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| schestowitz[TR2] | "The Microsoft trolls are on the loose at Ghacks.net comment sections.. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There's so few Linux news there currently, but oh when it hits the M$ sock | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | puppets are on the loose! | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Here is but a preview: | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ++ Story: "End of 10" Project's aim is to help Windows 10 users keep their | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | PCs running for years | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | URL: | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.ghacks.net/2025/05/08/end-of-10-projects-aim-is-to-help-windows | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -10-users-keep-their-pcs-running-for-years/ | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.ghacks.net/2025/05/08/end-of-10-projects-aim-is-to-help-windows | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -10-users-keep-their-pcs-running-for-years/#comment-4594182 | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Anonymous said on May 8, 2025 at 6:40 pm | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | LOL | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | this seems to be the same lame strategy the firefox fanboys started to do | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | when MV3 appeared, making it seem like they would gain significant | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | marketshare… and guess what? nothing happened, no, nobody is going to | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | really move to linux, in fact, it doesn’t even make sense. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | No, Windows 10 will not stop working only because the ‘support is | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | over’, some programs will start asking Windows 11+, but that will require | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | years just like with windows 8 and 7 which was done like 2 years ago even | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | if they died years ago. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That’s the only thing, if apps start asking for Windows 11, because not | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | receiving updates is not a negative it is a plus for some people. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If you are going to downgrade to an inferior OS, that barely has any | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | software support because most professional software is either Windows or | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Mac, and in some cases Windows only…. it just sounds like a ridiculous | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | attempt to change OS, when you can easily just upgrade to 11, with rufus or | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | something. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I have windows 11 in a 10 year old computer, missing the TPM module and | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | with an old CPU obviously, and it is running okay, I have WSL and all | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | running there because I need to build some stuff that was made for Linux | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and there is no point to troubleshoot it when I can just do it through WSL | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | in the terminal. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | These kind of attempts are so ridiculous, because it is known that people | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | can just install Linux un old computers, and some people have done it… | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | but do they care? no. Also, they make words like “help users keep | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | blabla” when Linux is full of issues when it comes to hardware | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | compatibility, yeah… hardware can run, but will it run as it should? I | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | can install Windows in old hardware but it doesn’t mean that will get GPU | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | drivers to work correctly and I will have to stay using basic display | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | driver, same with audio. So only because something runs, doesn’t mean it | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | is running as it should, and this is the reason why Linux people are always | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | having issues about everything, like running Chromium browsers properly | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | with hardware acceleration. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In the end, people just care about how easy is to run their software, | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | especially if they only have Mac/Windows versions, if the program runs, | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | then nothing else matters, and if you can upgrade to Windows 11 by removing | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the restrictions and keep all your programs running and the license will | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | work fine, then why would anyone with 3 braincells will downgrade to Linux? | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Just look how many people would rather run an ‘unlicensed’ Windows with | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | a watermark (even if it is easy to use massgravel to get a HWID Windows | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | license and even upgrade licenses from Home to Pro for example), but they | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | never sat and said “oh maybe Linux will work better” no… not many | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | care, Windows is still and will always be a superior OS because it just | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | works, and you can still disable everything that is not needed and make it | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | so light that it will not run anything else, of course, with how easy is to | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | upgrade computer components now, what is the point but running Windows with | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | just CMD and no Explorer will obviously save resources and run less stuff | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | in the background if needed, disabling any other service that is not needed | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and using 3rd party apps to make things easy like Far manager or something. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | But anyway, maybe 3 persons will go Linux? it’s always a clown show when | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | people start saying how happy they are without Windows, but still asking | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | questions how to use X or Y program in Linux or find alternatives because | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | their software either runs like crap or you have to do a lot of things to | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | make something run, when in Windows it just worked. Just look the | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | difference of Windows + WSL vs Linux with non-native Windows programs | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | through a lot of hacks…. it’s a totally different experience, and | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it’s just this lame human “Microsoft sucks” that seem to blind the | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | low IQ people into believing running terminal for every little situation is | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | actually useful and cool, even if it is just to fix sounds issues or to | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | make Chromium browsers work properly, etc etc.." | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ## | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.ghacks.net/2025/05/08/end-of-10-projects-aim-is-to-help-windows | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -10-users-keep-their-pcs-running-for-years/#comment-4594256 | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Winberg said on May 11, 2025 at 12:34 pm | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH “Mr Anonymous LOL” – “Windows is still and | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | will always be a superior OS because it just works, and you can still | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | disable everything that is not needed and make it so light that it will not | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | run anything else” – Because to me anything that is customisable, be it | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | OS or Browser, suits me, which is why Windows and Firefox remain my choice. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There was long time ago when I experimented with multiple versions of | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Linux, and I literally hated it, because to me it was like switching from | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | English to Chinese, and I assume this didn’t change in new versions. It | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | doesn’t mean that Linux is bad, it’s just not for a user, for decades | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | accustomed to Windows, which even “English language” I can understand, | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | vs Linux “gibberish Chinese”. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Aside of that Windows have huge support from alternate sources, on which I | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | rely, completely ignoring Ms support. