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Systems with exposed SSHd, but also properly configured, are also not at risk.

Install Ubuntu and be done. I’m able to print to my brother network printer with no special drivers. I installed a gnome tweaks package to do some minor tweaks in gnome, and I did rip out the Firefox snap thing to install Firefox from a package so I could use my kpxc plugin, but that’s the only major change I made. Hell, Dell (laptop) even provides firmware updates via the package manager so your bios gets updated properly. Best Linux desktop experience I’ve ever had over the past 5 years and I’ve been daily driving Ubuntu since 2004.

OS/2 was the first multitasking operating system I ever used. Ran my RemoteAcces BBS on it. I might have to do a site backup just to be nostalgic.

I was thinking more along the lines of Megasquirt, but for a printer.

We need a properly-open sourced printer at this point.

*company-town townsquare

Isn’t modern gaming great? Can’t run your own servers, you’re stuck using some spoonfed services by an authoritarian corporation who also forces you to lease the use of your network connection even after you have paid for Internet access. The people who came up with these grifts are truly genius because plebs eat it up.

It’s an entirely closed source, proprietary codebase, run by a for-profit company where you have little control over anything. These corporations don’t care about actual users and they will leave you high and dry. There is a reason people still use IRC - it’s open, easy to connect to and has been around for literal decades. Remember CompuServe? AOL? AIM? ICQ? Google Chat shutting it’s doors to xmpp? If so, you understand the pattern. It’s about walled gardens and blocking interoperability. The industry doesn’t need more of that. We are chatting on an open source link aggregation site because bean counters at Reddit decided to shut off APIs to existing apps arbitrarily.

The matrix stack solves most of those problems by providing an open source codebase and protocol, easy to connect to solution that is akin to Slack. I am fortunate enough to not have to use discord much beyond checking on a class schedule and downloading some sheet music, so I will never be a discord power user. Maybe some there is crazy awesome feature that discord provides that no open source platform does, but I have some serious doubts about that.

Matrix stack would be the 21st century equivalent. Discord is just another Skype - entirely a proprietary product that you don’t operate yourself. Fine for corporate use where people don’t care about longevity because it’s not their problem or interest, but trash for everything else.

Kotlin is the wave of the future. I still use Java, but I’m transitioning into using Kotlin for backend services. The devs are my work have been moving the app codebase to Kotlin for a couple of years (over a million lines) and it’s pretty nice. You reduce a lot of boilerplate and the code can be a bit more dense.

Good bot

Look into SoloKeys and NitroKeys and see if there’s products from those vendors that fit your needs.

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I remember using 2k for a long time, after the laughably unstable previews where mice would go crazy. I don’t remember exactly what the tool was called, but I was an MCSE back then and had the big binder of MS discs, so I would build my own windows ISOs with a bunch of the built in drivers stripped out and slip stream other packages like Firefox in. Would end up with core installs of only a few hundred MBs. Did the same with XP when it came out, but I started daily driving Ubuntu around 2004 and I left Windows behind for the most part with the exception of work.

I’m sure battery life is still better with Windows, but it’s not enough to make me want to go back to it, I’d probably pick up a Mac before that happens.

I thought the Muppets were creepy as hell but I LOVED watching the Muppet Babies. Thankfully all of the episodes were on Usenet.

LOL wasn’t ME sorry of a bolt on to 98? IIRC that was the most unstable version of Windows I had ever used. It actually forced me to explore Linux as a desktop seriously for the first time (and shit was jacked in 98-00). I seriously used NT4 as a desktop because it was the most stable version of Windows I could find at the time. Hard time playing games though.

They did have one but got rid of it because they didn’t want the hassle. They are olds and are more about convenience at this point.

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This person is not wrong. Still, I have f2b setup for ssh on all my externally available hosts, banning after the first login failure. When using pre shared keys in the server (with sshd configured, not using defaults) and an ssh config on the client that defines each host and key combo, it’s impossible to fail login, ever. I have never been burned by using this method and it’s been in place in all my hosts, starting many years ago.

I feel like a lot of sshd hardening tuts overlook client configuration. That is the piece that makes ssh very easy to work with from a user’s perspective.