience with Arch, but what a brilliant base that turns out to be for me. Love the rolling up-to-date-ness and AUR accessibility. I'm used to having to contort myself to get a more current version of software, possibly compiling from source and screwing with dependencies, but everything is literally just there and up to date. Critically, all games basically just worked. Everything just worked. EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.
I do use the EoL of win 10 as an opportunity to get people to move over or at least try it out. Depending on their use case, I usually still recommend Mint for non-technical people, mostly because searching for help from a Windows convertee likely finds appropriate solutions. The more technical ones get personalized recommendations, depending on context. For example I do have a colleague who spends half his day complaining about anything Microsoft, but still uses Windows at home, but that is mostly because of a single piece of software (and so far I haven't been able to get that to run, but haven't tried very hard yet either).
Domi
in reply to Creat • • •What's wrong with Thunderbird/Betterbird?
antimongo
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Unfortunately still have to use W11 for some anti-cheat games I play with friends 🙁
But being forced to update to 11 motivated me to come back to Linux on a PC. I already have a little homelab with all the flavors, but was wondering how it would game on my desktop.
Ultimately went with Debian + KDE on a second SSD, and it’s just awesome. Especially coming from WSL on my desktop, it’s just so seamless.
Had a little trouble getting Nvidia drivers for my relatively new card (Debian’s latest proprietary driver still didn’t support it lol), so I had to use the official Nvidia repo. And it was a little tricky signing it for Secure Boot, but other than that, awesome.
Need to run better side-by-side tests, but it at least feels like a 10% or so performance improvement.
Thank you Linux! And fuck Fortnite, release a Linux port already!
chillpanzee
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I would help if asked, but I'm not out there trying to convince people. This isn't the first Windows version to be EOLd, and Apple and Android have all but convinced people that a 2-3 year hardware replacement cycle is normal. I just don't think this is a significant consumer event at all.
Yeah, but I wouldn't say "switched" is the right word for me. I've been using a variety of OSes for personal and work for a long time. I worked in embedded software, and we had to support a variety of build toolchains for different host OSes and different target OSes. So the idea of using a different OS on my own computer is not a big deal. Over the years it's been Solaris, BSDos, Mac, Windows, and more flavors of Linux than I can recall.
Not the question you asked, but it was gratifying when Raspberry Pi really started to take off because it was the first time that developing for a different hardware arch and OS target was going mainstream. I would enthusiastically help people with that sort of thing. But even fewer ask. lol
normalexit
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I used windows 10 on my gaming PC for many years. I "upgraded" to 11, and it felt bad. The UI/ux was tolerable, but between the AI features and everything requiring a Microsoft account, it got on my nerves quickly.
I literally just wanted to upgrade the firmware on my Xbox one controller (so it'd work in Linux..) and that forced a login. At that point I logged in, upgraded my controller, formatted as ext4, and now I rarely look back.
Every once in a while a game will crash or not be playable on Linux, but I'd trade that for being in control of the hardware I've spent thousands on over the years.
Very happy with bazzite on my htpc and a kde based distro on my main computer. I pop over to my MacBook for casual computing, but for the real stuff I'll never use windows again (barring being forced by future employers)
monovergent
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Linux on all of my main machines, so I'm grabbing the popcorn. Got LTSC for all the remaining Windows use cases: VMs, beater laptop for Windows-only stuff, and a couple of computers from family.
Most of my friends replace their computers quite frequently, so they're living blissfully unaware on Windows 11 or MacOS. The ones who do have older laptops tend to be tech-savvy enough to have figured out LTSC or Linux themselves. On one occasion, a good friend of mine had an old iMac that wasn't getting updates anymore, so I installed Debian and themed XFCE to look like MacOS, taught them the basics, and they were impressed with the result.
As for family, they're usually very happy with the Linux Mint Debian Edition that I install for them, but some I know just won't use the computer if it doesn't have their familiar Windows-specific software, so I get them started with LTSC.
I frankly have an excess of unused hardware that's piling up, which won't be helped by my access to a good source of e-waste. Old computers have already been trickling in, but I'm excited to see what's next now that the Oct 14 date has come.
muusemuuse
in reply to theorangeninja • • •The EoL doesn’t affect me. I use Linux and Mac. My work pc is windows 10 but that’s their problem.