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I prefer the way how I can customise Windows by slimming them down and | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | disabling (throwing out) everything I don’t like. Windows firewall | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | handled with WFC is great, and protects enough that I don’t need AV SW… | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | which I am not using from the day when AV SW became permanently connected | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to their servers like oxygen line to the deep diver suite… and with this | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they became like intruder in a home. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Also I completely disable updates, and never had any problems, because | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | everything works. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Of course, I am not an average user, I think I am quite advanced, although | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | far from real gurus, or those with programing skills, but I think that I | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | managed to tame my Windows to the level they keep quiet, unable to call Ms | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “mommy & daddy”. Same I am doing with Firefox, and up to now both | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | behave." | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ############# | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ++ Story: KDE is welcoming Windows 10 exiles to switch to Linux | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | URL: | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/05/kde-is-welcoming-windows-10-exiles-to-swi | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | tch-to-linux/ | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/05/kde-is-welcoming-windows-10-exiles-to-swi | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | tch-to-linux/#comment-4594796 | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Blame Richard M. Stallman said on June 5, 2025 at 3:01 pm | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Minor detail is that KDE is just a veneer desktop environment (with a few | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | native apps), sitting on top of generic Linux underpinnings. Installing any | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | complete GNU Linux OS by a novice, non geek is totally dependent on an | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | heroic Linux installer. If it fails or misses in any way or in part, then | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the end user will then most certainly need to learn the more esoteric | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | underpinnings of the OS. Including having to understand and navigate the | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | command line/terminal’s cryptic drudgery. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To a novice, it’s a crap-shoot at best whether all your devices will be | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | found and properly configured. All that before you can even try to evaluate | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | whether the alternative apps/programs available will meet your even basic | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | needs. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Windows is the complete OS. And even though Microsoft has become more and | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | more controlling and user hostile over the years, Windows remains the only | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | viable desktop OS environment for most end users. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A complete GNU Linux Desktop OS could have been a real competitor to | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Windows but was held back by Richard M. Stallman of the FSF Free Software | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Foundation. The FSF is the only entity that could have pulled all the | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | needed players under one tent for a generic Linux desktop. But RMS was such | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | an unmitigated acerbic A-Hole, demanding that only Free/Libre software | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | could be used on any system he would endorse/allow. Absolutely prohibiting | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | any closed source applications or binaries. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Had he allowed them in an official FSF end user desktop, Linux would have | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | taken off. | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I’ve always refer to this attitude as his absolute prohibition on | Jun 07 05:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | allowing OS training wheels."" | Jun 07 05:29 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "The situation she ran into a few decades ago | Jun 07 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | matches rather closely to crazy Matt, though she was able to shut one down | Jun 07 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | permanently though other means. | Jun 07 06:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | She does not know the details of crazy matt just the general, ongoing problem" | Jun 07 06:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx1b6zt6 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | PIP | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | How come some go straight to PIP while others start on structured coaching plan as first step? | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 547 views | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | 4 replies (last 1 day ago) | Reply | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @OP+1jx1b6zt6 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Click to get Alert when there is a new reply. | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 replies (most recent on top) | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It depends on how quickly that unit leader needs to get costs off the books. | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+4/-1) | Reply | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @c5+1jx1b6zt6 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They don’t go by white straight male now that trump is in power. It’s still over 40 and mostly white but females too now | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 8 reactions (+8/-0) | Reply | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @bx+1jx1b6zt6 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +18 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | White straight male over 40 = PIP. IBM views and judges and hires/fires based on age, skin color, race etc. Sadly. | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 18 reactions (+18/-0) | Reply | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a8+1jx1b6zt6 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Jun 07 15:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Local legal requirements very from region to region. Eg US employee are ‘at will’ but EU employees have rigorous employment laws and rights. However a pip should never be a surprise. | Jun 07 15:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx1b6zt6 ) | Jun 07 15:44 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | How Top CEOs Use Language To Lead And Inspire | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AK even being ranked is laughable. He's a a total B.S. artist. | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2025/03/26/how-top-ceos-use-language-to-lead-and-inspire/ | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Mar 26, 2025, 09:00am EDT | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The 25 Smartest CEOs in America (Ranked) | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind Krishna, IBM (Score: 73.50) | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Computer science fundamentals inform Krishna's structured approach to technology transformation. His precision makes complex discussions on enterprise computing accessible to non-technical audiences. | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 190 views | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | 3 replies (last 1 day ago) | Reply | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @OP+1jx0qkjv6 | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Click to get Alert when there is a new reply. | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 replies (most recent on top) | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Its a list of the most promising privately-held companies | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @de+1jx0qkjv6 | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Here's another Forbes list, the Top 50 AI companies: | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.forbes.com/lists/ai50/ | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Guess who's not on the list. | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 day ago by Anonymous | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @d8+1jx0qkjv6 | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Alvind couldn't lead or inspire a troop of rabid baboons, so it's a wonder he even made the list. Slob Thomas could dance around in his hoodie to show his lack of dancing talent to the baboons. And meanwhile the obese Krabanaugh would be stuffing his pie-hole with baboon droppings to show the IBM F&O commitment to global recycling. | Jun 07 15:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx0qkjv6 | Jun 07 15:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.forbes.com | How Top CEOs Use Language To Lead And Inspire | Jun 07 15:45 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.forbes.com | NO TITLE | Jun 07 15:46 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx0qkjv6 ) | Jun 07 15:46 | |
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