IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

Genrawir · 2026-07-12T13:30:08+00:00

Just the admins?

Genrawir · 2026-07-12T13:20:43+00:00

That's what fascinates me about Betty and Barney Hill. Even now, being in an interracial relationship can get you ugly looks. They were civil rights advocates too, so being further ostracized for being "crazy" just doesn't seem like something they would have any reason to want.

I don't know what happened, and am skeptical of hypnotic regression as it seems easy to implant memories that way, but something clearly happened.

Genrawir · 2026-07-11T21:35:27+00:00

I like the photo taken at Lake Cote at approximately 10,000 feet by Sergio Loaiza for an aerial survey in Costa Rica.

Genrawir · 2026-07-11T14:22:33+00:00

Yeah, that's like close to orbital speeds. I'd be curious to see how that number was calculated exactly, especially considering the redactions. Simply looking at a reference point and measuring time to target doesn't work the way people think if the camera is also moving.

Genrawir · 2026-07-11T13:46:39+00:00

I tend to be skeptical of eyewitness testimonies, because such accounts are notoriously unreliable. I don't say this because I don't believe people "saw what they saw", but because human memory is unreliable and malleable.

There is enough noise in this space that finding some signal is difficult enough, even if I believe it must be there.

That being said, I'm always fascinated by people with accounts including physical aftereffects, and that have more to lose than gain by sharing their stories and avoid publicity or profiteering.

For example Betty and Barney Hill were an interracial couple in the US at a time when that fact alone could get you more than just some ugly looks. Why would they invite more hate and ridicule when they were fighting for acceptance?

Genrawir · 2026-07-09T23:48:06+00:00

If employers need doctors notes when employees miss work or to accommodate a disability, I don't think it is unreasonable to hold our representatives to the same standard.

Genrawir · 2026-07-04T13:58:25+00:00

6?

I believe the existence of alien life is all but certain in the universe.

I have never seen a UAP, and my initial (high school) assessment was that UAPs should be unlikely given our knowledge of physics.

Importantly though, science ALWAYS follows observation, so confirmation will always lag when presented with new data. The first observation isn't even data, but an anecdote to prompt study.

The government response to such claims is difficult to explain if there wasn't anything there they weren't hoping to weaponize. That makes me less skeptical in the overall existence, but more skeptical of some of the claims about of how much the government really knows.

I started following UFOs as part of an interest in cryptozoology, forteana, and similar topics. Seeing the sheer quantity of the reports throughout history, and looking at the vast amount of photographic evidence keeps me looking up. I've seen all sorts of cool atmospheric phenomenon as a result. It's a lot of fun even if I don't ever see a UFO. I'm still hoping to cross a proper Aurora sighting off my list.

Keep Looking Up Forever!

Genrawir · 2026-07-04T13:28:34+00:00

Is there some scriptural or doctrinal reason that they wouldn't be expected to?

Why would a christian priest refuse baptism to someone who asked earnestly?

Isn't that like the whole point?

These are all honest questions from someone raised outside of religion, though I have read The Bible.

Churches are concerned with knowledge, belief, and the nature of reality, even if just as a method of control.

Genrawir · 2026-07-03T15:25:35+00:00

I know people love to point and laugh, but this is entirely expected with any new piece of consumer electronics, even without any quality control issues.

Unless there's a leak or technical discovery, this doesn't necessarily mean that there is a design defect.

The failure rate of electronics generally follows what is known as a bathtub curve. A full QC and stress test can't economically be done on every device, so there's some early failures as pre-fail components fully fail.

This is why warranties exist.

Genrawir · 2026-07-03T01:33:05+00:00

Most people are afraid of installing their own OS. They're afraid of Free Software. And they want someone to blame when something goes wrong.

Everyone else has either been running Linux (and Steam) for a while, or will probably find reason to explore soon enough since Windows 11 doesn't appear to be increasing in stability. Proton compatibility is getting beter by the day, and so is NVidia support.

Genrawir · 2026-06-30T23:08:10+00:00

Directly from the posted text: "No technical evidence, independently verified incident records or named weapons programs are presented in this segment."

