I did the exact same thing. IceWM with XP skin, Firefox with an extension that changed the name in the title bar to internet explorer + a IE theme. Then Thunderbird with an outlook theme. For years they used it like this and no longer did I have to clean out viruses or remove IEs additional toolbars that plagued that era.
Occasionally I would run some updates and that was it.
WinDirStat, Notepad++, Greenshot and Filelocator pro lite (aka agent ransack) are my default programs to install on windows machines.
Criminal matrix needed you to buy access for thousands of dollars, cool matrix is free and open to anyone. Technology isn’t even the same.
I plugged in a monitor yesterday on my work laptop 's HDMI port and it did nothing. After some troubleshooting I apparently had to unplug the USB-C dock for it to work. Let’s not pretend Windows is smooth sailing all the time.
At a meeting I was given some kind of remote dongle to duplicate my screen to a monitor and it did nothing. Had to run some exe first. Again, not plug and play.
But there was always a workaround.
Is that command line stuff? Hard pass for Windows users.
Edit: I guess the Windows users didn’t like that joke
Odd, maybe it’s time to try again? I use CanvasBlocker, very apt name 😄
Just to be clear, I use Firefox.
You could also whitelist websites probably, so it works unless you explicitly tell it not to.
Yeah, but which…
I installed such a plugin after reading about fingerprinting many years ago and have not ran into any problems yet. What issues have you encountered?
Surely the communication of the device could be monitored and analyzed?
Just bought “old shit” 7th gen and 8th gen intel PC’s, complete, for 350, with gtx1080 cards. These are still pretty good. My own pc is a 7th gen intel with a 1060 and it still does everything I want with ease. It never feels slow, except for, of course, the latest games. Which I can now run on the PC’s with the 1080. I wanted to bridge a gap and found these are actually very capable for anything I throw at it.
We are trialing off brand docks. Wouldn’t be a trial otherwise 😄 these work perfect btw.
We bought some for work to trial and they cost 65€, so hardly hundreds
There’s always a MAC address, it’s just the dongle’s then.
Cool, if this works like how you are implying, then this is going to make my life a bit easier.
Arch is on the bleeding edge and it doesn’t ask for a reboot. I think it asks for a reboot to load the kernel parts that have updated. Arch probably just assumes you’ll do it eventually, but if you don’t it’ll just keep running the current kernel.
Dutch uses “do under” (onderdoen).
If you have a driver’s license, do you know a car works besides the basic maintenance that is checking your oil and keeping the tires inflated? Some people don’t even do that last one, while it’s a thing you should check regularly.
I think it’s a good thing the general public is able to use a computer without knowing the inner workings, but it also shouldn’t be obscured from them if they want to know/learn.
Yes, true.
The whole “OS update when I want an app update” is because of how dependencies work on Linux. A library is installed once and referenced by any app that wants to use it. This way, an update in the library benefits all apps using it, as bugs het fixed. Also less storage is used when the one library is used by many apps.
Windows programs keep their own versions of a library and hard link to that one. That makes the app more flexible. You can copy the app and it’s dependencies around and it will keep working. In this scenario multiple copies/versions of the same library can exist in the system, which takes more space.
Of course there is some nuance. Both operating systems can have/use shared or hard linked libraries, but this is the general gist of it.
Mhm yes, is this going to fuck up older games?