The original reason I started using Linux was a computer that got it's OS borked and I didn't have the money to replace it. Win 11 is a good example, purposely locking out old hardware unnecessarily, because their main customer is the computer manufacturers not the users.
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On 4/25/22 03:40, SlickRCBD wrote:
The normal response to saying you have an older edition of Windows is "That's not safe! You should stop using that old thing and upgrade to the latest version that gets security patches. If you can't upgrade Windows, it's time to get a new computer."
That always irritates me, but it's the stock response. Computers are one of the few durable goods where you can't just keep using the thing for years but are forced to continue to buy new models for dubious reasons, mostly to line the pockets of Microsoft and the computer manufacturers.
I say this because Linux users can get far more use out of the same hardware.
On 4/24/2022 7:45 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
the more those behind fanfiction.net tamper with what they consider safe, the more difficult it can be to reach content.? Especially if you are atypical, in say command line Linux, using older editions of windows, are from? a different part of the world, in a mobile platform that is neither apple or android etc.
??sometimes I? can edit a fanfiction.net link to fanfiction.ws and reach the content.? sometimes even google searches done in basic html will provide fanficction.ws links that work when fanfiction.net links fail.
Same can be said for m.fanfiction.net.
Which for me got broken again recently.
