its not a schooner, it’s a sailboat you idiot!

wallbase/wallhaven as well

This is a huge hit to desktop ownership of the OS. Microsoft has officially made zero-trust a reality by doing this.

I expect there will be even more news at Ignite. Bear in mind 11 has been requiring a MS account for years and 10 is in it’s final months. Pushing users to cloud only Windows allows them (and their corporate customers) complete control of the ecosystem.

How can they be in tech when they deny science and believe in mythology?

It does send a “your safety number has been updated with user” message. But not as an automated message. Only when a new signal thread is started.

Haven’t tried when only logged in to desktop and changing devices / numbers so I can’t speak to that.

I often figure it’s google bias and / or people trying to impose their threat models on other people.

Been using proton for quite a while with a few custom domains and am impressed with the service to price of their offerings.

We can one off use cases with any vendor, but at the end of the day, they offer a more secure out of the box experience than just about any other platform out there. If someone is doing illicit shit and gets popped, it’s not on the service provider to provide air cover for them. Improve your opsec or self host.

Big concern with your number being recycled and a new user receiving the signal activation key on that number.

The barrier to entry is pretty low anymore for Linux. There’s some really helpful communities here as well. I’ve ran various versions as secondary OS’es since the early 00’s and can pretty confidentially say, its never been easier.

PopOS, Mint and even Ubuntu are super easy to get up and running and Proton makes gaming a breeze like never before.

You’ve got around 9 months left on Win10 supportability. Then it will move in to LTS channels only. It was incredibly well adopted so we have to believe any open vulnerabilities will be targeted quickly and relentlessly. Sadly, we will be in a 11 only world by this time next year.

I am still so incredibly salty that my quest 1 is a paperweight because of this requirement.

It did not exist when I purchased the product. Full Stop.

When they introduced to that requirement with the quest 2 you were able to use the quest one without it with no issue. Sometime last year we tried to hook our quest one up to Steam Link and were met with a Meta Account requirement. There was no way within the UI to get around it.

In a moment of frustration, wanting to play some Beat Saber with the family, I went ahead and started the process of making a meta account only to be stopped several times along the way by various privacy layers on our network. It was insane. My PiHole about caught fire.

30 minutes in I gave up and dug out the Vive Cosmos and all 20 wires it needed. So disappointed meta is the only wireless headse with decent battery life. They ruined VR adoption for me.

Man, I don’t know honestly. I believe i first saw / read it on IRC in the 90’s…

and now I’m turning to dust. haha

Thanks for being social!!!

"Wow, how cool is it that she’s 13 and already works for the FBI! "

I built my entire cloud storage strategy around Google drive because it had very simple integration with my previous seed box provider. Like, I could run Plex from the cloud through them directly off of my Google drive and then mirror that to local storage.

Super slick and easily usable setup. In a push to completely de-google my life the past 2 years I had to figure out an effective migration strategy off of that stack.

It was a total pain in the ass. Not to mention moving the rest of the people on my family plan off of Google as well. The majority of them are fairly tech savvy and even with that in mind we struggled.

I am now 100% self-hosted and learned a shit ton about docker along the way but, I couldn’t imagine trying to do the same thing with a group of entry level users.

The last sentence resonates with me. I too wore a robe and wizard hat back in the day.

I run O&O Shut Up 10 on every install of Windows 10 and 11 I need to suffer through. There’s still a bit of manual config to remove search bar and other GUI stuff but it’s a pretty great, free tool.

You also might want to script it to run on boot as Windows loves to revert changes after updates as another commentor noted.

We had a pretty big event at Game Crazy. I think those shirts finally got retired after my kid grew out of them quite a few years ago.

I unfortunately… put them in the dryer to much throughout the years and they seem to have shrank. Yeah, that’s what happened.

Aww man, good to know! I wish we had a microcenter nearby. Closest one is at least a state away.

Maybe they’ll ship it. Haha

Went to the one in LA on a trip recently. Was awesome to see that much great music on one spot again.

It’s wild that we probably won’t see a return to those types of stores ever again. COVID really put the final nail in the coffin.

As an avid Bawls drinker, I 100% agree with this sentiment.

Oh yeah man, GameStop was at the forefront of what the industry as a whole is doing now. Acquiring, consuming, shitting out a husk.

I’m of 2 minds with GameStop nowadays. On one hand, it’s somewhat nice to still have a physical game store. On the other, it’s fucking GameStop and all the baggage that comes with that.

I don’t see much of a future for physical shops at this point. Especially with Best Buy, Walmart and Kroger phasing out retail space.

Soon we’ll have nothing but digital and subscription and I guess we’ll like it? I’ll hold on to my dragons hoard of physical games as long as I can (thanks Game Crazy for employing new throughout high school) but it’ll be painful the day I realize I’m no longer adding new stuff to it.