Hehe, I ment no disrespect towards you, I just find that to be an excellent expression to explain the importance of testing backups to non tech people.

Repeat after me:

“An untested backup does not exist”

Fucking lol.

Well deserved.

That is a perfectly valid criticism of the glass theme, I just think it looks better than the old flat icon theme

They are cheaper and easier to make, which sucks as it will take a long time for companies to spend the money/time ):

The transparent theme is just one of several settings for it, and that it idiotic, but the normal mode when it adds a bit of gloss and texture to the icons is great

I like it ):

It is way prettier than the standard flat icon theme.

Google might build the perfect unbreakable crypto, but as long as it remains closed source, I will press X to doubt.

One of the most annoying things about IT is understanding that for the vast majority of users, even if you have the source code, it is absolutely impossible to verify that a specific program is actually running on your hardware and has not been modified.

Your code may be clean, but then you compile it, how do you verify that the compiler doesn’t add secret functions? Ok, so you used an open source compiler, like GCC, but how can you trust the GCC binary, you don’t know how that was compiled.

And so on.

So for your own sanity, you lower your security standard to be able to actually get work done.

It sucks, but the best thing to do is to adopt an increased risk, to a point.

I seem to recall reafing that smart TVs have a list of default passwords they use to try and connect to the to wifi networks they find…

Yeah, Apple has built an image of hardware stability, if you want an iPhone, you will be able to get one at MSRP.

That shifts the perspective of Apple from just another company, at the whim of the market, to an institution standing against the market.

The OS should get out of my way as much as possible.

So that means that HDDs will also stay expensive ):

I have a big choice here.

A. Bite the bullet and buy two more 8TB HDDs and complete my NAS as planned.

B. Wait and hope for lower prices.

C. Bite another bullet and run the NAS as a 24TB ZRAID1 instead of a 32TB ZRAID2.

Sigh…

I started building my first server last year, I only need two more 8TB drives to complete my raid ambition

Technically, no, but I don’t want a world with just one browser engine.

I remember the dark days of IE6

And this is relevant how?

If I wanted Blink trash, I would not be using Firefox

uBlock Origin

Also games access to your kernel just screams to me “I wanna have fun and don’t care about security at all, now gimme my fortnite vbux mom” in the most middle-school voice possible.

Wow, how quickly people forget…

Back in 2011, with kernel 2.8.x, gaming on Linux was nothing like it is today, it required dedication, skills and time.

And at the time I didn’t have the energy to deal with it.

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.

An adblocker is part on my security suite on my computer.

Ads can be hijacked to spread malware, and unless the site owner agrees to take both financial and legal liability for the possible dammage caused by their website I will never consider removing my adblocker.

If they agreed to take on the responsibility, I still wouldn’t remove my adblocker, but I would consider it.

Yeah, I made my comment as I am tired of fanboyism, I have daily driven Linux in the past, I was the Linux sysadmin at a major financial institution for years, Linux is awesome!

But please don’t get arrogant and claim it is faultless, with constructive criticism it can only get better.

Right now I am running Windows as my daily, and my work is only in Windows.

I dailied Linux back in the 2.8 days, I remember a class mate having to manually edit the kernel source code to get his USB mobile broadband modem to work, I had modems from another brand, so I only had to run USB mode switcher to get mine working.

I set up Fluxbox from scratch to get a fantastic UI experience on my laptop.

I know Linux.

I switched back to Windows for gaming, and now with W11 and gaming support for Linux, I am looking to move back to Linux.

I am no Windows nor Linux fanboy.

Fair point!