Now you are changing words or read it too quick. I never said I. We as in anybody. Again another strawman second sentence. How do you think the researcher found the vulner for xz. He noticean tiny slow down and started scrutinizing code. Closed source is a false sense of security by obscurity. Open source means anyone can scrutinize the code.

Also we deal with enough proprietary software at work to get inside TSBs. Much of proprietary code also is built on open source pieces, so if your troll argument is opensource is bad, then proprietary is also bad on top of that.

Up till recently it was opensource right. But I’m sure those days are numbered, they are going to block side loading and then everything will probably go binary blobs

That’s a strawman if I ever saw one

First one I agreed he bowed to pressure. 2nd one, not sure which one you mean. Every software has vulnerabilities yet to be discovered, researchers work hard to breakstuff. Windows had tons that researchers disclosed to them and they refused to fix, until researchers started issuing the vulners daily (and said they had 100s more they could release all year). Open Source means we can check and fix once discovered, good luck getting a for profit corporation to act. Re: the recent national defense issue with MS not disclosing vulnerabilities because they didtn want to kill their sales.

Also, Graphene has that duress mode, you set a pin/password that when entered locks out storage, does a wipe, while leaving grapheneOS in place. It seems US citizens maybe needing this in the future.

I mean Linus did kick out some russians based on US sanctions, but technically nobody owns Linux. You can use a distro from the EU, and if USA did pressure Linus, people could fork the kernel in another country. As well as it being open source where US pull requests could be analyzed for backdoors

Every gamer does a sideways glance ;).

GrapheneOS for Pixels, you can be completely degoogled.

I use both at home and at work. For work some of our contract work is supporting large customer installs. There was a definite performance hit with Windows 10 (upgrading software on same hardware). So much so that we had endless customer calls on why the application was now slow. Windows11 has the same issue, plus some other janky stuff. But now windows 11 has ai.exe and aimgr.DLLs running in the background as part of Office install. It will regularly grind PCs to a halt, even when not using Office.

The one work application had a Linux version, the Linux version remained the same speed as always. While the windows app gets slower every release.

At home my wife’s laptop was 2010, upgrading to W10 made it absolutely unusable to even navigate with file explorer. I put Linux on it, and she runs spreadsheet and her zoom calls as well as my brand new work workstation. Granted it can’t compete for video edit render output, just doesn’t have modern CPU/GPU.

There may be some odd hardware where you have to find a driver, but 95% of drivers are built into the kernel. You just plug stuff in and it works without having to install shady apps like windows.

If you have a specific Windows only app(that for some reason can’t run under WINE) then stay with Windows, but otherwise with some mental adjustment you will find Linux just works and makes for a nicer user experience.

Windows Recall should turn off everybody. A system that captures everything you do and holds it forever is going to be a backdoor hack into your entire life. All a country has to do is get Pegasus software to infiltrate your system via a bad URL vulner and they can watch everything you do.

Yeah, somebody didn’t like a neighbour near us. Their garage had like 10 entries: Sausage Butcher Laundromat Loans Etc

Yeah we had the bundle from a big ISP, home phone, TV, and unlimited internet and 10 email addresses. As kids moved out etc. We dumped home phone, and TV, just internet now as a bridge. I’d move to another provider but I still have 5 people using the email addresses; and for mine I’m slowly moving all my signups and bills over to another email so we can eventually make an easy switch.

I’m sure you could. I personally haven’t tried that, but games work well for me, as do the random windows engineering tools I gathered in the 2000s

It’s boundaries, expectations and consistancy in consequences if they break the rules.

Our ISP ships new routers that are admined from the cloud via a phone app. Its a disaster waiting to happen, so I told them I’m keeping my old outdated modem as a bridge and bought my own router.

Never turn on uPnP for external use, its a way to let hackers manipulate your network. It should never have existed as an option.

You could just Google his comments or listen to his podcasts he promoted violence.

Charles Kirk, the recently killed hard-right Christian nationalist, had been “repeatedly making references to physically assaulting and even lynching trans people on his podcast, the Charlie Kirk Show”.

Sometimes he targeted his violence specifically against trans. Other times, he incited violence more broadly against LGBTQ along with other minority groups.

He was using Christianity as a shield, he was a fake Christian

If you mean as a permanent resident, then a family member who agrees to sponsor you (should you be unemployed and a drain on social services) is super helpful

Boundaries are good

Hearts and Rainbows. All signs of happiness and caring happening, besides the “yeah you can draw on my arm” chill vibe

I did a lot of distro hopping, but settled on OpenSUSE for a lot of reasons, but somebody suggested nixOS as I was sorting out a distro for my wife’s laptop.

She is bad with tech, and her 2010 windows laptop was making her lose her temper; with how slow and intrusive stuff was when she wanted to do work, and updates altering things. Her wants were: speed and consistency, even if it died she wanted it back exactly the same.

So I setup nix, read about editting the config and rebuilds, and pretty quickly had a config that included zoom for her meetings, libreoffice for her client stuff, and browser. Had to add a hardware line for the WiFi card. Rebuild, and it is exactly everything she needs.

It is peppy like my brand new work Windows computer. Which is both a praise to nixOS and a slam against Windows degradation.

The first one always sucks