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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Example from Networking Hardware:

  Cisco has had multiple cases where they likely built exploits for Government spyware into their devices. And they have far to many vulnerabilities which are found. This leaves two options: Either their security is so bad that intelligence always has backdoors ready and governments shouldn’t use them, or at least some are backdoors built in accordance to NSA demands and goverments shouldn’t use them. thehackernews.com/2016/08/nsa-hack-exploit.html?m…

  On the other hand Huawei, far less security issues, even offered to open their code for checking of backdoors and to let goverments check all updates. They are shunned by western governments and partially even banned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is handled in the modem Firmware. Linux just has to supply “User has dialed number x, go into emergency mode” and then route the audio.

  This is solved for all Linux phones as far as I know. From Openmoko over N900 till Librem 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ivanti Connect Secure VPN

  So its spreading via a closed source VPN software. Why should you even use that when there is great VPN software available on Linux which work reliable for decades?

  Well of course you miss zero trust connections, multi-cloud readiness, award‑winning security and proven secure corporate access …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is, they already did. 99% of webservers run Linux. They are all out in the open and hackers love to get their hand on them as they are likely to have mailservers on them and they have a public IP so they can always be reached.

  And most of them do not get hacked. And those that do mostly get hacked due to bad passwords or bad website code. I administer one and see the thousands of attacks running up against it daily (most are just attempts to log in with basic credentials). And of course I see the daily influx of updates from Linux.

  If a new security flaw is seen, its often quite difficult to use. And with Linux somebody makes a patch before simple tool for hackers are out. With Microsoft products you wait till the next patch day, in the best case critical exploited bugs are patched in days. Also security flaws in closed source products are often easier to exploit and tools to use them are available fast. (Such flaws are often already discovered in open source products by third eyes and testers before they make it to production systems.)

  Of course there are exceptions to the rule, like heartbleed. This was an easy to exploit flaw in an often used Linux service and it caused a big turmoil because many where to slow to patch their systems.

  Also of course if Linux gets more popular on the desktop more software will be an attractive target for malicious actors and some software may get popular before many people take a look at the source code. But the situation will still be much better compared to closed source systems.

  (Also of course more closed source software will be made for Linux then)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An SSD really is the solution. You believe it just speeds up boot time, but it does speed up nearly everything else too.

  Your Webpage? Your Browser loads it, stores new data into the cache and stalls while waiting for the HDD. Or it knows elements are in the cache and stalls waiting for them.

  You click on the application menu? You PC tries to load 20 icons, tiny amounts of data an SSD has ready in a microsecond. Your HDD takes a full second because the seek between the 20 places where the icons are on the HDD takes so long.

  I have some very old PCs I manage (mainly for relatives) and one couple uses a Core 2 Duo E6400 which should be quite similar to your PC. This PC is very usable for daily browsing with Ubuntu 22.04, boot time is about 25 seconds, then about 10 seconds to load up ebay. (I admit I optimized boot time quite a bit) The other PC they have is even slower than that, I just do not remember the exact CPU right now. That one is even used for old browser games similar to candy crush.

  Of course it is not what I would use given the choice. I want to compile code in seconds, watch videos in glorious 4k and play a 3D game from time to time. But for them it works perfectly well, so well that they deny my offers to upgrade them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had great experiences with old games on Linux. Mostly they work better than on a modern Windows system. For Example Neverwinter Nights 2. Under Windows movement is jittery on fast CPUs. There is a community patch for that thankfully. Under Linux it just works with WINE (the patch is advisable for other reasons there too). Also loading times are blazingly fast under WINE and Linux. On my HDD PC 1 second vs 50 on Windows. Now with a NVME SSD, Windows also only takes 2 seconds.

  Of course Wine/Proton is not perfect, I still have a dualboot system for that. But I boot to Windows very rarely these days. When I do I am hit with so many slow updates, that I don’t get to my game. Maybe I should stop doing them and cut of its network access.

  Really old games tend to be more difficult. For a relative I set up a VM with Win98 as the performance impact won’t hurt the games, some even benefit. (I believe the games where Safecracker and Theme Park) Even older than that DosBox and ScummVM work perfectly.