I am cleaning up my Web Affairs and one thing I want to do is to STOP some subscriptions and refund or cancel micro-transactions. Ya know, like if ya like a game and ya want to 'Micro-Purchase' a new suit or armor or a new fighter-plane. HOW TO GET RID OF THAT STUFF LATER? [NOW] I have done that for a few things. Now I want to do it for everything. I can change my mind later. SOME subscriptions have been Per Month. I want to stop doing that, and I will too. I can, any time I want, re-start those things. BUT for now, I want to just go with a clean Linux Box and only do stuff that doesn't involve credit cards and subscriptions and transactions. I have two I-Things. In those things there are some song I downloaded from I-Tunes. Some games I subscribed to in I-Store, or bought. I want out. The only way I can GET OUT, is to do it using Microsoft Windows or a Mac. I don't have PC-running-Microsoft-Windows, or a Mac. I cannot tell I-Stuff to FUCK THE FUCK OFF, unless I use MS-Windows and it's web browser and stuff like that. How the fuck do I do that? IF I want to connect to the demons, I must use Microsoft Windows or a Mac. I already said that. Hmmmmm. MS-Windows 10 on Virtual-box!!!! So I can connect to I-Cloud using a Safari-Browser-or-ITunes-on-Windows, a EXE. Okay, let's give that a try. I don't like having to do that. It is too much work, and too me, is a lot like being forced to use feet and inches and miles and wear a MAGA hat. IF this works I will be able to cancel subscriptions and micro-purchases, using a Fake MS-Windows [in Virtual-box] right???? [I have a MS-Windows 10, bought and paid for I just don't use it [very often] Fake MS-Windows [in Virtual-box] right????I sure hope it works. Don't ask me why. I am free to do what I want with this PC I just want out and away from micro-transactions, subscriptions, stuff like that. I can change my mind later. I want to stop that weekly or monthly micro-transactions and stuff. MS-Windows on a VM should let me into ITunes I think, or hope. Itune is a web site in a Linux Box, I neeb to use the MS-Windows I tunes Software, on either a Mac or a Ms Windows box. I don't have either. I do know how to use, and am downloading right now, Virtual-box. Wish me luck.
Best wishes. And all the luck the gods of operating systems may grant you! As far as I am concerned, I am sane... I don't use Apple crap. The sole Apple corporation I support is the one that published records, some time ago (and then was promised, in out-of-court settlement, that the other Apple Inc. will never interfere with its music-selling business... bohahaha... these thieves from Cupertino will do just anything to rip you off...).
I have to admit I tried the IPhone and the IPAd, just so I could try a Poor-Man's Mac. I wanted to try, to see what Apple-world looks like. I don't hate, but I am a hobo, a poor man [I am not a bum, I am a hobo]. I want to tidy up my affairs and this is a good day to do that [A day before my Pension Money arrives!]. I have ran into a road-block, virtual_box under Manjaro-Linux is arguing with me, so I am gonna install MSWindows onto a spare Hard Drive. I have not looked at MSWindows since chistmas, it will be fun to see. I am not sure if VirtualBox will work on it. BUT one-thing-at-a-time, I need to get MSWindows Up-And-Running, then I have to endure the updates, the auto-interruptions. (Dreaming) This is a nice PC, I just built it. This is gonna be fun. AND maybe I will STOP those mesaages I get from Apple once I can Get Into ITunes and tell them to Fuck-Off. IF not, I will let it all go as BOTH the Apple Devices are paid for, by cash, so they will work without any triuble from creditors [or apple??? I do not know].
Oooh. I did not install MSWindows into a VM without argument [Arch Linx RTFM shit, I got no fucking time for that]. I used my Linux /home directory and installed KUbuntu [which always works, even if I don't like it very much] in a / dir. Am right now, installing MSWindows10 into a VM using VirtualBox on Kubuntu. Too much bullshit just so I can do what I need to do. No argument from VirtualBox ... yet. One Step At A Time... Get a working MSWindows 10 [in a VM]. I don't care if a VM is not suitable for kids [gamers].
I have used the WINE that is beneath Steam on Linux. It is called, I think, Proton. BUT Winetools and other ways to use WINE, um...... Perhaps a hacker could be confortable with WINE but I am not. I do not use WINE directly, or Winetools, or PlayOnLinux even. There is too much heat in my brain when I fiddle. I am simplfying as much as I can. Sinple is not easy. I know that. I told myself a few years ago that I was going to use Manjaro and other forms of Linux and I told myelf to get used to that. I am not and never was a Fuckin Einstein. As I am getting old now, that doesn't bother me.
This PC is not perfect. BUT it is just fine for me. I do so miss enjoying some stuff from the past. MSWindows is like a fat ugly woman I used to fuck before she went crazy and started to sag, and grew warts. If I see her now, I hope she didn't even notice me.
