BearOfaTime @ BearOfaTime @lemm.ee

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Bwhahahahahahahahah... OK.

Troll for sure

Ah, ye old negative proof.

I'm sure you've interviewed everyone.

Bootlicker.

I forget the details, but each design has a use-case.

Though for most people, the newer design is likely the better choice.

Since dunning-kruger isn't valid, we're halfway there!

Sacrilege making popcorn in a microwave

Interesting point, and shows that most likely, any instance of Bkuesky will eventually go Twitter

It's usability issues in Enterprise (or just using Windows Pro on a domain with proper management) aren't the same as Windows Home.

And if OP thinks Windows has usability issues in business, let's see what happens when we replace 1000 Windows desktops with a random flavor of Linux.

Yep, that's the same issue with Mac. When you have a single Business Unit that wants Macs, they have to make a big sell to IT to get it. It's got to make a massive difference to their productivity for IT to absorb the extra effort for them.

Then when you return the costs to the BU they complain they have to pay more for IT than other BUs. Well, yea, you take more effort than everyone else who fit the standard model. Uniqueness ain't cheap.

I don't know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days

Hahahahahaha

Clearly you haven't worked in a business with more than a few users, with the simplest of requirements.

Come manage a 20-user environment where you need business-standard apps to interoperate seamlessly with every client you have.

Now expand that to 10,000 users.

Let's see you run CAD on a Linux box.

Let's see you open/edit/return an excel file without fucking it up. Especially because most of such files will have tables, and Libre/Open office doesn't support tables.

Which Linux distro you going to use on laptops, that has power management that isn't painful to configure? Or that even works?

Which distro supports all the hardware you already own, out of the box? Manpower to setup systems, and figure out new ways to do things, isn't free.

Then you're talking about re-training staff to use a completely different OS and tools, when they have approaches that have been used for decades, across generations of users.

On and on it goes.

One should understand why a fence exists, before thinking of removing it. You clearly don't understand business if you think it's that simple.

It's possible a smart TV will use its wifi to connect to another device of the same brand on its own. I'd read an article about it a couple years ago.

If I'm reading about it, that means a company has been working on it, and frankly it makes sense. If I were in their shoes I'd look into making it happen. It's pretty trivial to do when you think about it.

Not that I think it's happening in the wild, just an idea to keep in mind.

Also, those devices are always capturing data. So if/when they ever connect, that data will get uploaded.

Not compromised.

They've been hypocrites for as long as I can remember.

They host software for anyone to use, and capture all the data, usage patterns, etc, for themselves, to use for their benefit, and to use against you.

Hell, Google deleted a company's entire dataset recently. Everything. They gave the police location data on an area and a random person, for no reason other than happening to be in the area, was arrested for murder. Nevermind that they biked through that area every day. Remember Facebook tracking pixels? Cambridge Analytica (which is currently in court)? I mean I can go on and on about how FAANG is abusive and dishonest.

And you want to sit here and tell me they're the answer?

Are you just an apologist for FAANG, etc? Because you're really sounding like one at this point.

Who's paying you to post this disinformation?

Trust.

I trust my brother more than Google. Same with Jim down the street.

I trust my circle of acquaintances more than Google (et al) , especially since Google (et al) have demonstrated, repeatedly, to be untrustworthy.

In fact, they've demonstrated they are outright adversarial to me and mine.

Also, Trust, but Verify.

Even if we had fantastic regulations, we'd still have scammers and hackers out there.

If my data never leaves my systems, my risk of exposure is far smaller.

Huh?

They may. I really don't know. We could go round and round about it, there are lots of arguments for both perspectives.

If a government does have this capability, they aren't likely to use it on a whim and have it be exposed.

OK, how?

This is a major reason I root, so backup apps like NeoBackup actually work.

Then Syncthing keeps those backups in sync with a home machine.

Lose my phone? No big deal, setup Syncthing on new one, let files sync, launch Neo, restore.

Asking "is it safe to use" is pointless. No one can say an app is "safe", just that they've never seen an issue.

I'd argue Termux isn't safe, because if you're rooted you can break the OS. And I use Termux every day.

"Safe" is determined by your use-case and what you do. I'd even argue there's no such thing as "safe", just a risk level which you are comfortable with.

They just didn't document how to do it on Android.

Using Play is probably the least safe way to install apps, which has been recently shown to have plenty of malicious apps.

Edit: They documented what it typically looks like on Linux. To document how to do it elsewhere would require recommending an app to do it with.

Would you trust that recommendation?