Have you helped an older relative with computer problems over the phone?

If you could set the default, it wouldn’t be a problem.

They never left the Urals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovilikha_Plants

No, it’s in the Urals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovilikha_Plants

My biggest complaint is that it defaults to “recommended” instead of “library” which means for new users (family members you are trying to help remotely) don’t see the videos in your collection but instead a random unordered list to scroll sideways.

After you select library to see everything, it doesn’t save that view as default unless you go into settings and change it to remember changes.

A new annoying feature they added is when setting up a new account, the default is to send every video you watch to all friends/family unless you select disable. So you can’t even setup quickly by putting in a user/password and being ready to go. You have to talk family members through setup or everyone with access to your Plex will get email spammed with everything that person watched.

I have home videos on my server and this means lengthy phone calls to family so they can actually see the videos.

Yes, you take Moscow in 3 days like Kabul, then what? It has no military value.

How many will then die over the decades to road side bombs?

I hate jingoistic bullshit. 3days? How many years were we in Afghanistan?

Ukraine troops are battle hardened and have NATO tanks and weapons. They are holding on but territory changes are tiny. Modern war isn’t WW2 blitzkrieg.

Occupying Moscow is like occupying DC. The politicians will fly to safety and you are left occupying a city of low level administrative personnel and restaurants. Nothing of military value is manufactured in Moscow just like DC.

Plex will do anything other than make their player easy to use.

its choosing software components based on known security vulns

You don’t swap GUI’s on 1,000 corporate users every time a new exploit comes out. You don’t know which Window Manager or DE is more secure.

Besides the Window manager is rarely relevant to exploits the same as in Windows. DirtyCow, CVE-2024-1086, SSH, this entire list https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html?vendor_id=33 didn’t care which Window Manager you ran.

virtually no “average” linux user, then or now, ran/runs as root.

That’s because Linux users already know about computers. In 2003, at the time of XP Linux distro did not disable root. Root was the default during install. You then had to create your own non privileged accounts. In some distros that meant using useradd.

because of deep, baked-in design choices made by microsoft for windows XP

The exact design choices of Linux at the time.

You have a double standard.

running systems with non-monolithic desktops/interfaces

That’s security through obscurity. It’s not that Linux has better security, only that its already tiny desktop market share around 2003 was even smaller because of different variations.

MS to manage a technology transition more responsibly.

That’s again blaming the Microsoft user for not understanding computers but not blaming the Linux user for running as root.

I have freshly unearthed XP trauma to unload.

Where you tech support at a company?

security features that should have protected users and systems were routinely turned off to allow user space programs to function

So you blame Microsoft for allowing users to disable security features but don’t blame Linux for allowing it also?

if user space is allowed to make kernel space that vulnerable, then the system is broken.

Ssh has had bugs that give root on Linux. Does that mean Linux is broken too?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/new-open-ssh-vulnerability.html

It really wasn’t. Turn off services you don’t use, don’t run as admin and it was fine. Yes people would get viruses from running executables but that’s because Windows viruses were distributed widely because of market share. Linux wasn’t inherently more secure.

I tried the same thing. I had my daughter watch Spirited Away when she was maybe 6. It traumatized her. She was scared of us turning into pigs and being left alone.

XP before SP1 was a security nightmare

To be fair, Linux was a security nightmare before 2000 too. Linux didn’t have ACL’s until 2002.

with the user being the administrator

No one ran as administrator as default in a corporation, nor at home if you knew anything about computers. NT even suggested creating non privileged user accounts during setup.

Let’s only use it on x86.

It’s not like they didn’t try. When NT came out it was running on Mips, Alpha, PowerPC and Itanium. It wasn’t MS’s fault everything but x86 died. They tried more than anyone to support x86 alternatives. Now that ARM is capable of more than a PocketPC, they are on ARM.

Windows CE which did run on other devices and architectures, doesn’t use the NT kernel.

CE had extremely different requirements. The OS and Apps had to run in 2MB of RAM. NT shipped on many different CPUs.

Nice to see a pro NT article for a change but there are some details wrong

“It’s true that Unix has attempted to shoehorn other types of non-file objects into the file system”

‘Everything is a file’ was Unix’s design principle from the very start. It wasn’t shoehorned in. It is IMO superior to NT’s object system in that everything is exposed to the user as the file system rather than hidden behind programming api’s.

That is what needs to be repeated. Every conservative has forgotten that.

Angry lying Trump will appear and the press will say Trump won the debate because Harris was low energy.

No they aren’t. Only some are.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109523

Thanks for doing the summary for me!

The dictionary definition:

“software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another’s computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive.”

Just because a program tells you it’s collecting your data in the fine print doesn’t mean it’s not spyware.