Hilarious bad-word filtering of the link right there! For anyone wondering: the link will only work if you replace the “removed” part with the word describing a female dog.

Hannah Montana, Knoppix… a man of culture I see…

I’ll open a ticket with Mozilla.

…who wants to see the world burn!

can that be done without Grub on a primary boot partition or the user accessing BIOS?

I was assuming you’d just write GRUB onto the primary disk and set Hannah Montana Linux (lol, excellent choice of distro!) as the only boot option (because who needs os-prober and a selection timeout when you’ve got the best of distros on disk, amirite?).

I suppose the most problematic part is the partitioning you handwaved as “ok”. Afair, Windows does not allow for live-resizing of the system partition (as it should). But I suppose there are ways around that, particularly if you’ve got another drive or spare partition of adequate size. (OEM recovery partitions come to mind; as much as 10 GB can be enough for a viable Linux system partition.)

Apologies. I’ve seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.

As for “how would it work”: on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.

Made the switch when Windows 7 went EOL. Helped plenty of others make the switch now before 10 was killed off. Life is good indeed.

So, basically Microsoft’s “we know what’s best for you” style? No. Fuck that, no matter the purpose.

Junkies high on venture capital, begging for their next hit.

I think many companies are basically stuck with Microsoft (Excel, Word, Teams, Sharepoint, Onedrive etc).

Tbh, office and collaboration tools are the least of our worries; there are plenty of good alternatives which, with some financial support, can be adapted to suit companies’ needs in very little time. What should worry us more are the tons of critical applications tailored to a very specific area of administration and business. The software that runs the power plants and hospitals. The software that manages logistics and industrialised production. The software that runs our accounting and HR. That’s the Windows lock-in that we’re not going to shake off over night.

Oh, that and the hardware vendors + hyperscalers…

Europe is not ready for what that will cost.

Not true. We’ve seen the U.S. leverage big tech against its perceived enemies by shutting them down remotely. Unless Europe bends over backwards to serve the U.S. fascists’ every whim, this form of blackmail-by-proxy is going to continue, and it’s only going to get worse.

So the calculation is not: “cost of switching” vs. “cost of continuing the existing vendor lock-in”.

It is: “cost of switching” vs. “cost of shutting down operations for good”.

It’s really easy maths if you break it down to its core. It’s maths that even the most bone-headed of our leaders and business “experts” can do. That is, unless they’re peddling somebody else’s agenda…

But I’m an American so what do I know?

You know much more about the world around you than the orange turd that claims to be the leader of the free world. Don’t sell yourself short, mate! It’ll take people like you to rebuild once this is over.

The “C” in “CSU” is for “corruption”.

They believe in trickle down economics despite all evidence pointing to it making everything worse.

It is high time we switch to Pinata economics.

“Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts” [NYT @ archive]

This is all you need to know: these self-proclaimed defenders of free speech are full of shit.

About damn time. People need to stop dancing around the orange turd and his cronies, desperately trying to appease them.

There is for both desktop and mobile Firefox.

To, in, and about.

I assume device drivers, but probably it is much more complicated than that

Yes, device drivers are an issue. Reverse engineering them is a bitch and slows you down, particularly if you want to support a wide range of models and those models keep getting hardware updates.

But that’s not all, software ecosystem is another big one. Android and iOS have seen two decades of people developing software for them. In order for them to want to port their software over to your cleanSlateOS, it would have to have a significant user base. And in order for cleanSlateOS to draw that significant user base, it would have to have an attractive suite of apps to run on it. It’s a catch-22.

You could, in theory, try to develop emulators or compatibility layers so that Android apps will also run on cleanSlateOS. But that, again, is time-consuming, will never be free of friction, and require you to make compromises with regard to security and privacy (many apps simply don’t run properly without Google’s main piece of spyware, the Play Services). It will also kind of tie you to Google again - and that was the thing you were trying to get away from in the first place…

I’m anti trusting any U.S. law these days.

Exactly! I can no longer read ads for crypto scams, right-wing misinformation and porn bot spam? Do not threaten me with a good time.

Never used it.

Started self-hosting Navidrome.

Never gonna use it.