• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I bet they’re gonna have to do what car dealerships do… Yeah bring your old iPad for trade in!.. Okay I don’t see my trade in discount though…it’s right there! Look in the small font, it’s $5.56 we compared against Kelly’s cousin’s purple book of laptops.

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    1 month ago

    That kinda did the trick for me since my old PC was starting to struggle with some tasks, so I went and built a new PC recently.

    Joke’s on Microsoft though, I installed Arch Linux on it instead. It’s so much less work to maintain compared to Windows these days.

    A relative of mine had also got fed up with the Windows BS and was interested in what I was running, so I got her machine dual booted with Debian now to try it out. She hasn’t looked back either, so that to me proves that Linux is ready for non-techies.

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      1 month ago

      My GF is not technical and had an old, old laptop that barely ran, so I gave her an Ubuntu USB drive and helped her boot from it, but she did the install all on her own. She even fixed a printer driver issue by doing some research and installing an updated driver.

      But that just goes to show that Linux isn’t exactly hard if you know how to read.

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    1 month ago

    Micro$oft doesn’t understand that these full-screen new Win11 PCs are actually Linux ads!

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      1 month ago

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    1 month ago

    I use Linux at home but my work computer uses windows. Work just bought me a new laptop with windows 11 pre-installed and I got ads to upgrade to a new “AI capable computer” on the login screen. This computer is maybe 3 months old and there are already ads telling me I need to get a new one.

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        1 month ago

        We’re a small nonprofit, so we usually just go with whatever is cheap and works most of the time. We don’t have many issues with it, so I don’t think its on the list of things to fix.

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            1 month ago

            Seconded. Data breaches at big companies may be what makes the news, but small businesses (and other organizations) are compromised far more often.