Buelldozer

SMR are for site or temporary power, not grid scale. On paper they're a good fit for data centers and other localized power needs.

What context are you asking for? Seems like Draconic has explained why that account exists and even put in a note explaining.

Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They are twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.

+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.

This has been predicted and worked towards since the 90s.

You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!

Combo of ADHD and living through the 2000s with Internet Explorer where ads often installed malware and viruses. If you DIDN'T use an Ad Blocker you were playing a game of Russian Roulette every time you opened a web page.

Popups, pop unders, blaring audio, malware, slow page loads...ads are a scourge.

Funny, I've been calling Flock the same thing.

Good!

I dunno if it's exciting but I do have and use an Entra joined and InTune managed Linux Mint laptop with a full security stack loaded as described above. It works.

Yep but...

Here's Microsoft - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/devices/sso-linux?tabs=debian-install%2Cdebian-update%2Cdebian-uninstall

Google has a variety of IDM methods including Ubuntu Authd and Secure Cloud LDAP. There's also 3rd party tools like JumpCloud, ScaleOrange, etc.

Okta appears to have ASA and OPA although I'm not familiar with either of them. Ping has PingID and Ping Federate, although again I haven't used either of them.

So depending on your cloud and needs the IdM / IAM is either available NOW or it will be very soon. 😀

The corporate crowd will stay on Windows because they benefit from propping up other corporations.

I wouldn't be so sure. An interesting indicator of the shift that many of you wouldn't see is how many vendors of management and security software have put out Linux versions in the past 12 months. I'm talking about stuff like RMM (Remote Monitoring & Management), EDR / MDR (Endpoint Detection & Response / Managed Detection & Response) client side DNS filtering software, and other things.

This tooling is for managing and securing endpoints used by companies, either by internal IT or by MSPs. These vendors wouldn't be making and releasing these tools unless they were being asked for them AND there was going to be stead long term demand.

Turns out that once a companies stuff is in the cloud its users really don't need MS Windows anymore so as long as you can centrally manage and secure it Linux makes a perfectly fine endpoint OS.