Browser zero days are some of the most valuable exploits in existence, so I highly doubt it would happen in practice

Why would it never be easy? There’s no fundamental reason for why it can’t work as well as on windows, or any other operating system

Ok but this is very simple. Everyone can set up something like this using home assistant and a few sensors connected up to it

Maybe the Dems will finally learn that listening to their base helps

Yeah, Mozilla is doing good work, and AI is here to stay. It’s all about making and using AI ethically.

You’re right, teacher salaries are lower in the US than many of these countries.

Don’t misunderstand what a server means, however. Just because something is called a server doesn’t mean it’s not made for the desktop. It’s a technical term that doesn’t necessarily relate to networking, it might just relate to stuff like inter-process communication.

However, Wayland is designed for the desktop environment. It’s like the main reason why it replaces X11, which was designed for terminals.

Seriously? That’s my home setup, and a lot of my friends also have 3 monitors.

I’m surprised you don’t know anyone who has three monitors. It’s common for tech-y people.

My arch install doesn’t brick itself by itself. Sometimes an update needs some manual intervention but that doesn’t brick it.

Depends on the distributions and default settings. In arch, by default, pacman doesn’t delete cache.

Well, that’s the thing, it’s the core part of their entire business. The glue that sticks everything together. Or at least used to be until Azure.

To me it’s absurd how Microsoft gets beaten by a free desktop environment when windows is like their main product. They have billions of dollars. How do they manage to not do better?

The “just” there is doing a lot of work considering the devs themselves disagreed. Sorry, but, I’m going to trust their judgement.

…also the whole networked displays themselves was what caused a lot of problems, according to the devs. Using it for a modern display stack was like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. Terminals have fallen out of favor ages ago, and personal computing devices today favour things like high responsiveness, clean images, and high refresh rates instead. And we got enough computing power to just stream a video stream directly if that’s needed now.

The whole point of Wayland to be a successor to X11 but not using X, made by the same devs that developed X11 to specifically move away from X. Backporting features would miss the whole point because devs left because adding new features to X was getting too difficult and messy according to them, due to how big and all-encompassing and inter-connected that protocol was.

And being punished for using Nvidia was Nvidia’s fault, not Wayland’s.

While it was funny, it probably is for the best. Especially if a kid uses the system it might legitimately scare the removed out of them lol

I wouldn’t be surprised if a kid thought the police was gonna break in now

What sucks is that you have to keep it for yourself, otherwise people will think negatively of you. Because for some reason caring about animals or the climate is cringe or something idk, like it’s something to almost be embarrassed about. Which is doubly strange when animal abuse is often considered very bad by those very same people.

But I guess for many caring about other people in general is cringe as well, as long as they are sufficiently emotionally distanced, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I just wish it wasn’t, and that caring for others was the baseline more than anything else.

For 1., the big issue is that there constantly are appearing new standards in display technologies. Two semi-recent examples are HDR and VRR, both of which X11 struggles with, and implementing those into X11 has been said to be painful by its developers.

Yes, they’re targeted attacks. That’s the point. That’s what you will be facing when putting Linux in your workplace. The main threat for workplaces will be targeted attacks.

So saying that putting Linux in your workplace because it has no viruses is irresponsible. Or at the very least it’s lying by omission.

The text in the post’s image literally says “just set it and forget it”.

Here you go https://www.cynet.com/ransomware/linux-ransomware-attack-anatomy-examples-and-protection/ literally top of the results from googling “Linux ransomware”

Cybersecurity is all about preventative measures. It’s extremely irresponsible to go “yeah, it’s fine, nothing bad has happened so far!”. But even then that’s not quite true, since you yourself have written that your servers are being attacked all the time. And privilege escalation exploits are found all the time.

When you are advocating for putting a system in a workplace, you need to do more due diligence and preparation than what you would for a personal system. Linux can be great for security! But you don’t just go “yeah it never gets viruses”.

Thinking about security in this manner is how all these companies have their vital data leaked all the time.

Edit: another thing, when you hear about companies hacked and all that, how often do they run Windows, and not Linux? Often that information isn’t shared, and so we don’t really know. But nearly all web infrastructure runs on linux, including a majority of the cloud. I’m sure a significant part of those hacks are targeted at linux systems.

And again, let me clarify, I’m talking about workplaces, companies, not personal use. Because for personal use I do agree that Linux with the defaults for most distributions is plenty safe.

When it comes to workplaces, you can expect people to deliberately craft a virus and/or try that break into your system specifically. A lot of the world runs on linux, a lot of hackers try to break in to this world.

For personal use it may be true enough to be fine in practice, but it’s a very dangerous thing to believe for a professional setting with probably expensive equipment and valuable data.