Kazumara

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Two that I run for our little group outside the ones you mention are Space Engineers and Valheim

Edit: Space Engineers is a little annoying though, you either have to use some emulated / translated setup, (I think I saw some being cobbled together by others), or you have to run a Windows Server VM.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Yes there is also device managment for them. Our company uses Jamf. Not sure how it compares to AD group policies in power but some restrictions, settings and updates get pushed on the regular.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder how long it will take until they all start using DoH and conveniently make the TV fail if it's blocked...

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

So much.

  • Window Management, especially fullscreen
  • Alt Tabbing Behaviour
  • Default Keyboard Layout
  • The Dock with its forced defaults (Finder leftmost, Trash rightmost etc)
  • No volume control over HDMI
  • Power Management (no manual hibernate, closing lid always sleeps)
  • File System Support
  • The reactions that auto trigger on webcam
  • The Global Menu
  • Unchangable limit to virtual desktops
  • Default apps being hard to change in some cases (mailto: links for example)
  • The weird software installation process with dragging icons to a special folder
  • That I can't temporarily disable a system management profile
  • The way the BSD tools are slightly different than the GNU ones, with grep slower for certain patterns
  • No Package Manager by default (unless you count the App store with forced accounts)
  • Weird filesystem setup, far from FHS

I have installed various pieces of third party software to fix some of them, but still, those are things I dislike about macOS.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

No, instead I'm forced to use macOS at work.

And Microsoft Teams, which is terrible, but somehow still better than Cisco Webex, which we had before.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago

Don’t use SSDs for a server…

lol

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I ordered an S10 tab, paid my first rate, they finally try to order it

Who is "they" in this? Some sort of intermediary you were using?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I take issue with this forced distinction they are making

Micron, like Samsung and SK Hynix, already supplies memory chips directly to third-party brands such as G.Skill and ADATA. Even without Crucial-branded kits, Micron DRAM continues to reach consumers through other manufacturers, meaning overall supply remains largely unchanged.

Nobody ever officially suggested the Crucial supply was likely to shift to the other manufacturers for consumers. On the contrary people expect this to be a step towards a general redistribution of manufacturing capacity towards HBM for parallel compute products.

By comparison, Samsung exiting SATA SSDs removes an entire class of finished consumer products from one of the world’s largest NAND suppliers. Tom argues that this is why the Samsung move is “worse” for consumers: it directly affects how many drives are available, not just who sells them.

If you wanted you could make the same argument as for Micron. Who says the Samsung NAND couldn't be bought by other OEMs to make consumer SSDs. It's just as possible as the Micron supply shifting to other OEMs who make consumer RAM sticks.

To me neither are likely. The manufacturing capacity both companies are pulling from the consumer market in both cases is going to go to the higher profit margin parallel compute server market. Neither is worse than the other, they are both equally bad news for us consumers.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't get how this was exploited in practise.

Even if the signatures on the downloaded packages weren't checked properly, how would you modify the content of the XML file returned from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php?version=8.8.0 ? For that you'd have to break or MITM the TLS too, no?

The usual case for TLS MITM is when a company decides DPI is more important than E2E encryption and they terminate all TLS on the firewall, but if the firewall is compromised there would be much easier avenues of entry other than notepad++

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

I wish people (especially journalists) would get it through their skulls already:

  • Vehicles don't communicate with satellites.
  • GNSS (like GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, or BeiDou) do not use two way communication.
  • The satellite can therefore not know the position of a GNSS receiver.
  • Instead the satellites send timestamps and their positions, the receiver uses that information to calculate its own position. If the system with the receiver needs to report its position to someone they typically use some form of terrestrial communication, like mobile phone networks.

With that knowledge the comment by /u/imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com makes a lot more sense than whatever the article is trying to imply about satellite failures.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Last weekend my PC didn't start up, it was beeping an error code. I was so scared of it being a memory issue while diagnosing.

But luckily it was a video error code. And after swapping out the GPU and still getting the beep, even more luckily, it turned out to be the display being stuck in a bad state and just needing a reboot.

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