Linux is great when you have the opportunity to choose the right hardware upfront.

There’s a few things that are outright neglected.

ISPs often have SMTP relay servers. If you hook into that, your mail gets instant street cred.

Don’t get short with me, buddy!

Setting up fail2ban to block people trying to brute force the admin panel is a good start.

I was tempted by Arc. Intel drivers always “just worked”, but they are just slow. Arc didn’t address the problem like I’d hoped, and AMD really got their shit together in the last 5 years or so.

PlexAmp is an amazing bit of software for a phone. It doesn’t translate well to the desktop, but it’s still pretty good.

Your flacs will play lossless on wifi, and transcode to 128kbps opus on mobile. You can tweak those settings too.

Most smart TVs have a native plex app available too.

The Kirkland branding is everywhere. I see it at the Australian stores.

CUPS facing the public internet sounds a bit crazy. Why would you print when not physicly near the printer?

My company has a 6 month probation period. It also has a 6 month password expiry. Because of all the SSO nonsense, it’s quite possible for it to lapse without warning.

It’s now a running joke that get locked out on the last day of probation, and you’re expecting a call from HR any minute.

Linux.

I remember using Xiph’s integer implementation of Ogg Vorbis on my Nokia N-Gage (Symbian S60). I wonder if it’s not a priority for Opus. IIRC, Opus is floats all the way down.

update: it exists.

https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ#Is_there_a_fixed-point_implementation?

IPv6. Stop engineering IoT junk on single-stack IPv4, you dipshits.

Ogg Opus. It’s superior to everything in every way. It’s free and there is absolutely no reason to not support it. It blows my mind that MPEG 1.0 Layer III is still so dominant.

I love this standard. If you dig deeper into it, the standard also covers a way to express intervals and periods. E.g. “P1Y2M10DT2H30M” represents one year, 2 months, 10 days, 2 hours and 30 mins.

I recall once using the standard when writing a cron-style scheduler.

I also like the POSIX “seconds since 1970” standard, but I feel that should only be used in RAM when performing operations (time differences in timers etc.). It irks me when it’s used for serialising to text/JSON/XML/CSV.

Also: Does Excel recognise a full ISO8601 timestamp yet?

I know about that one. The 800MB “fix” for it has been crashing machines quite hard.

I don’t have that problem because I don’t run Windows.

Windows is shit.

IPv6 should not be disabled under any circumstances.

In fact, many devices in my house have IPv4 disabled. Disabling IPv4 on my public-facing SSH reduced the attack traffic to zero.

IPv4 is shit.

Public-facing: Password generator, stored in a password manager.

Internal LAN: Everything gets the same re-used, low-effort password.

Nobody is going to hack my CUPS server.

Wait. WINE is not an emulator?! Why didn’t anyone try to tell me? 😂

I play HD2 under proton. Even if there is a rootkit, it’s sandboxed.

Ahh. Approving every piece of software would make them… Apple.

You did say “driver”, and Microsoft typically approves every single driver on the majority of PCs.

What do you think WHQL is?

The problem with CrowdStrike’s solution is that they got csagent.sys driver signed by WHQL, and the driver will download p-code from the internet and execute it. This allows them to push out changes without waiting for Microsoft approval.

The biggest problem occurs when you don’t sanitize your inputs and someone accidentally uploads a blank file padded with zeroes. The driver dereferences a null value, and crashes your system. Hard.