Ya, I must have started using Linux well after Ubuntu made it really easy to install drivers.

Granted you do need to know where to find the option to install drivers, at least you used to maybe its even easier now, but I havent used Ubuntu in a few years.

Once you found where the option to install was it was a click of a button

After getting a Steam Deck my interest in the Switch 2 dropped significantly.

I love my Switch and all the great 1st party games I have for it, but I cant justify buying the Switch 2 right now.

It’s tough getting 50-85% discounted games on Steam and then go back to Nintendo and seeing games at full price years after release (I know I know “Nintendo games retain their value”).

Not only that but I need to prioritize bills and essentials over games right now. Even with games being $5-10 on Steam I decide against it since I can use that towards groceries, gas, or utilities.

I am dumbfounded by this decision. Apparently we didnt learn our lesson when Lake Erie was so polluted it CAUGHT ON FIRE!

I grew up in the Great Lakes region and they are truly marvels. You can stand on the edge of the lake and look out and the lake meets the horizon like looking out from the edge of an ocean!

The Great Lakes give the US and Canada a level of water security that alomst no other countries have. This is crucial as climate change continues to disrupt weather patterns throughout the world.

And we want to fuck it up for oil?! The god damn pil companies get so much subsides from the federal government already just build the pipe elsewhere that doesnt put our largest and possibly most important source of fresh water in danger!

I remember Jerome Powell being asked is he worried he’d get fired and his response is “He can’t fire me.”

This guy doesnt realize fascists dont give a fuck about what they are “allowed” to do. Trump and his cronies have been doing so much illegal shit including illegal firings!

This is not business as usual and Powell’s ass can easily be kicked to the curb with this Trump administration - illegal or not.

The judges are learning they lack the enforcement power of their rulings since those left in the government are loyal to Trump and his crusade.

We are learning our government system only works when everyone is a good faith actor.

Ive been telling people that Trump will pull an Andrew Jackson because in reality the judicial branch of the government has NO enforcement mechanism for their rulings.

They have to hope the executive branch will play by the rules and follow their rulings.

Roberts and his justices gave Trump even more unchecked power when they rule the president cannot be tried for official acts (leaving only impeachment as a means of punishment).

He must not be any sort of history buff because he would know the power of the judicial system is stripped away and becomes a superficial system that is used to punish those in the “out” group when a state turns to fascism or a dictatorship.

Roberts is truly a dipshit and a clown.

And to think this is only going to get worse with each passing year we do nothing about climate change.

In contrast Packt is on the crap end.

I had a similar experience where we had an entire class for Novell Directory Services. The reason our teacher gave for keeping the class in the curriculum? We MAY run into it in the workforce.

When I say buy I should have said renew the same license/support. I get the idea that by supporting Crossover I’m reinforcing Windows dominace, but look at Valve with proton and the Steamdeck. Their success shows that Linux is gaming capable which can get people to try Linux that otherwise would have wrote it off.

Edit: swapped ‘capable’ and ‘gaming’

I buy a license for Crossover every year to support Codeweavers. I know its not much but its what I can do to show my support for such an amazing software (talking about WINE).

It’s great to see they are hiring, but I do hope they arent being rash with these openings. Ive work my fair share of tech companies and some have a culture to open positions because of KPIs and then 6 months to a year later have a massive layoff because they were completely off with their projections so now they have to cut positions which include some of the people hired well before the hiring bananza.

Ya, I’m sure they calculated the ROI for a monthly/yearly subscription vs the Virtual Console purchases and projected that the subscription would be not just larger source of income but also more consistent which “investors” (aka stockholders) will prefer so Nintendo’s stock goes up and to the right.

DNSSEC is a means of authenticating the data receives was not tampered with, such as MITM attacks, thus ensuring data integrity. It uses PKI but it’s not an alternative to DoH or DoT which encrypts the DNS traffic, either over HTTPS or TLS, providing confidentiality.

DNSSEC can be used in conjunction with DoH or DoT to achieve the Security CIA triad - Confidentiality, Integrity, Authenticity.

While this is nice, I do hope they consider making it easier to remove and install a new battery for the next iteration of the steam deck.

To clarify, I mean something similar to phones where the backplate can slide off or preferably a panel, secured by a screw, when removed allows direct access to the battery and allows it to be easily swapped out - similar to many kids toys.

Considering the recent revelations about the shady, scummy and unethical business practices by Honey, I can’t say I’m surprised that one of the co-founders is doing more shady shit with their new endeavor.

As a Sysadmin I would be immediately looking for a new job if management wanted to snoop on employees machines via a screen recording/capturing software. I wouldn’t want it done to me and I sure as hell wouldn’t feel right deploying such spyware!

Not to mention it immediately errodes the fragile trust between IT and the rest of the company and troubleshooting or implementing changes becomes that much harder.

What I tell EVERY person, not just coworkers, is DO NOT TREAT THIS AS A PEROSNAL DEVICE. Keep your personal stuff off the work machine.

It’s not even because of snooping by the company. What if the company performs a remote wipe after an unexpected termination? If that device is the only place you kept important documents… Well, you are up shit creek without a paddle.

Now, the type of remote assist tools we have make it very clear to the other person we are connected and can see their screen(s) - connection notifications, persistent banners and disconnect notifications. Every team I’ve worked on makes it protocol to ASK the employee if we can remote in.

It might seem like a formality but honestly if someone hasn’t heeded our advice and is logged into their banks site I don’t want to see it! It’s very much a CYA policy for IT, but it also shows respect for other employees privacy.

And then those “enterprise features” get borked on the next major macOS release.

Oh you wanted to ensure your remote assist tool could be granted the proper permissions to work? Well screw you! We took away the ability to grant Screen Recording permissions through a MDM profile. Suck it!

In case you didn’t know the Screen Recording permission is needed to be able to view the display/screen in applications like Zoom when screen sharing or for remote assist through Screen connect.

Apple’s “reason” was essentially “… Think of the users! It’s for their security”.

Future Cop: LAPD

Though the game wasn’t groundbreaking it was fun going around LA in a giant Mech blowing stuff up.

I really liked the ability to transform from a bipedal mech to a fast hover car which also helps with the pacing of the game.

It did introduce me to a tower defense PVP style multiplayer that my best friend and I were hooked on for a solid couple of months.

This is some dumb pearl clutching bullshit.

With this asinine logic, buying apples are condoning evil because their seeds contain cyanide and though there are more effective ways to create cyanide at commercial scale than buying apples and extracting the small amount of cyanide from the seeds it’s still a question of moral principle i.e not condoning evil.

The biggest obstacle with Stadia suceeding was Google’s, rightfully earned, reputation to kill their products.

It ended up becoming a self fulfilling prophecy and has further cemented Googles reputation for killing products/services.

Google’s M.O these days seem to be “If it doesn’t make money instantly, kill it and move on.”

You make the damn laws! Could you make it any more obvious you are beholden to your corporate overlords?!

A strongly written letter ASKING these profit driven companies to stop doing something that increases profit?!

This is the laziest attempt to appear as though these senators are doing something and care. In reality they don’t want their money spigot turned off when elections roll around so no real action will be taken.

Maybe you should actually do your jobs and pass right-to-repair and data privacy legislation with the best interest of your constituents in mind?

You don’t ask the robber barons to do something. You drag their ass to the table while they kick and scream all the way.