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  • The issue is if you tune them out what’s left? It’s most of the content here.

    Hell just the other day there was a “what new tech thing have you done this year?” And 95% of the responses were just some variation of “Installed Mint/PopOS!/Endeavour and started using Firefox.”

    Like it’s great that you’re making the transition, but I was hoping to hear what new self hosting service people got working on their home server, some new residential network installs for security platforms, etc.

    Not just “I changed browsers.”




  • It’s funny because I’ve built like six Windows machines and the install process is always a snap. You just select what drive to install to, what telemetry options you want on/off, and then press start.

    You don’t even have to have an Internet connection/Microsoft account if you don’t want to, you can just create a local one.

    I don’t understand how you guys have such a hard time with it. Certain distros of Linux are pretty easy to get going, but Windows is only hard if you refuse to leave your Linux knowledge bubble, ever.

    Sure we can talk about how you have to go in and do X and Y in order to get it configured how YOU want, but that removed applies in Linux too.


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    9 months ago

    The moment Linux users go from “install Linux to get off Microsoft products” to “WAHHHHH WHY DONT YOU LIKE MY LAYOUT BETTER :((((((” you lose all credibility.

    Maybe. And hear me out here. Maybe your desktop layout and theme is a removeding OPINION and no one else has to agree that it’s the “best” layout??? removeding crazy, I know.




  • “A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software.”

    That’s the Wikipedia definition, in CompTIA Security+ the concept of the malware masking itself is quintessential to the definition of a rootkit. I hear this removed all the time from people on here who think anything that gets elevated privileges is a “rootkit” and hasn’t the slightest idea what the removed they’re talking about.

    “But you don’t know if it could install a backdoor!”

    You don’t know if half the removed you install is doing that either, or is Easy Anticheat known for doing this in some official investigation? Did someone find out that Activision is deploying malware in ricochet?

    If not, you’re operating on suspicion that you don’t harbor for other software without evidence, based purely on things you’ve probably just barely heard about.