My roommate refuses to move on. I flat out gave him an old surface pro X with win11 and a spacious new SSD. I offered to migrate him to fedora and teach him how to use it. I offered to help him pick out a new pc if he wants. No, he’ll just keep waiting 20 minutes for his old crusty Dell to boot up, then another 10 to load chrome. For updates, he said he’ll just download hacks as people post them online.
All his shit is on its own VLAN now.
someacnt
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I am a chicken, I could not make the switch for the home desktop and work computer, so I just downgraded to Windows 11. There are some financial apps that needs switching, damn.
Maybe I could convince people to let me use Linux at work..
LeFantome
in reply to someacnt • • •It is just a computer. Don’t let us nerds intimidate you. Use what you are comfortable with.
That said, you could dual boot or even just boot of a USB stick into a live Linux session. That will let you play with it and decide if it is as scary as you feared.
Linux Mint can be written to USB and booted into a live Linux session I believe.
someacnt
in reply to LeFantome • • •PearOfJudes
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Macbook/Linux user here: People (And organisations/governments) who are reasonably skilled with technology will understand that on hardware which can't use windows 11, and is stuck with windows 10 without security updates need an alternative operating system. When institutions switch to linux, they will likely contribute to the opensource project, and overall bring the user base numbers up, which will make more software developers add support for linux.
But while this should happen, it might work in microsoft's favour, (Like when Netflix stopped password sharing) meaning people, who are used to windows will just buy new windows 11 machines, overall increasing microsoft's company value. Microsoft also supports the Israel military during the genocide, and Bill Gates personally supports Trump and had close ties with Epstein, so it would be best if the general public does an accident, or purposeful boycott. Personally I buy secondhand stuff and put linux on it, if you want new stuff either buy a mac, or buy one of those new linux machines from Lenovo?
LeFantome
in reply to PearOfJudes • • •Microsoft will for sure benefit here.
Many users, especially businesses, will simply upgrade.
Some will pay for the ESU.
Some will sign up for cloud backups.
All these benefit Microsoft.
Some fairly small number will work around Microsoft’s plan by upgrading Windows 11 where they are not supposed to or finding a way to get the updates for free.
Sure, probably the biggest fraction of users will probably do nothing. But they were already doing nothing for Microsoft so nothing changes in this case. Of anything, the load in Microsoft servers goes down a bit.
So ya, Microsoft has little incentive not to charge ahead.
Ftumch
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I've been using Linux for about 25 years. I completely stopped using Windows at home more than a decade ago.
I do some volunteer work for an organisation that refurbishes old computers and gives them to people who can't afford one. For the time being we're using Rufus to bypass TPM and other hardware requirements so we can install Windows 11 on everything.
We're willing to install Linux for people who want it, but unfortunately I haven't seen that happen yet. Most of our customers have no idea what an OS is. A lot of people also need Windows for education or work. There's a free course available that teaches how to use a computer and of course that is also Windows-only.
We helped one of our colleagues to install Mint on his old laptop, though.
Cricket [he/him]
in reply to Ftumch • • •Heads up, Microsoft has stated that they do not support machines that don't meet requirements and that those machines may stop receiving security updates at any time.
adarza
in reply to Ftumch • • •not a whole lot of takers here either, and not a single one yet due to win10's "retirement".
everyone wants windows. but after that, most are pretty receptive of other foss options like libreoffice.
data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to theorangeninja • • •brax
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to brax • • •brax
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •SteakSneak
in reply to theorangeninja • • •ndupont
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I would gladly run Linux but have yet to understand why no Debian live media would ever boot on my main laptop
Occultist0178
in reply to ndupont • • •Macaroni_ninja
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Switched to Mint over a year ago from win 10 on my desktop and my wives laptop, we both love it. It was fresh, user friendly and familiar in the same time. To be fair we are pretty much average users without any specialized needs, other than gaming.