The Devil's Den is my favorite tiny-fight near Gettysburg. I thiink that is a scenario in Ultmate General. OH, there is a fight there, and can be done in the game. It is terrible. I mean, what the real troops had to go through is terrible. I think the Yanks also call that Little Round Top. That game is very difficult, and that IS NOT to say it is no good, it is very good. Every time I have ever played a scenario I was disgraced. No matter if I chose to be Confederate side or Union or to be aggressive or a moron. Also, it is very easy for me to get too mixed up and not end the game. I just quit. I hope to see more of that invention in other Great Battles. I do so wish there was a save function that allows me to back-up a bit in game, to try other strategies. It is VERY replayable. I would love to see something like that at a giant scale. At the level of detail it is, I bet my Brain would overheat.
I could not make ITunes work using Steam. I don't care much. Apple is on the way out. The Iphone will die. The Ipad will die. They are both gonna run out of support real soon and I can do anything I want and one thing I am gonna do is STOP using Apple anything. NO HATE. This is about me, my brain power and my comfort. I am comfortable in Linux-World. I can keep on using it until I stop, um, living. It ain't gonna die.... I am sort-pof proud of myself that I found Linux before it was version 1. YUP. I read LFS over and over again. And then came a whole family of Linuxes. That is the PC Environment that I grew up in.... I am used to it. My favourite Flavour of Linux is, at this time, Manjaro. It is Arch Linux, but has a nice GUI and it is a bit like Ubuntu is to Debian Manjaro is to Arch Linux like Ubuntu is to Debian. I get all the advantages of Arch Linux but no hassle getting it to work. This is just in the nick of time for me, as I am getting old and cannot think as fast, care as much, or learn things as fast.
I am now completely free of Apple. I still have a working iPhone and an iPad so I can get updates as long as it is normal to get updates for those models Of Ithings. I have no interest igame or isongs. When they have died so be it. Android Devices are about 1/4 of the price. On my Desktop is a PC running Linux (Manjaro).
As far as mobile phones are concerned - I'm a Sony fanboy... and I had a hard time last fall, switching from the Xperia XZ1 compact to the Xperia 5... all those folks went insane... Apple, Sony, Xiaomi, Samsung... you no longer can get a decent handset that does not fill your pocket completely*. * I know, Google Pixel - but its design sucks, and it was marketed at PLN 4.1k+ (CAD 1400+) last November in Poland, while Sony sold their newest Xperia just under 3. And - I know, Samsung S10e - outgoing model, with the Exynos (lower performance) chipset - no, thanks (it was PLN 400 over the price of the Sony too).
It is. Friends are having fun, cause I've been sticking with Xperia handsets ever since Xperia X10 Mini Pro some 10 years ago (and I liked that tiny phone so much, that I rooted it to get Android 4.1 installed, once Sony finished its support for it). Prior to the XZ1 Compact I had the Z3 Compact, the Z1 Compact and the Xperia T. The T is dead and gone, the Z3 C is no longer operable, the Z1 C works, yet requires new screen, the XZ1C is now the property of my daughter, the X10 Mini Pro remains a fully operable curiosity, I sometimes play with.
Mhmmm... how to put that in a delicate manner. I'm considering migration, not an internal one. (I spent a year of my life - in total - in Germany, when I was younger, and over two years in the UK - 2006 to 2008 to be more precise, so I am not really bound to this place... one thing I fear is the reaction of my daughter, once we decide to do this (the son's to young to give a damn)). We voted past versus future in that elections, and the past has won. I will not say anything about those voting in favour of the past (they must have had valid reasons), I will just say, that the election was not a fair, equal, nor a democratic one.
_Frog- Do you think another town or city or country is going to make a practical difference? Fanboy OH, different-differences, sure, but still. I have not travelled as widely as a lot of the users here, but I have learned that everywhere I go there are people that can turn into lynch-mobs, in an instant. I appears to me that taboos and customs that differ from place to place are different but ever-present. Advice is to store money, enough money, and a valid passport and travellers should always be willing to get out of a place, quickly, to have an exit strategy. Watch the movie Borat. That guy, the character, not the actor, seems to say and do lots of things that, in the real-world, would get him in serous trouble. The character doesn't know, even, is blissfully UN-aware that he is in great danger. It was a fantasy,. I know. Borat Character was a Stranger In A Strange Land. Example : Tell Jew-Jokes in Texas, USA. Butcher and eat a dog in Toronto. Be openly Gay in Dubai...... Say the wrong word even. Fanboy Faggot I think some people are soooo worldly they can live well... I think education is needed before entering a new place. ANY place. And some education will never teach stuff like.... Don't have green spiked hair and walk around in some places..... [Green spikes hair is just weird looking but there are billions of people that will gladly form a crowd and watch a whipping, or much worse] I am scared, frightened to go even into the USA where they keep screaming Freedom Hoorah, RIGHTS, Hooraa.. Liberty, OOOOHRAHHHH. The yanks are nuts. BUT so are Afghans and Scottish people. I just want to die without pain, when I do die.. I don't want to be lynched or kept in a hole. And that stuff can happen, and Holy Shit, what did I say or do????? I am so sick of mankind,,,, 1/2 of them are raving mobs. The other half walk around in secret... Fanboy PS, Mac. Because of you I have watched Borat Movie @ five times .... I understand what Sasha Cohen was addressing. He is a Genius!!!!!