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  • Does switching motherboard require a reinstall?

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  • For your linux partition you'd probably just need to install new drivers. I've popped my boot drive into a bunch of different pcs with no issue.

    Your windows partition might be weird, last i heard it assigns the activation to the motherboard serial number or something so you might have to redo the crack or provide your activation code again

  • Junoir vs Senior

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  • Brutal, i worked in b4 consulting before. They had Macs but you basically had to know someone to fight for it on your behalf.

    I feel your pain, i struggled with a dell craptop for years. I swear to god, those things are designed to be awful.

    (Although, shortly before i left i saw the new ones they were handing out which had Ryzen CPUs and actually looked pretty decent, but idk how well they worked because i left obv)

  • Junoir vs Senior

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  • Maybe this works for a small-medium business, but for large enterprises (i work for a massive tech company) it doesn't work like that.

    Corporate devices are bought through enterprise service agreements, which have to go through the lawyers as well as the procurement team. Although you could get a contract from Lenovo for the actual devices, a Linux distro would have no service agreement, so that would kill it right there (+ legal would probably flag the risk of malicious code being injected into the OS, i.e. xz). Ignoring thag, devices that are onboarded need to be able to fit into existing device management solutions (ABM/MDM, EDR, DLP, AD, etc etc).

    And before any of that, there would be some survey that goes out to determine how many employees would realistically make the switch. For Linux, that number would likely be so low that the business teams would decide it isn't worth a discussion because of low business impact & user desire (not to mention that now the IT teams also need to be skilled up to support it).

    I couldn't even get a FOSS browser extension approved to be installed on my device, much less spur a movement for adding a whole new set of devices to the corporate inventory.

    (Editing to add, i did talk to the IT guy and he said he wished he could give me one because he wants one too lol)

  • 780k Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks

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  • Well Zorin is ubuntu based, so i feel like that's a win for Ubuntu (and debian)

  • Junoir vs Senior

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  • Honestly, between the MBP and a similarly priced Dell as a company laptop, i choose the MBP.

    The battery is better, the screen is better, performance is better, etc

    Dell doesn't know how to make a laptop & windows sucks ass. Macos is so locked down by default that all the restrictions on a company laptop don't change the user experience all that much.

    In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework. But we don't live in an ideal world, so had to choose between the two worst possible options

  • Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino

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  • Thankfully, this doesn't seem to apply to code written outside of the Arduino ecosystem, so i ASSUME that if you're writing code for a cloned board using PlatformIO that these new terms don't apply to you

    If that's not the case, I'll switch to micropython (probably easier anyway)

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Third'd

    Mint or any other ubuntu-derivative distro is 10000% the move. I've been running ubuntu as my os for a while now, and I've spent nearly the last decade on linux (makes me feel old saying that lol).

    The other distros have a lot of strength, but at the end of the day i want to spend my time messing with things i want to mess with. I don't want random weird issues that I have to constantly debug, and everyone can agree that stability is debian's (and therefore ubuntu's) undisputed strength

  • Like Windows explorer but better

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  • Thunar = 🐐

    Although, the only reason I use it is because when i made the switch many moons ago, i was following this guy's tutorial on setting up i3 and he recommended thunar. Never looked back (although, at this point i think its more about the ui than any functional difference)

  • Error 1033 Cloudflare

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  • I don't doubt that, I'm saying this more because there are additional routes that i had to configure in NPM to get lemmy working properly. This may be where OP is having issues, you can probably set them up in CF too but I have no idea.

  • Error 1033 Cloudflare

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  • Are you pointing cloudflare directly to Lemmy? I have mine going from cloudflare to Nginx Proxy Manager configured to serve Lemmy.

    There is some additional configuration necessary for a reverse proxy in front of Lemmy, which is potentially where things are getting messed up for you?

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • No worries :) everyone starts somewhere.

    The other commenter covered the terminology so to your point about being on Nvidia:

    I know we don't like Reddit but here. Seems to be YMMV and you'll never know if you don't try. Also possible that the things that are buggy aren't things you use/care about

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • ¯⁠⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

    FWIW I run Ubuntu and do some gaming. Haven't hit any issues, and I've run multiple AAA games on release (TLOU, Indiana Jones, Hogwarts Legacy, GoW 2018) as well as other, lighter, titles like Cities Skylines 2, Asetto Corsa, Project Cars, American Truck Simulator

    I'm sure there are bugs that I haven't experienced, and my system is probably newer/higher performance than the average person + i chose parts with Linux in mind. But based on my experience, I wouldn't tell someone to jump into a less user friendly distro because of problems I myself haven't run into. Much better to try one, see if you hit an issue, then jump rather than doing the hard one up front

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • Consider your library: most games will be able to run fine on Linux. However, if you predominantly play online multiplayer games which require anticheat you should check compatibility on ProtonDB.

    Second, consider your hardware: if your GPU is AMD you're good to go. Nvidia might have issues (not sure if this has been resolved since I last had to look into it).

