No, AND won’t match 0,0 while XNOR will. An AND switch would be useless for a staircase.

AND also won’t match 1,0 or 0,1 while XOR does.

Oh, I am no electrician. I an IT admin.

Being an electrician would be pretty high on the list of things to do if I weren’t allowed to work in IT though. Seems fairly fun.

My bad. It’s “must have both or none”

Wiring a staircase switch is actually very easy, you pretty much just need two wires going from one switch to another and then a light.

Your light switches also has to be three way switches but afaik most switches in my country are that, so you can pretty much use any switch.

XNOR (Exclusive NOR) is the opposite of XOR (Exclusive OR)

A way to remember XOR is “must have one or the other but not both” XNOR is the opposite so it’s “must have both or none” so both inputs must be 1 or 0.

XNOR or XOR is very common in homes with staircases so that you can turn on and off the light in the staircase regardless of which floor you are on.

If you google staircase switches, you will be told that they mostly use XOR but according to the wiring diagrams they use XNOR.

The reason that most companies don’t want you to do that is because they don’t want people running around installing their own OS and doing whatever they feel like on company devices.

Letting people do that would be an IT and information security nightmare.

It’s the same reason that no (sane) company would give local admin privileges to everyone.

The reason why companies generally don’t have an official way to use Linux is because it’s hard to support two platforms simultaneously. Especially when you have, certificate and/or AD network authentication for wireless and wired like we do. You also need to consider how the two platforms should interact with each other. For example Linux devices should be able to connect to the AD domain with Kerberos and need to be able to access SMB shares and probably other systems.

In short it’s more complicated than “just let me try”.

I am a Windows admin but two of my colleagues who are Linux admins use Linux machines that are running Ubuntu+a few internal tweaks to make it better fit us. The Linux platform is developed primarily by one of the developers at the company and some others (primarily developers) also use Linux. The vast majority of the company uses Windows.

There are also a few hundred Macs.

I have been considering getting our flavour of Linux installed on a VM or maybe even dual booting for testing.

That applies to most of the drama surrounding Linux.

Suggest a country then

What are you referring to?

Looks like a screen!

That’s cool!

You usually don’t lose access though. Passkeys rarely replace passwords so you could still use your password or reset it if you don’t remember it.

I just don’t think synced passkeys should be the default for example iOS.

What Microsoft is doing with device-bound passkeys using Windows Hello is imo great.

That doesn’t transfer the private key though (or at least it shouldn’t).

I’m pretty sure it’s just transferring public keys and signing the response with the private key on your phone.

Sure, but I don’t think it’s a huge problem since it’s honestly pretty hard to find more than 5 services that support discoverable passkeys.

I personally like it. Imo passkeys should optimally be device bound and the private keys should be stored in TPM or equivalent and be non-exportable.

Sure, but I’m just curious because of course a very cheap model is very cheaply constructed.

Also comparing cans to machined aluminium is pretty weird when they are completely different.

Nah, it’s alright! Don’t worry about it, it’s always alright to insult Norwegians.

What model?

It sounds like a really cheap model.

Do you also backup the files externally? If not you shouldn’t consider them backed up.