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
@m0xee @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z
DANG, that's a lot of battery life!
Doesn't UBPorts have something like Firefox?
@RL_Dane
It does — it's real Firefox, but last time I checked the underlying version of Ubuntu used by mobile OS was so dated that Firefox was pretty old too, so it was very clunky on a small screen. It was possible to use it, but no multitouch support — I wasn't comfortable doing it.
Stock browser was better, but didn't open some websites.
It was a year ago, maybe things improved since then, they had plans to migrate to newer Ubuntu, but I didn't revisit it.
@benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z
@m0xee @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z
Ah, that's a bummer. Not surprising, as Ubuntu dropped Mir and Unity like a hot potato. :(
@m0xee @RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
Ahhh, there are problems and benefits with using LTS releases.