Buelldozer

And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.

Eh, only if someone needs it.

For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.

It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.

Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.

But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.

If you can buy a Tesla cheap enough the usable parts, such as batteries and motors, can be moved to a different frame or vehicle. Even an ICE vehicle that you’d like to electrify. It’s all just parts.

They can and have been recreated. They just suck due to having very low light output.

That sucks. If I can’t control the ads with settings, dns fuckery, or firewalling then I guess I’ll leave their ecosystem.

Some TVs already have the ability to connect to sidewalk. More worrying is that every newer “Smart” TV has the ability to cast to it so if anyone ever does that using an internet connected device like a SmartPhone then bam…your TV just got an internet connection and can now send out stored data and potentially grab a firmware update.

Surprise!

It gets its internet connection from the PC; both HDMI and DisplayPort allow this.

but now that Roku has pop up ads for simply moving around the app menu

Huh? I have 3 Roku Ultras, a Roku Stick, and a Roku TV and none of them do that. Have you gone into the Roku settings menu recently and checked your advertising settings?

Does “US gov funded” immediately make me suspicious of it happening? Yes.

As it should. Frankly NO Government should have sway over the CVE program, they are all shady AF and every one them would absolutely do what you are describing if they felt it was in their interest.

This looks like something that was said between the head of the SVR and the leader of Belarus during a talk in Minsk. If true then it’s meant for domestic audiences in Russia and Belarus.

Everyone in the West knows that Russia would get bitch slapped out of Ukraine if even a few of the NATO members, never mind the whole organization, decided to get directly involved.

Good. Despite the fact that my Government is currently being run by baboons the US Government shouldn’t have been the sole carrier of such a globally important program. The CVE program is central to how security companies, Qualys being an example, make absolute shedloads of money. These companies shouldn’t be getting a free ride; it’s only right that they contribute to maintaining the resource.

There’s also the argument that no single Government should have control over something like this.

These people are all fucking idiots. No business can plan anything when costs are whipsawing and our trading partners are already tired of reacting to these near daily changes.

I just don’t have language strong enough to convey my utter exasperation and the depth of my contempt for these people.

Saw this attack in the wild this week. Huntress MDR detected and shut it down.

It’s pretty easy in both places actually, just don’t talk about politics.

Turns out our Grandparents were pretty damn smart with that “Don’t talk about Religion and Politics” rule.

Attack began in May of 2023. That ain’t Musk.

Attack has been ongoing since May of 2023. That ain’t Musk.

This is why I started “testing” Linux Mint on all my personal machines 6 months ago.

With that said the training data that Copilot Vision could generate may begin a sea change in both AI and the PC industry.

Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts.

Of the Top 10 most profitable companies in the world 8 of them are American. Those 8 companies lost enough Market Capitalization in the last 24 hours to fund a mid-sized Country. “The Markets” are not fucking happy at all.

Inflation from the Fed helicoptering money around was probably the most predicted thing that’s happened in the last 50 years. It should have surprised literally no one.

It’s also no surprise that it hasn’t gone away. That’s called deflation and every central banker on the planet would rather be eviscerated with a rusty spoon than allow deflation to happen.

Setting up a dual wan edge device with fail-over isn’t difficult, it’s the paying for two ISPs part that most people don’t want to do.

This pen / pencil thing has been corrected so many times for so many decades that it’s ludicrous people are still bringing it up.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/

Random bits of pencil lead floating around in a high tech environment is such a poor idea that even the Soviet’s quit using pencils once Fisher’s Space Pen was available. A pen which Fisher itself paid to develop and then sold to both NASA and the Soviet Space Program.