• PatMustard@feddit.ukEnglish
    4212·
    9 months ago

    What is an “online persona”? Stop trying to turn my tech support forum into Facebook!

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        122·
        9 months ago

        Your persona is your personal “brand,” your representation of yourself within The Spectacle.

        The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

        -Guy Debord

        Debord was right on, but I doubt even he predicted us mediating our own images, becoming increasingly directly part of The Spectacle.

        Full Disclosure: My real name is not Snot Flickerman.

        Related: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/black-ops-how-hbgary-wrote-backdoors-and-rootkits-for-the-government/4/

        In June 2010, the government was expressing real interest in social networks. The Air Force issued a public request for “persona management software,” which might sound boring until you realize that the government essentially wanted the ability to have one agent run multiple social media accounts at once.

        It wanted 50 software licenses, each of which could support 10 personas, “replete with background, history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent.”

        The software would allow these 50 cyberwarriors to peer at their monitors all day and manipulate these 10 accounts easily, all “without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries.” The personas would appear to come from all over the world, the better to infiltrate jihadist websites and social networks, or perhaps to show up on Facebook groups and influence public opinion in pro-US directions.

        There’s a whole slew of software aimed at creating numerous sockpuppet accounts that is called “Persona Management Software.” It’s certainly the word the US government uses to describe an online identity.

  • OneLemmyMan@lemmy.world
    826·
    9 months ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

  • Gakomi@lemmy.world
    71·
    9 months ago

    To be fair I don’t really like any os that is out there right now but I don’t have an option that I would really like. I have a Mac as my work laptop my pc runs both Windows 10 and Manjaro. I also have a Steam Deck and a Rog Ally. Frankly I have complaints and issues for each OS and use each of them for different task and things. My point is I don’t really like any of them but from all of those choices Linux is kinda the lesser evil. If there was a way better option like a forth os that everything works, all apps would be compatible with it, it would be less of a hassle and not spy on me and especially not force updates on me or crush do to multiple reasons including the forced updates then sign me up cause I would switch to it in a heartbeat.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    708·
    9 months ago

    I saw a post last night of a dude lamenting how difficult installing Windows was and listed a bunch of problems I find absolutely absurd. You’re telling me you know how to remedy driver issues in Linux, but can’t figure out how to in modern Windows, which does it automatically?

    There are plenty of things wrong with Windows that you don’t need to make shit up.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      166·
      9 months ago

      You’re telling me you know how to remedy driver issues in Linux, but can’t figure out how to in modern Windows, which does it automatically?

      Honestly? Yes.

      Windows tries to do a bunch of shit automagickally, but when the process fails it’s a nightmare to diagnose and manually fix. Linux is more rudimentary but also much more transparent. Once you know what you need to do, it’s very easy to see where you went wrong.

    • Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works
      123·
      9 months ago

      Let’s just be clear that Windows is a king of newer hardware and Linux is a king of older one, if we strictly take a driver-bullshit-o-meter.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        118·
        9 months ago

        I’ve used Linux and Windows about equally. Windows is way less of a hassle. Unless you need a super specialized environment or are running a server, the hoops you need to go through on Linux to do a lot of otherwise simple things aren’t worth it.

        • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          Your experience here is what I mean. You have used Windows a lot, so you understand how it all works. I don’t.

          I struggled to find drivers for obscure hardware under Windows. If there are no modules, no git repo, it can be confusing where to get them. I found a bunch of sketchy looking websites that claimed they had the drivers, but no obvious way to safely install them. I still don’t know the proper way to do it.

          I am familiar with Linux, so I know I need to find modules that I can compile against my kernel. 9 times out of 10 it’s effortless for me.

    • spikespaz@programming.dev
      239·
      9 months ago

      In my experience, windows always gets something wrong with drivers and I have to go do some stupid shit to fix it. And then later fight windows update as it tries to override my fix. Windows problems are rarely immediately apparent, whereas Linux problems usually are.

        • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          What are you doing to them?

          Something most people don’t do. It’s like how Apple can often hold your hand so hard that you can’t leave their preferred path. Windows lets you think it will let you stray without a fight. In niche cases it doesn’t.

        • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          9 months ago

          I irreversibly broke my Windows 10 install by changing permissions in the Microsoft Store folders while trying to use WSL.

      • w2tpmf@lemmy.world
        283·
        9 months ago

        Was your last experi nice with Windows with Vista or something? 7,8,10,11 have all been almost entirely work free for installing any hardware that isn’t exotic or boutique stuff.

        I am not one of the people weighing in based on an arbitrary experience or a small sample set. I’ve installed Windows literally tens of thousands of computers. The only thing can think of in the last 10 years I needed to find a driver for is some USB barcode scanners that emulate serial devices, and the driver for an android phone to be able to flash the boot loader.

        Every device that a computer actually needs to run just work.

        • example@reddthat.com
          51·
          9 months ago

          even on Windows 10/11, I’m still frequently hearing about issues at work where the necessary ssd drivers are only included in the default windows installer (not the recovery shipped with the device) like half a year later. at least with Dell this seems to be a common theme.

          • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            only included in the default windows installer (not the recovery shipped with the device)

            That would be an OEM issue, not Microsoft. They’re supposed to modify the recovery image with whatever it needs, Windows doesn’t just do it automatically.

            • example@reddthat.com
              1·
              9 months ago

              The OEM version is working fine, as the drivers are embedded there. My point was that without this recovery partition you tend to run into issues on newer devices, as the MS bundled drivers get updated only infrequently.

              • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.caEnglish
                1·
                9 months ago

                Yeah that checks out. I constantly have to chase down drivers when doing Windows installs. The way I read your upper comment was the issue being with the recovery partition.

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
          95·
          9 months ago

          Windows 10 once had the brilliant idea of de-installing the AMD graphics drivers and replacing it with its own while I was playing a game.

          Best AMD can do is show you a message box, it’s been going on for years and years and Microsoft doesn’t look willing to fix their shit. It’s possible to tell windows update to not overwrite “third-party” drivers, but only for all devices, not specific ones. Meanwhile it shouldn’t be doing that shit in the first place.

          Windows install once barfed a rescue partition on a disk that it thought was empty, even though I had specifically told it to install to a completely different disk. Ever since then I unhook all drives that aren’t the install drives before launching the thing.

          The overall theme with windows is that if it works, it works, if it doesn’t, you’re fucked. And just a centimetre off the beaten path nope, it doesn’t work.

      • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        I haven’t had driver problems in forever, unless I’m using some old weird device that I haven’t used in ages. And even then usually going into device manager and telling it what kind of device the unknown device is usually fixes it.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Jokes on you I spend my time hating on windows specifically

    spoiler

    Stupid devs never gave us aero back despite it being the second most requested feature on the stupid insider hub.

    Then they magically added blur effects 5 years too late when their corporate overlords brought in the next team of intern graphic designers.

    I still remember the windows 10 leak pic where the whole start menu and taskbar was clear as glass >:(

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    412·
    9 months ago

    I will have you know my entire online persona on Lemmy is basically a 24/7 “Barbie” movie advertisement, thank you very much.

    I use Arch BTW.