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  • “Debian is too far behind! Packages are too old!”

    The best rule of thumb I’ve ever heard regarding Debian Stable is that if the kernel in stable’s default repo fully supports ALL your hardware, and the software in stable’s default repos fully support your workflows, it’s fine.

    If those are NOT true, then you probably don’t want to use Stable, because you’ll either end up fighting it via manually compiled and installed software, or you’ll venture into so many 3rd party repos for updated packages that updating it later becomes problematic and prone to making the whole system catch fire and burn down.


  • You know, the older I get the more I respect the people who come out and say ‘I’m not going to learn that, and I don’t want to.’

    It’s a LOT better than dealing with someone who half-asses and kinda wishy-washes around and says they’ll maybe do something but then doesn’t and well, wasn’t ever going to.

    If you’re not interested and won’t, say so up front so you don’t waste your or my time trying to get you to do something.



  • You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking.

    Which, at any of my last few corporate jobs, would be grounds for termination, if not immediately throwing you out of the building and telling you if you come back we’re calling the cops.

    You really don’t bypass controls in a corporate environment like this if you like working there.

    (And yes, not EVERY job will react that way, but any that’s got any compliance requirements absolutely will.)



  • I’m somewhat surprised that there aren’t a lot of good alternatives but uh, yeah, there doesn’t seem to be.

    I would have expected there to be at least one or two good TTS engines but I guess that assumption is quite wrong.

    As to your other post, it’s less that I care in any specific sense that Microsoft knows what I’m reading and more of a (admittedly irrational) dislike of providing anything that an ad company could maybe later use to sell me shit.











  • Another (and to some degree more flexible AND simpler) solution is rathole: still requires you to host it somewhere, but it’s got a little more flexibility.

    Edit: I’m not a fan of VPN tunnels in general, because for most people all you’ve done is made a remote server that, if it’s compromised, will have unfettered and complete access to your internal network via the VPN tunnel.

    There are ways to mitigate that but, for what I suspect is the majority of people asking about how to do this, they’re outside of a reasonable technical ask.

    (Rathole works similar to an argo tunnel, in that it initiates a connection to the VPS, and then passes traffic limited to a specific port or application back and forth, rather than being a nice open tunnel.




  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businesstoLinux@lemmy.mlCorel Linux 1.1.2, 1999
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    15 days ago

    Linux was the NFT or Blockchain or AI of 1999, so every tech company was jumping on board.

    The sales pitch, as I remember, was that you could run your Wordperfect or CorelDraw shit on it, and not need to have Windows to use it and instead could join the future, which was Linux. Though, amusingly, their version of the future was running Windows binaries via Wine on Linux which, eh, okay but…

    Of course, nobody used Wordperfect or CorelDraw at that point in history so I’m not entirely sure how that was supposed to sell you on buying not-Word and not-Photoshop.