I stopped being a fan of Mutahar a while back…but am I really the only person who noted the upload date?

I’ve been fucking around with Artix in a VM trying both Runit and S6.

Having never successfully installed Arch manually before, it was easier than I thought to get a desktop up and running…getting Pipewire to work on the other hand…still working on it. >.>

Honestly think the official installation guide needs some updating. I had to go off and find other community written guides to get certain things working. And small issues like the linux-firmware package downloading Nvidia drivers on my full AMD system.

I’m still dedicated to switching from Endeavour even though that distro has been very good to me. Their official statement on the matter didn’t inspire confidence, more just shifted the blame to FOSS as a whole. No words on plans to protect users or fork/switch away from mainline SystemD when push comes to shove.

No clue, Think it’s one of those ‘Worked well enough in the past’ things they just never bothered to re-work.

I personally wish they would update it to be more globally accurate but it’s Valve so.

It’s due to how Valve conducts these surveys. Rather than pulling from the entire user pool at once, they rotate between different chunks of the userbase every month.

You’ll notice this if you look at the system language stats, The Chinese speaking population jumps and falls by a rather large percent every month.

This also could explain why Windows 10 had another jump in users this month, From what I hear internet cafes are still a popular way to game in China. and I doubt many of these places have updated all their machines to Windows 11 yet.

Minimal requirements for Linux: Linux Kernal (optional)

I actually get forced to use a Chromebook at my current job but it doesn’t really change anything since all our software is “in the cloud” accessed through Chrome.

If you ever talk to someone who’s worked in a place offering data recovery. They’ve probably met a lot of people who’ve gone through exactly that.

A surprising amount of people have put up this mental wall separating “SteamOS” from Linux.

I’ve had this conversation with multiple people and it’s being brought up again because of the Steam Machine announcement.

Some (very few) legitimately didn’t know SteamOS was a Linux distro, Or they knew it was based on Linux but thought it used a whole different user ecosystem. Like how Android is technically Linux but using it is nothing like using desktop Linux. These people I’ve found are more willing to actually look into Linux after someone’s explained to them that SteamOS is just Linux. And that there’s even SteamOS-like Linux distros you can use right now!

Then you have those who are hard-line about having Official SteamOS. And most of the time they have some misguided believe along the line of, SteamOS is Linux but Valve has fixed all the “Linux issues”. And for a lot of them you’re probably not going to get far convincing them that mainline Linux isn’t just endless command lines these days.

not wanting to go through the process of backing up files

This was a big thing when I was helping some people with Windows 10s EOL, A lot of folks just don’t have a 2nd drive to back stuff up onto.

As a compulsive data-hoarder the idea of having everything on a single drive with no backup plan, local or “cloud” based… Terrifying! You could write a horror movie about it.

From the devs Github

KMS38 has now been removed from the MAS script. Users are advised to use HWID or TSforge activation instead.

So you can still activate Windows through the other means in the script already. I dunno the ins n’ outs, of what makes one method better than another. When I checked it seemed HWID was the first option and the one most people use anyway sooooo…

Should note EndeavourOS is just Arch with an easier installer and slightly pre-configured with common dependencies installed out the box.

EndeavourOS + KDE is what got me daily driving Linux and even after using vanilla Arch for 2 months at one point, I went back to EndeavourOS because it was just less hassle.

Yeah I meant P2P my bad.

Soulseek is I2P not Torrenting, but I’ve found it to be the best place to find music by a long shot.

Edit: It’s actually P2P not I2P

If you’re willing to buy a stolen iD please just pay for a VPN.

You can pay for Mullvad by mailing them cash or buying a gift card off Amazon.

I dunno about that exact cursor but you can have a look here to see if any catch their eye.

I’ll see your Bic and raise you Zippo!

Just got my first one a while back, I bought it 2nd hand and it’s 7 years older than me and works better than any lighters I’ve borrowed off people over the years.

Replacement parts and even completely new lighter inserts still fit the original cases from the 1940s until now. And if something does break beyond you ability to repair, They got a lifetime warranty with no proof of purchase needed!

Never tried any of this before, I’ve barely touched Windows (outside of work) since 2023.

But a few of the more tech savvy people I know had done clean installs of Windows 10 LTSC IoT and recommended it.

So I just launched a VM and started looking stuff up to see if there was a way of doing it without needing a clean install. Because seems most people I know are more willing to risk running an EOL OS than actually backup their shit…

I replied to another comment explaining it.

You can use regedit to make the LTSC IoT installer think you’re already on an LTSC IoT build so it just installs without doing a clean install.

I first learnt about it from this Youtube video but they only show how to get the base LTSC version and not IoT which will get updates until 2032.

Here’s the values I used.

“CurrentBuild”=“19044”

“CurrentBuildNumber”=“19044”

“EditionID”=“IoTEnterpriseS”

“ProductName”=“Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021”

“ReleaseId”=“2009”

“DisplayVersion”=“21H2”

I have them in a registry script along with txt guide I’ve been sending to my friends. Not sure if I can directly post them here however.