TheProtagonist

Since security patches are not being deployed on a daily or weekly basis, you should be fine for even more than a month. Eventually using Windows 10 for security or privacy relevant activities, like banking, e-mail or such will become dangerous as more and more unpatched weaknesses might evolve.

As long as there are no nipples to be seen…

They don’t listen all the time, only when you say “Hey Cortana / Hey Siri”. But in order to hear that command, they probably have to listen all the time…

ehm.

CILF = China (Shenzhen) International Logistics and Supply Chain Fair?

Orwellian surveillance dystopia.

I’m on a Mac, so I have to wait for the FreeTube community to fix the problems getting imposed by Google that is putting all it’s efforts in further enshittification of the YouTube API as it seems.

You could add a printed ad with adhesive tape to the front door of your fridge to have a similar experience like all those “smart” things…

In the past, the typical example for a “smart device” was a refrigerator, that would automatically buy milk online once it’s empty, but I’m not sure if that really works (or makes any sense). But at least you can now see ads together with weather and news on your refrigerator door.

Depending on your setup, you will always have an offline copy, too.

If you mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud by default, you need to modify the default setting

…or just use some other app for your private documents and Word only for work-related stuff or such. I use Word/Office at work and have absolutely no issue with all the documentation being saved in the cloud. But for private stuff I would have to think twice if I want this.

Maybe not if you are thirteen years old…

Recently mobile phone operators introduced a “fair use policy”, so it’s not really a”roam like at home” anymore, but data volumes can be limited to a fraction of what you are entitled to in your home country.

This is a point where WiFi might get more important again when traveling.

Hey Folks, we have “AI” for you and you will use it, whether you want it or not…

Which Distro would you recommend for a relative newcomer? My PC was once “high-end” but is already a bit older (2016/17?). Still quite powerful, I guess.

OK, thanks for the information, that sounds really interesting. I was playing Doom Eternal and Metro Exodus some time ago, but I made a bread and didn‘t pick it up anymore due to a lack of time. Many years ago I was also trying a bit of Linux on a Netbook (small notebook). By then it was really a different world than Windows.

However, I am not sure how easy that is to manage with getting the right Linux distribution, then Wine, then Proton and then getting all tricks and tweaks right… - I am not a tech expert, so leaving a system that works out of the box is a bit of a hurdle for me.

What would be the best Linux „Distro“ (I guess that‘s how it is called) to start with? I would prefer if I would not have to deal with command line stuff… ;-)

What is “Proton” in this context?

I have a custom built PC running on Windows 10, which has no TPM and therefore cannot update to Win11. I might consider Linux as an alternative on some regular laptop, but I’m afraid that my games might no longer be running if I switch the OS from Windows to Linux.

even a scathing rant about surveillance capitalism becomes fodder for the machine, as you can clearly see with the ads on this page.

Ads? I can see no ads…

Never been happier to see some cookies (I can delete or block).

Okay, Orangeman! Now it’s getting personal…

This has nothing to do with privacy! Criminals have their techniques and methods to protect themselves and their “businesses” from discovery, both in the real world and in the online world. Even in a complete absence of privacy they would find a way to hide their stuff from the police - at least for a while.

In the real world, criminals (e.g. drug dealers) also use cars, so you could argue, that druck trafficking is a side effect of people having cars…