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Mum. Since dad passed away early on 2024 I’ve been doing my best to care for her, but there’s only so much I can do.

There’s no simple explanation, no simple solution. I do what I can, putting both love and logic into every decision, but I am still worried about the future she has.

Agreed. Get them a ChromeOS device, or get a good refurb business class laptop and put ChromeOS flex on it.

Yes it’s not what OP is probably wanting, but this gives them a device that is hard to mess up with a minimum of training.

Because even if this was implemented, rich assholes will find ways around it.

That house? Oh it’s owned by an LLC that rents it from the company I own for $1a month, I then house sit as a second job for $1 a month.

That car? Same deal.

My internet, home phone, electricity, water, insurance and all other home expenses? Paid for by my company as part of WFH rules for executives.

I also have regular business meetings in Hawaii and other overseas locations for business purposes.

Yep, companies give “unlimited PTO” because it’s a way to actually reduce the amount of PTO employees take.

Give them 20 days PTO/year? They’ll take around 20 a year.

Give them unlimited PTO? They need to justify every bit of PTO, so probably only get to take 4 or 5 for important days.

Upside: not fired.

Downside: have to do work.

Upside: make money

Downside: not enough money

Make sure you get a reputable VPN to avoid issues with any “questionably acquired” content.

Honestly might be part of it, by going out of spec on the timestamps it probably let’s them more easily insert different length ads

Process sugar (diabeetus)

It does not whip the llamas ass.

Games need to live closer to the bleeding edge than a lot of other software.

Also, for wine/proton, and the other customisations built into the deck, it makes sense to pick a starting point that is more built for customisation. By that I mean there was probably less things they needed to add or remove at the start.

As mentioned, it’s also likely there was personal bias internally. But even that can be a valid reason as they need to be familiar/comfortable with the starting distro.

Not saying that Debian cannot do it, but doing it this way probably made valve’s employees lives easier.

CHANGE HIM!

FEED HIM!

SWADDLE HIM!

CHANGE HIM AGAIN!

AND AGAIN!

HOW DOES SUCH A SMALL BEING MAKE SO MUCH POOP?!

1. It runs in browsers
2. If you hate your co-workers, then they will also feel your pain.

Red pill. I have so many new ideas on how to ruin my life!

If you have a dynamic IP from your ISP, could be you got unlucky and were given a address previously used by attackers.

Or if you have a static IP on a VPS or similar, they may have had a lot of attacks from the IP Range.

By attacks in this instance I mean people setting up phishing or similar websites as the most common example. A simple web form, probably with obfuscated code. They then send a bunch of emails line "click here to view your invoice"and gather office 365 credentials.

While it’s not good that this kind of false positive happens from time to time, I am more thankful this kind of service exists. Yes, there’s privacy and security implications, but smart screen has stopped legitimate attacks at our clients before, and we force it enabled wherever possible.

Yes.

The purpose of multi factor authentication is that it requires multiple factors, that can be:

• what you know (password)
• what you have (yubikey, phone with authenticator app, etc)
• where you are (in the office vs at home)
• what device you’re on

These are the most common examples.

They should just call it the family wreath.

A sane firewall configuration should have no/minimal impact on a desktop focused OS.

On the other hand, sometimes programs are really badly made and expect stupid things like there being no firewall.

You should have one yes, but to each their own.

I manage a bunch of windows computers and regularly make adding firewall rules part of install scripts, good example: Dreamweaver.

I always think of it like this song: https://genius.com/Heidevolk-a-wolf-in-my-heart-lyrics

Except replace the word heart with ass.

There’s a wolf

In my ass

And it’s fighting to survive

Don’t be part of the problem. Be part of the solution! Start shopping for underwear at Victoria’s Secret, Honey Birdette, etc.

The only downside is occasionally not being sure who’s underwear is who’s. Also it might not fit guys as well, but that can be excused for the extra style.

The ad on the left is for gaming products, but the picture is for a hair eraser/exfoliator. The joke is that gamers are all uWu femboys.

I mean, a lot of us probably are, but there’s going to be a few that are outliers.

Then again, I like my legs being hair free, especially during summer, makes me feel cooler (but only temperature wise, I’m as awkward as all hell otherwise)