As much as I like electric cars this could be done with pretty much any petrol or diesel car with an inverter.

But not as much as the high seas me heartie…

Yea, I live in south Cumbria. I couldn’t believe someone on Lemmy would set foot in my neck of the woods, but here we are.

“Except I didn’t say naH!”

Another way to say this is the master race are about to upgrade their hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5n28hpMFBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Z6AHPB-Qo

Mine used to do this, now he’ll try to eat pretty much anything

…with milk

Spez, when the subs fell.

No it means it’s Star Trek so watching it makes you fear sex

Or Twitter DM, prob still picking those up.

“Please agree to our terms of service.”

“Read it all!”

I’m genuinely worried I’ll be watching TV and Clippy will appear: “It looks like your entire species is about to be vaporised by a coordinated drone strike. Would you like some help? Well, you gotta beg for it now, bitch!”

Dove soap, Nivea black and white deodorant. I’ve also got a long beard so use Seven Potions Citrus beard shampoo.

Fascinating stuff. Think I’d prefer using this over most of the “alternative” OS that are about. But after reading more about this and Haiku I’m starting to think things like a modern web browser and video/ audio editing tools are probably going to keep me off them both for a long time at least.

Yea I haven’t heard of companies using BSD at all these days and it isn’t really suitable for desktop use. But I’m interested to see if Haiku progresses to be a good desktop Linux alternative https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/

Just follow the handy dandy Microsoft guide to installing Linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

But seriously. Yes, it’s true that installing a new OS is a level of effort the average person is unlikely to want to put in. But they’re going to have to start because I believe the situation this Windows monopoly is causing is far worse than it appears on the surface.

It’s estimated that around half of PCs in the world won’t be able to run Windows 11 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3657628/more-than-half-of-pcs-cant-upgrade-to-windows-11-report.html

Sure, a good chunk of those machines probably can’t even run Windows 10. They’ll still be on earlier versions of Windows, even going back as far as XP in some cases.

Because of the “latest Windows” benchmark PCs depreciate only slightly slower than bananas. Part of the reason I got into Linux as a young and poor nerd was because it could run on much older and significantly cheaper hardware. But most people and organisations aren’t going to bother trying to resell their computers for the measly sum they’d get when they bite the bullet and upgrade, adding millions of still perfectly usable machines to the ever building toxic soup of e-waste and using more resources than necessary when creating new Windows compatible devices.

On top of that those who are unable or unwilling to upgrade end up with an OS full of more holes than swiss cheese that diminishes cyber security for everyone.

At this point, not switching to Linux (which is really the only viable Windows alternative) and getting the longest lifespan possible out of your hardware in a safe way is frankly irresponsible.

Yea, I’ve thought about it more since my original post and it’s looking less likely that I’m going to be able to do this.

I can’t really give up Whatsapp as annoyingly that’s the only way most of my family will communicate. So I’d need a modern dumb phone capable of running Whatsapp, kind of negating the point.

Graphene OS it is!

Considering moving away from having a smartphone and using an mp3 player and a little dumb phone for privacy reasons.