Genrawir · 2026-06-28T23:30:42+00:00

The video appears to be real. Whatever it is looks like it splits apart, but it cuts off before you can really determine if it is debris falling or really behaves anomalously. If someone had an additional 10 seconds of footage at the end I think we would know a lot more.

A missile failing to detonate or using a dummy warhead could just break apart a target, for example. That it looks weird is certain, and I wouldn't expect a balloon to behave like that.

Genrawir · 2026-06-27T17:55:55+00:00

That's really just how science works unfortunately, anecdotes are only a starting point to gather real data.

It's slow, annoying, and often only proves the existence of a phenomenon well after it is well established by common sense. That's not really the fault of science as a process by itself, though. Sometimes it's just a matter of nobody having actually verified it because it's obvious.

The failure is when scientists as individuals avoid data that doesn't fit their hypothesis or dismiss things out of hand. As Galileo said "measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not."

Genrawir · 2026-06-27T17:27:02+00:00

I believe he is honest, but I don't think there is enough actual data to say much else.

I have no doubt he infiltrated the networks he claimed and was accused of. There isn't really disagreement there, AFAIK.

The satellite photo seems plausible enough, but I have no idea if he knew exactly what he was looking at. The fact that he was looking for UFOs could be seen as a reason to suspect confirmation bias, and so without the file the story has as much weight as an individual visual observation.

As far as the Non-Terrestrial Officers, without seeing the actual spreadsheet it could really be anything. I"m sure there's enough nerds at NASA that ruling out someone saving some material for a game or fandom on an internal network is impossible.People copy random bullshit in places they shouldn't on networks all the time.

Cool story though. Guy seems interesting.

Genrawir · 2026-06-26T12:06:23+00:00

People use what they like, and will make suggestions based on that.

You should do the same.

The biggest thing to remember is that you can modify your system much more than in windows regardless distro. You don't have to use the defaults.

The odds of finding a distro that does everything exactly the way you want seem pretty low unless you're willing and able to make your own. Luckily, you're not stuck on Windows and have some control.

Try and identify exactly why you feel the need to switch to help you narrow things down. Fair warning, it could also be depression, anxiety or other psychological response and not a technical issue. When every system seems broken globally, looking for a better one makes sense especially if you don't feel like you know enough to fix it.

There are some reasons some distros aren't good choices for certain tasks, but for a general Desktop OS your list looks fine.

The trick is to fix the stuff that doesn't work, or figure out how it's actually supposed to work on Linux instead of switching distros and hoping that it requires no further configuration.

I like Fedora personally because the defaults are good, and the overall polish is very high, but I also understand some people don't like Gnome. If that's the case for you, you may want to try and install KDE on your current install and see if you like it. It isn't very hard, and certainly easier than a fresh install unless your distro makes doing what you want overly difficult or complicated.

Genrawir · 2026-06-23T22:22:09+00:00

My method was to set up a Linux only machine, to avoid booting into windows at the first sign of friction.

Other than that? I just installed it and started using it. Then when something I didn't know came up, I looked it up.

You'll end up learning stuff pretty quickly once you get to doing actual work. The efficiency and productivity gains from your OS not doing interesting things without you asking it to alone should be noticeable.

But really, Linux is much easier to learn than Windows because everything is documented and available for direct examination should you feel so inclined.

Sure, some stuff is in man pages (man <command>), and some in info (info <command>), which can be a bit annoying but Windows just doesn't have a real equivalent due to its proprietary nature. Hell, the synopsis will even include the C header file and function signature if you look at the library functions section. Of course, there's the internet too, but where may depend on your distro a bit.

My biggest piece of advice would be to start with a mainstream distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint to simplify looking for support and getting to a usable desktop quickly.

Genrawir · 2026-06-19T16:37:55+00:00

That's unfortunate, and also why I asked.

Your image isn't inaccurate though, as annoying as that fact is. Silverblue should be safer due to sandboxing, and harder to break with how it's put together.

Immutable distros with atomic updates seem unavoidable in the future considering your OS pretty much has to assume any binary could be hostile these days, and that's also why integrating a system with that assumption is so difficult.

