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Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by GiorgioG »

redshirtrob wrote: post #201
GiorgioG wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried running Pop OS for the last 3 weeks on my desktop machine. It's got 90% of the polish I expect from a UI/IX - which I can live with. I sadly switched back to Windows yesterday because I couldn't solve the following problem: I use Remote Desktop to get into my work machine - I have a 4K monitor and I couldn't get the scaling to work the way I expected with Remmina or freerdp clients. I had hidpi scaling enable…

Disclaimer: I know nothing about Windows or RDP. I was just on a developer group call the other day where another developer from another organization was having weird scaling issues RDPing into the vendor's sandbox. The solution was to adjust some buried registry setting on the remote machine, not fiddle with the local machine. Unfortunately I paid little attention to the details as I rarely RDP and when I do I can t…

I've tried fiddling with host and remote, was unable to get a satisfactory result.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by Terretta »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #182
Terretta wrote: post #148

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> Is it really as bad as you make it out to be? Yes. > my 38" monitor ain't retina … perfectly happy Put another way, either you are not visually discerning or your bar is lower. // Since “FHD” laptops, and monitors

I think you misunderstood me. I've actually worked in print. I've written and typeset more books than I can count using professional DTP software (and LaTeX too). I know a thing or two about fonts. I do not expect a non-retina display to display fonts as beautifully as a retina display, just to make things clear. What I'm saying is that fonts under Linux aren't bad to the point of being uncomfortable. And just to mak…

Since you bring it up, my second sysadmin gig was head of systems for a printing company, late 80s - early 90s, where I brought them into the digital typesetting era. So I also know more than a thing or two about fonts.

But I suspect you bringing it up, and me responding to it, doesn’t make either position more authoritative. And given “I’ve written more books than I can count” it could be your discernment of numbers or bar for objectively counting things is lower. ;-)

About retina vs. non retina, I’d argue font rendering algos matter more the less resolution they’re working with, so are even more important on non-retina displays. I’d further argue MacOS regressed on this by killing off sub-pixel rendering in Mojave, effectively dropping support for non-retina.

On low quality displays, Windows and Linux could/should look better than MacOS. When they don’t, they’re “doing it wrong”.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by peter_retief »

ace_hunter wrote: post #119
neilalexander wrote: post #102

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That's obvious. It's much less expensive to buy a Windows PC than a Mac. Linux on the desktop is still quite terrible in a number of ways (particularly if you are ever unfortunate enough to deal with drivers and kernel modules for your slightly uncommon hardware). Chromebooks still don't rate that highly and haven't really entered the public consciousness as a result. Not to mention that many people are using Windows…

I am surprised people on hackernews are still regurgitating talking points from 20 years ago - Linux on Desktop is quite terrible ? When was the last time you used Linux .. I have been using Linux systems from the past 10-15 years and they have been my daily driver for almost everything - and I live on my computer. Never have I faced any issue that can't easily be solved. (If at all there were issues)

FreeBSD is also an option. MS desktop is almost unusable, bloated slow and clunky. (I have an MS boot) I imagine people are just used to it, it really is terrible

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by peter_retief »

neilalexander wrote: post #102
peter_retief wrote: post #89

Why do people still use Microsoft is a great mystery to me.

That's obvious. It's much less expensive to buy a Windows PC than a Mac. Linux on the desktop is still quite terrible in a number of ways (particularly if you are ever unfortunate enough to deal with drivers and kernel modules for your slightly uncommon hardware). Chromebooks still don't rate that highly and haven't really entered the public consciousness as a result. Not to mention that many people are using Windows…

You are saying why people are stuck in MS, not choosing it.

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Post by grishka »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #207
grishka wrote: post #174

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As long as signature enforcement in BIOS can be disabled, everything is possible. And it will always be possible to disable it because otherwise someone would sue the hell out of Microsoft, OEM, or both, for not being able to run Linux or other competing OS on a PC they bought.

Given we have one win for a 1000 fails with big companies, and that they clearly don't pay much consequences for their bad actions but benefit a lot from it, I doubt it. Espacially if this becomes state mendated for national security reasons. Indeed, have you seen anyone been sued for the PRISM program? In fact, it's already happening: have you seen a lot of things modified in iOS lately? It's super hard, so few peop…

> have you seen a lot of things modified in iOS lately?

There's an unpatchable bootrom exploit in all devices up to and including the iPhone X. But yes, I agree with your sentiment.

Though one thing to keep in mind: phones and tablets are content-consumption devices and they have historically been locked down for about as long as they existed. Computers are productivity devices. You may want to multi-boot 10 different operating systems for very practical reasons and no one should prevent you from doing that. Manufacturers understand this. Even the Apple M1 is capable of booting arbitrary, unsigned OSes, despite being a direct descendant of the same line of locked-down SoCs used in iPhones and iPads.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by pixl97 »

jve wrote: post #16
tmdh wrote: post #3

Is there any way to block connection to these sites with DNS or something?

You don't want to block all of that. CLR checking (else your apps may become slow to start) and windows updates (else you may become vulnerable) should be enabled. Someone else has some suggestions?

Having CRL/OCSP getting blocked on corporate networks is one of those things I have to commonly troubleshoot. You can get some weird timeouts and failures in applications that can be fun.

For example an internal app starts up fine and works, but then can't connect to github. Instead of showing cert errors, I've had ones show errors that make it appear that you may have a DNS problem or that the connection to github itself was broken.

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Post by jerrygoyal »

danieldevries wrote: post #35

Sending telemetry data at all without real consent (ie not some ultimatum) is scary. Windows is not a daily driver OS.

IRL it's a daily driver (most used desktop OS). I suspect due to affordability (w.r.t. mac), ecosystem (plethora of apps), and good UX (wrt linux).

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by ridgered4 »

Avamander wrote: post #170
RajT88 wrote: post #135

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In 2022, nobody should have a 3mb hosts file. This is not the way...

Unfortunately running your own DNS isn't an option in every context. Not to mention, 3MB is nothing, it shouldn't struggle with that.

Is blocking on a DNS level even sufficient? I'd imagine there are hard coded fall back IPs involved at least sometimes.
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