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Download the ISO from MS, make bootable USB with Rufus. After clicking Start you can choose local account only, bypass TPM and RAM reqs, etc
- Fin
E I guess not fin. Massgrave
I recently set up quite a few friends and family with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise licenses thanks to MassG. Told them if they don’t get updates past next Tuesday to let me know.
I did the same for my Windows 10 PC… It says my 3-6 year ESU is active, but I get the bug in the setting screen saying Windows no longer gets updates… But I got a defender update the other day! Cautiously optimistic
rufus can download the latest 10 or 11 iso direct from ms servers (incorporating the fido ps1 script, made by the same guy), so you only need rufus and a flash drive.
Didn’t click the link.
Why are they taking these videos down?
Rumor has it their garbage AI thinks they are hacking techniques.
Why are they removing hacking videos? Have they always done that? IT help videos are the cornerstone of why YouTube has any redeeming value these days. I know, I know, I shouldn’t use it, but sometimes it is the only place that has the info you need.
Like a wise man once said FAFO
Load Linux. Leave microsloth to die
Weird that Google would be doing Microsoft a solid like this
It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
Come join us in Linux.
😉
Come on! It’s fun! And pretty frustrating at times. You’ll hate it. And then love it. Then hate. It’s called emotional balance and it makes character, or some shit, I dunno.
Just get the penguin already.
TBF the penguin is kinda hot.
I’d fuck it.
Once I updated to OpenSUSE 15 everything was working so well it got boring, because there was no fixes or no tweaks needed, I had to start some other projects to keep me occupied.
It has progressed a lot lately, IMO. If I don’t wander away and try to do some weird stuff and just use it as a classic os, well for me I haven’t had a single issue for a very long time.
Everyone expresses this frustration with Linux, but I’ve used it alongside Windows for years and it’s Windows that has caused me by far the most headaches. I think many people would be pleasantly surprised by pretty much any mainstream Linux distro.
Wasn’t Google trying to get their own OS off the ground? It’s in their business interest for people to switch from Windows to elsewhere.
Fuschia, I think it was called. Their own Linux like OS, but with all their own custom tools
gotta check it out
Fuschia did get used on some of their smart home stuff that they’ve shifted focus away from. I suspect they were just building a dedicated embedded OS to standardize on for non-phone gadgets that don’t need full fat android
Sounds like a worse version of both Android and ChromeOS.
It’s not about business interests. We live in the age of fiat currency and these are trillion dollar companies that do almost nothing of value. It’s about control and surveillance and for forcing the peasants to use the algorithms. Competition is a fantasy taught in reganomics classes in college. The reality is these companies are a giant cartel that want to manage all the workers and brainwash us and absolutely will protect each other. It’s not just companies but politics as well. What is the democratic nominee doing right now? Talking about why trans women should be allowed to compete with women in sports. They couldn’t find a more offensive topic to make sure Trump wins again.
facts. cartel economy is the biggest problem and it cannot be solved without proper legislation. the worst thing is that those cartel are basically the government so good luck doing anything about that.
It’s not in their interest for people to switch to something actually good that they will want to stay on, though.
the paradox of capitalism. can’t just have a good thing because that doesn’t perpetually generate money at scale.
Me in 2026: diving into the dark web to find an instruction manual
They took control of the digital town square and now its a prison. Monopolitistic shithole corporate vampire behavior.
“Freedom is dead. Freedom remains dead. And we’ve killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?”
-Nietzsche 2026
Firefox based and Chromium addon to redirect YouTube and other links to privacy alternatives. Works for Firefox based browsers on Android too.
Invidious suck ass, instances don’t work most of the time
inv.nadeko.net isn’t terribly unreliable, but I usually eliminate most of the other instances from the libredirect list.
Invidious won’t let you play a video that youtube itself removed
It’s almost like all of the big gigantic companies are in cahoots with one another and then one day…BOOM!..they bought all the governments.
We could see back in the 1980s that corporations were becoming more powerful than governments. And that power imbalance has only continued to become more extreme since then.
I saw it a lot further back in France, but they were called institutions back then, not corporations. A rose by any other name. It gives me hope that the sleeping giant (the citizenry) can only be pushed so far.
Seems like this war is going to take longer than expected
Time for Peertube to shine!
Only if people can find the videos.
That indeed is a huge problem. Whenever I try peertube, I get zero search results and I don’t know whether it is because there are so few videos or because the indexing is so badly done or because people do not provide metadata with their uploads…
I use NewPipe on android and while it is slow to the point of annoyance it is usable. Also completely stopped my doomscrolling so now I am forced to enjoy and appreciate the little things in life like love and friendship ughhhh
I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.
