this is literally E-waste
Reminds me what Spotify did with the Spotify car thing
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Those have a decent aftermarket though. Spotify at least issued refunds, so there's that.
Oh
Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux
There is a way to circumvent the checker. I can’t remember what we did. It was like disable TPM maybe? If folks want to install W11 on their old computer.
You can by placing a registry key IIRC. But if you do that then you'll run into issues installing later builds of Win11 and cumulative updates, meaning your system will be just as unpatched (security risk) as windows 10 in a few months.
If you care enough to do an unsupported upgrade for security updates, you truly should look into using Linux instead, like Mint
Just switched to Linux Mint. So worth it
Good luck on your journey! It can be frustrating at times, but please feel free to make posts asking for help if you can't find it online!
Appreciate it! I’ll be sure to do that. Between here and some old Reddit posts, I’ve found a lot of useful stuff on getting started
Trade it in to who? Who's buying PCs that can't be used? I mean there's the retro market, but AFAIK they aren't buying anything after Windows XP.
People who want to boot other things on it than Windows
Why would you want to though? I can understand the retro market because there is software like games that either won't run very well, or won't run at all on modern hardware. I'm in the market for a 'powerful' machine circa 2003-2005 for that exact reason.
When it comes to machines made in 2015? I'm not sure there's a lot you can run on those machines that you couldn't on modern hardware, apart from Windows 11.
I guess you could use them for things like media servers, but it would have to be phenomenally cheap, as in cheaper than cheap modern hardware.
Personally, my rule is a 10 year gap is old, a 20 year gap is retro.
People who know that the computers can still be used.
The ONLY thing I still apparently need Windows for is running OPL Manager and HDL Batch Installer for my Playstation 2 hard drives. Can anyone point me in a direction of Linux alternatives? I managed to get WinHiip running in Wine, but it can't see the PS2 HDD from Wine. Pretty sure I need something that runs native, and for the life of me I cannot find anything. Which is really surprising to me.
Back whe I used OPL, OPL-PC-Tools worked fine. OPL Manager specifically also ran fine under wine for me.
If you find the time you could do some testing under a live media enviroment, I recommend Linux Mint if you haven't tested it already :)
I'll definitely check out OPL-PC-Tools, thanks! HDL Batch Installer just hangs on open, checking for updates. I have been running Mint since November. I can't get OPL manager to launch at all. Regular Wine, Proton, nothing. I've tried brand new prefixes with fresh .NET runtime, it just refuses to start.
I did a clean wine install and could confirm that OPL Manager indeed does not launch, which is kinda intriguing to me, since it did work with me about 2 years ago, this user also reported it working (in 2016) , maybe something changed along the way and it broke? I'll try to make it work when I get another chance :P Unless OPL-PC-Tools proves to be good enough to replace it for ya
About HDL Batch Installer, I personally never used it, so I'm not sure on how it works and all, BUT, with some research it seems like HDL Batch is just a frontend for HDL Bump, while Batch is windows only, there seems to be an alternative frontend for Linux, called HDL Dump Helper but I did not test it nor do I got a ps2 right now to do so. Wish you best of luck 😁
Well at least the second hand laptop market will be flooded by the companies deciding to upgrade to newer laptops for Win11, so a small upside.
I love how in a world where we banned straws we are somehow OK with Microsoft pushing people to recycle their old but otherwise adequate system for what, to the vast majority of people, are some paper thin security advantages.
Anybody who asks me about Windows 10's EOL date will be introduced to the option of using Linux before i'll help them select a replacement system. Especially if they literally only use a browser there really is no reason to go through hoops or spend money to stick with Windows.
I love how in a world where we banned straws
We didn't. If anything, we are in a world where we banned banning straws, because even this trivial token concession was considered a Violation of Our Fundamental Freedoms. Media personalities screaming and nashing their teeth over straws was a PR stunt by petrochemical companies to backstop any kind of radical anti-plastic reforms.
Anybody who asks me about Windows 10’s EOL date will be introduced to the option of using Linux before i’ll help them select a replacement system.
Cheers to this.
We've lost to climate change already. Can't even get people to wear a mask. Asking them to completely change their polluting lifestyles? Impossible. What we do instead is ban plastic straws to pretend were doing something. Reality doesn't matter, just how people feel.
We very clearly haven't already lost, otherwise the world would have ended. You and I wouldn't be having this discussion, we'd be cobbling together what bits of food we could to survive.
Stop this mindset, it's destructive and foolish - human beings have the capability of overcoming this. If people with this mindset were asked to dive into the cooling tanks at the Chernobyl incident - we, as a species, would actually be fucked.
We have. Our ship's course is set. The systems we have in place are too entrenched in their destruction. I remember when the Paris agreement was signed and everyone was talking about how we need to cut emissions now or never. What did we do as a species? Increase energy demands across the board and keep the status quo, and those demands just keep rising higher and higher.
paper thin security advantages.
And loads of highly intrusive, unremovable, anti-user bullshit.
Just think of how few user metrics they get out of Windows 10 though!
Won't someone please think of the metrics?!
"Trade it in or recycle it" basically means "your best bet to solve this problem is to pass it on to someone else, who will pass it on to someone else, and so on until it arrives at landfill".
Wine will probably run it fine. Try posting to the linc gaming community though
This is incredibly infuriating and I'd honestly consider it ecoterrorism and abusive.
Glad those tariffs hit just in time
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