Spyke
feddit.org

You need to renounce your wicked lifestyle and follow the teachings of our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds!

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I did the tidal ABX test, which I prefer since it's comparing FLAC, and the difference is almost negligible. I do hear a slight difference >15k, and I can only year up to 18.5k, but on most tracks it's not noticeable. Also slightly worse transients, but again, only noticable on a few tracks. I also can only hear any of this on HD600s with very, very high volume, which is not how I usually listen to music. I really like this test :)

Lossless is still nice to have though, mostly because I can then rip FLAC files to do good remasters, which is why I happily use tidal (also for a number of other reasons).

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autrreply
fedia.io

I am not using Apple Music, but have you tried the Windows client via Proton? I used Amazon Music installed through Heroic Launcher in the past and it worked fine. Though I had to configure the audio to go above 48kHz.

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Tekdebreply
lemmy.zip

I'm not the one you're asking, but I'm in a similar situation. I've attemped to get this working and the problem is that their Windows client must be downloaded and installed through the Microsoft Store and it's packaged in a way you can't run in standalone after extracting it. Some apps published through the MS Store do work fine this way, but I could not get it working for the Apple Music client.

Apple Music does have a web player, but it is also limited to lossy streaming like alternative clients like Cider is.

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autrreply

Ah, I see, that's a shame. Amazon had/has an alternative installer. I am trying Tidal now, which has several Linux apps that provide full quality, though even the browser version goes up to 16bit/44.1kHz I think.

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Do you mean lossless audio in general or specifically Apple Music?

I've definitely listened to flac files on Linux but a lot of the finer points of high quality audio are lost on me so my input may not be useful.

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Hey there! What I do on Linux is use the Thorium browser to make the Apple Music an app in the OS. It works really well, but does have some weird visual glitches every now and then. I chalk that up to me having an NVIDIA GPU and using Wayland though, so it could work better for you!

As for lossless, I am not sure on that as I don't have ears that can tell the difference so it has never been something I focused on!

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I've got an old Mac I've managed to get running Sequoia but due to Apple dropping support for Intel, it's running on borrowed time.

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cRazi_manreply
europe.pub

Many people need to use computers and Windows for 8 hours a day, every working day + AI shoved into personal apps. I wouldn't expect even the world's best escort to be giving head continuously for 8+ hours a day, 5 days a week.

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lemmy.sdf.org

I am a system admin and decided to just use Windows Server on my desktop to avoid the bullshit Windows 11 changes

Server has its own set of problems but at least the tools to deal with them are prepackaged

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HeyJoereply
lemmy.world

Why not use LTSC instead? It shouldn't include many of these changes it has done or will do. I know since windows 10 the separation between workstation and server has deepened and I believe app compatability is less due to it. I even remember a few apps I wanted to install on server wouldnt let me unless I buy a business license because it detected I was using server and assumed I was a business because of the OS.

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I'm working in server all day anyway. Licences are not a issue with most desktop software that we use. We have almost unlimited access to the Microsoft catalog with a combination of our subscriptions. As a system administrator doing what I do, it's not much different from ltsc except I have to use a couple of local group policies so I'm not badgered by system prompts

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lemmy.world

At this point I can only assume that Microsoft is actively trying to punish me for using their products.

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stoyreply
lemmy.zip

Ever since Windows 8, Microsoft has shown to be a sadist.

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Eh, Vista itself wasn't that bad, the issues stemmed from both marketing way to low quality devices as compatible, and developers getting used to UAC.

Also, Vista did not have the shitty new settings app.

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Rhaedasreply
fedia.io

Windows ME wasn't a sadist. It would have to actually work to get that far. The best thing that happened to a laptop I had which came with ME installed was to put Win98 on it. Ran great after that.

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lemmy.sdf.org

Windows ME was a bastardization of the NT and DOS environment. I was a Microsoft support analyst at the time. From the insiders perspective, it was the biggest pile of shit

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ME was a freak of software development, not an outright sadistic experience.

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megabyteXreply
lemmy.world

No, it's not. Horrible and outdated in many aspects. Much better options out there.

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Go on... Pop!_OS? KDE Fedora? And why? I was about to move to Mint Cinnamon 22.2 until you said this, but I'm open to recs.

