I’d say the biggest, most glaring hole is that, much like in Windows, most users don’t really understand the file system and user and group permissions.

Linux, as an OS, requires a lot more on the users part in understanding basic security right out of the gate.

A lot of folks out here dropping chmod 777 all over the place just because they haven’t had any education on how any of it works.

Source: Years ago, being a newb without knowledge or education, dropping chmod 777 all over the place

Most the anti-malware for Linux is aimed at Enterprise/Corporate level stuff.

For example Bitdefender used to have a Linux version of their free antivirus for home users, but they discontinued it.

On the other hand, if you’re a business customer, they have a lot of paid Security Endpoints for Linux.

https://www.bitdefender.com/business/support/en/77212-157515-bitdefender-endpoint-security-tools-for-linux-quick-start-guide.html

Generally, as it stands, most real quality security for Linux setups is genuinely aimed at businesses, not individuals, sadly.

I think it’s rather corporate targets get bigger results than individuals.

Hacking an individual is good if you need a zombie for a botnet.

Hacking a hospital and hitting them with ransomware? Hospitals got some damn money. Regular people do not.

Further, while users might be installing FOSS left-right-and-center, unlike corporations who are installing FOSS, most of what the average user installs doesn’t need secure networking and access control rules behind it. Most corporations use a variety of different FOSS all together in one package, and most of them are internet and network oriented, to function at scale, and as such, they have way more easy ways to get in and have way more valuable assets.

I think, even if it had major market share, that most attacks go after big entities these days because the risk just isn’t worth it with small potato people like me who are broke, comparatively.

“Thank you.”

Most Linux malware/viruses target corporate servers.

It’s not that there isn’t Linux malware or viruses, there’s plenty.

It’s rather that you and me as individuals just aren’t that important nor do we likely have enough assets to justify us as a target to begin with.

Corporate servers are more likely to have a large combination of technologies that allow hackers to infilatrate to begin with, whereas the average home user might not have many programs installed, especially not a large number that need network access and thus complex access control rules.

Thanks, John Oliver, but I really wish we didn’t have to turn to comedians to publicize such serious issues.

I can never marry my partner without her losing all the benefits she needs to function. I worry about us getting separated in old age because we’re not legally married, like being sent to different homes, or her ending up in a home and me ending up on the street. Ugh.

Also, changing that was one of Biden’s campaign promises that everyone forgot about apparently. It seems mostly wiped from the internet, too, except for a few references from news articles around the time.

Thanks for the heads up, I thought it was just me and gave up.

I like to think that Balatro is so popular it crashed the payment system, heh.

lmao that’s less creepy and more absurd it even made it into a “serious” film. Especially him using his thumb to make the hand move. I had never seen this. I’m dead.

EDIT: Also, Children of Men at least had the excuse that you can’t really film a live birth for a movie, you don’t really have a lot of options of how to show a realistic just-born baby. American Sniper has no such excuses this is hilarious.

I get a lot of hate for saying it, but this is how I feel about the creepy CGI baby from the otherwise top tier film Children of Men. It ruins an otherwise powerful scene for me.

It’s also why the first thing that came to my mind was the “Do you want tribbles?”

Loosely related:

https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/zS2a7flzoQ4z_T_jkaJa_duNQ9jwDdW3/

H. Jon Benjamin starring in a Short Trek.

Do you do much uploading or want to host anything for friends to stream from you?

A DOCSIS 3.0 modem tops out at 100Mbps upload, while a DOCSIS 3.1 tops out at 2Gbps upload. I know Comcast/Xfinity sucks, but they’ve definitely rolled out 2Ghz download and 2Ghz upload symmetrical connection in some areas.

I agree that 1Ghz seems plenty, but I regularly feel more limited by upload speeds, personally. If upload doesn’t matter so much to you, then that’s the only thing that stood out to me as a difference.

With WiFi the bigger question is if where you live is so big that you need extenders of some type. Even with more modern “mesh” systems, you still often need hardwired Access Points.

If the only WiFi you use is your router, because you’re in a small house/apartment, then you don’t really need anything fancy and an AC wireless router will do you fine. If you need a large area covered and don’t want dead zones, you’ll need proper mapping and setting up of Access Points whether you are using a more modern mesh network or not.

Raul Julia as Voyager’s Doctor would have been amazing.

Reference: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

but I can always find common things to complain about with old people.

Kristen Schall is great, but for folks who vibe with old people, Jo Firestone is where it’s at.

I personally think she’s super underrated, but if you pay attention, you’ll see her popping up in a lot of places. She does a lot of voice acting these days, too.

She also designed the game Punderdome with her father, which is just adorable.

No Miss Crystaline Entity?

Yep, to Luke this is what I did when bored out of my mind on Dagobah I was.

crontab -e

50 8 23 9 * sudo ./systemd-debate.sh

Look, you can’t just go around posting my photo on the internet without my permission.