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Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too

It's time to switch sides, and break away from this cycle of endless upgrades. Our new guide walks you through installing a Linux-based operating system—keeping your computer secure long after Microsoft walks away

ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Instal

installing mainstream Linux distros isn't arcane knowledge, if you can take a covid rapid test you can install Linux. Nerdy misogynists on the internet just want you too think its harder than it is, too inflate their own egos.
There is a windows program style installer and step by step instructions on the distros website. the most complex part is putting the install file on a thumbdrive which is fixed by ventoy

my day was kinda fucking shit, so I'm drinking mezcal and pineapple orange juice. there is a lot of mezcal in it 😐

It's very strange how covid exposed a lot of things - like how governments could just spend without having the money, or how that money then flows to the wealthiest in society, or how work (and life) can slow down but won't collapse society - but we seem to have chosen to have not seen all that and gone back to the way it was and then turning the dial to 11...

White people have a real tendency to gaslight folks who aren't perfect Aryan excellence.

If you aren't white, or you're the wrong kind of white person, if you criticize someone's bigotry, "you're ruining the mood". "You're being rude".

Hey, @frameworkcomputer -- since you like big tents, you should also welcome krita, even if the maintainer is a trans woman.

After all, you use Krita in your 12 laptop page...

So, how about you start sponsoring us, too? I think that becoming a corporate sponsor would be great?

Let's talk euros!

its totally fine that these yt euros are charging more than apple is cause that's just how much it costs. it totally doesn't reflect poorly on their political views at all. how you dare say appl I mean frame isn't the best tech company 😑😑😑😐😐😐😐😐😑😑😑😑😑

is foss too political? no, foss is political. like this is built on an ideology about what models of control we desire and how to bring those about. thats politics. also half your shit is written by trans women

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