That comparison is off. Paint.net is actually a program I like on Windows (which I only use at work), that I miss on Linux anywhere else because it is not like GIMP. GIMP might be the mega-super-duper tool for artists and photo-manipulators, but try to put an arrow on a screenshot pointing at something and write a text next to it. I get that done faster by importing the screenshot into Inkscape and re-export it to PNG, even if if f’s up the original images’ resolution.

Multiport Knock patterns.

I know that risk, but that has been mitigated by other means. There is no open port exposed to the net waiting to be hacked. It only opens on demand for a single connection.

I’d say yes to RAID in a NAS or server in general. Just see that you don’t purchase the disks in one go - that was the only RAID in the last 30 years to fail on me (five disks within 20 serial numbers, four of them failed in total, two within a night). Was a pain in the a… to restore stuff from tape, but at least i had them.

That is a separate issue. Hardening a single service that happens to offer a login is easier than hardening a whole bunch of services that were never intended to face the net.

What I did was setting up two routers. The outer one is a big filter, and the only packets coming in went through it.

If someone would have managed to take over this outer router, the next step would have been to probe the inner router. For this, they would send packets originating at the outer router to anything on the inside net.

This would trigger an alert on the inner router that switches a relay, cutting the power on the outer router.

If it’s on a card, ditch it and replace it with a better one. If not, and you’ve got a spare slot, buy a new card.

Let me put it this way: I have a removable harddisk with my files from the universities’ VAX 11/780 in storage. Long enough?

I just sort by Artist and Album.

“If it gets out what gets into the sausage we make, we’ll get into a place we won’t get out anymore.”

Booting Emacs…

Loading Linux.el…

Well, then other places will buy that info…

How can one be so stupid and put sensitive data on a phone?

If push comes to shove, it can be done in a pizza oven.

Have you tried soldering it back on?

If they do this in Europe, too, they are in for bad, bad times.

The driver was probably “written” and “tested” by AI.

“Until it becomes madatory.”

In a nutshell, yes. Stock Windows has become even more useless over the years, and installation has obviously become a pain in the ass. I don’t envy our IT department.

I ran linux with ext2, no timeshift, and home on the root partition. Back then when I ran the machine on kernel 0.97.