My uncle in Oregon can't get into his laptop because his Microsoft account got b0rked and the bloody 2FA won't let him log in because he registered it to his home phone number without thinking about it.
I really want to grab some microsoft exec by the giblets and swing them around until they reach orbital velocity.
My utter disdain and hatred for that ruddy company has ripened and reached 180 proof over the past thirty years.
@RL_Dane
Ah, I remember when my Windows laptop enabled FDE without telling me then locked me out of my account, saying my password was incorrect. I couldn't do a reset without the key unless I willing to lose my data.
I waited literally 7-9 hours in a queue to *virtually chat* with a Microsoft representative. He told me that the key should be backed up to my account.
It wasn't. I lost all my files that weren't synced to GDrive, including the first 43k words of my in-progress NaNoWriMo novel.
@RL_Dane
This is (1) when I made Ubuntu the primary install I'd use rather than just a dual boot I had for kicks and (2) the main inspiration for why I now run hourly backups on most of my data.
@RL_Dane
Anyway, here I am a couple years later and I don't use a single Micro$oft product that I'm not required to for uni. No GitHub (except issue reporting), no npm, no Windows, etc.
@RL_Dane
And never will I recommend a Micro$oft product to anyone.
@RL_Dane
Not sure whether the next step should be de-Applifying or de-Googling.
@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane I would say De-Googling is probably of higher imperative than de-Applifying, but I'm an Android user, so they basically own me.
De-Google your Android!
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
Not sure I've ever understood going half-measures; for example, using degoogled chromium rather than something else altogether, like Firefox. If I ever switch away from a mainstream mobile OS (which I hope to someday) it'll almost certainly be to a pure Linux-based system.
@benjaminhollon I have a phone that, in addition to Android can run Sailfish and Ubuntu Touch. Both systems aren't quite there in terms of making them your daily drivers, main problem being the browser not being on par with what you can have on Android. You can work that around with Waydroid (running Android in a container under host os), but that kinda defeats the purpose because using Android as host OS you can always have better battery life —mine lasts for 5 days 🤷
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
@benjaminhollon It would be perfect for me to have a device with SXMO/SWMO capable to run a simple dialer, email client and normal desktop Firefox with decent performance and proper multitouch support. I'm fine with using things like Matrix and Fedi as web apps — I have a phone capable of running desktop Windows 11 (what? yes!) so I know what it is like. Element and Mastodon/Pleroma work nicely scaled to small screen. Proper onscreen keyboard is a must too!
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
@RL_Dane Back in 2005 or 2006 I could connect to my Siemens phone (it wasn't even a smartphone!) via Bluetooth and use Address Book.app on my Mac to send SMS-messages 😁
Then, for some reason, mobile phones made a giant leap backward in terms of being able to be used together with desktop computers.
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@m0xee @RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
*cough cough* Apple
@benjaminhollon Yes! The interoperability was stellar at the time. So when I iPhone came out I thought it would be more of the same, but even better, but no… To my disappointment it wasn't — instead of using old and tried iSync they moved that functionality to iTunes, most probably because they didn't have iSync for Windows, but they did have iTunes and they wanted to market it to PC folk too.
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@m0xee @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z
Yes, with Apple, you have to be using a mac to have tight desktop <--> phone integration.
With Android, you have to be using an SMS app that sends your SMSes to the cloud. lol, hard pass!
@m0xee @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z
I love the idea of being able to ssh in to the phone to send SMS.
I love KDE Connect, but the SMS function almost never works for me. I end up using the clipboard integration to compose texts on my desktop, but it's not the same.