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feddit.uk

Why? Who's asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.

I don't want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.

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orioler25reply
lemmy.world

Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC's, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.

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This is well said. So many people don't get that of course these companies know you hate this shit.

They're just trying to boost their stock value and violate your privacy harder.

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audaxdreikreply
pawb.social

Once you realize this, you also realize that there's no going back for them either. If by some slim chance there's enough resistance for them to pause or rollback some features, it's only temporary. The overall course remains clear and they will continue to move in that direction regardless.

There disdain for you as a consumer could not be made any clearer.

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lemmy.ca

Their, as in the disdain microsoft has for the user, not there, as in microsoft put the disdain in a box and it's sitting across the room over there. However, your point is valid and stands.

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Probably be less angry about grammar and spelling "nazis." I'm guilty of those mistakes too, so I am not above being corrected myself.

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Yeah exactly. Sucks if you have a job that forces you to use Windows though, which is largely how MS has this stanglehold on PC share. Once this becomes an expensive security risk, maybe more businesses will switch to paid Linux OS's.

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SirEDCaLotreply
lemmy.today

I don't think MS is out of touch with what the customer wants, I think they just stopped listening.

The fact is nobody is asking for this stuff.

I think the hope is that they build it anyway and then people will use/want it. AI is the big buzzword of the decade, just like 'cloud' was the big buzzword of last decade.

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SirEDCaLotreply
lemmy.today

A nice thought.
Unfortunately the only ones who switch will be people 1. Know that it is even possible to switch/that they have an option to switch, and 2. Have the technical knowledge to back up their data, then download and install Linux, that 3. Don't have to run Windows for other reasons and/or haven't already switched.

Unfortunately with all three qualifiers you aren't left with a giant number. Certainly no mass exodus.

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In theory, I could use an AI for doing stuff. For example, opening ripped videos, finding the timestamp where the episode name is given, and then copying that into the video's filename. Afterwards, it can open Handbrake, use my preferred settings for audio and subs, then start the conversion of multiple files.

However, this is all predicated on the AI not doing unwanted things - such as giving Microsoft my personal information, preferences in hentai, and passwords.

Someday I will use agentic AI, but it will be on my terms.

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feddit.org

I've read this exact questions tens of times now. This is capitalism. Now why would a for profit company ever do anything? I leave you to your deductions.

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

Won't they make more money if they don't piss everyone off.

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rbosreply
lemmy.ca

I'm not sure what's worse, the greybeard stereotype or the socks.

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Oh, the greybeard stereotype, for sure. Carrying the weight required for the 'classic RMS' look isn't good for your health. Cute twinks in knee-high socks carrying a blahaj are much better, everyone loves them.

Now, the fully-actuated fursuit for if you want to be taken seriously as a sysadmin? That's an expensive hobby.

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rbosreply
lemmy.ca

Just a bit misgendery for my tastes. Also some right wing people have glommed onto the whole femboy thing. There is 100% a femboy-fascist pipeline.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Not heard of any femboy-fascist pipeline

I'd assume that fascists would hate femboys for being unmanly men

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The basic idea is that it can stem from the incel world, the attitude that if they can't have women, they can become them. It can be a way to affirm hypermasculinity, not challenge it.

So it ends up being dominance, forcing men into subservience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQmpH9NHmjI

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BassTurdreply
lemmy.world

Woah woah woah, lot's not compare fabulous knee high rainbow socks with the malware MS is putting in their OS. That's not fair to rainbows or socks.

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The implication is that they'll have to jump ship to Linux, and thus become a member of the unixsocks community.

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I don't want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks

it’s pretty obvious that you do

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The socks have a bit of a learning curve, depending on what you want to do with them, but it's worth it. It's such a huge relief to not care how much more Windows is getting enshittified this week, since it's not my problem anymore.

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I work in IT for businesses and the number of times I've had to debunk AI slop hallucinations as actual troubleshooting information is not zero.

"Yes, I can see the instructions say to check that checkbox, however, that checkbox does not exist" (screenshot of relevant control panel).

This is just evidence, to me, that business types are already relying on AI instead of doing any actual thought or research on any topic they don't already have a deep understanding of, or are too lazy to bother with.

Consumers are not driving this change.

