Thank God my company is so antiquated they don’t even know about half the tech that exists to spy on employees. Thankfully I’m also head of IT so imma keep them in the dark about that loll. Every time I upgrade the simplest things it’s like I’ve shit out actual magic. It’s great!
Don’t forget, though, it does that one thing for that one reason I forgot already as I typed it… But its still good, clearly!
I hope everyone ditches everything the US has produced, so that in the end, we can all point fingers to Trump.
Hey, remember when everyone said in 2015 & 2016 he’d be a good president cuz he knows goes to run a business?? Well, he sure has… Makes everything about profits over people, outsources work to some 3rd party vendor, goes horribly and loses s a bunch of money. Now, running it into the ground! Just like before!
Only difference now is, is everyone else’s money too!
This is a terrible idea!
Not sticking up for Microsoft, but when you first setup a Windows machine, all those metrics toggled on like advertising and keyboard or handwriting usage, etc, I turn all 6 of those off. One in Windows I now uninstall Copilot and disable stuff like phone link, OneDrive, and pretty much every application from running at startup ( Adobe if needed, etc)
This is just for work, but I can usually get away with lower spec machines by curating what’s allowed to run by default.
As far as chat goes, maybe SimpleX or Session. Those are 2 e2ee decentralized chat apps. But you’d have to chat your name somewhere unsecured unless in person
Gaming on Linux has already come a long way over recent years, with improvements to Valve’s Proton and more gamers switching to Linux, but the newly-formed Open Gaming Collective (OGC) is aiming to take it even further.
Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to the Linux gaming ecosystem and “centralize efforts around critical components like kernel patches, input tooling, and essential gaming packages such as gamescope.”
The other founding members of the OGC include Nobara, ChimeraOS, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, and Asus Linux. Related
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
Having a wide range of distros to choose from is one of the best parts of using Linux, but shared efforts around important gaming components should improve the experience across the board, resulting in “better hardware compatibility, fewer duplicated efforts, and a more unified Linux gaming experience.” As Bazzite’s announcement post puts it, “a win for one project becomes a win for everyone.”
It’s worth noting that this will mean some changes to Bazzite, which is switching to the OGC kernel, replacing HHD with InputPlumber as its input framework, and integrating features like RGB and fan control into the Steam UI. Bazzite also added that, “We’ll be sharing patches we’ve made to various Valve packages with the OGC and attempting to upstream everything we can."
Oooh new toy to help?! Ok I’ll check that out and Yunohost too
Yeah, since Christmas, I more it sounds silly, but I’ve been playing a ton of video games with my kids lol. But not like CoD, more like Grounded 2, Gang Beasts, and Stumble Guys lmao
Haha, thanks! It’s probably more problematic being a solo IT guy as it feels like I don’t always have did dedicated time to get projects done. Part of why my lab is overkill is because I want something at work, so I spend a little time at home figuring stuff out, but, you know, family time n all…
Its still fun mostly, but work keeps assuming I must’ve freed up a lot of time in automating or improving stability so I keep being rewarded with more work outside of IT.
Yeah, self promote away lol
Yeah, transferring 80TB took what felt like an eternity. My Plex has a 2.5GbE and my switch is 10GbE but my SFP+ NIC in the storage wasn’t playing well…
That’s true, I’ve done a lot of stuff as testing that I thought would be useful services but then never really got used by me, so I didn’t maintain.
I didn’t take the time to really dive in and learn Docker outside of a few guides, probably why is a struggle…
This. I definitely need to take the time to organize. A few months ago, I setup a new 4U rosewill case w 24 hotswap as bays. Expanded my storage quite a bit, but need to finish moving some services too. I went from a big outdated SMC server to reusing an old gaming mobo since its an i7 but 95w vs 125wx2 lol.
It took a week just to move all my Plex data cuz that Supermicro was only 1GbE.
Dang, how’d you make that transition? Are you a dev or SWE?
Dude… If ONLY we had that kind of accountability in the US!!
Edit: now I have an idea crazy enough it might just work. We get a pact of users together who all vow to run for respective offices and have an agreement (legally binding or not) to be true to our fellow citizens. We shuffle around enough of the cabinet/seats and leaders, we can catch them off-guard and hit them where it hurts!
That doesn’t sound the least bit fun lol
I will check that out even though, yes is homework lol.
And +1 for the contribution to help a stranger out!
Never heard of that, definitely checking it out!
Sad that Windows 8/8.1 Pro x64 ran perfectly fine on 4GB RAM. Now 16GB RAM feels like 2GB used to. So much bloat, you can’t hardly strip it down. I think I will boot a w8 vm and make note of services, and start mimicking those on w11 and start blocking anything that isn’t absolutely necessary!