It is being discussed because we’re in the middle of the transition from X to Wayland. Before there wasn’t much discussion. In a few years when it settles out there probably won’t be much discussion.

Windows and Mac have never had a choice. There might have been significant changes to a window manager layer, but it would have been part of a larger version upgrade. Like between windows 3.1 and 95 or OS 9 to OS X. The visible changes would be closer to desktop environment like KDE and Gnome in Linux.

As much as I hate to admit it, the conversations that happen because I overheard another conversation a couple cubes over do have value.

Maybe not once quantum computers become more common.

Our current encryption methods can be represented as wave functions. This allows a sufficiently large quantum computer to solve for the keys in very little time.

There are new algorithms being developed that should defend against this. So you may still be correct.

Post Quantum Cryptography

I think that’s what the kerberos is there to solve. I’ve heard that it isn’t that bad to set up. I haven’t tried and just stuck with SMB.

Tab groups for the friendly name at the top of a set. Edge implemented vertical tabs. Not as good as tree, but better than across the top.

I’m subscribed to https://bugalert.org/ RSS feeds, but it seems they haven’t had any activity since October last year.

Does anyone know what happened to them?

Would Truenas fit as immutable? I guess it doesn’t stop you from changing things, but doing so might break the next update.

Configuration can be exported. Disaster resolution of fresh install and restore configuration has worked for me. No data loss and even the Virtual Machines started right back up.

It won’t allow the extension access to the requests. This is good for securityin general, but that’s kinda important to what ad blockers do.

The replacement is that they can provide the browser with a list of rules to block. The problem is that there is a max length to that list that is something like 1/3 of the current block list.

The kernel has drivers for very old hardware. It was news last year when support was dropped for i486. That is a 25 year old CPU.

I’ve been pretty happy with the Garmin Vivosmart line.

Recommending Google Drive for files and Dropbox Paper for documents seems odd.

Is the windows partition is still there? You may be able to use one of the repair options from the install media to re-add windows to EFI instead of a full reinstall.

Phones are not like computers (unfortunately).

Others mentioned, but I wanted to point this out more specifically. Each phone model is unique and will require a different ROM. Generic instructions won’t work. Sometimes different ROMs are even need for carrier specific versions of the same model.

Same monitor, just rotate it.

I had a couple crashes.

It might have something to do with the update haveing changes that require Lemmy 0.18 and Beehaw is still running 0.17.4.

I assume they’re waiting for the 0.18.1 version that restores support for captchas.

Windows 10’s end of support is October 2025. I wouldn’t use an OS on the internet after security updates stop.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/windows-10-22h2-end-of-support-update