Also: Your relatives and friends. And their friends and friends' friends. Your neighbors. Ask around. And whenever someone moves, they usually want to get rid of things.
For specific music Discogs.org is a very good marketplace. It's not free, it's a second hand marketplace, people don't give away things, but prices aren't worse than retail except for actually rare collector's stuff. But I've used it a lot to fill in the gaps in some artists' discography. Also older CDs are usually mastered with a bigger dynamic range, so they sound better on music hardware with a functioning volume knob. ;) So I much prefer buying original CD releases versus re-releases of an album on CDs anyway.
"in reality welfare state with its massive redistribution and limits on concentration of power that won"
The welfare state increased 3x since post war time so that one is plain wrong. It was not clear if the 2nd part was "its" or separate . What is the metric for concentration of /power/? Rather than wealth. If anything the recent developments are the result of more direct democracy. Candidates like trump would have never been allowed by concentrated media and party machines mid century
LTSC is not as good as it used to be. There's no "all telemetry off" button, there's still a Windows store in the latest version. You still can't turn updates off. I guess you can do these things in group policies but it used to be much better in the gui.
Ps yes I'm using the IoT Enterprise LTSC. Not the non IoT
It's true that you can't turn disable software updates without a registry edit, but those updates are purely security patches and nothing else. Although I do believe on principle that users should always be able to control updates, there's really not a lot to complain about here. (And you can control the updates, with a registry edit.)
> there's still a Windows store in the latest version.
There is? Not in mine.
I just double checked, I'm running Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, which appears to still be the latest.
I'm running the Win10 version (the latest for that). I will doublecheck, I'm sure I saw the windows store. Mainly running it because my skylake NUC is no longer supported by Win11. And it still works totally fine for programming microcontrollers.
And I do want updates, I just want to decide when to install them. Not that "install before next tuesday or we will do it for you" mafia bullshit.
I think there are ways to install the Windows Store, but it isn't there by default.
You may know this, and we agree it would be better if there was a GUI option, but to disable automatic updates just save this as a .reg file and run it:
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