Mint is the best apparently

https://distrowatch.com/

I use Arch btw

This was great… great find and genius idea.

I think you’ve read me wrong there.

First up, I presume you searched for other posts like this one? If not, a pinned post might’ve made that easier for you to get started (ie Mint)

Second, the pinned post doesn’t become a final answer, it’s a starting point to add to the discussion, (ie you tried Mint, but didn’t like X, Y & Z)

From my pov there are a lot of posts asking this same question and this was simply a reflection on how we could improve the community… and your experience.

~1600 hours uptime… no rebooting after patching?

You… you do patch your web server… don’t you…?

But, a good blog… must give my BIOSes a good looking at and see if I can change some of mine

LoL… looks like a EULA in Uppercase

Much prefer that you do your stuff the way you want, and lowercase makes it feel like it’s hand written

Man, we need to be able to pin some posts and answer these quesrions once.

I’m not saying there’s a single answer (I use Arch btw), but if we could just group all these Q&As in 1 post…

I don’t think you’re forced to use it.

I’m certainly not - and surprisingly I’m still able to function and communicate with others.

Nice

Or… just return the laptop?

Then purchase basically anything else

I’m surprised though, I thought Asus wouldn’t be a company to do something like that.

You’ve reminded me of a slightly off-topic point…

I tried to put Linux on an old laptop for a friend so their kids could use it… it had some weird (Realtek?) chip that was a combination of things (ie video and networking?) and Linux just couldn’t drive it, so I had to give up.

That’s the only Linux failure I’ve had and it was also the one where I told them it would definitely work…

Admittedly I’ve just scanned your list, but from a repair shop POV, surely the legal licensing would be of interest?

Ie, someone brings in an old device thst won’t run Win7 let alone 11 - but you can’t repair / upgrade without being very careful with the COA license

Linux: no issues.

Skimming through the Qualsys report it seems that the attacker would already need access to the device first, to be able to crash the processes and then collect the hashes, so I’d say this vulnerability appears to need chaining with other(s)?

Appears to be a VM issue, not physical devices.

But as the article points out, it’s not the SIEM that’s the cost, it’s the labour cost for installing, tuning and monitoring it.

Not to mention, to see what’s happening, you need to dial up logging verbosity to 11 which then adds more load to the system.

So, it’s not an easy choice to make

Is my maths wrong, or does this not make sense?

The highest concentration came from Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The US ranked 4th among the most affected countries

…so… US is 5th? Anyway, who cares…

As long as everyone logs out and doesn’t keep their browser / phone continuously logged into google… ah… there’s the problem.

Remember, the ‘s’ in IoT is for ‘security’

Firstly, I agree with your main point.

Just an open thought: I wonder if zscalar are using settings in a heirarchy, ie if no env var is set, then check Gnome - just in case the user’s only making changes there…? Dunno…

Nice, thanks.

And not a Xitter feed like CISA moved to 🤦

What’s your usecase for the journals? That might help direct the discussion.

For work I use Outlook with caldavsynchronizer, but I’ve stepped away from those kind of Journals and now I’m tracking things in Logseq

For time tracking for work I’m using other tools too.

To be fair, the link’s just to git comments, so the headline captures the main point.