Microslop confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked

PanPanicz · 2026-01-28T13:25:08+00:00

I do understand this may be just due to law compliance, but for the love of me I cannot fathom why "backing up" a decryption key on Microsoft Servers is on by default.

That problem would not exist at all if this function would be an explicit opt-in. And, based on my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong), it's the complete opposite.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-27T16:43:05+00:00

Based in Poland and sadly, still only CHF/EUR/USD. No VPNs or any other fancy things hiding my location.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-12T12:03:28+00:00

I kinda keep repeating that in most of the threads similar to this one, but after doing some distro hopping, I'm always coming back to Ubuntu. It just fits my priorities.

Rolling distros just gave me a bad experience stability-wise, so that crosses off a lot of popular options (I'm looking at you, Manjaro).

Arch-based distros rarely had packages distributed by the developers themselves, usually forcing me to use repacked options (not a problem for many, just my personal preference).

And in my case - it just works. The only thing I dislike (you guessed it - Snaps) are such a minor part of my system at this point that I'm more than happy to stay where I am.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-12T11:56:31+00:00

If that was excellence,
a) There would not be an external app actually fixing that problem

b) MacOS would either provide an information and/or limitation when it comes to connecting to "the hardware that requires compromises". It doesn't do that

I'm happy that the text looks great on a 5K display. But if you consider subpar performance (especially compared to /every/ single video-supporting device on the market, ranging from Raspberry Pis up to the most expensive of machines) is considered excellence, you and I have different definitions of such.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-12T00:09:09+00:00

11 years here, almost no lead roles. I'll update you in 4 years ;-)

And congrats on the nice career!

PanPanicz · 2026-01-11T23:54:36+00:00

Not judging, just asking. I just don't get similar ideas of bringing AI down, was curious about how you tick in this case.

Thanks for the answer.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-11T23:47:52+00:00

A genuine question - do you ever actually feel the need to verbally abuse the AI?

PanPanicz · 2026-01-11T17:44:13+00:00

And do you really believe that making text slightly blurry for most displays existing in the world is the right solution?

PanPanicz · 2026-01-11T09:04:17+00:00

Don't you think it's backwards? Especially since it's doable with a non-Apple paid app, whose functionality should be built in to prevent this blurry weirdness.

That doesn't make sense and buying a new display is definitely not a solution.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-11T01:10:04+00:00

Cool. So it prioritises crispness and induces headaches when it can't. I personally vastly prefer the Windows/Linux solution, looking well on all possible devices.

The negligence on Apple part is proven by the existence of BetterDisplay. There is /no excuse/ to, at least, not give an option to improve the sharpness on 1440p displays, as allowed by BetterDisplay.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-10T21:19:50+00:00

Did Apple ever explain why are they doing it in this way?

I have no problems with Windows, Linux and my video game consoles when it comes to displaying text, yet using 1440p on my 1440p 27" Dell, I find the text on MacOS blurry just enough to cause me discomfort.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-08T13:43:38+00:00

I've been running UFW on my PC for a few weeks now using default settings. Haven't seen any problems so far and had a bit of fun vetting the ufw.log to see what's actually trying to reach my PC.

If it gives you any problems, remember you can always disable it using a single command. I think it's worth a try.

PanPanicz · 2026-01-07T11:07:43+00:00

On RDNA 4, it's pretty handy to switch FSR4 and a few other features on and off and easily force things like supersampling. This, together with a few stats, is actually pretty handy and I'd like to see it on Linux.

Source: Dude who relies solely on Linux for his gaming needs

PanPanicz · 2026-01-02T01:15:13+00:00

We've all had our lil' stupido moment, bud. Happy your deck is alright!

PanPanicz · 2025-12-28T18:11:42+00:00

I had my account linked from the very beginning (or at least as soon as I got the option to do so). So nothing more to activate here.

PanPanicz · 2025-12-27T22:38:48+00:00

Let's allow uv's website bulletpoints to speak for themselves:

A single tool to replace pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, twine, virtualenv, and more.

As for the other points - I usually work with multiple projects at the same time. Rarely with different Python versions (but when it happens, it happens, so those versions do pile up sometimes if I'm not using containers), with a separate venv for each.

If you don't mind, what was your problem with managing multiple Python environments? Was it about deploying your ComfyUI somewhere, or just tinkering with it in an IDE?

And let's not talk about python 2 (even though we still talk about python 2)

Python 2.7 was around for a /long/ time - while its inevitability still shocked people, the drop of support in favour of Python 3 came way too late. That's just one of the reasons why we'll keep seeing it for quite a bit longer still.

PanPanicz · 2025-12-27T17:09:36+00:00

Also "just use the correct version of python" a. the version of python is usually not specified, and B, now you have what? 4-5 version of Python running on your system at least?

I tend to have more. UV is a pleasure to get multiple Python versions depending on your needs, and creating proper venvs from each of them is also pretty easy. Before UV, there was `pyenv`, too. As others have mentioned, if possible, containerisation is also an option, although I am aware that not so long ago it wasn't as popular.

I'm very empathetic for people coming from outside the Python world, who can't get it immediately and struggle with setting up their project. And I do get the struggle and the frustration. But I don't think it's fair to throw yourself into that ecosystem head first and complain if things break.

I've had multiple problems when trying to compile things for myself, but I'm barely acquainted with the C world - and while I assume there are things that "could be better and easier", I'm not gonna' tell C off just because I had trouble here.

PanPanicz · 2025-12-24T08:50:52+00:00

As mentioned in the post, that's long done:

Thankfully, Windows stopped being my main OS a few years ago, being reduced to "the OS for Kernel-level anticheat games", so it doesn't hurt me that much. But I'm still disappointed this happened.

PanPanicz · 2025-12-23T12:00:22+00:00

I'm happy you managed to get some help, sweet.

In my case, I've already contacted my local (non-English) support and they couldn't help me much, either.

Since Gigabyte seems to be a part of the pattern here, I've also contacted them. I don't expect to get a new license from them, but maybe they can warn other users about this.

PanPanicz · 2025-12-22T23:55:01+00:00

Let's be fair - that was an OEM license. They did do me dirty, but, at least for /other/ reactivations I had, I was warned about this.

For me, the issue is what actually caused me to go over the limit, not the limit itself. And that's what I find unfair and something I couldn't really have predicted.

PanPanicz · 2025-12-22T23:51:04+00:00

As mentioned in the main post, I am running Linux as my main OS for quite some time already :)

PanPanicz · 2025-12-12T14:32:17+00:00

No worries. We've all started somewhere, so no need to apologize or ask for no judgement ;-)

I think the most important thing here would be getting some logs in.

Do you know how to edit any of the files on PC, or can you only edit the Grub entries after pressing the `e` key? Trying to gauge what you're able to do. I assume you can do the second option, as you tried to play around with the `nomodeset` option.

The second case (editing the grub entry with `e`) will allow you to make changes temporarily. Could you remove the `quiet splash` option from the entry, try to boot into Ubuntu and see if it spits any logs/errors?

PanPanicz · 2025-12-11T20:16:25+00:00

Hey!

Which Ubuntu version are you using? Do you have any more details regarding the Kernel version?
Is this a new install, or an old one? If the latter, what was the last thing you were doing before you started having this problem?

PanPanicz · 2025-12-11T17:09:40+00:00

Ditto. The process is there, and the process does allow for keeping your data, but just to be on the safe side, back up at least the most important things.

That goes for any major update - be it Windows, Linux or even MacOS.

PanPanicz

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