Sure, but what about security? Not that I haven’t had to use outdated phones before.

Realistically I have no where to go and that’s the problem. iOS is even more locked down.

If google heads that way I’ll head somewhere else.

Scott the Woz buys a steam deck.

But it’s only four easy interest-free payments of $12.49!

What do you mean? Mastadon users can follow lemmy communities to see posts

Edit: to clarify, Lemmy is not set up to make or view microblog style posts. Therefore we don’t see into that side of the fediverse from Lemmy. However, my understanding is that Mastadon users can follow communities on Lemmy as if they’re a microblog account, with all posts and comments from that community coming in as one steam in chronological order. So compatibility isn’t great over there either. They can also make posts in Lemmy communities by tagging it in their post. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

Of course they did.

Didn’t apple already back away from this? Or am I thinking of something else?

Can they be disabled?

Bluesky gets forgotten

I still think they are but maybe my needs are simple. It was definitely better when I switched over (from godaddy*) during one of the migrations.

To prove your point, ventoy seems to come with 3 .exes

For me, it’s just a matter of finding various forum posts from other people trying to get it working, and applying different suggested fixes until something works (ideally).

I’m no stranger to that. I guess it’s a matter of motivation at this point.

That’s reassuring. I think it’s capable but it may be windows secure boot messing it up. Not familiar with bcdedit but I could try.

I only do audio production on my laptop. All browsing is come on my phone whenever possible. The software in my workflow is all Linux compatible and the distros I’m interested in are geared toward that focus. That said I would appreciate the convenience of having windows for now still. Especially since there are some plugins I occasionally use which unfortunately aren’t Linux compatible.

It’s at least 5 years old. I’ll look into secure boot. I wouldn’t be against ditching windows entirely but I’m not sure I’m up for transferring all my files over right now. No way my laptop supports another drive unfortunately

Edit: however much to my surprise I did find an official service guide

I feel like those were the settings I used in Rufus. Sounds like legacy support might be what I need, thanks.

I would really appreciate that in fact.

I tried Rufus and UNetbootin, both on the windows 10 machine I’m intending to try Linux on, to a 32gb flash drive (I tried two different ones actually). I used an AV Linux ISO and Ubuntu Studio ISO. I have not tried Ventoy.

It’s an HP. I’ll have to check the model. I went through the bios, and while admittedly it’s been some time, I thought everything seemed right. I recall trying to change the priority.

It wouldn’t boot at all. Windows just forces its way through.

Edit: I looked I to Ventoy a bit. I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

Just install Linux on your laptop or desktop.

I have been trying

I don’t think my laptop likes to boot from a USB, things used to be so much easier. Maybe I need to try a DVD.

I need to find a DVD.

It turns out she’s just a very uninteresting person. Infinite money and somehow can’t find something better to do with her time.