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TimeSquirrel, to linux in How come Windows and macOS users don't have to enter their password every time they need administrator privileges?

Yeah, and NT was pretty much just a corporate and government thing throughout the 90s. It wasn't until XP that home users got it on the desktop, and even then, the first user created automatically had all admin rights, because people were still used to the Win9x/DOS way of doing things. Separation of different accounts with different privilege levels wasn't a widespread practice up until maybe Windows Vista.

TimeSquirrel, to linux in How come Windows and macOS users don't have to enter their password every time they need administrator privileges?

Oh yeah, there are advantages to each, despite the bickering and camps we put ourselves into. It all comes down to what abilities you're gonna lose, and what you're gonna gain when making the decision.

For me, I rarely game, and I do a lot of hobby electronics and programming, so Linux is a good fit. There's so many cool open source programmer utilities out there.

For my wife, it fits not so much.

TimeSquirrel, (edited ) to linux in How come Windows and macOS users don't have to enter their password every time they need administrator privileges?

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That's nice, but this ain't MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.

Sorry but 20 years of "but this isn't exactly like Winders11!!!one!" starts to grate on me. It's a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they've completely forgotten about because it's second nature.

I don't WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.

TimeSquirrel, to linux in What are your must-have programs?

Keep reading:

The term "app" usually refers to applications for mobile devices such as phones.

TimeSquirrel, to linux in What are your must-have programs?
TimeSquirrel, to linux in What are your must-have programs?

They are called "programs", not "apps". The word "app" was created for the iPhone and originally meant a "mini" slimmed down application meant for mobile devices, not a catch-all term for any user program running on a CPU.

/getoffmylawn

TimeSquirrel, (edited ) to politics in Trump loudly booed at Libertarian convention when he asks attendees to ‘nominate me or at least vote for me’

"We also want to be racist and stomp on the working class, but we also still want to smoke weed." - that about sums them up. They got me because of that single issue back in the Ron Paul days before I looked deeper into everything else they were about.

Then I discovered libertarian socialism, when the whole Occupy Wallstreet thing went down. I liked that one better. Couldn't figure out why America's official "Libertarian" party were being such asskissers to capitalist power.

TimeSquirrel, to politics in ‘A deranged fringe movement’: what is Maga communism, the online ideology platformed by Tucker Carlson?

“If you’re a political movement and you want to get supporters at a time when socialism is attracting more and more interest, well, you might be tempted to grab hold at least of the name,” Wolff said, noting that this was a strategy most famously used by Adolf Hitler during his rise to power.

Yeah. That's why they called themselves National "Socialists". To suck up ignorant working class votes. I mean, they are even openly admitting following the same strategy now and everybody is still sleeping...WTF.

TimeSquirrel, (edited ) to politics in DeSantis and Moody announce state investigation of Starbucks' DEI practices • Florida Phoenix

I can't fucking imagine being this enraged about dumb stupid shit like this all the fucking time. I noticed this about a lot of right wingers. Whereas most centrists and leftists will just go about their day like a normal fucking person, to a conservative, every god damn thing is politically against them and something to spend angry energy on. Politics is literally all some of them know.

Like literally, Ill be in a casual conversation at work, completely unrelated to politics, like talking about how shitty the drivers in the city are, and some goddamn conservative will pop up and start blaming the "woke libruls" for it. I imagine them shouting at imaginary strawmen whenever they stub their toes (yes, I know that's also a strawman, but I'm sticking to it).

The worst are the racist ones who will start spouting racist shit at you just because you're also white, so they think you're "one of them".

Edit: reminds me of this https://i.imgur.com/EPHhxAB.png

TimeSquirrel, to linux in 2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready?

Back to the 80s/early 90s where the only people using computers were the ones that actually knew how to use computers? Hell yes, take me back.

TimeSquirrel, (edited ) to politics in RFK Jr. accuses Biden and Trump of 'colluding' to exclude him from debates

This is it. That is the man's legacy now. His tombstone will read "brainworm guy".

Not sure what he thought he had to gain by divulging that info.

BTW guys sorry I was off the Fediverse for a while, had to go get some polyps removed...big'uns too, size of a golf ball. /s

TimeSquirrel, (edited ) to linux in Every time I search for a USB key, I end up finding the ones flashed with OS ISOs! I don't have a normal key anymore lol

What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?

I don't know, but the amount of USB drives I've seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉

I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.

TimeSquirrel, (edited ) to politics in Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again?

supporting the terrorist Hamas organization.

Is this something you're gonna back up and show us is actually happening, or just a random brain fart? And before you reply, all Palestinians != Hamas.

TimeSquirrel, to politics in Senate considers making Black Wall Street a national monument

Literally just learned about it now. After 42 years of ignorance.

TimeSquirrel, (edited ) to linux in Every time I search for a USB key, I end up finding the ones flashed with OS ISOs! I don't have a normal key anymore lol

That'd make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.

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