A reminder: Google added support for and then subsequently dropped JPEGXL support in Chrome. removed Google.

The problem is that they’re trying to frame it as a better replacement for sudo when it’s really not.

In some respects, it’s safer by not using a setuid binary. In other respects, it massively increases the surface area by relying on the correctness of three separate daemons: systemd, dbus, and polkitd. If any one of those components are misconfigured, you risk an unauthorized user gaining root privileges.

With sudo, the main concern is the sudo process being exploited through memory safety bugs since it runs at root automatically.

Don’t get me wrong, sudo has a lot of stupid decisions and problems. There’s a ton of code in sudo for features that almost nobody uses, and there’s bound to be bugs in there somewhere. It needs to be replaced with something simpler, but run0 is not that.

A better implementation than run0.

If you’re willing to admit that you’re denigrating an operating system for having the same flaws as the one you prefer and are being a massive hypocrite in doing so, sure.

You’re thinking of operating systems that give unrestricted access to all parts of a computer that aren’t memory or the camera. That would everything¹, actually.

¹ There’s also Linux with properly-configured SELinux, but good luck with that on a distro that isn’t focused on opsec.

Apparently, I did not. Or I might have replied to the wrong comment. Either way, my apologies.

Or, teach them both LibreOffice and Office 365. They’ll have more technical literacy by learning to adapt to new situations rather than relying on clicking this button here and that button there.

There’s OpenOffice and LibreOffice. There’s even Google Docs or Office 365, which run in a web browser.

Microsoft Office for Windows is about as useful as manufacturer-installed bloatware these days.

Good luck teaching middle schoolers how to use a pivot table when there’s barely enough time to teach the basics of Excel’s convoluted user interface.

(assuming they’re using bitlocker appropriately etc.)

Yeah, about that…

Just because people do it doesn’t mean you should.

Using a separate SSD and OS might work fine for protecting your data from company monitoring software, but it doesn’t protect company data from your rogue OS. If your company has a dedicated security team, your head will roll when they find out you put the company at risk. And if they don’t, you better hope IT is either apathetic or incompetent.

It’s not worth the risk of losing your job for being a liability. They might not be able to tell future employers why you are no longer employed with them, but “we would not hire {you} again if given the opportunity” speaks for itself.

Just buy a removedty laptop and use that.

BingOS was it’s name-o.

There was an issue with the BIOS limiting the power available to the processor during benchmarks. It has supposedly been fixed since.

You’re welcome to use whatever init system you want, but Systemd solves a lot of the bullremoved problems and limitations that come from init.d init scripts. Systemd also has a lot of its own bullremoved and bloat, but it does an excellent job at actually being an init system and service manager if you know how to properly use it.

I, for one, label my apple crates as oranges.

winebin="wine"
if file "$1" | grep 64-bit; then
    winebin="wine64"
fi

printf '%s %q $@ || exit $?' "$winebin" "$1" > "$1.sh"
chmod +x "$1.sh"

Oh god, what? Is that new? Aside from the plethora of removed that are dotfiles living in ~ instead of under ~/.config, the only outlier I have at the moment is ~/go.

You still have devices?

I’m over here chilling with my a

• Rental flat, where I can’t make any modifications or else I’ll be evicted.
• Free TV that serves me ads, on the condition I don’t tamper with it.
• Leased car with a heated seat subscription.
• Vendor-locked iPhone that came with my mobile plan.
• Netflix subscription that still shows me ads.

I’d say the only thing I own is the clothes on my back, but those were repossessed yesterday for nonpayment.

/s

It’s not terrible once you learn the muscle memory.

I’m sure there’s some obscure key bind to go directly there, but I just do Cmd+Shift+G in Finder to get to the browse to path dialog, type ~, and hit return.

Still a stupid extra amount of work, but at least it’s not having to use my mouse, typing %USERPROFILE%, or having to type the absolute path. That would piss me off even more.

Is there an easy way to learn this for just the package manager? Most of the tutorials I find are tailored to NixOS, which I’m not using and don’t plan on using.

~/go is one of my major pet peeves.