I just want to add that you that you can also setup multiple user accounts for different uses. One for banking, one for gaming, one for downloading random crap. It will not protect against privilege escalation attacks but will help against random scripts exfiltrating your personal documents.

Another nice layer is containers and containerized applications (flatpaks, bubblewrap, etc). Each app will be somewhat limited in what damage it can do.

Running pi-hole as your DNS or using some other filtered DNS provider (Mulvad or others) will also protect you from some shady sites.

Something something Jira something scrum agile Confluence something another meeting something hit tab and let copilot do it and repeat.

Every bit counts. Thank you.

Cups is awesome. I have an ancient HP laserjet 1100 connected to an ancient parallel-to-Ethernet adapter, connected to my ancient router. Cups works flawlessly with this setup, Windows never worked.

I have an issue with ReactOS. It’s not technical, I’m sure technically it’s great.

Any software that tries to mimic proprietary technology will always be subject to the whims of said technology owners, be it patents, undocumented APIs, broken legacy APIs maintained for retro compatibility.

This much can be said of Wine, but that is pretty much just a wrapper for games, not a full OS, so it’s not critical.

I hope I’m wrong, and please enlighten me if I’m wrong.

You maybe high, but you are right nonetheless.

I tried to demonstrate that much, by applying logic and critical thinking. Unfortunately, logic does not work on religious people.

The whole exchange was like trying to grab a piece of gelatin using chopsticks.

It nevertheless gave me some insight on how religious minds operate.

“Oh. It’s you.”

Such a loveable heap of junk.

I once took the time to debate religion with a Jehovah’s witness. His reasoning went like this:

10 print “God exists because the Bible says so”

20 print “The Bible was written by God, so it is true”

30 go to 10

After a couple of rounds on that loop I gave up and never opened the door again.

It seems that you can’t be a good person if you are not part of some herd.

Chevron 7 locked.

I was just watching that, it’s still one of my favorite shows.

Because all my friends are gonna be there too?

For a random moderately interesting subject, I’d rather read a blog post.

Same here, I heard about the reliability of Unix while enduring Windows 95’s appalling crashes.

Last month I finally moved my wife’s Windows 10 laptop to Endeavor OS. She recognizes that her unusable laptop is now snappy and stable.

My house is now officially Microsoft-free.

They built what people back then told them wanted all along: if you give us music with a cheap subscription we won’t bother pirating.

What that did to artists and music quality is another matter altogether.

But yes, DRM achieves nothing.

The Joy of Linux

Music.

Meanwhile, copy/paste is still awfully impaired by random emoji boxes popping up, because of course I want to give a ❤️ to my boss’s Confluence url.

I’m still playing Doom, the original!

I understand, it’s just a weird behavior from a southern Europe point of view: when it’s cold outside we close the windows to keep it out.

In Germany people seem to like opening windows when entering a room, even in the middle of the winter. Or maybe I only know weird Germans.

A few central/northern European countries also don’t believe in curtains.