Rob Bos @ rbos @lemmy.ca

Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats a

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Yeah, I'm not sure what the state of the art is these days. Maybe SPICE? I've used that to control VMs through tunneled SSH before.

oh geez. I've done Windows desktop support for many years, and that is so VERY not true. Even if you discount the fact that win95 software would be written for 32-bit architectures, they don't account for UAC or file permissions, often fail to let you move installation files to better locations, and universally have shitty automated installers. Often they depend on hardware, eg dongles that no longer exist or CDROMs that have long since gone to hell.

Usually we'll airgap a machine and run Windows XP 32-bit, which is generally the highest you can reliably get a win95 program working with. Sometimes a VM will work. Sometimes you can mount an ISO and fake a CDROM. It's a challenge.

Linux is so much easier. You have more options for getting old stuff to work, even if you have to do a lightweight VM with an old OS, you can sandbox it better.

I would probably go with VNC or something else instead of Teamviewer for supporting Linux desktops remotely. Maybe set people up with a pointy-clicky script to do a reverse SSH tunnel to a central host, or do it over a VPN connection.

Many places support MacOS as well, so it would only be a third additional toolset. Plus, there's a ton of overlap between toolchains, which reduces the overhead further. If you're supporting enterprise MacOS, you're probably using Foreman, JAMF, or Puppet with Active Directory.

Not to mention, a lot of places already have Linux servers, so the configuration management toolchains and expertise may already exist in a given organization, unless they're absolutely pathologically mired in the Windows ecosystem. Which, granted, is a lot of places, but you're making it sound far harder than it would be in a real world situation.

mosh, tmux, htop, vim

To some extent groups like Lemmy and Mastodon are self-selecting for activists. People who are fed up with stuff and want to seek change. We're the people who see bad stuff happening and take action.

Just being here makes us radicalised, a bit.

I deleted my Reddit account (24k karma, I think, about 10 years old?) and went with Lemmy. It's fine, though I miss a couple gaming subs.

Sssh, sssh, let people enjoy things

Unfamiliar, but the description[0] suggests they have some themes around war in the middle East. I hear that can occasionally get political. Really you should just stick to nice simple books without any subtext at all, like Moby Dick. Just a good read about a man who hates a fish.

[0] "Two untalented nightclub performers get caught in the crossfire when they are booked in the war-torn Middle East. Thanks to rebel Shirra, the duo find themselves in the middle of a revolution."

Have you ever watched movies? They all have stuff to say. Otherwise why make em?

"No YouTube I do not want to watch Jordon Fucking Peterson. I will NEVER want that. Fuck all the way off."

I stopped watching shorts because of the unwanted boosts of fascist content.

https://liquorix.net/ might give you a percentage or two in terms of responsiveness.

That doesn't sound like Torvalds at all. The guy doesn't suffer fools, but he doesn't just pop off at people randomly. All accounts are that he's a pretty chill dude.

Seconded. In @davidbrin@mastodon.social Brin's series humans are basically the only race that managed to uplift themselves making them a galactic oddball.

The ability to shoot yourself in the foot is great, but you have to remember that Unix is a gleeful imp holding a monkey paw and makes book on the side with his friend the evil genie.

Here's a shotgun, go bonkers. Foot is that way. Don't forget to sudo.

Reddit has been no stranger to server issues, remember. Honestly lemmy.ca has been more reliable than reddit...

Sometimes you have to choose between what is convenient and what is right, and sometimes that means giving things up. But not everyone is willing or able to do that. It's fine, do what you feel you need to.

At worst it'd be a new crater and debris thrown into orbit. The very largest asteroid thrown at the moon, even like Ceres, would be a peashooter at a barge.

You ferment the milk before making butter. Very good. You're basically making it out of yogurt or sour cream.

Yeah, I try never to underestimate the value of sheer familiarity. New software is like breaking in a new pair of leather shoes, sometimes you have to bleed a little before your feet adapt and you adjust it to fit.