IHawkMike
@IHawkMike@lemmy.world
- Comment on If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves. 17 hours ago:
Hard disagree. It only applies for things you cannot change but should try to accept rather than stressing over it.
If you say “it is what it is,” in reference to things you could change but choose not to, well that’s on you.
- Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment 4 days ago:
The easiest way that doesn’t affect the main network would be to use a travel router. Its WAN IP would be the private IP it gets from the main network (over wireless since that’s your only option). And it would NAT your network onto that IP and then you can do whatever you want on your network.
I’m not sure if that Mikrotik router will do this but it might. You basically need something that can connect to an SSID and use that interface as its WAN interface. The wireless factor here is really limiting your choices. If you had a wired uplink to the main network you could use any router/gateway/firewall you wanted. You could also use an AP in bridge mode to connect to the main network’s SSID and wire it to the WAN port of any router of your choice.
You don’t really need to use VLANs to separate your network from the main network unless you want to share any of the same layer 2 segments (basically wired Ethernet) while keeping it isolated. But it doesn’t really sound like that applies in your scenario. Of course using VLANs within your network would still make sense if that applies (for example, to separate your server traffic from your IoT traffic).
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 3 weeks ago:
Definitely malware, as everyone has already said.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
They’re only killing the crappy store/UWP version that nobody used anyway and only caused confusion. The normal OneNote bundled in Office isn’t going anywhere as far as I know.
That said, I’ve moved a lot of my note taking to Obsidian. It’s not a perfect replacement but it’s a fantastic markdown editor and now I use both for different use cases.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 2 months ago:
I heavily use both and this is objectively untrue.
- Comment on How does secure boot in computers work, and how is the default Windows Secure Boot different from the Secure Boot of an alternate OS (such as Linux)? 2 months ago:
This is a good answer.
To add, for Linux kernels, the maintainer use a shim EFI package with the distro’s keys (e.g., Canonical’s keys for Ubuntu) which loads the maintainer-signed kernel. And Microsoft signs the shim to keep the chain intact.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 months ago:
I don’t deal with hardware much anymore, but I’d take Aruba over Cisco any day. But for everything else, yeah fuck HP.
- Comment on Isn't it possible to frame almost any opinion as a question? 2 months ago:
I’m Ron Burgundy?
- Comment on Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives 2 months ago:
Yep that’s how I have Syncthing set up. All global and local discovery disabled, no firewall ports open on the clients, no broadcasting, no relay servers. Just syncing through a central server which maintains versioning and where the backups run. Works like a charm.
- Comment on Me at CES today 3 months ago:
Probably the 9950x3d. And we’ve known for a while now that the cache would only be on one CCD.
- Comment on What games did you complete in 2024? 4 months ago:
You guys are finishing games?
- Comment on Responsible Adults 5 months ago:
I drink my whiskey straight from the Klein bottle.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
A) Nope. You’re spreading FUD. Got a link?
B) I’m ignoring you. You’re talking gibberish.
B2) You’re still wrong and in over your head. Remember, the ask was for an out of box solution for full drive encryption, silently decrypted via TPM (using Secure Boot’s PCR 7) that still supports OS hibernation.
C) Wut?
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
A) You’ve said nothing relevant. We already knew all of this. Recall isn’t being installed or turned on on any of my Windows boxes. Copilot is dumb but it isn’t collecting any data you don’t voluntarily feed it.
B) I don’t disagree with whatever point you’re trying to make but it has nothing to do with Windows. Unless you know something we don’t?
B2) You’re lying
B3) What?!
C) You’re initiating searches through the Microsoft Windows Start Menu™ and are mad it’s launching Edge? Do I have that right?
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
A) None of that has actually happened. If you want to back down from hyperbole and provide specific examples, I will consider addressing them.
B) The U.S. Government is not an adversary in my threat model. If it is one in yours, I assume you are running Qubes OS, which is a completely different conversation. With Windows, I have access to Secure Boot and TPM-backed full drive encryption (including hibernation support) out of the box. Can you do that with Linux? Also, you know as well as everyone else here that the MSA requirement is easy to bypass.
C) Again, provide specifics. I don’t default any of my apps to Microsoft’s and this just doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
I’m sorry, I don’t get it. For what are we coping?
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
I should have mentioned that I still love Linux though…
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
So where do those of us who don’t think Windows is the literal worst OS ever fit into your analogy?
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
Yeah Win11 will probably be a noticeable performance hit on that. Especially Explorer which they made dog slow when adding tabs and the new context menu.
The Office apps and browser will probably be about the same.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
I’m running Windows 11 on a 12 year old X79 platform. Runs just fine.
But it was definitely top of the line in its day and 48GB of RAM keeps any system relatively snappy.
- Comment on No longer dating 6 months ago:
My wife doesn’t like it when I introduce her as my ex-girlfriend.
- Comment on ps2 graphics 6 months ago:
It only happens twice a year though.
- Comment on Most file types are just a renamed .zip 6 months ago:
You’re not missing much. A few modern file types are zips with expected folder structures, especially MSOffice files. But this is nowhere near universally true.
You can open a file in your text editor of choice and if you see it start with PK (for Phil Katz the creator of the format and the original PKZIP/PKUNZIP programs) then it’s really a zip.
Also, by the logic of the OP, all DLLs are EXEs.