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

Yeah WarRobots did something like that, if they repeatedly cancelled out of a drop-in map because they didn’t like what was chosen or that their opponent roster were not easy pickings, then they’d block those users from spawning into games and just match them with each other.

At some level though you are just against some crazy paid to upgrade person that had no strategy other than a weopon that obliterates you with on shot, and it became unplayable

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.

Maybe a buffer issue, does scp work?

Could be this https://omnitech.net/reference/2023/03/15/0x8007003b-timeout-copying-large-file-to-samba-server/

Or could be if you copy it via Nautilus GUI, people have suggests doing a straight cp from CLI has better results than Nautilus.

Microsoft being closed source hides their bugs and vulnerabilities. Even when security researchers have sent in reports MS has sat on them due to profit being motive not security, and not taking vulners seriously until the researchers say screw that and publish it.

Linux being open can have all eyes on it, and if there is an exploit, there is a community willing to help ASAP.

On many distros you may have weekly or even daily updates or patches coming through with fixes. A distro like OpenSUSE has various patch and list patch commands that show what security patches are avilailable, their status (critical, recommended) and if it’s needed on your system or not depending on what you have installed. You don’t get transparency on closed source systems.

If you are paranoid about security you can use AppArmor tools or SELinux. AppArmor can be set to learn how an app behaves, then you lock it so the app can’t do new things.

SELinux you set rules for files and folders, so even with remote access an attacker can’t access data if rules don’t allow file listing over SSH etc

One of my colleagues did a lot of work in Japan in a very niche industry.

They lost their shit one day because he replied to an email without the formal salutations…like rather than Dear Honorable Hiro San, We thank you for your data transfer, and will begin the process of review; He wrote something like Hey Hiro, got your files, and will investigate. Thanks.

It was a big kerfuffle with managers involved on how he could be so rude and disrespectful.

You can solve that problem by making an additional efi/boot partition when you install Linux over the Windows install.

You have Linux setup with its own boot partition and the install should probe for a foreign OS, it then adds a chainloader entry in grub to point to the Windows EFI partition.

You set BIOS to boot from Linux EFI partition. When it comes up at boot you can chose Windows and Grub hands over control to the windows bootloader, but Windows is ignorant of Linux EFI existing. It now only messes with its own EFI and never touches the Linux stuff.

@utnapishtim

Because US feels they are more important than they actually are, and have been trying to claw back an image of being number 1; while they prove each week, by defunding education, health and science, that they have slid backwards from world leadership

This, and then you have USA defunding research and denying science.

“If you had a bug that actually made it into the product and required work in a Service Pack, that was never a laughing matter. That was kind of a shameful thing.”

Well this is no longer true, W11 is a mess

People are lazy

Nice. Somewhats like fslint

You can get broadcom to work, it means adding the missing driver.

For example in NixOS its adding a line in the hardware/config file then running a rebuild.

For Ubuntu there appears some steps spelled out lower in this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers

Some distros publish their known working hardware lists https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware

I don’t disagree about learning how to use them, but we already have lazy uni students using it to write their papers and they exit uni not knowing how to think critically or how to formulate ideas properly

Anytime you present info to people without them having to digest, comprehend and formulate ideas, you remove opportunity for learning and dementing ideas. Kids copy pasting from LLM to fill in answers is just going to be mindless drol. USA already lacks education, thus why they have denied science, defunded education dwpartment, and are removing vaccine mandates. At this rate USA will slide into the Idiocracy movie plot quickly.

Yeah me too. My only hope is he was pandering to trump so trump wouldn’t pull the plug on encrypted services like proton. proton is moving services out of Switzerland due to new laws being passed that providers must keep and handover keys for data to authorities. They are moving data services to Germany. They started with their AI chatbot, and are supposed to be moving the rest…so since its in Germany Tuta is probably a good choice since we can’t rely on swiss privacy anymore

Proton Drive, while I tinker with an Immich server at home

Yep, I am degoogled. GrapheneOS and LineageOS