I was hesitant to open this post because I already know about rustdesk, but eventually I did to see the community’s opinion on it. I’m so glad that I did because this is terrible!

I think more people should hear about all of this

or neither, when cloosing open source tools worth their salt. in more and more fields such tools appear, fortunately

I had the impression that it has a Russian connection, but anyways, it’s good to be in the lookout for such things

in my book they are more of a risk than the USA. The USA already has political influence, for china to do it they need to use more extreme methods, like infiltrating your computer and use it and perhaps you as their tools

honestly I use the man command whenever I can. It gives distro-specific info, that documents the right version and any distro-specific patches

to be quite honest I don’t want to see any large business around my project unless they are paying. They are not my target audience, and I’m not writing to funnel money into their pockets

Also, Linux does not auto-update itself, and that’s bad mostly when looking at the programs (like the web browser) that did that automatically, and here it can’t anymore.

I understand that most users don’t update their system and the utils they downloaded, but that’s essential for a web browser.

I was considering that I should just install Firefox as the fatpak for everyone, instead of the core package manager, for this and other reasons, but my users have so little memory in their old machines that it’s already barely necessary.

I hate to say this, but windows rarely breaks itself from updates. basic things like the desktop, audio and the lock screen is essentially never broken after an update.

yeah it may reset the audio settings and other such things, and I don’t know how do they manage to do that, but that’s relatively simple to revert.

probably it’s just thanks to old, battle tested code though. can’t wait for Linux desktop systems to reach that point

having it just work is a necessary step to gett there

Automatic updates are essential. and unfortunately, it should not be an option to keep an old version of something, because through shared libraries it will hold back the entire system. fatpaks should be used for those programs.

Fortunately it’s getting there, like KDE is working on it too, but it’s still got a long way.

man7 and such are better. This runs google analytics, and cannot work when fetch requests are disabled (also suitable for sending back anything), let alone disabling scripts

sorry, but what kind of email server listens only on SSH?

Yeah, same :D

It was a typo, I have meant compression. Specifically a per-file controlled compression, not per-directory or per-dataset.

Honestly I’m fine with ZFS on larger scale, but on desktop I want a filesystem that can do compression (like NTFS on windows) and snapshots.

I have actually used compression a lot, and it spared me a lot of space. No, srorage is not cheap, or else I’m awaiting your shipment.
Other than that I’m doing differential backups on windows, and from time to time it’s very useful that I can grab a file to which something just happened. Snapshots cost much less storage than complete copies, which I couldn’t afford, but this way I have daily diffs for a few years back, and it only costs a TB or so.

Time is passing by so fast, really. I still remember linux 5 kernels to be modern, and 6 somehow still feels “the new thing”

Why is it though that the system just becomes unresponsive? That is always my experience too, but shouldn’t just the kernel’s OOM killer kill something?

Then you’ll be hopefully setting a UEFI password for them and end of story. Instead of wanting a corporation to lock out everyone of the machines that they own, making sure that no one on earth can boot unsigned Linux either, for example.

I was interested too. It seems Microsoft has released a patch that blacklists vulnerable grub versions from being able to be secure booted even if they are signed properly:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2022-2601

The link was at the top of the article.

Maybe this update somehow affects your UEFI firmware, and it installs a list in there?

However bad that sounds, you’re probably best off disabling all updates in windows. O&O shutup10 has a setting for that. Download it to a pendrive with Linux, and boot windows with network unplugged.

Proton and photon is just the Firefox browser’s GUI style. Proton is the previous one, photon is the current one where everything is bigger and curly.