I’m a pretty tall guy, my hands are big

Thank god! Touch screens on the stuff in cars are a huge pain in the ass if you have hands as big as mine and the icons are all tiny

god damn right!

Greed. And the genuine belief that “the world is not enough”

Yeah, AI is really just a surveillance tool than anything else.

When AI “creates” something, it’s just pulling up things related to words you typed in and making an amalgamation of what you typed in out of what it has.

The real purpose is for corporations and governments to look through people’s devices and online storage at super speed.

this is why you all need to be using end-to-end encrypted storage for everything and VPNs with perfect forward secrecy

do your own research into the history of each provider of those things before you buy it

those things are very poorly made and all the most important parts are made of cheap plastic that an average person can literally rip off with his or her bare hands

adguard for windows, which is also available on CrappleComputers and I think it’s also on linux

they cracked down on adblockers, adblockers got better.

They’re trying to get around adblockers again, adblockers will get better again

having it with any ability to connect to your phone at all is dumb. Why does everything have to be connected to everything else all the time to work? Oh right…surveillance from advertising companies

why does it need an app? Why not just have a button on the shoe that pulls the laces into their chambers and forget about connecting it to your phone?

firmware updates that come through windows update are from your PC’s manufacturer.

I’ve heard that some antivirus programs, such as comodo, can sometimes cause that to happen after certain windows updates.

This is why you need to delay your windows updates with the group policy editor…Or policy plus if you don’t have windows pro

You still need to configure things in every linux distro to make it work. And apple doesn’t allow you to configure anything that matters at all

O&OShutup10++ can now be used to disable windows recall as well

you can use O&O shutup10++ to disable recall now

you can disable recall in regedit by adding a key and a DWord 32 bit value

fuck with the algorithm make it show ads for porno and then they’ll stop doing it

keep poisoning AI until it’s useless to everyone.

why are they leaving something like this up to the states?

Return free filing is really hard to find, every time I need to pay my taxes again, it gets harder and harder to find.

And not just that, but each distro of linux has its own quirks and each one is compatible with a different list of brands of hardware. you could brick your system if you install the wrong distro on the wrong hardware, like down to the bios

And contrary to popular belief, LINUX CAN GET MALWARE JUST AS EASILY AS WINDOWS CAN.

With windows, there’s a 30 year history of malware infections and there’s several good choices for windows based antivirus programs, and three amazing ones. The people who work at those antivirus companies know how vulnerable windows is and so they’re always working on improving their software…at least the good ones are, but those same antivirus programs on linux don’t have nearly as much stuff in them to fight against APTs most linux versions of great antivirus programs like comodo and kaspersky are gutted down to just a regular antivirus with heuristics, no zero-day threat protection at all, you’re completely dependent on how fast the new malware can get added to the blacklist.

But on windows, if you use comodo and know how to configure it and understand that it will never pop up unless something might be wrong, you’re always prepared for zero-day threats and even zero-hour threats.

Linux used to be super secure, simply because there were so few people using it or even aware of it, but with every linux distro being open source, malware-makers can make all kinds of exploit kits for it in record time, because there’s no trial an error like there is on windows, at this point in time, no antivirus company is really prepared to deal with zero-day linux malware.

But windows users, even stupid ones know that you need an antivirus program on windows. So the malware-makers have to play a cat-and-mouse game with windows malware if they hit a decent number of systems with their malware, that malware isn’t going to be unknown for very long. And antivirus companies like bitdefender and avira, the former of which is great at adding new samples to the blacklist at super speed, and avira which isn’t as good at that anymore because they got bought by…norton? If I remember correctly, they rent their database out to other antivirus companies, Eset, another really good detector of new malware also rents their database out to other antivirus companies.

ClamAV is good at detecting linux based malware…as far as I’ve heard, but it’s useless against anything unknown to it.

windows is a pain in the ass to detail with…but that’s only if you don’t know how to work with it. Linux can be that way too. If there’s a bug in some software that fucks up parts of your OS, there’s not much support you can get from local techs, but if something like that happens with windows, there’s loads of freelance independent computer techs out there that know how to fix it.

Linux is cool, if you can make it work for you, great! But don’t act like windows is worthless. There’s ways to deal with the bloat, and there’s endless amounts of free advice on countless forums across the entire internet on how to deal with problems that come up

malware on linux is surprisingly common, more common than most people realize.

in fact, for every variety of malware for windows, there’s a version of it for many linux distros too