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Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

When will Commerce Secretary Sputnik shill for Windows 11 on Fox?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Hot take from an IT guy: save your important data, make a plain vanilla W11 boot USB (nothing fancy, no Rufus tricks), wipe your hard drive to zeroes, and install W11 like normal. I've reimaged a ton of older PCs and literally never seen it not work. My 10 year old Optiplex, supposedly ineligible for W11, runs W11 just fine.

Microsoft might someday break it, sure. That's not new. Microsoft products were always, in practice, available to us at Microsoft's pleasure. This is the same company that allows massgrave to exist on github because they'd rather we pirate MS Office than allow LibreOffice any oxygen. We'll probably be fine.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft is getting billions for AI datacenters (they're now turning back on) why do you buy me a fucking new PC Microsoft

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, write me a check for a new one.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

DoN't YOu gUyS hAvE TPM? Hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's get all IT people together and fight through the hassle to help friends and family switch to Linux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I've already switched my mom and grandma to Linux, and I've personally only got 1 PC still on Windows. Its days are numbered though.

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Trade in their PCs to who? Fucking Aquaman?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That excellent gag is how I discovered hbomberguy some years ago

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

What's especially funny is that he didn't even script that, he just came up with it on the spot. And now it's the joke he's most known for.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I installed linux on my PC a couple months ago. The other day I wanted to log back into my windows partition for the first time in a while in order to clean up some of the files on that partition (even though the drive is mounted in linux, the windows "fast boot" option apparently leaves it in a state that linux considers read-only). Windows apparently wouldn't let me log in without a microsoft account, instead of just using my regular windows username.