Hannah Montana, Knoppix… a man of culture I see…

I’ll open a ticket with Mozilla.

…who wants to see the world burn!

Don’t forget about globally organised (but mainly Russia- and US-funded) right-wing populism. Why risk military escalation when you can just funnel dark money to the enemies within European heartland and additionally support them by sowing misinformation through the billionaire-owned propaganda machines we call “social media”? That’s how the U.S. government was captured, and that’s what they’ll be trying to export. If we’re going to have a chance at picking up and carrying on the torch of the free world, we need to slam these backdoors shut asap.

can that be done without Grub on a primary boot partition or the user accessing BIOS?

I was assuming you’d just write GRUB onto the primary disk and set Hannah Montana Linux (lol, excellent choice of distro!) as the only boot option (because who needs os-prober and a selection timeout when you’ve got the best of distros on disk, amirite?).

I suppose the most problematic part is the partitioning you handwaved as “ok”. Afair, Windows does not allow for live-resizing of the system partition (as it should). But I suppose there are ways around that, particularly if you’ve got another drive or spare partition of adequate size. (OEM recovery partitions come to mind; as much as 10 GB can be enough for a viable Linux system partition.)

Apologies. I’ve seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.

As for “how would it work”: on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.

Made the switch when Windows 7 went EOL. Helped plenty of others make the switch now before 10 was killed off. Life is good indeed.

So, basically Microsoft’s “we know what’s best for you” style? No. Fuck that, no matter the purpose.

Junkies high on venture capital, begging for their next hit.

Good. Now do the rest of the cabal.

Oh, I forgot the Supreme Court declared them above the law. Never mind, then.

I think many companies are basically stuck with Microsoft (Excel, Word, Teams, Sharepoint, Onedrive etc).

Tbh, office and collaboration tools are the least of our worries; there are plenty of good alternatives which, with some financial support, can be adapted to suit companies’ needs in very little time. What should worry us more are the tons of critical applications tailored to a very specific area of administration and business. The software that runs the power plants and hospitals. The software that manages logistics and industrialised production. The software that runs our accounting and HR. That’s the Windows lock-in that we’re not going to shake off over night.

Oh, that and the hardware vendors + hyperscalers…

Europe is not ready for what that will cost.

Not true. We’ve seen the U.S. leverage big tech against its perceived enemies by shutting them down remotely. Unless Europe bends over backwards to serve the U.S. fascists’ every whim, this form of blackmail-by-proxy is going to continue, and it’s only going to get worse.

So the calculation is not: “cost of switching” vs. “cost of continuing the existing vendor lock-in”.

It is: “cost of switching” vs. “cost of shutting down operations for good”.

It’s really easy maths if you break it down to its core. It’s maths that even the most bone-headed of our leaders and business “experts” can do.

But I’m an American so what do I know?

You know much more about the world around you than the orange turd that claims to be the leader of the free world. Don’t sell yourself short, mate! It’ll take people like you to rebuild once this is over.

The “C” in “CSU” is for “corruption”.

They believe in trickle down economics despite all evidence pointing to it making everything worse.

It is high time we switch to Pinata economics.

Let me join in! All Lemmy users are wasting their time generalising away into the cold, dark void of the internet.

“Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts” [NYT @ archive]

This is all you need to know: these self-proclaimed defenders of free speech are full of shit.

About damn time. People need to stop dancing around the orange turd and his cronies, desperately trying to appease them.

There is for both desktop and mobile Firefox.

To, in, and about.

Wouldn’t surprise me if the sanctions agains that judge actually economically backfire.

Don’t you dare threaten me with a good time!

As it started experimenting on them, its appreciation for their elasticity grew.