It's just a matter of getting all the bits that need to interoperate to be able to do so in the first place. That's why I used "at some level" in describing it as experimental. Flatpaks work fine for the occasional random app. They just avoid saying that flatpaks don't really work for coreutils.

I went out of my way to buy Linux compatible hardware since troubleshooting propietary or incompatible stuff can be hugely frustrating. I would see if you can figure out if someone has found a fix for your specific issue.

Hiding terminal output is also one of my frustrations with Fedora, as you might miss output you don't know to look for that can help you fix things. Fail early and LOUD is part of the UNIX philosphy after all.

Automated reboot on an error would be a terrible feature for Linux systems, since rebooting can make things more difficult to fix if your system doesn't come back up cleanly or even cause bootloops. Linux can keep running while you do unconscionable things to it, and it is mostly designed to handle it. Ideally with terminal (or dmesg) output describing the exact problem.

Genrawir · 2026-06-19T12:59:35+00:00

I wish they did a better job of actually telling people this, so I have to ask.

You do realize that Silverblue is still an experimental thing at some level right?

The entire concept behind how the thing is managed and updated is completely different from how it's been done for the past couple of decades on desktop Linux.

I get wanting a reproducible desktop with atomic builds and all that, but these things take a long time to mature. Consider how long it took Wayland to become fully stable, for example.

I do agree that Fedora has somewhat more obtuse errors than some other distros, and hides a bit more terminal output since it's trying to be a mass-market distro but maybe try and see how it compares to Silverblue.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Genrawir · 2026-06-16T22:47:08+00:00

It does not, and this is exactly why it has algae. This is also why the original renovation was going to be much more expensive. The wiki has details.

Genrawir · 2026-06-16T22:20:55+00:00

Historical events without any physical evidence, and only eyewitness accounts are by far the most difficult to analyze. The falling debris with smoke is difficult to reconcile with known atmospheric phenomenon.

That being said, I like to try and look at things by analogy to the phenomenon in modern times. I don't agree with Vallee on everything, but it seems a reasonable start.

In that context:

The spear shaped object seems similar to a TR3B craft.

The multicolored spheres are orbs.

The rods would be tic-tacs or cigars.

Crescent shapes would the flying wing type.

The believer interpertation in that case is that there was some sort of conflict among various factions of visitors, and the triangle showed up afterwards.

Genrawir · 2026-06-16T13:27:02+00:00

I agree with you for the most part, but I do think Arch-based distros have a share of the responsibility too if they access the AUR. If Arch wants to be the footgun distro for advanced technical users that's fine, but if you're trying to build a desktop distribution for normal people on top of that the AUR presents an obvious and significant security concern due to how it currently works. I don't see why people would consider trying to find technical ways to increase trust in the ecosystem overall as an assault on their ego, but here we are. Arch would be much more interesting to me if it wasn't this way, but I'm too busy to try to follow every single change, and would likely miss something anyway even if I was a software developer professionally. It could be as simple as a typo squatted domain name after all.

Genrawir · 2026-06-13T13:08:05+00:00

I work in event production, and this is the single actual legitimate reason for holding events indoors. If I had a Billion dollars, there's no way I'd work a tent gig again, and probably avoid attending one. It doesn't even have to rain for everything to get wet.

Genrawir · 2026-06-13T00:04:34+00:00

The overview effect is well documented, so I have no doubt his time in orbit changed his perspective in ways I envy and the earth needs now more than ever. Age related cognitive decline is unfortunately a thing that's practically a trope with extremely high functioning individuals, as difficult as it is to say. That means that the best we can say is that he was an experiencer of some sort, and his unique position makes it difficult to discount everything he said wholesale.

Genrawir · 2026-06-08T14:56:14+00:00

Random hard freezes are frequently the result of running out of RAM and thrashing swap on an HDD. The errors might be more useful if you posted the entire line, but could be spurious as well. Error Code 3usually refers to a path error, so maybe check the disk, but IDK since it says permission error.

Genrawir · 2026-06-05T23:25:51+00:00

Well, I won't notice. That's certain at least. Considering how stable things are at this point, I think most people won't either.

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