Sometimes by the time I’ve tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.
It depends on the instance, since most PeerTube instances are very limited in their federation with other instances. Check out this link: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115 and pick one of them.
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This is another reason why we have got to stop centralizing everything on the web. When you reply on these platforms, you have lost all autonomy over your brand, data and content. And they get to decide what you see and do. We need to go back to everybody hosting (self-hosting or paid hosting) their own data, content and building out their own communities again. I also miss going to more than 3 websites a day.
It’s easier than ever to make your own website. You could vibe code one up super fast and throw up some images or videos.
Getting people to see the stuff you make is the major hurdle. These platforms have that benefit because everyone is already there.
Not to mention if you were able to get traffic to your site it probably won’t scale well lol.
That being said you should all be making web sites! Things were better when there were more places to go
You’re correct on the being seen part, but maybe this would involve retraining people to start using a different search engine that works. But I know most of this is will never see the light of day, but maybe one day we can hope for a better future for the internet.
I do fear, with AI now replacing search by many people, what will the internet look like in the next 5 years. Scary to think what that will look like.
Stop uploading content to YouTube - there are other hosts
Sure. You could upload it to peer-tube, and have it be seen by a whole 11 people!
Why not both, it’s not like The Internet Police will stop you.
That would be great for those 11 people.
In this case, you could upload it to YouTube where it will be taken down and seen by a whole no people
No no. It’ll still be seen by thousands before it’s taken down.
Thousands of bots.
Also it has to get around the many rules Youtube itself has for the all mighty algorithm.
A little ironic that this comment posted on Lemmy (tiny competitor to reddit)
Viewers go where the content is, yes, but you don’t get content on alternative sites if you don’t post there.
YouTube in the old days was awesome. Then Google happened to it. When it first started it was quite small.
Principles matter!
What’s wrong with that?
There was a time Youtube videos would only be seen by 11 people. But it grew because people posted videos anyway.
It grew because it was the only platform that did it.
If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.
If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won’t get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.
YouTube was not the only platform back then but I agree it dwarfs what is around now
there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.
it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don’t remember.
other platforms rose up around their success, but I’m pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.
I was going to say vimeo but checked the dates to make sure I remembered right - looks like it was up even before youtube 2004 vs 2005.
oh wow, i thought for sure it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.
Wasn’t dailymotion and liveleak around before YouTube? And it took YouTube some time before it became the mammoth it is now
Hey man, the playing-pinball-while-a-cat-interferes peertube community is very close-knit (https://video.apz.fi/).
I kid, but it’s true that peertube lacks the dopamine hooks and variety that youtube does. It’s much harder to sink hours into watching a bunch of videos that you’ll only half remember by the next day.
Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.
As a Floridian, I have to use a VPN for that.
Blocked in 23 states, unless you want to hand over your digital ID.
So for what, 100 million people vs 8 billion, it’s a problem.
I’ll take that.
no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.
we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.
I don’t care if anything I’ve ever posted is blocked in 50 states. Americans assume they are the center of the world.
Contrary to popular American belief, the USA is not the center of the Universe
they’re not important
Microsoft Account gets FUCKED by huge command line penetration
Honestly? If anyone could make a rival for YouTube it would be a big porn hosting site.
The infrastructure is already there. Just need to buy another domain and throw money at it.
I dont think anyone will rival youtube, pornhubs infrastructure is no where near youtubes, like at all.
I dont think you need to overtake YouTube on day 1. Do you?
The only competitor I could see YouTube getting is if Twitch decided to chase that route. The only companies with the global infrastructure required for a service as fast as YouTube’s are Amazon, Microsoft (and Google).
Microsoft gave up on Mixer, so I don’t see them ever trying to take on YouTube. Amazon have Twitch, which as mentioned, could try to take on YouTube. But even with owning their own servers and just running them at cost, it would be a massive undertaking and investment.
There’s a tremendous amount of work to do, that these companies are not going to throw money at for decades just to compete for YouTube’s profit margins, which apparently aren’t that big (if they even exist).
Sites can exist alongside YouTube, We see a lot of smaller video hosting sites, like Dailymotion, but something would have to go seriously wrong at YouTube for any of them to grow meaningfully and become actual competitors.
I’d like a competitor as much as anybody, but I’m just being realistic here. Don’t underestimate the size of YouTube.
Better yet, this would be much better and easier to host as written instructions.
