Grey area, user chose to store the private bitlocker key to their online Microsoft acct, it’s optional. It’s still a dirtbag move, but probably less illegal.

Yup, I know just where that happens. It’s probably a joy to work in your IT. They probably have a keyboard macro for “no”

Not accounting for any interesting custom choices you made under the hood, the default file browser for both os’s use libfuse3 for MTP. My point is, it shouldn’t have crashed, there are open issues in libfuse3 for possible crashes, so you might just have hit one at the wrong time, but at that, it REALLY shouldn’t have f’d over your journaling filesystem enough to keep you from logging in. A breaking read/write to fuse should not have been able to f your journal over beyond a simple automatic recovery. Most of the design choices in Linux over the last decade have been made specifically to prevent that kind of thing from happening on a healthy system. One can argue that one distro is more stable than another because they take, or refuse to take newer packages, but for your specific issue, they use the same piece of software under the hood.

The wipe and new OS might have just moved the problems to a less visible area.

My primary anger with Wayland is the security issues that broke AHK that they’re just now considering. There’s been lots of finger pointing over the years, but now that most OS’s are ditching X11 support all together, we’re going to see a lot more compatibility coming in the next year or two.

I like to know when a package arrives, and when someone has stolen it.

Doorbell cams are just too convenient. You already have power there. There’s footage and audio.

Of course, I’m technically inclined…

Ubiquiti offers a product that will do that out of the box

1. You need to host a controller for it. It needs the Protect platform to interface with. You can host that for free.
2. The hardware is fine.
3. The included app is marginal
4. it supports onifv and can be added to blue-iris or frigate.

It would be kinda cool if you could submit dashcam footage of people cutting people off and blowing down the road at 3x the speed and have their insurance company see it though.

There’s probably already 10-15 linux computers in your car.

You could, but you’re better off just making an insert for a tablet. It has music, GPS, cell service optional, easily replacable.

So, OnStar, for decades now, has had cellular activity whether you were paying for it or not. They just used to be careful about not selling data. But even if the user didn’t pay and the manufacturer didn’t sell, those models are trackable by ISP.

It’s too much to say the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but he’s on of the handful actually speaking up and the one with the most chips on the table.

And everyone telling dear reader to change distros is doing it from a position of ignorance.

Even the least reliable of those distros should not be seeing anything but the keymap issue. MTP crash, unable to login afterward, That reeks of ram/disk issues.

Time->TLS errors aren’t handled well anywhere.

As critical as they are to 2fa and TLS, you’d think every OS out there would poke around a few time servers and scream bloody murder if the time was off.

Honestly, I think we, as a society, have leaned a little too hard into time as a precise critical failure point. It’s fine for things like GPS that actually require it. but our clocks don’t need to be precisely the same to tell how recent a request and response are and we can certainly make better hashing algos

Oddly enough, giving the general public exact error messages ends up costing you in support and reputation.

They obscure the messages because the inexperienced masses start digging up red herrings. Knowledge to someone with zero experience causes a lot of confusion.

The experienced and capable users look up the codes and think about it for a minute, check their vpn, maybe a health dashboard, maybe reboot.

Just about every complex machine out there give error codes instad of real messages, even when they have large displays capable of telling you exactly what the condition is.

yeah, back when I was maining windows, I went through a lot of trouble to install non-store versions.

Of course, some places lock down their employees too much for them to do that

Don’t be too mean, but make sure your admin feels the heat.

Linux is good enough for the desktop for a fuckton of businesses. gentle pressure may get us there in a generatiohn or two

They’re preparing to rent people desktop access over the internet. Gotta trim up that you don’t own shit store code.

That combination of errors sounds suspiciously like hardware problems.

MTP crash, unexpected but not overly so, it’s old code. Authentication issues post reboot on error is super sus.

Wayland can be a little slow, but it seems to be ok for all of my ancient candidates. Keymaps kind of expected, that’s the kind of stuff that wayland is actually not great at yet.

Put that all together, I’d say you have something going on with the box.

how about a $20 development license!

Consumers notice when their electronics double in price. The news will tell them it’s becaus of AI

Acceptance: It will be reduced to what it does well and priced high enough so it doesn’t compete with equivalent human output. Tons of useless hardware will flood the market, china will buy it back and make cheap video cards from the used memory.