The worst part is that it's an echo chamber of yes-men that seem to be pushing for it. The AI enthusiasts trying to sell their crap, convincing the middle managers that they need their AI crap, and them buying it and asking for more/better AI crap, and the cycle continues. At no point does any of the output of any AI system provide any unique insight, or value, to anyone. The rest of us are being dragged along for the ride, regardless of what we want.

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The tech industry puts bazillions of dollars into AI development and now it has to put AI literally everywhere to make it look somehow useful. Whether the customer / user wants this or not. I guess they are hoping that people will eventually like it.

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lemmy.ca

BSD if I'm using it in a product, GPL if I'm using the product

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Why would the license of something you use even matter unless you want to use its source code?

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njordomirreply
lemmy.world

I had this happen before but not in recent times. Not sure if others have experienced the same.

For a while I had my bootloader on a single drive but I now have my Linux bootloader on /dev/sda and my windows on /dev/sdb and toggle it in the bios when I need to use Windows. I haven't had Windows overwrite anything in a long time. Could be a coincidence though.

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It’s mostly an issue when you have them sharing boot drives via partitions. If you keep them isolated to their own separate drives, Windows doesn’t tend to muck with things. It’s because Windows is bad about killing bootloaders, and automatically setting itself as the default in the boot order. So if you have it sharing a drive, it’ll nuke your boot. But if you don’t have them sharing a drive, and boot via a loader on the Linux drive, there is no boot loader on the Windows drive to nuke.

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I've read that dual booting Windows and Linux can have temperamental quirks and I've had my share of them.

Now, if I'm doing that, Windows fs gets isolated and I refuse to even connect it to the internet. But, outside of a legacy automotive shop program meant for XP, I've not needed Windows for a couple years.

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Rootyreply
lemmy.world

One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.

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EddoWagtreply
feddit.nl

Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn't given me any issues in the past 5 years or so

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boonhetreply
sopuli.xyz

Just make sure to unplug all non-Windows drives when installing Windows. Otherwise it can do weird things like making unilateral decisions on which exact drive it shoves its bootloader on. I've wiped my Linux drive when changing to another distro aaaaand the Windows bootloader was gone too. It really shouldn't have been.

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Yeah whenever I set up a computer with dual boot it's always Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it's the only OS that exists so if there's something else there it just ignores it and writes over the boot thingy. Linux actually bothers to look for anything else that's installed and works around it.

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Same here. I have Windows 10 on a separate physical disk (sdb). I have Linux and GRUB on sda, so Windows has no idea that it's not the only OS on my computer.

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The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.

I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I'm using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I'll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.

Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.

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I have a dual-boot with Linux Mint. I don't access anything personal from my windows installation. It's just for games that don't work on Linux.

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Oof - that reminds me - I have a LOT of scanning / digitizing to do.

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lemmy.world

How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM, or mandatory Microsoft accounts?

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anon5621reply
lemmy.ml

Just pirate windows server or other enterprise editions which can be used only by business

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lemy.lol

Absolutely. I spent like 3 hours the other day trying to get a W11 vm running; trying to emulate TPM and faking secure boot. I gave up and installed server in 5 minutes 😑

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hi there! I have a tiny11 ISO that I always use to install Windows on stuff when needed. I've never encountered this issue before. Have you tried using Rufus to put the ISO on the USB? It has options for stuff like that. I can't say how successful they are, as I guess tiny11 does a lot of that itself?

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lemy.lol

Huh, I've never heard of that before. Fortunately, I rarely need to use the one program in my workflow that requires windows and it supports windows server.

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lemdro.id

My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I've picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.

Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.

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Bunburyreply
feddit.nl

Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.

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lemmy.ml

Yeah keep the law around in case you need to weaponize it against an individual, but ignore it for corporations. The modern solution!

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Yep. Waiting for the day I pull up to the dispensary to find it surrounded by ICE vans.

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At some point, all that juicy sweet medical data will be worth the 8 figure bribe to several congressmen to allow thebsale of access to the data for 'research' use to amazon and google.

All that data is private, until it isnt.