Later this year I built a new gaming pc 100% with Linux in mind. I am running Bazzite on it and it works absolutely amazing. Bazzite is currently my favourite distro. Im not a distro hopper or a big tinkerer myself, don't have time for experimenting, so not planning to switch. It just works perfectly.
onlooker
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Yes, that. As far as my circle of friends and acquaintances who are running Win10 are concerned, I've made the effort to advise them to switch to something newer for security reasons. They will probably switch to Windows 11, but that is their concern.
Phoenixz
in reply to theorangeninja • • •SocialMediaRefugee
in reply to theorangeninja • • •LeFantome
in reply to SocialMediaRefugee • • •Believe it not, Steam even works on RHEL if you use Flatpak.
But you are probably going to want to go for something a bit more current. Fedora or Bazzite may work for you as they use the same core layout and userland as RHEL. Fedora is the test bed for the ideas that go into CentOS that becomes RHEL.
Sinfaen
in reply to theorangeninja • • •Richie’s Computer Stuff
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I’ve been using Linux and macOS since 2020. I shifted my main PC from Windows 10 back in April of 2020 right as lockdowns were hitting my locale, when I discovered how much Linux gaming had improved. I was curious to see if I could make it work for myself.
At that time, I had been interested in using Linux more frequently than on random old computers that I had lying around, but my opinions on Microsoft’s and Windows’ “quirks” were… less advanced. At that time I was unconcerned about Windows telemetry and advertising, but it also wasn’t as bad then.
It took me about a week to get everything set up and ready to go and to get settled. At first, I didn’t know if it’d end up sticking. Well, it did. I started with Ubuntu, and quickly went after Pop!_OS. I used that for a while, and eventually shifted to Garuda where I still am today.
Windows 10 end of life has almost no impact on me. My mindset has shifted dramatically since I first started using Linux on my main PC. When I used to not be bothered by Windows’ telemetry I find myself strongly off-put by it. Even macOS, which some say isn’t as bad as Windows puts me off and I’d rather not use it. Having had to set up Windows 10 for someone about a year back, I saw how much worse it got. It was insufferable.
Right now, my brother and sister in law still use Windows 10. They don’t see the problem with that. My brother specifically says he’ll just keep using Windows 10, because he “doesn’t have anything important” on it (I mentioned his Steam account has linked payment info). He’s also told me that he’d rather use Windows 11 (which he hates) than give Linux a try, a stance I don’t understand. It’s clear he doesn’t really understand the situation, and he doesn’t realize that Linux is not necessarily the difficult and unfriendly OS he thinks it is.
I’d rather him use Windows 11 than Windows 10, despite how awful I know it to be. At least there’s somewhat lower risk of nasty compromise there. I also know that he does play at least a couple games with anti-cheat that explicitly block Linux, so that introduces some complexity. But, I’m done preaching. I know how it makes me look, and I’ve tried in the past to change his mind but he’s unwilling to do so, so at this point the only way he’s going to learn is for something really bad to happen. Maybe his computer gets hit by ransomeware that took advantage of an unpatched vulnerability. That might be what it takes to finally make him do something.
I hate that it’s like this. I’ve tried to tell him about the risks. He doesn’t understand the full scale of it, and he dismisses me when I try to explain it to him. But at this point, what can I do besides say “I warned you” when something goes wrong?
☂️-
in reply to theorangeninja • • •tasho
in reply to theorangeninja • • •proooobably should think about putting Bazzite on the gaming PC soon. but my partner is reluctant.
how's online gaming on linux going these days? the issues with anticheat are a bit of a pain.
FreddiesLantern
in reply to theorangeninja • • •I have used Linux for a good while around the early 2000’s. Good memories.
Fast forward to now. Bought a new laptop with W11. hated it.
(Just imagine a long list of frustrations about W11, because I’m not going to contribute anything new by saying it)
-and finally, I want my data to be mine!
And so now I get to annoy my wife about how awesome Linux is. My dad is on the train as well. We both annoy our wives with Linux.
yeehaw
in reply to FreddiesLantern • • •Man I use Windows 11 daily for work and I can't stand how fucking buggy and clunky everything is. It's so bad.
Once in a while I'll boot my Linux desktop and it's just.... Bliss. Other than that I spend a lot of time on my steam deck, love that too.
spaciouscoder78
in reply to theorangeninja • • •