microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko I like the subtle microsoft->microslop character arc

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@landelare thank you for noticing

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@eniko If for some reason you want to upgrade to 11 despite Microsoft claiming your computer doesn't support it, there are two ways:

• if the only thing you're missing is new enough CPU (but you have TPM and Secure Boot), set HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup → AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU=dword:1 and the Setup will run (it'll show a warning, but let you continue)
• if you don't have TPM and/or Secure Boot, run setup.exe /product server, and it'll ignore everything

OTOH, as long as you pretend to be in EU, you can register to receive security updates for Windows 10 for free until October. Or you can use the scripts from massgrave.dev to activate ESU.

[ifixcoinops@retro.social]

@eniko y'know that comic where someone says they enjoyed good omens and these creeping snakelike shadow figures emerge saying Discworld, Discworld, you should try Discworld, and there are more and more of them until the panels are completely overwhelmed with them and our guy suffocates beneath their recommendations

Well, brace for Linux dudes

[chlorine03@mastodon.social]

@eniko Chilling on a Linux mint. It works pretty fine and satiafy all my needs as a basic stuff like typing, serfing web and even playing games sometimes.

[inderix@booping.synth.download]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place my tin foil hat theory is that the entire tech industry is planning and carrying out these things in order to push people away from owning a computer and instead paying for cloud computing as their desktop experience, privacy and security risks included

but the big tech sector appears to be profoundly stupid so there's no way they could possibly plan out such a thing

[ketakater@social.vivaldi.net]

@jernej__s @eniko just use Linux...

[sberson@app.wafrn.net]

@jernej__s@infosec.exchange @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

Just another point of info, that even for those in the USA, you can get extended security updates for Windows 10 until October for free if you use an MS account to log into the computers you want extended support on. It's what I am doing for a couple of desktops I need for my work, while finishing the last bits of migration of my studio's computers to MacOS, Ubuntu and Debian.

[bussphomet@app.wafrn.net]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

At this point its just moronic
These idiots are going to crash the economy

Make sure to string them up when it all comes crashing down, they deserve a slow and painful exit from the mortal coil

[bussphomet@app.wafrn.net]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @inderix@booping.synth.download

At that point I just abandon all tech and take up terrorism as a new hobby

[bussphomet@app.wafrn.net]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @ifixcoinops@retro.social

Brace?
If anything switching made me actually like using my computer again.

People should do it out of pure spite
You have wine and now winboat to run anything from microslop you may still need

[ronald@social.vannacht.eu]

@eniko
People: f*ck off microslop, we will install Linux.

[ropatrick@mastodon.social]

@Ketakater @jernej__s @eniko this is the way.

[wizarro@social.vivaldi.net]

@eniko Come to Linux. You won’t regret it!

[ifixcoinops@retro.social]

@bussphomet @eniko

[rgulick@social.coop]

@eniko

Windows 11 might be the best thing ever to happen to Linux.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@inderix @eniko

Tech oligarchs are perfectly capable of colluding on a profitable global financial crash & on the eradication of general purpose computing
https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/18/on-the-war-on-general-purpose-computing/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

The evidence?

The fossil fuel money funding these tech fascists conduct a successful social engineering campaign to end democracy & fry the planet

The self-destructive goals may be dumb, but the people behind the tactics & propaganda aren't.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/

https://thewalrus.ca/data-centres-are-on-track-to-wreck-the-planet/

[vosje62@mastodon.nl]

@eniko i still run 1 of 2 Win7 laptops i replaced Windows with Linux to avoid Win8.

I don't even wanna know how much money I saved over the years..

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@eniko

"Of course - I understand. But I have this old ThinkPad with 4Gb RAM and it runs most Linux distros perfectly."

microsoft: "Not like that!"

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ifixcoinops bizarrely it was worse on bluesky than here