Dont be so innocent to think that hipaa data will never be sold, it will be eventually

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JoeBigelowreply
lemmy.ca

I work in healthcare (maintenance) and our computer system is so fucking locked down, I'm sure CoPilot will have some similar way of being shackled. I was surprised to learn that the terminal isn't locked, until I fooled around some and realized that every possible command was individually blocked.

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I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they'd just "yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me".

They'd get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.

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lemmy.sdf.org

What's the difference between big software companies and drug cartels? No, this is not the opening line of a joke.

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Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.

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It's kind of amazing how much they're willing to tear down in hopes of this "" incredible "" AI vision

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ani.social

How long until we can trick the Ai into deleting the System32 folder?

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lemmy.ca

lol

they just keep piling on justifications for switching away

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architectreply
thelemmy.club

There’s not a day that goes by that i don’t think about it. In fact i might just install a dual boot today and get reacquainted with a Linux distro. See if it runs the software I need…

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lemmy.world

I never bought Windows 11 for AI shit. It wasn't even what came with 11 originally. Hey Microsoft, why not make a version of Windows 11 with all the AI stuff fully turned on and call it Windows 11-AI. You sell it separately and up charge as much as you want. Just reset 11 to no AI and have it be the bare bones 11.

Edit: 2 things too. Violating user privacy could carry a risk as far as attorney-client privledge goes because attorneys work on 11 from home. So just ransaking all data could cause that right to be waved. Subpoena much?

Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.

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Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren't editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It's the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.

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They can't do that. They have all of their money riding on AI. They can't possess any data that might show the all-mightly Shareholders that they bet wrong.

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Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.

... If people were willing to pay for it, which is a tiny percentage of the small percentage of people that want AI on their windows. Even the people that are all in on chatgpt will very rarely accept paying a cent for it (and it must be a bargain considering that openAI said a few months ago that the average premium plan is a net loss for them due to the server costs)

The way things have been going it's more likely that the AI-free version will be the upsold luxury

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Time to regulate the shit out of them. They don't know what consent is, they flaunt the abuse of privacy laws.

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Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.

Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:

DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh

https://youtu.be/O7BI4jfEFwA

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lemmy.ca

Um, just in case, I'll have you know that I name all my folders "trans porn". It doesn't mean anything in particular.

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lemmy.world

A volume of NTFS that is filled entirely by folders named "trans porn" would mean that there isn't a single folder in there that contains 2 folders.

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burntbaconreply
discuss.tchncs.de

New organizing system just dropped. It's just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.

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programming.dev

Did you post the wrong link? Yours is about "Maximum Path Length Limitation" and the number 128 doesn't appear anywhere on that page. The max path length is 256 characters.

Where did you read that "you can now have 128 files in your filesystem?"

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If you want to encode information into only the depth of your recursive identically named folders, you have 128 different depths, one character for the name, one for the slash, per level. Yields about 128 possible levels. Leave one off for the last filename, 127.

If we want to name our folders something longer than a single character, we can store less files. If we want to store our files on linux, by default we get 4096 characters to play with, so about 2k levels (unless we compile our own linux kernel with PATH_MAX set for this very specific purpose). If we run CIFS we may be able to reach up to 16k levels.

That was my interpretation of OPs (admittedly bad) idea. Personally, I try to avoid implementing inodes as Church numerals.

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I think I could honestly get away with 128 deep paths. I don't use more than twenty unique folders in my day-to-day computing. It might be difficult to get the various programs on board with my trans porn name for each folder, but that's what tinkering is for, eh?

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I think I may have caused some confusion and after some research I can see why.

Naturally I was referring to transistors and transformers, and pictures thereof. Ha ha lol guys can we forget this now?

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Planning on spending a months wages building a monster rig that runs Windows 11?

Cool. When it's done just take whatever your CPU, GPU, RAM is and reduce the number by 50-75%. Have fun.

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Well, they won’t be accessing my personal folders and files because I just won’t use Windows. Thanks but no thanks. That’s really creepy.

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What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?

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I've been watching Windows get worse and worse from the sidelines for years now, but it seems they are really ramping it up now. It has gotten so bad, I genuinely feel bad for Windows users now. But it's also pretty damn funny.

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If I didn't know better id think they're trying to get people to switch away from windows.

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feddit.org

Cool, you know who doesn’t have this issue? People who uninstalled the spyware called Windows from their device.

