Problem is Microsoft has leverage in several enterprise categories like teams, office, etc.

There have been successful corporate switches in Linux, with even dedicated 1:1 UX skins to keep even the most poorly skilled users happy, but lots of corporations are just way too vendor locked.

It doesn’t matter how total garbage win 11 or teams gets, anyone locked in is gonna be stuck, kinda like what happened with vmware.

Microsoft’s biggest mistake though is basing their QoL and overall OS design on the home market. If they lose their leverage there, even mid size or older corps may seriously consider transitioning or trialing Linux as a test.

It’s very hard to convince leadership to abandon vendor locked deals, but they eat up anything that demonstrates slashed costs and improved productivity. If a vendor like SUSE shows up with a complete package, they may genuinely consider if MSFT takes a real nosedive.

Watching the boot log eh?

This is the same BS CrowdStrike uses to sell their rootkit EDR. I mean, by all means it is a very solid EDR, but it’s being used exclusively to cover gaping holes in discrete security as a cop out for not properly composing enterprise infrastructure.

A kernel space agent should only really be running in an environment where every process must be heavily scrutinized and the design of the kernel module is tightly controlled and itself under constant review, like in a proper data center with thousands of critical nodes. Not your laptop or the shitty windows box used to display ads in the screens at the airport.

Crowdstrike keeps spamming new features and techniques without serious consideration to keep their enterprise customers happy, similar to crappy solutions like Vanguard.

Covering obvious blatant logic flaws should be included in your server software, it’s the same as sanity checking your inputs because there is always the possibility in may not match what you expect.

From that experience, I’m very comfortable saying that if a game supports Proton or Linux, they’re not serious about anti-cheat

This statement is especially insulting to the massive library of games that successfully added Linux support without so much as a hint of issue relating to cheating. Even crappy outsourced dev War Thunder doesn’t need to do anything after enabling EAC/BattilEye because they actually spend the .000001% extra cash from their whale revenue to run a service moderation team.

Hell even Valve’s VAC system is mostly just about automating moderation tasks so that hackers can be taken down ASAP instead of a lengthy review process.

Or you know, the thousands of games that have better game logic than Rust’s anticheat.

Look at this guy using btrfs like a normal chump. Real men yolo XFS with no backup and spam duperemove for the 10% faster performance.

Now to run xfs_repair real quick after my power outage…

Gonna become the $2 waterboard rag method for insubordination

I think he’s over blowing the 5 dollar wrench method.

Unless you live in a place where human rights are disregarded like every possible moment, they’d probably only resort to torturing you to gain access if they believe you are somehow connected or have ancillary evidence that points to you. IE that darkweb dude they tortured in Turkey to gain access to his encrypted laptop containing incriminating evidence.

Otherwise they’ll just do a preemptive raid hoping that it leads to new information.

Like right now border patrol has been forcing foreigners to show data on their mobile devices to see if you have any roasted vance memes so they can turn you away. But in many cases, it has been done because they already had you flagged as posting or sharing roasted vance memes online.

Of course you could also always be in a craphole country where they’ll torture you anyway, regardless if they have any reason to believe you are connected to something, but simply due to the fact that you opted to use FDE or any practical security scheme.

Can’t have ring -3 vulnerabilities if your CPU doesn’t have a ring -3

upgrade this vine era meme to cargo box brainrot plz

It takes a little more effort to setup, but the alternative to syncing a local keystore db like KeePassXC would be vaultwarden, which is a self hosted open source Bitwarden server that gives you all the features of Bitwarden and has full compatibility with all the clients.

Spinning it up is actually very easy, you just have to decide if you want to integrate SSL via a reverse proxy setup or just use the builtin webserver for HTTPS.

They technically already did this with Android which all ship custom kernels and closed source driver blobs.

Of which Google successfully lobbied the government to keep foreign competition out, which has lead to the soft death of AOSP as everyone else has forked into a new OS or accepts google’s terms to use their gapps suite.

Best thing about Linus is that he immediately tells these megacorps to f off every time they make a PR with even a remotely questionable purpose.

If they really want to achieve something technical without scrutiny, there’s FreeBSD right there. Implement it and make a future PR if it actually improves something.

Otherwise, critical choices within the Linux kernel will affect everyone, and could very easily lead to abuse without any proper moderation.

Google already has a hit order out on JPEGXL simply because they know that AVIF will save them on cloud storage cost, so they’ve effectively banned it from the browser space since they own Chrome and have enough leverage over Firefox.

They absorbed Whatsapp and Instagram and rebranded to Meta

Go back to sleep and pretend this is all a dream

This actually reminded me of an actual instance of this I discovered for a family member.

Their 2.4Ghz devices would just randomly drop connections at seemingly random times, and changing the router didn’t fix anything.

So I fired up bettercap to take a look, and lo and behold it was a GE “smart” oven that would spam advertise its SSID with beacon frames on an interval and would block traffic because all the other devices would see a busy channel.

The funniest thing is said family member specifically decided against using the oven wifi feature because he already knew it was not going to be useful or even reliable, but he had no idea the wifi feature was left on which was causing all the packet drops.

Upon further investigation, we realized he actually did turn it off, but because the tap button was basically at elbow height, it was super easy to accidentally bump and flick back on.

Conclusion is that some GE ovens double as a crappy WiFi jammer lmao.

Damn I was actually gonna add more context to my original comment about how QUIC is an overrated in place UDP upgrade for HTTP, but I didn’t wanna open my mouth because I haven’t read the QUIC spec.

Thank you for this lol

I need a CDN free single GET request club

Something something QUIC something something

If you want the meta search functionality, you should try out SearXNG, which is basically self hosted poor man’s Kagi lol

Couldn’t you just lazy build your own images if you don’t trust the source?

Even then most of these containerized apps can be run perfectly fine as a host binary, you just have to make your own start script and a systemd unit which isn’t that bad.

You could then build a completely custom image if you’d like, or move it into a VM if you don’t like the idea of running it baremetal.

How does it compare to Photoprism? Been on that solution for a while and I really like it, but have seen lots of people suggest Immich as well.

EDIT: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

TP-Link is excellent for cheap switching hardware which a ton of vendors overprice for the same quality. Its your OG made in China deal that works pretty well for the price.

Otherwise, you should skip it as a router and instead opt for either a better AIO, or put in the 2 minutes of extra effort to get a cheap ethernet router and a separate AP because AIOs are still overrated in 2025 for the price per quality.

Not to mention that 5 GHz channels are getting clogged these days even on the DFS channels which people shouldn’t be using all the time. I know its not possible for a lot of people, but you’re really better off on even bargain basement maximum cheapo Cat-5e cables.

Gb WiFi speeds and MuMIMO not gonna matter when you have CSMA/CA throwing a metric ton of RTS and CTS packets causing increasing amounts of retries as you add stations.

Probably worst scenario is if you’re living in an apartment surrounded by like 50 stations within range. No amount of 802.11 magic is gonna give you a stable connection.