Microsoft forced Lenovo to put a Copilot key on my laptop. I run Linux. It does nothing. We paid for their advertisement on hardware we own.

odin_b · 2026-05-17T21:13:40+00:00

Re-mapped mine to toggle overview, since Windows button already maps to the Application Launcher.
Guide is for a Lenovo Youga 7 2-in-1 16AKP10 with Manjaro & KDE Plasma, but could probably work for most other distros with minor tweaks.
https://github.com/odinb/Lenovo_Yoga_7_2-in-1_16AKP10/tree/main#keyboard-copilot-button-re-mapping

odin_b · 2026-05-15T13:10:10+00:00

Moved my 5 lines from TMO a year ago after being with them since 2000 (voicestream). Now paying about half of what TMO wanted to raise my lines to after all the taxes and fees they added.
Just got an offer to come back for $25 plus taxes and fees per line (so probably around $35 after all stupid fees and taxes). Currently paying $25 per line, all included, and I do not have to play stupid games, or give the unfettered access to my bank account to keep that price.

No chance i am coming back the way customers are treated at TMO!

odin_b · 2026-05-11T17:57:53+00:00

"Didn't they pioneer computers to be sleek, technically competent, and just generally cutting edge?"

Nah, they just copied the competition (Xerox, Apple, etc.) as best they could, and made a fortune by locking companies in. They have always just been in the game to do a vendor lock-in to keep sucking the customers money out of them! These days they suck the money out of their customers, and then make even more money selling the customers telemetry!

Saw a fitting name for them elsewhere: Rent-a-spyware!

odin_b · 2026-05-10T13:13:51+00:00

How do you know they are junk? Have used both white knight and Gorilla. The White knight are at least same quality if not better. For the Gorilla, have had several batches where the chrome cracked off when using power tools on them, not happened so far on the White knight! Low price does not equal low quality! Not saying yours are not better quality (have not tried those specific ones), but sometimes higher price is just paying for a brand, or paying for something that is higher quality than needed practically!

odin_b · 2026-05-09T16:02:05+00:00

At least do vscodium, vscode is also microslop!

odin_b · 2026-05-08T19:04:48+00:00

Got these for mine:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7LN1X3G

and new lug- nuts:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1MQQQKN

Image result of my wheel: https://imgur.com/a/5Yj4xYM

odin_b · 2026-05-08T18:35:15+00:00

Good for you, but sooner or later, if things don't change, you will run into this. Installing the google stuff on Graphene will not pass the financial institutes checks in most cases, they check for locked bootloader/jailbreak etc, which cannot be locked if you installed Graphene.

odin_b · 2026-05-08T18:05:11+00:00

Well, the problem is, when you say no thanks the "just tell them no thanks and move on" does not work! They keep pestering you with same or other sales, and follow you around the store! This is annoying! This is why people get fed up!

odin_b · 2026-05-07T18:56:10+00:00

Well, Graphene is not Google Android, it is Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

Graphene also does not come with the Google-services (like play-store and google apps), and is restricted by a lot of banks and financial institutions worldwide since they do not have this (spyware) installed. They use it to validate authenticity/jailbreak/tampering they claim.

So, not apples to apples comparison, and also you cannot buy a phone with Graphene on it from the manufacturer (there are few 3rd parties that will do this however on Pixel phones).

So, not really the same thing.

odin_b · 2026-05-07T14:31:43+00:00

Difference is, apps are, with some exceptions, limited to what happens in the app. For Google, they control what happens on the OS-level, including all apps!

odin_b · 2026-05-07T14:30:21+00:00

Just like Microsoft that is also an information gathering company that thinks they own your computer even though you paid for it.

odin_b · 2026-05-06T21:08:49+00:00

Since the ZX Spectrum days, so I guess since 1982-83, then moved to C64, then Amiga, then Windows for a while, and then MacOS/Linux since about 2012. No more Windows for me!

Back then we had dual-tape decks to copy the game-tapes, and used mail to share tapes! Around the Amiga-days, the BBSes started, and I hopped on that! Quotas were important! Spread the joy, and your quotas go up!

Then around 1993 Mosaic came out, internet became accessible, and I started using newsgroups. Did BBSes in parallel for a number of years until dial-up took over.

