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Microsoft burying the settings to disable advertisements baked into the operating system of Windows 11 into three separate hard to find options menus all while using vague & deceptive wording and forced system updates to Windows 11 should be the wake-up call for consumers to start figuring out how to install and use Linux distributions.

I can recommend:

Linux Mint – For a user experience most akin to Windows

Ubuntu – For overall user-friendliness (once you get used to the changes compared to Windows) and the broadest selection of easy-to-install apps

Lubuntu – For older hardware in need of reinvigoration

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alternatives to adobe suite.

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If you're on Windows 11 like I am for my "main" computer (in my case for school purposes and because I can't get Baldur's Gate 3 to play on Linux), then you might've seen this annoying piece of AI shit show up on your taskbar:

This is Windows Copilot, and it's fulled by the same shit ChatGPT is fuelled by. There is currently no way to uninstall it, but there is a way to deactivate it completely, which I've linked below. It's very easy, and it took me like, 2 minutes to do.

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Windows 7

Windows 7 is the next release of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft.

Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware

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my apologies for the poor quality, youtube only gets you so far from a show called Screenwipe, around 2006-2008

Sony Vaio VGN-SR190 (2008)

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FB775c 17-h: 17” Color CRT Monitor by LG Electronics (1999/2000)

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reblog for the most chaos PC we can manage

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"let's finish setting up your computer" i've had this laptop since 2018 maybe you shoukd just kill yourself mr windows

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To answer your questions on the etho post

-the mouse pad is not used for the mouse , he uses it to rest his arm on because his desk is armpit height

- I don't know that there is a picture of his old setup because that picture legitimately the second picture he's shared online with the first being his headphones that leaked glue into his hair

Answer to a question you didn't ask but I feel the need to let you know about anyway

-that tissue box is 5 years old

the ergonomics are so much worse than I thought and leaves me with so many more questions. why is his desk at armpit height? why is he using a tissue box as a mic stand? why doesn’t he have a mousepad for his mouse? is this setup somehow comfortable for him? why the hell is his desk at armpit height??????

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(in the order of most to least confident)

- HP OMEN: Obelisk (2017-2020). Audio-Technica: Cardioid Condenser Microphone AT2020. Focusrite ADC: Scarlett Solo [2nd Gen]. Bose: Companion 20 Multimedia Speakers.

- Logitech: M525 Wireless Mouse. Logitech: K520/K620 Advanced Wireless Keyboard.

- Sennheiser: CX 5.00 Wired Earbuds.

HPLY SHIT ETHO PIC

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NZXT H510 ATX Mid-Tower Case in White

pic of my pc

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windows 11 should kill itself

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Hi, and hope you're well. Less for identifying and more for your amusement.

The Blue OS Museum has a page on this machine at https://blueosmuseum.com/oem/emachines/emonster-550.php#.

eMonster 550……..my beloved…………..using NVIDIA TNT2 in the same breath as NEVER OBSOLETE………………..as if the GeForce 256 and the RIVA TNT2 aren’t separated by a single quarter……obsessed with everything here…..the monthly subscription to use the internet…upgrade every two years for $99………….GAME PORTS!!!!! honestly. obsessed.

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Today in Computer History (02/14/2024):

Today is Valentine’s Day, which means we say a very special happy birthday to the ENIAC! Today, February 14th 2024, the first ever electric, programmable, general purpose digital computer turns 79 years old!

(Picture via University of Pennsylvania)

Completed in 1945, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first computer to integrate all its features into one unit. The ENIAC took up more than 1,800 square feet and weighed over 27 ton, and was made up of 40 panels, 17,000 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and over 5,000,000 hand-soldered joints. These numbers have gotten bigger over time, of course. Today, a single stick of 4gb RAM has somewhere in the ballpark of 32 billion capacitors.

The ENIAC could perform up to 5,000 additions or 50 multiplications per second, with a clock speed of around 100 kilohertz. It calculated trajectories 40 times faster than humans could. For additional context by modeling calculators, the classic Ti-84 plus (2004), one of the most used calculators to this day, has a clock speed of 15 megahertz, 150 times faster than the ENIAC.

The ENIAC was the first dive into digital calculators in the modern age, retired in 1955 at ten years old. And nearly eight decades later, we now carry devices with calculators in our pockets. The ENIAC was thousands of times bigger than the largest smartphones on the modern market, and part of it is on display at the University of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

(Picture via Wikipedia)

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Lenovo ThinkServer RD340

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Today in Computer History (01/24/2024):

On this day forty years ago, Apple Computers released the first All-In-One PC with a GUI to see mass-market success. The Macintosh (later called the Macintosh 128k or the “thin Mac”) was equipped with an m68k microprocessor, 128 kilobytes of ram, a 9” 512x342px CRT display, and a single 3.5” floppy drive, all housed in a beige box.

The commercial for the Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott, was titled “1984” and aired during Super Bowl XVIII two days before launch (watch it here!). The computer also came with a keyboard and single-button mouse. It sold over 70,000 units within the first one hundred days of being available.

Read about the benefits of Apple Computers introduction to GUI and more about the Thin Mac here and here!