rtxn @ rtxn @lemmy.world

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It's another slice of Swiss cheese. If the user has a strong enough password or other authentication method through PAM, it might stop or hinder an attacker who might only have a compromised private key, for example. If multiple users have access to the same server and one of them is compromised, the account can be disabled without completely crippling the system.

Using sudo can also help you avoid mistakes (like accidentally rebooting a production server) by restricting which commands are available to the user.

I'm more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as "classic".

I'm allowing Linux-adjacent OSes. BSD is a niche part of a niche community, and they wouldn't have much of a community otherwise.

This is also spelled out in the rules, which you obviously didn't read through.

Cybersecurity engineers and pentesters don't need Kali or Parrot. You don't need Proxmox to use LXC and KVM. You don't need OpenMediaVault to have Samba and NFS shares. You don't need Clonezilla to make use of the OCS toolkit. You don't need LMDE to have a Debian OS with Cinnamon and nonfree drivers installed, or Endeavour to have Arch with KDE Plasma.

But it's sure as shit good to have everything packed together and preconfigured by professionals.

Atoms are made-up by Big Small so they can sell you more less!

No. I'm so bloody fed up with AI "search" solutions that return everything on the fucking planet except what I want. Text search has been a solved problem for a decade. All I want out of a search engine is to be deterministic, stable, and reliable, and to look in titles, descriptions, and keywords. Vibe processing is completely unnecessary and will only create issues.

If you really want to iNnoVAte, then consider creating an index with transcripts and summaries that users can search by keywords.

There is a significant overlap between the intelligence of the smartest Swasticar designers and the stupidest dogs.

I would question their omniscience if they did.

FOSS was the original. Free and Open Source Software. But, English being English, "free" was too ambiguous (free as in gratis vs. unrestricted), so the French came to the rescue with the much superior word "libre". That's how F/LOSS (Free/Libre) was coined.

Start randomly rolling dice to totally freak them out

There are five different file pickers on my system and I never know which application uses which one, or if my bookmarks will appear in them, or if the dialog will respect theming or display icons from a light theme on a dark background. Speaking of theming, it’s a shitshow. QT and GTK apps never look even similar, and the existence of Adwaita isn’t helping. If you want a flatpak app to use your preferred cursor, you have to manually grant it access to additional paths, then it's a 50/50 chance. There is massive feature fragmentation between Wayland compositors, especially with GNOME, the “user-friendly one” dragging its feet (pun intended). We didn’t even have a functional on-screen keyboard until recently in Plasma. Xorg wasn't any better -- you had to choose between high input latency (compositor on) or massive screen tearing (compositor off), and it was a maintenance nightmare. But let's not forget about audio either: the first time I tried to switch to Linux ~2016, I could never get PulseAudio to work reliably.

These are only the issues I've personally come across. I'm sure others could add to the list. Having a preference of desktops is fine and I would never deprive you of that right, but saying that the Linux desktop experience across the board is "easier to use and more functional" than everything else, and especially claiming it has "been for a long time", is untrue, and fucking stupid. That's why you're getting downvoted.

And don't you think I didn't notice how you never actually presented any arguments for your claims.

Praying every day to gods I don't even believe in.

Same deal with MMO players. They don't miss "the social aspect of MMOs", they miss the novelty of sitting around with like-minded degenerates in a cool-looking chatroom until the dungeon queue pops.

There is no easier to use and more functional desktop with great user experience than Linux.

Ignoring the fact that you make it sound like Linux has a single unified desktop experience...

I'd love to hear your reason for thinking that. I'm a Linux fanboy and even I'm smelling the bullshit.

Obviously not every single time. If the major players in the Linux ecosystem had adhered to his extremist views, Linux would be in the same spot as GNU Hurd: forgotten, outclassed by less extremist competitors.

x86 has so many instructions, people aren't even sure about the total count. It's estimated to be in the low thousands.

That's why it's one step above. The user is given an option to read the PKGBUILD (or a diff with the cached copy if it exists), but beyond that, it's still unverified arbitrary code from an external source (the project's actual source, binaries, or packages from another repository). Packages in the official Arch repos are verified by the downstream packagers. For AUR packages, it's up to the community to moderate itself, and the user to determine whether the package is trustworthy, and I'm willing to bet that not many people do it. I certainly don't vet everything I install.

yay, a utility to access the AUR, where users share build scripts instead of binaries. It's just one step above curl | sudo sh in terms of security.

Recommended, yes, but I've had issues with the pre-compiled modules before, so I switched to nvidia-dkms to make sure the binaries are always freshly baked.