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Rambler OP wrote
Never too late to adopt. Widows XP sp3 was the last Windows OS I've ran, and haven't looked back since. Though I'll admit that I like simple desktop environments like MATE and XFCE to replicate the classic and familiar navigation that I grew used to from Windows NT 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and XP.
For newcomers you can't really go wrong with something like Pop_OS, Ubuntu or Mint. They seem to have good support and are really new-user friendly communities behind them.
Toxicant wrote
i have a on again off again relation with Mint.
Kalchaya wrote
Try MX Linux:
https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=FFrG7FAeQ-A
I found it to have slightly more intuitive layout than Linux Mint, which required less searching to find what I needed. For example, I was easily able to figure out how to ditch the gawd-awful Firefox, and replace it with Waterfox...I have yet to successfully do the same in Linux Mint.
Toxicant wrote
I'll have to check those out.
Wahaha wrote
Did you skip Win98 or how did that abomination not manage to push you away to Linux?
Rambler OP wrote
I was young and was probably running Win98 with the Yahoo! and Ask! toolbars, with a cool Comet Cursor so I could update my Angelfire site while downloading over Napster. Using Yahoo, MSN and ICQ messengers to connect with my friends from school.
But I could play Age Of Empires and Quake, so that's all I really cared about.
Wahaha wrote
I think at the time MSN and ICQ were a thing that existed, Win98 was already obsolete. But I could remember wrong.
As far as I remember, Win98 wasn't even capable of connecting to the Internet out of the box.
Wingless wrote
I've already lost track of how many spy codes are in images. There are so many ways of burying "metadata" in those formats - it's what they were MADE for - and programs that claim to "strip" it are probably "accidentally" forgetting something.
This looks like one more whack at it - I'm not sure from reading that it is a tremendously NEW thing - I'm not sure how they plan to change, say, a .GIF file (not that that didn't have open-ended spy data storage protocols built in already). Are they doing so?
smartypants wrote
claim to "strip" it are probably "accidentally" forgetting something
True, especially not just protecting against steganographic high freq noise , but imparting a color table inefficiency of color pallete to encode guid info and simple checksum.
always be wary of the "optimized color table" of compressed images.
The best solution is to have a tool rerender and image, rotate slightly, recrop slightly, add high contrast checkboard border, and over-mix clumpy white noise blended speckle and then save using your own (not the graphics card library) jpeg or png compression for color table choices.
.... not that I ever have anything to hide or anything.
spc50 wrote
Microsoft talking about disinformation?????? What do we have here...
We have a once monopoly company, plus a 'creative' company that is so far up average internet users a$$ with ads and profiling, then the mouthpiece of MI-6.
Blah blah blah.
Anti fake news.
When did Microsoft ever care about open source and standards? Had to reverse engineer much of their stuff to have Open Source alternatives and viewers.
Fuck these companies. Fuck their founders. Fuck that fake organization too.
Wahaha wrote
If you use Adobe anything you have only yourself to blame. It's a contender for worst software creator in all of human history.
spc50 wrote
Javascript creation is decent competition. If Planned Parenthood were holding an adult termination program I'd select both of them.
AWiggerInTime wrote
I can't wait to go to prison for a fukken meme.
Next up:
With our users in mind, Soybook has disabled uploading untagged media files (known also as raw files) to prevent misinformation and harassment. Exceptions are allowed through our customer service reps, who are happy to take your call any time of the day!
I'm so fucking sick of this shit. At this rate any danknet will be illegal in 3 years and encryption will be only allowed through a proprietary HTTP extension that (serverside) will be licensed strictly to enterprises.
Morpheus wake me up plz, the dream world sucks even more
Toxicant wrote
That will be my final push to switch to linux