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I’m with you here. I stopped pushing people into caring, just secured my own home and family, and bring up the subject in my circle only when someone mentions that someone was ‘hacked’ or something along those lines.

It is more difficult, but it is not inherently less secure if you put in the time and effort to learn what’s what and how to properly secure it.

They just call me paranoid and move on.

You should wipe the whole thing. Ideally, don’t install windows again, go with a Linux distro. But wipe it even if you reinstall windows, just to be sure you’re safe.

A ‘smart toilet’? What the hell does a toilet need to be smart for? And then, cherry on top, toilet and camera in the same sentence. The world needs to end.

They’re still allowing you to hold back updates? So nice of them.

Same here (except I’m 35 years into being a tech hobbyist, not a professional), and I’ve never reimaged a Linux install (except to try imaging it and learn how it works). Having been exclusively on Linux for 9 years now (playing with it for over 20 years) and Fedora the last 6, I can confidently say that it’s easier to just keep your important files in a separate drive (home directory in its own drive for example) and just reinstall whatever you want if you end up breaking your OS. Reimaging seems way more convoluted.

Bloated servers. Now I’ve heard it all. Thanks for bringing that out, all we hear is ‘windows this and windows that’ but it seems the cancer in Microsoft has metastasized to everything.

I’m not much of a gamer, not because I don’t like to game, but because I’m old and have little time for it. That has made Fedora Workstation my preferred desktop/laptop OS for the last 6 years or so. Maybe that’s the reason why I just can’t understand why people keep putting up with Microsoft’s bullshit.

I have tried Endeavour about 4 times over the years, but in trying to ‘make it my own’ I always end up breaking it badly and come back to Fedora for a stable few months before going on a distro-hop riot all over again. Linux certainly is a lovely drug to be hooked on 😁

This is every single ‘smart device’ out there. The way I was able to block everything in 2 Roborocks at home was by setting them up in Home Assistant over Matter, blocking everything and using it from HA only (us the schedules, those remain in the robots). It’s less than convenient allowing it access to the update servers once per month to see if there’s any and then blocking it again, but it’s something.

We’re preparing our ‘smart home’ for our new house that’s not finished yet by choosing only devices that are matter over wifi (not thread) so that I can set it all up to work locally ove Home Assistant. That, in my opinion, is the best way to keep some convenience while shutting those assholes out.

… FUCK THE DMCA!

What did I win?

Yeah, but Canada is just one of the next in line, we’ll all be battling that eventually, with very little chance at winning too. It sucks.

In Canada? Not happening. Canada is chasing the EU and the UK in everything related to chat control and all that crap.

And only feed it every 3 days. Oh, and play fucking ‘dembow’ at full blast 24/7, that’ll drive anyone crazy.

Nope, them attempting to use Recuva leads me to believe they did not have backups.

And as a developer, I’m assuming the guy was following the 321 rule, right? https://media.tenor.com/Z78LoEaY9-8AAAAM/seth-meyers-right.gif

I’m pretty fucked then, because I was one of those that was waiting until 2026 to build a new rig.

Yeah, I’m not an expert, or even a noob on sound, my brother in law is a sound engineer (old school) and he says Logic Pro is great, basically flawless, but that it is more for large volume production because it allows you to just take care of some stuff and the DAW will handle everything else. You’ll understand that I didn’t ask what he meant by “stuff” as it would have gone way over my head.

At the end of the day, there’s 2 ways to have Linux reach mainstream, either the developers start developing for Linux (unlikely with most software providers as they don’t see the potential profit in such a small part of users) or we keep getting translation layers like Proton and such (which is, in my opinion, way better than was expected by most, and only getting much better). I would also assume that a translation layer for Mac software would be way easier to jump into because Unix. But it stands to reason that these are more focused towards Windows software for the exact same reason mentioned above for the Windows software developers, as the ratio is about 7:1 windows vs Mac.

It’s convoluted, for sure, but Linux has really been established in the last 5 years, and while I don’t believe there will ever be a ‘year of the Linux desktop’, the growth will continue, specially with Microsoft’assistance making windows such a disgusting flop.

My thoughts exactly.

Nobody can blame anyone but MicroShit for dumping MicroShit.