    Finally, choose a distro: I'd recommend Ubuntu or anything Ubuntu-based. There's a lot of mixed answers in the Linux community and definitely a ton of hate for Ubuntu. However, as someone who has been running Linux for nearly a decade at this point, there are a few key points:

    1. Ubuntu is debian based, so it's extremely stable(but not as slow to update)
    2. Ubuntu is very beginner friendly, and you won't need to touch the terminal if you don't want to
    3. Everyone hates on snaps, but for you I don't think you'll run into an issue with it.

    Personally, I steer towards debian based distros for my devices as well because I'd rather spend time messing with the software I'm running or other things NOT debugging why my config is suddenly shitting the bed

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  • Okay so I'll try my best to convey what I know (I studied DFIR in college, but I work as a security engineer now):

    There are two types of mobile device forensic acquisitions/collections/extractions: BFU and AFU.

    BFU (Before first unlock) extractions simply refer to what Cellebrite is able to pull from the phone when it has been turned on but not unlocked for the first time, similarly AFU (after first unlock) is what it can collect after its been unlocked.

    You can think about this as your phone being in two states: when you first boot it up (and I'm talking from the Android perspective, because I have never owned an iPhone) you're required to use your pin/password to unlock the device and then it will complete its boot. Any time after that first unlock though, you can unlock with stuff like biometrics and its much faster (i know my phone when i unlock for the first time after a boot will display an "Android is Starting" or something like that while it loads up).

    Bringing this back to your main question: depending on the OS version and device, what is pulled from AFU/BFU will vary. So looking at the image you linked:

    If you were an incident responder, you'd probably read this chart left to right. Lets say i have a Samsung S23 running presumably android 13 or 14, I'd first look at the samsung rows, choose the second one for the version, and then id have to determine if the device is in BFU or AFU mode, and see which options are available to me. In this instance, it doesn't make a difference because I can get user data from either (because i can brute force the password on the lockscreen for this specific device). Otherwise, a BFU extraction might only pull out surface level information from the device because everything may not have been decrypted yet.

    I feel like I'm rambling but I hope it's shedding some light, your point about the password is important but not everything. Companies like Cellebrite and Magnet pay a lot of money for zero day vulns that they can build exploits for into their software, meaning that if theres something critical (like a pin code bypass) then they could just use that and get all your data. But, there's a lot of various data on cellphones, take Signal for example (and this is just an example, I don't actually know): it's possible that if signal is encrypting messages stored on the device, that even if an examiner pulled that database out, they might still not be able to do anything about it.

    My final point, there's also a high degree of secrecy around these tools. Obviously Cellebrite and Magnet are incentivised to keep their exploits quiet so they continue working, otherwise Google or Apple could just issue a security patch and render them useless. Often, they'll have different tools that are available to different organizations: a company may have a few cellebrite dongles for internal investigations and litigation support, the details of which are kept under NDA, but they're still likely to be separate from what an organization like the FBI would have access to. This is why it's often hard to find information on these tools, especially updated or recent information

  • The Most Popular Window Air Conditioner Has Disappeared from Store Shelves [Aftermath]

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  • Yeah, although now that its officially on a recall I'll have to evaluate the options we have

  • Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.

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  • I have no issue with this, I personally wouldn't use it but I get that they need to make money (which is why i have a recurrent donation every month).

    If this helps them to do that, then so be it

  • What hills are you dying on?

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  • Can confirm i am a melanated individual who doesn't use sunblock as often as i should (but im also never outside LMFAO)

    But yes you're absolutely correct but I just wanted to clarify that we should be using sunblock but nevertheless it's still not as much of a risk to us

  • What hills are you dying on?

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  • No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.

    Complete protection? Certainly not, but melanin does provide some protection from UV radiation. Still important to wear sunscreen because if a melanated individual where to get skin cancer it usually has a higher mortality rate because they're often caught late.

    Epidemiological data strongly support the photoprotective role of melanin as there exists an inverse correlation between skin pigmentation and the incidence of sun-induced skin cancers (1) and subjects with White skin are approximately 70 times more likely to develop skin cancer than subjects with Black skin (67). The shielding effect of melanin, especially eumelanin, is achieved by its ability to serve as a physical barrier that scatters UVR, and as an absorbent filter that reduces the penetration of UV through the epidermis (68). The efficacy of melanin as a sunscreen was assumed to be about 1.5-2.0 sun protective factors (SPF);

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2671032/

  • The Most Popular Window Air Conditioner Has Disappeared from Store Shelves [Aftermath]

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  • Its a really good machine, and super quiet. I didn't set up the WiFi although now that you mention it, i should bring it into Home assistant

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Using the native apt version of Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04+

    web.archive.org /web/20221028121441/https://blog.echols.co/2022/04/using-apt-version-of-firefox-on-ubuntu.html
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Set up Tailscale with NGINX Proxy Manager

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Rule

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Fediverse equivalent of r/OpenSignups?