I have a uBlock Origin filter that replaces all instances of Microsoft with Microslop, and sometimes I forget it’s even called Microsoft.

Cloudflare tunnels need logins, depend on cloudflare, and allow cloudflare to sniff all your traffic.

They’re easy, but we should stop recommending them. They’re a terrible solution, both for the internet as a whole and for your personal privacy.

So tired of keeping like 10 different ethernet dongles, 5 of one model and 5 of another, because half of the new laptops can’t even connect to the internet with the windows install ISO due to lack of drivers.

Sometimes one of those 2 models will also refuse to work with the windows ISO, so ig fuck you if you’re trying to install windows on more than 5 computers at the same time.

Oh and of course you still need to do the bypass even if you don’t have drivers for the network card. Ig also fuck you too if you don’t know about it, because you’re never gonna install windows on that laptop.

I once bought a cheap 3-5€ mouse on aliexpress. That thing lasted ages, and it never missed a beat until it finally broke. And when it did break, the scrollwheel still worked, and it’s usually the first thing to break on cheap mice.

It probably helped that the mouse had no stupid rubber that disintegrates in 1 year of use.

It wasn’t even a bad mouse. It was lightweight and it had high DPI and a good sensor.

I’ve never managed to make another mouse last as long, and like you, I’ve spent close to 100€ on singular mice, which also needed their own crappy software running in the background to work.

I work as a sysadmin (luckily I work mostly with Linux). We have lots of tools for windows server setup on our company, and for most deployments, we have templates and checklists to deploy as quickly as possible.

It still takes at least 2 hours to deploy windows server from a checkpoint, and that’s skipping all the initial installation. Most of that time is spent updating, debloating, and setting the most basic stuff up.

It takes me less time to set up a Linux server from scratch, without any checkpoints, than it takes my coworkers to set up a windows server for the 9999th time, with a decade worth of tools.

OpenVPN in TCP mode wrapped around Stunnel. That’s the thing that works.

I have it set up to bypass VPN restrictions in some networks, but it also serves to bypass a lot more stuff if you know what you’re doing.

DPI will only see TLS traffic, and assume it’s HTTP. You can even try to fool it by modifying the packet headers, so dumb enough DPI will think you’re connecting to the site you choose.

I also had a machine that would randomly crash on Windows, but not on Linux.

I’m pretty sure it was some sort of hardware failure, as it also sometimes failed to boot Linux. But if it booted Linux, it would be stable until I shut it down.

It isn’t.

On Linux, the OOM generally weighs 2 things, and based on those, starts killing processes until the system dies or goes back to life.

The 2 things it weighs are memory footprint and how recent the process is.

The reasoning is that, by killing a recently spawned process that is hogging a lot of memory, you will probably kill an unruly app that a user started and not a critical system component. Even in the case of servers with databases that use hundreds of GB of memory, it should in theory not kill them if there’s a recent process that has quickly hogged a lot of ram.

Of course, it can still be a bit of a hit or miss (after all, it’s a last resource before crashing, and you can’t afford much complexity). But for the most part, it works well enough.

Edit: I actually looked at the code. It doesn’t check if the process is recent. I don’t know where I read that it did. Maybe it was the OOM code for something else.

There are still ways to mark an app as non oom killable, like a critical DB process. But it needs to be manually done.

I guess it may be smaller updates like .NET and some drivers. .NET and most of the other smaller updates shouldn’t even need restarting, they just eat your CPU and take ages because Microsoft is silently compiling them in the background on your computer.

Nowadays, Microsoft Defender’s definitions are, for some reason, also shipped through Microsoft Update. You can get those daily or every few days, but they’re fast and won’t affect your system in any way.

Drivers usually shouldn’t be common after installing the first batch, so I doubt you’d get a lot of those in 1.5 months.

Indeed, Microsoft only ships system updates on patch tuesday, the second tuesday of the month.

So this user could only have had a max of 2 system updates, 1-2 driver updates maybe (unlikely, though), and then possibly another 1-2 .NET updates. If the user has Defender activated, add a definitions update. Keep in mind that this is basically worst case scenario. Those updates should never cause issues, be that slow, or require 3 reboots.

Windows is so bad that running a windows game through proton on linux can generally be faster. However, running the game natively on linux should be even faster than using proton. If companies cared about linux, we could have even more performance than we already do.

When something is broken on windows, you may find a Microsoft Forum post with all dead links telling you to check an option in settings that is no longer there, and then run chkdsk.

Of course, none of those are gonna work, and you’ll just have to learn to live with whatever is broken.

I have a vanilla SMP with a few friends, and we sometimes play there. Our current world is 2 years old, but we have older worlds around.

Wait! Don’t forget to tell it not to make any mistakes! We don’t want another Nightmare-Eclipse moment.

You don’t need to do that with jellyfin either. It includes the website for convenience, but you can just disable it or completely remove it and have just the server.

Be careful with WD reds and CMR/SMR. Even though every WD Red Plus should be CMR, WD is known for selling SMR drives marketed as CMR. The whole Red Plus line exists because, before that, the WD Reds were supposed to be CMR, but they started mixing them with SMR drives. People found out and lawsuits were filed, so WD’s answer was to say that the WD Red line didn’t guarantee CMR, and people needed to pay extra for the WD Red Plus line.

WD is forever off my list of trustworthy manufacturers. But there aren’t many options, and I understand that in these times it may be difficult to pass on a good offer. Read customer reviews and, upon arrival, make sure they’re CMR.

This user is a known troll around here. Every time someone mentions Linux, they spawn and start raging about it. It’s quite funny, tbh. Their arguments against it are so dumb that I don’t think anyone falls for them, so it’s alr, no need to argue with them.