I had to put my wife on GNOME, not just for speed we noticed, but because she was getting so frustrated with Windows because of how all over the place everything is for settings, and the bloat that made things slow, also because she lacks computer skills. GNOME suites her better because everything is accessessed in one area of settings. KDE was too much.

No, nothing taken to heart. I also hate bloat, like W11 (for work) is barely usable…so much janky garbage, and I have to keep deleting Ai.exe and aimgr.DLL from certain folders.

I just don’t care about boot since I have a fanless case, with a system that is on 24/7, and the systems that do boot is basically: hit power on and adjust mouse/pad while it boots and it’s ready to go.

I did try about 10-15 distros on a 2010 laptop till I found one that was super quick on that hardware.

Turns out NixOS with gnome was super responsive compared to NiXOS with KDE. People say GNOME is heavy, but because it does so much memory prefetch it was super responsive on a 15 year old CPU since cached memory was being used rather than KDE loading as you go.

Sure but performance tweaking is a different argument than “init is better because it is fast”. If you watch the video link I posted it explains why systemd exists and its benefits. Speed alone isn’t a good metric for an OS

I don’t get that as a problem, my systems are systemd and boot is 10s, and shutdown is 8s. And that’s not a super highend machine.

Let’s say you get a 5 second boot? So what , what will you gain in 5 seconds. You aren’t running critical military intelligence network or something.

Boot and shutdown are faster

Lol. Are people still casing 2 second shut down vs 3 seconds, etc? An OS system services system shouldn’t be graded on speed of boot or shutdown, but how well it does what it was designed to do.

This 45 minute video explains why systems was needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

But that’s the nice thing with Linux, you can run what you like.

Rustsesk will let you remote control, its basically a clone of teamviewer

I’m still running a 2010 Iomega NAS. Swapped the Lenovo OS that they updated it to to plain Debian, because the “upgrade” from Iomega OS to the version they released under Lenovo had ads in the admin menus.

Never experienced that before. I have been on openSUSE for 9 years now, snapshots are pretty much instantaneous.

Steals it from your system I meant. Which has even happened to security pros.

True dat. But if they compromise your computer the first thing the look for is key files.

Like my ssh keys are in a root permission file. Protected from general sight, but if somebody compromises my PC with a CVE on then goodbye keys.

At least with hardware key it is removable and requires a button press.

So accessing becomes physical access or quantum computer cracking

I mean yes everything is hackable. Thankfully the hardware key supports FIDO where there is a public / private pair with private locked on the hardware. Not enough services support this though.

So threat is being targeted and having somebody steal the hardware key.

Not if your TOTP codes are generated by another device, then the attacker needs your password, plus the device holding the key for TOTP. If you use it on your phone and authenticator is your phone then a theif has everything when they steal your phone.

Hardware key for TOTP is a better 2FA method as its totally separate from your PC or phone

Its still just a single factor if some body steals your private key.

Is that a mouse in the small of my back?

I’m running an early version of that on a 16 year old ARM board NAS, the NAS has 256MB of RAM and OpenMediaVault runs great on it.

Net York trying to get subtractive manufacturing CNC mills to obey this is going to be a trick.

The controller just runs Gcode for positioning and speeds. They’d need to preprocess the gcode through an AI database to check if the path builds a gun part shape then allow machining or block it.

Inevitably somebody will just replace the controller with a home grown system.

And a CNC mill can still run manual cuts a single passes that may not appear to look like a part, when done separately

This is old clueless men trying to make laws about technology they don’t understand.

Yes pretty much exact

Croc file share, uses a relay to find each other https://github.com/schollz/croc

Session Messenger, uses a tor style server network https://github.com/session-foundation/session-android

That quote doesn’t mean they always use Teams, they may have clients that only use teams and so are forced to comply to client.

I would hope internally they have a Jitsi server

For more money and wasted power. People overbuild quite often.