Secure boot is absolutely not the "worst useless piece of software ever designed", it is extremely useful to prevent unauthorized boot on the device since only what is signed can boot. What people

I've just learned today that Apple made this piece of software called launchd with a CLI called launchctl and it just doesn't work. No matter how you contort everything to maybe work, no matter what you

Ext4 already has journaling built in. BTRFS and ZFS use CoW (Copy On Write). These are basically different methods built into file systems that can help you not lose data or end up in a corrupted state

I use ChatGPT for stuff every day and it's a great help. It's all about the mindset, You use what it says as a starting point that you build off of rather than treating it as a solved problem or mostly

For me, GNOME is solid, stable.. not the most "friendly" design in how huge titlebars and such are, but as far as stability goes, it's a rock. What Ubuntu does to GNOME however, makes it more

First you make an empty directory, then you pack it with the base stuff to spin up a debian based system, incuding Ubuntu. Then Chroot into it, set up some stuff, then you have a minimal viable system.

Installing ubuntu onto most regular NAS is unlikely to be a realistic option - they generally come with quite poorly performing processors that are better suited to running a use-case-specific OS, but...

ASM isn't necessary, but it is critical to understanding the fundamentals of how any application will work... ultimately whatever code you write ends up (most often) running on a server in the cloud somewhere,

The problem I have with people teaching C, is that there's little regard for demonstrating testing, tooling, and robust memory management. Another problem that C has unlike Rust wrt that is that Rust has

I used to use sslh. So its this tcp server that looks at the 1st bytes that are sent and identifies if its ssl(https), ssh or openvpn and "port forwards" it to the correct server. So you can

I think it's incredibly rare that anyone legitimately believes that the government is intent on controlling people... The common belief, though, is that the government is less protective than they should

I couldn't figure out why my ip was not being hidden by my vpn even though my dns leak test was passing. Just sharing this here in case anyone else runs into something like this. ipv6 is enabled by default

Seems proton mail does have aliases for custom domains too. Obviously, this isnt a proxy so I can see how its not as good. I just struggle to see how using a proxy like that might be better than just using

Windows 2000 looks like a solid OS. I use 2000 for documents and personal information storage, windows 10 for gaming, and I want Debian to browse the internet. I don’t trust windows 10 to not collect my

Apple do love to up their margins for ram and ssds lol. Alot of Apple stuff is honestly quite good, i would expect it given the amount of people it hires and what talent it pulls. Some of the decisions

Here's the funniest thing I've witnessed Microsoft has just developed a Windows 11 copy for the Chinese government Dubbed "G Edition" Has absolutely zero software ootb, not even Defender I think

image source Apple have certainly been their own worst enemy in the past with gaming support but I think given they use their own hardware now (GPU specifically) they're in a much better place to support

image source Although due to Apple's design and Mac OS being so tightly integrated, they do manage to make memory go a little further than you see elsewhere. It isn’t true when people say things like "8GB

Image source Debian is great. It has generally been my go-to for years. It's efficient, configurable, stable, but sometimes a little out of date (stability). Debian is the base that Ubuntu was built on,

I'm in the waiting path to see what Linux Mint 22.0 will end up being like. I'm not a huuuuuge fan of Cinnamon, but besides 2 little nuances about it, they got everything else pretty damn spot on right.