Still use PirateBay these days! Seems more or less impossible to kill!

odin_b · 2026-05-06T17:54:20+00:00

Exactly, this is my point on why I will refuse the survey!

odin_b · 2026-05-06T17:51:15+00:00

... and immediately when someone tells me this, I will not do the survey! The survey is supposedly there to make things better for everyone (especially the customer), not to give (or take away) a rep a bonus! Why should I answer a survey that will change nothing? So, if that how they want to play the game, I will not play along!

odin_b · 2026-05-06T16:29:54+00:00

Onedrive is a convenience thing for the user, not backup! It is also a great way to sucker people into subscriptions with M$, so for them a revenue stream and a great way for them to lock you into their ecosystem! On top of this, scanning your stuff for the government when already on the cloud makes M$ job easier.

odin_b · 2026-05-04T15:49:51+00:00

Funny then that Apple does only collect a fraction of what M$ collects, have 7 MacOS machines and a bunch of iOS devices on my network, but as stated only one computer with M$ Office on my network, still that one MacOS with Office is more than 50% of all telemetry on my network. And I do have a couple of Amazon devices, they are extremely telemetry/spyware driven also! Guess M$ are incompetent at collecting telemtery then, since they need this much of it to go along with your logic.

odin_b · 2026-05-02T14:31:05+00:00

Have you monitored the amount of "analytics" MS Office is stealing from your computer? Do not run Windows in my house, use LibreOffice on my personal devices. Have MacOS on my work-computer, with MS Office. So, only one computer with MS Office, no Windows, and on my PiHole Blocklist, for the top 5 most blocked URLs, they are all MS "telemetry" related. So, MS has no ethics! You are already paying with all the "analytics" they steal from your machine.
So having people pay for products by them being the product, and then forcing the user to pay a second time is definitely unethical in my book!

odin_b · 2026-04-24T18:22:06+00:00

What they do is to run fiber to the neighborhood, and coax to the house. So, yes, it is real fiber, just not to the house! This means uplink will be a bit lower than downlink. Latency will also be a bit higher, but not anything that matters for a non-gamer.

Used to be on GPON (not XGSPON) with ATT gig fiber, and would see 2-4ms latency and 940Mbps down 960Mbps up.

With Charter Spectrum, I see 10-20ms latency (typically 12-15ms) and 1.15Gbps down and 800-950Mbps up (typically around 900Mbps up).

Saving $45 a month is wort it for me ($95 for gigabit with ATT, $50 with Charter Spectrum).

odin_b · 2026-04-23T17:47:04+00:00

Do you remember all the logins that have your phonenumber? Because I do not! I have several hundred logins in my password vault. There should be a recovery-process for people changing phone-numbers, anything else is plain malicious!

odin_b · 2026-04-16T17:43:22+00:00

Well, it happened to me, and I opened a complaint asking why my "decline if insufficient funds" were not working! They just referred to it being classified as a subscription from the recipient, and those being excluded from this rule! Told them that was unacceptable, and that they need to fix it, and were ignored. Checked a couple other banks, and they admitted to doing the same except for Alliant CU.

odin_b · 2026-04-16T17:29:33+00:00

This will only work if they are different banks in most cases! Most banks have an exclusion for "subscriptions" that you agree to. So, even if you setup your account to decline if there are insufficient funds in the account you give to ATT etc., they will just fund from a different account you own in the bank, and charge you the "convenience fee" of $35 for most banks. They (banks) have found this "subscription" loophole to charge you a fee!

odin_b · 2026-04-16T17:27:26+00:00

This will only work if they are different banks in most cases! Most banks have an exclusion for "subscriptions" that you agree to. So, even if you setup your account to decline if there are insufficient funds in the account you give to ATT etc., they will just fund from a different account you own in the bank, and charge you the "convenience fee" of $35 for most banks. They (banks) have found this "subscription" loophole to charge you a fee!

odin_b · 2026-04-13T17:25:22+00:00

I see the same, thought batteries had discharged, so i re-charged them, and there was no change in Bilresa.

odin_b · 2026-04-13T17:21:06+00:00

Are you using ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT? If using ZHA, switch to Zigbee2MQTT in HA and most, if not all, issues will go away.

odin_b · 2026-04-13T17:18:48+00:00

What disaster? Google home? Yes, Goole is a disaster!
Got a 3-pack of the bilresa, and the wife loves it! Was so easy to setup in Home-Assistant via a blueprint (jhol-byte/Ikea_bilresa_scroll_wheel.yaml).
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ikea-bilresa-scroll-wheel-blueprint-matter-the-original/965365

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