Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Microsoft Windows Worst Spyware Ever... So Far!!" video.

  1. I've seen so many comments from people saying, "That's it, I'm switching to Linux." I hope even a tenth of them do and that they don't choose something dumb like Arch, Nix or Holo for their first distro—we veteran members of Club 🐧 owe it to these newbies to suggest Mint, Pop or Nobara as Baby's First GNU. Don't worry—the true neckbeards among them will find their way out of the kiddie pool when they're ready.
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  2.  @helloimatapir  I think we're talking past each other—I'm also saying Mint is great for an out-of-the-box experience and that neckbeards will learn to distrohop on their own
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  3. Didn't you see? It allows you to set a blocklist—just make sure to be specific about which particular fetish sites it should know not to record, and it will happily comply... at least until the next Windows update.
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  4.  @The_Wandering_Nerd  The funny thing is that that's a myth—frogs on a pot of slowly boiling water will jump out!
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  5. The fun part will be to see what the feds start doing for their own systems. As Brodie mentions, this kind of tracking is a nightmare for anyone who works on confidential (or in this case: classified) projects.
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  6. > we just need OEMS to adopt Linux Oh you sweet summer child. If past is prologue, the only laptops that OEMs will stick Linux on is the factory-fresh eWaste that doesn't meet the Windows Copilot minimum requirements. People will buy these laptops and will assume that they're đŸ’© because of the OS, and it'll be 2011 all over again.
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  7.  @manitoba-op4jx  My God. There are people who are unironically nostalgic for Windows Vista?! I feel old. I need to sit down.
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  8. No need to wait. There are already multi-modal systems based on Apache-licensed models (like llama and Mistral), and, as a recent Tech Over Tea episode discussed, ffmpeg can be scripted to do screenshots!
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  9. You are not their customer—their shareholders are. You know that old adage, "Either you pay for something or you're the product"? Nadella—really Ballmer long before him—literally pulled a "Âżpor quĂ© no los dos?"
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  10. OBS fed into a local multi-modal llama? If you have the hardware and the storage, I can think of worse experiments.
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  11. Point of fact: a not-insignificant number of Brodie viewers literally did not have brains—or eyes or limbs—20 years ago.
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  12.  @MarquisDeSang  I'm saying that 20 years ago these kids hadn't even been born.
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  13. Intel says their Lunar Lake APUs meet the 40 TOPS requirement, and AMD already has NPUs in their mobile systems, so this isn't going to be limited to ARM.
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  14. Definitely good to have when developing and debugging, but once you've got your build process solid, GitHub Actions (I know, owned by Microsol) is ace for not needing that local VM.
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  15. Welcome, penguin chick! Your rainbow knee-socks are in the mail.
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  16. ​ @Ozzy_Helix_ Holo is a garbage desktop OS. It's a console OS with an immutable filesystem and an entirely arbitrary update cadence.
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  17.  @Ozzy_Helix_  Plenty of great OS's for OEMs—Dell and HP sell 1-2 SKUs that ship with Ububtu, and Pop is literally a distro developed by an OEM. But most makes don't want to take the risk.
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  18. ​ @jeonghutamilim2259 My point was that we don't want to be forging digital refugees in a crucible. We want to be welcoming them with open arms and rainbow knee-socks.
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  19. Windows 7 was a mighty fine OS. Though I didn't use it much outside of VMs, my experience with it was that it did its job and otherwise stayed out of the way. That's something I can't even say about a lot of modern Linux distros these days.
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