If you’ve got a spare quarter-hour, take a listen to the disquiet all those gifts can cause.

Yeah, it’s also exactly what the EU and it’s predecessors exist to prevent. We’ve never had a period of prolonged peace in Europe like we have now. And these utter fucking slabs want to undo it.

SUKBRICK sounds like a demeaning act that we brought on ourselves so lets go with that.

WFM. Looks like you’re using Let’s Encrypt, which is fine, and everything seems to be consistent. I think you’re good.

<Sips licence like a fine wine served at a dinner party.> Ah, yes, GPLv3, exquisite choice.

I don’t know why but I thought they were some special inaccessible computers.

It’s their marketing. Marketing, marketing, bullshit and marketing. Macs get viruses, Macs have vulnerabilities, Macs crash. Doesn’t matter how much their indoctrinated fans might claim otherwise, Macs are just weird PCs. In that context, their refusal to allow their owners to control them is all the more jarring and makes owning the older models like you mentioned all the more sensible.

“Federation” is like “non-fungible token”. Everyone knows what it is, but they’ve never heard it called that.

For locked-down devices, they’ll be running LTSC or LTSB editions (Long-Term Support Channel/Branch), or Windows Embedded, which are simplified and heavily customisable versions of Windows. For general-purpose devices, they’ll be using Pro or Enterprise versions of Windows which, crucially, support Group Policy. Using GP it is very, very easy for a single admin to configure an arbitrarily large number of Windows machines to work exactly how they want them to work, including configuration options that aren’t otherwise exposed to the end user in any way.

Edit: just to add: the lack of an equivalent of Group Policy is what is preventing Linux becoming widespread in businesses. If you think you know of a service for Linux that works like Group Policy, then you don’t know Group Policy.

It’s the Express, so you can safely ignore it.

Recent front page headlines from the Express (if some of these aren’t real yet, they will be at some point):

• Evil EU Bastards Forcing Millions Of Innocent Brits Out Of Retirement Homes
• Revealed: Why The Woke Leftist BBC Won’t Heap Praise On The Neo-Nazis
• Statins Found To Cure Cancer, But Why Won’t The NHS Supply Them?
• Out-Of-Touch Woke BBC Bosses Ban Cockfighting
• Frage BLASTS Starmer, EU: “Britain Should Be Free To Take Statins.”
• Join The Express’s Campain To Get LIFESAVING STATINS On The NHS.
• EXPOSED: The £1,000,000-a-Night Hotel That Illegal Immigants Are Being Housed Near
• Farage Hails Latest Brexit Victory: “It Hurt The EU Too”
• Statins Add Ninety Years To Life, But Kier Starmer, EU Wants You Dead
• Exclusive: BBC Pervert Bosses License Fee Funded Sex Pit Imagined.
• So-Called NHS So-Called Experts Say: Statins Dangerous. The Express Says: Hunt Them.
• Collapsing EU in SHAMBLES As Trade Deal Blows Up In Their Dirty Foreign Faces As Euro PLUMMETS 0.002%
• Farage: Trade Deal Deaths “Will Only Make Britain Stronger”
• Express Success: NHS Statin Trial To Begin.
• Another Brexit Victory: Brown People Die At Sea
• NHS Statin Deaths: Why Did Kier Starmer, EU Do This To Us?
• All Foreigners Are Rapists

Tom Hunt, if you’re reading this, I’ve just done your job for the next year.

winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox --accept-package-agreements already works prefectly.

Can you raise both your arms above your head? Do you smell burnt toast?

Netscape.

Anyone else remember this badboy?

For the uninitiated, BrowserChoice.eu was a popup and associated website that Microsoft was forced to create by the EU courts becasue of their monopoly in 2010.

Also, an opinion: Edge was a great browser even before they switched to Chromium. I wish they’d kept at it so there was a better variety of rendering engines out there.

Tgese Nuts lmao gottem

Relevant xkcd:

“Lies”. Just “lies”.

Wow. For real, I always just assumed that .com was the commercial arm of .org. Holy shit.

Edit: So, for anyone curious, .com is owned by Automattic, who also own Tumblr, Beeper, PocketCasts and Buddy Press. The WordPress project and .org are owned by the WordPress Foundation. Automattic makes some contributions to the WordPress project but they and the WP Foundation are seperate.

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Unfortunately, there’s no friction-free way to migrate. On Mastodon, for example, you can migrate between instances by exchanging codes between your old and new accounts and, in time, your posts, comments, memberships, followers, etc will move across automatically. On Lemmy, however, that’s not an option and you start from fresh with on the new instance.

Demand GDPR. No ifs, no buts. Its even written in several languages.