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I cannot express how much peace of mind switching to Linux has granted me.

"Windows now has this horrible feature! Windows now breaks user experience! Windows has ads shoved everywhere!"

And here I am, comfortably sipping my cup of tea and watching the world burn from afar.

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So Microsoft is the pig whose committed to the AI chatbot ham. There's no going back now for windows scanning my personal files for their own use. It's that or nothing from Microsoft from now on.

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My sib, they've been doing this kind of thing for years. This is not new. This is how they operate.

If you value your privacy at all don't use MS products.

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feddit.dk

Soon i will only be using windows for those games that do not run on linux yet

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sh.itjust.works

I'm lucky that the type of competitive shooters that all seem to be using kernel level anti-cheat, have never appealed to me. I ditched windows on my home stuff last year and there's definitely no going back. Now if only industrial software writers would make Linux variants. Not going to hold my breath on that one though.

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I literally just stopped playing those multiplayer games. A usable computer that doesn't spy on me is more valuable than a handful of multiplayer games filled with jackasses. Plus once I learned what kernel level anti-cheat was, I understand why those games have so many problems and am completely unwilling to install their "anti-cheat" spyware that can just fuck with my kernel.

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sh.itjust.works

So it's going to be opt-in not opt-out. Just don't turn it on. Simple as. 🤷‍♂️

How to disable Copilot

::: spoiler For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click "Turn off Windows Copilot," select "Enabled," then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect. :::

::: spoiler For Home users Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change. :::

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lemmy.world

opt-in for now.... much like how they eventually snuck in their built-in spyware to screenshot your desktop behind the scenes.

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Looks like Microsoft learn from the Recall controversy. By making the AI stuff opt-in. Sometimes you need to take the small wins from corporations. Because what's all you going to get from them.

much like how they eventually snuck in their built-in spyware to screenshot your desktop behind the scenes.

Here's the minimum system requirements for Recall. Like you can see you need a NPU, BitLocker and Windows Hello enabled to use it. Also it's opt-in.

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So it’s going to be opt-in not opt-out. Just don’t turn it on. Simple as.

"Don't worry babe, it's just the tip"

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A few months ago, I did a fresh install of Windows 11 with no access to any personal files, etc, all done on a separate drive. After seeing all of the changes, I am glad I haven’t used it since. Holy moly.

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Only 10% of Microsoft revenue is Windows, they are trying to squeeze money out of the personal data of users.

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They are getting more aggressive by the day it seems. Luckily I've been windows free for 10 years now. And recently, I switched almost my entire extended family to Linux mint to great success. Only my brother in law still uses win, cause of games, specifically anti cheat - the last hurdle for many people.

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lemmy.world

I'm kinda just transitioning out now. I have some projects to wrap up on Windows 10 LTS that use programs that wouldn't run well through WINE. When those are done, I'll make use of Linux alternatives to that project software, and pretty much just have my Windows boot available for dire emergencies.

As it stands, most of my gaming is transitioned over, and my Windows partition just has enough space for a few games after project work.

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Same boat. W10 LTS until I'm finished wrapping up some loose ends.

Then I'll do a VM with GPU passthrough on an old Windows for non critical things.

I never loved or trusted Microsoft, but this (not just the uninvited transformers, all of it) is beyond unacceptable to me.

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Where are the techbros that warned me of malware since W10 is EOL? Do you like your new AI built-in malware, cunts?

God, I gotta switch to Mint for good...

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Meanwhile I am rather happy that my older (gaming) PC is not suitable for Win11 anymore, due to TPM (first I was rather disappointed). For my daily stuff I use a MacBook Pro and the old Windows PC will eventually become a Linux PC.

The only problem is my work PC/Laptop, which runs on Win11 (my company wenn "all in" MS-Cloud and stuff), and which I occasionally also use to access some private files (which rest in an encrypted cryptomator vault, when not used).

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You have been warned. We're still doing it, but at least we did warn you. The fuckery of MicroShit knows no bounds.

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So going forward, social engineering will also be applicable to some computers themselves instead of just the users.

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with all the tech ceos suddenly "sounding the alarm" about the AI bubble bursting and shoveling "bloatware/spyware" into all thier devices and softwares its not really surprising.

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