GhettoComputers

I was wrong the new ones do have software but nothing official, so its not really baked as much as random distros from random people.

I went from Win7 to LTSB, then upgraded to LTSC (for gpu passthrough) but still hated it for some reason, mainly needing to undo windows changes and various issues that should have been defaults. I went to KDE and use windows only for some Win software that didn’t work on VM or wine.

I miss Windows 2000 Pro, it wasn’t bloated, pretty fast, didn’t crash and had the fewest problems.

Not surprised, there’s some very capable chips that aren’t fully utilized, I think a lot of smart watches have a certain Nordic chip too. Know of any more ESP like chips?

Don’t forget classicshell!

Thanks! I don’t remember mine having it but it had been a while, the unlocked bootloader is a security threat that xiaomi had where malware was flashed, so it’s probably a good idea they don’t ship with software for security reasons, it’s such an easy target.

In history it has been the most productive and innovative, because research and development takes time and money. The wright brothers are patent trolls who prevented the US from making plane designs, but without them we wouldn’t have modern flight. If we took away this incentive I doubt the world would be better. Currently you have this system where countries that don’t respect patents will just make it anyway, the US did against Europe and China does against the US.

Asia did not have patents and Europeans did. If my ideas aren’t my own and anyone can copy it, I wouldn’t want to put efforts into something others will clone.

I think patents are a necessary evil at least enough of it to make innovations, but foreign copycats and bootlegs serve this market well.

Where is the evidence that the outcome is desirable or a solution?

Because most people are heterosexual. If this was an article on health problems for overweight people who make a significant amount in the west you could say they’re not giving enough exposure to underweight people who should be equal represented.

In the gay space, it’s actually the opposite, receivers are disproportionately weaker, more men would like to be fucked than to fuck.

Is this really an issue? I clicked the help files in windows and it always opened in IE6. It wasn’t more than an annoyance. Can you uninstall edge? I think it’s a sensationalist topic, it’s closing a potential security hole if FF or other browsers aren’t updated.

Do I agree with it? No, I use Linux but it’s really not an issue that hasn’t been around and isn’t easily ignored, and many people may never encounter it.

Look up Windows LTSC, it’s like Win10 that acts like Win7

Free update. Better Linux subsystem support, an android emulator better than anything on Linux, good performance, easy to bypass TPM, lots of software support (since it’s emulating Linux lol).

I say this as a Linux user who doesn’t use windows except for some Win only programs that VM and wine can’t run.

What does it ship with? I don’t thing mine did, and Pine64’s philosophy was we make the hardware, you make the software, aside from PineBook’s KDE edition off the top of my head.

To be fair amazon did that to someone on HN, and it happens to many accounts, but PayPal... man they’re on another level. I got locked for no reason.

It came before they were hackable. I have been following it for years. It was fun seeing cheap Chinese smart devices being exposed and each WiFi enabled one would have an ESP8266 and only it aside from some SMD capacitors and resistors. I’m not saying they were sold as hackable. I’m saying they were deciphered easily as the only microcontroller required for the smart devices.

Most SBC don’t come with software.

> In this case, I definitely interpreted it as "baked into PinePhone" like the commenter.

Pinephone doesn’t make software, it just makes hardware. It’s philosophy is they make hardware that’s easy to hack. All the software is community maintained and not official.

They still are simple ttl-to-wifi bridges aren't they? They just had more processing power, it needed to be stronger than an arduino to run a web server and control with wifi. I don't think it was hidden as much as underutilized, like the linksys routers.

I didn't say they were sold as programmable/hackable. They were used in many simple smart devices like bulbs and power controllers already without any other microcontrollers. It was pretty obvious that it was doing all the work.

>But I've never used Linux in a desktop UI environment. Ever. Always been an MS Windows guy. But Windows 11?

Use KDE, it's just like windows but better.

>I think my biggest fear are driver issues and having to convert a ton of files over to new formats for things I use to run my business. (Lots of MS Excel files for example). I use Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel) and Microsoft Visual Studio (F# Development) heavily. Excel is my biggest worry. And fighting with driver issues.

Use a windows VM if you have to, or just use MS's office cloud in browser or some electron app. The kernel is the driver, there are no driver installs except from nvidia off the top of my head. Everything just works. If you can use a server with linux you are fine.

>Anyone here convert from Windows to Linux? What kind of issues did you run into? Should I do it?

Yes, 10 to Kubuntu 18.04, no issues at all, less setup, miss foobar2000 and installed deadbeef instead.

>Perhaps most importantly: Which Linux distro should I choose, and which desktop environment?

Kubuntu 20.04 LTS is easy as a windows user, and if you want to use still use Windows I suggest Windows 10 LTSC.

There are no good micropayments, much of it is going to be eaten by fees, and paypal friends and family might work but they always are shady with banning accounts.

You can have cash gift cards codes for reaching a tier so you can send payments of $5 or $10 off the top of my head, but seeing a bunch of .03 cent transactions would just annoy me.

From what I know, they were not for embedded systems, they were the embedded systems. They are just powerful arduino with wifi.

Really? It was pretty obvious, my guilded comments and gold stats even says that donation paid for an amount of server time.

I agree with you, but understand the critique others used. The problem is standardization, if you need special hardware to do things you get fragmentation. For the people who rely on the other cartridges, those games are all standardized. The SNES had optional networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview, and the PS2 also had an optional expansion bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_Expansion_Bay that would limit all games from utilizing it, and also as a requirement it would prevent much adaption.

Whats the point of developing on a device that needs lots of other parts that most people won't have? Its like selling a game system with no controllers and each controller can be used for only a few games (like eyefi).

This is why I don't bother with seeing m.2 SSDs enhancing online gameplay for faster loading. You always wait for the weakest and slowest loading game and network to start.

Why should you trust any technology that is designed to zombify children into inactivity and media consumption?

>That's not really comparable, these are trivial exploits that can probably be targeted with a 100-line program, or less.

I feel like it would be newsworthy if they were trivial, or we'd see more of them. Today there was a story on malware on Pinephone, a device almost nobody has that didn't cost any money to anyone. If they were trivial, it would be utilized more and we wouldn't need to care about the wayland issues as much since the alternative is worst.

I tried wayland just because of this thread, and I got 2 crashes within minutes.

Aren't a lot of vehicles already not supposed to be on highways?

> > some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize

No, ad blocking

Yeah the ESP is like what I wanted in the arduino. A WiFi module would have cost so much more for that hardware.

Geohot who made comma.ai mentioned this but I may be paraphrasing it differently. He said stopping at stop signs is very hard. https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/07/comma-ai-launches-comma-t...