my employer gave us macbook pros’ to work on and it so much spyware/malware that it made my router go off like xmas lights; so i setup a linux vm using kvm/qemu on my own hardware and retired the macbook.
i now fully expect my employer to somehow force a return to the macbook; but i’ve already returned it to the company so they’re going to have to buy me a new one when they do so.
the windows driver allows for full wifi-6/7 speeds in ap mode and is the only way, afaik, to get it with intel cards
there are other efforts to backwards engineer or hack the changes that disables higher speeds in ap mode for linux; but none worked when i tried about 10-ish months ago. i tired these ones:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/wifi-6-gets-134-gbps-on-raspberry-pi-cm4 https://gist.github.com/iffa/290b1b83b17f51355c63a97df7c1cc60 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1163145/intel-wireless-iwlwifi-ubuntu-19-04-slow-upload-speed-but-only-on-certain-wi/1163146#1163146
and if you don’t have a windows key like me, do yourself a favor and create a windows image instead of a vm and keep re-using it to get around the windows validation setup timeout after 30 days. (i didn’t realize this until after the fact so i had to create a work around with ansible to stop/copy/paste/launch the vm every 30 days)
i have a single box i use for data storage; backup; wifi; router; and switch.
it runs ubuntu on the bare iron with
topographically, it looks like this, but in reality it’s all one box:
┌────┐ ┌─────────────┐
┌───────────────────┤vpn │ ┌──────────────────┤windows (wifi│
▼ └────┘ │ └─────────────┘
┌──────────┐ │
│ internet │ │
└──────────┘ ▼ ┌───────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌───────────┐
▲ ┌─────────┐ │ubuntu │◄───────┤switch│◄─────┤ backups │
└────────────────┤ pfsense │◄─────────────────┴───────┘ └──────┘ └───────────┘
└─────────┘
it depends on what you mean by “corporate space”
end users of any type don’t use linux because of a mixture because that’s what they’re used to using; but end users can’t do shit w/o the service backbones which are dominated by linux and depended upon by end users.
fwiw: you do get to hear a little bit of ferengi in this episode, before they get their translators fixed
You weren’t hoping that Secure Boot saves your ass, were you?
i wonder if containerized firefox (eg snap/flatpak) will
either that or damn small linux
checkout out the treball channel on youtube; they did an entire one hour episode on the differences. tldr: they’re all extremely minor and there’s lots of them.
i always felt that one of the awesome things about the show was how ftl was considered antiquated technology and that, besides the military, only the older and the nicer ships had them; while the newer and much more common average ships didn’t
something about a society that is both capable of traveling through the stars and has collectively forgotten where it had originated from in the galaxy; but widely considers both unimportant is super fascinating to me.
Holy fuck Culber… Hot damn.
i almost ran into the actor in new york back in 2008 on my bike while crossing the roosevelt bridge because he was shirtless and i was too busy staring at his very prominent pecs to watch where i was going; so agreed, he could definitely get it. lol
i think he looked back at me too; but i suspect it was to wonder wtf was wrong with the fat guy on the bike. lol
i started using kde once personal computers became beefy enough to handle it well around 2002 but switched to gnome because gnome felt more polished at the time and i recently switched back and, you’re right, the customize-ability is impressive after using gnome for the last 15-ish years.
it’s also daunting/frustrating at times too.
Bester was actually simply evil
evil with the friendliest smile and demeanor; pleasant evil like biden. lol
in the fall of 2002 the windows millennium installation on my computer broke, trapping an entire semester’s worth of work on the hard drive and i was a starving college student with less than $20 to my name, so i couldn’t afford to buy windows xp and didn’t know anyone where i could get a pirate copy from.
i bought a mandrake linux cd pack for $8 from circuit city and used google in the computer laboratory to learn how to mount the hard drive, install drivers for ntfs and copy my all my work to a usb drive and i’ve been using linux ever since. i switch to 100% only linux both professionally and personally sometime around 2010.
the first from an ultra sexist and capitalist society to willing join fully automated gay space communism is freaky, so the class should be too. lol
anedotally: it works fine if it’s from a vendor who provides support for it. eg cumulus switches running fedora 9 but still getting updates from cumulus engineers.
found myself laughing at this reply in the comments:
this sounds like a nightmare to me, so i wonder what i’m missing?
i also didn’t find the article painful; it was refreshing to learn that someone else is walking in these shoes when it feels like so many aren’t.
i can’t get over how much more they cost than a similarly spec’ed mac with macs being superior in every single benchmark (except privacy and customizability)
When I tried tor it was so painfully slow that I have a difficult time imagining anything using it full time
i like that contemporary a & b list actors are joining star trek in the last few years whereas before it was really uncommon.
is it just my memory playing tricks on me?