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Why don't you trust your macs since 2014. Also why do you still use them if you don't trust them any longer?
Work only allows Mac or Win to log in to their VPN.
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On Linux there is OpenSnitch that does its job nicely, although I experienced some occasional desktop slowdowns even after training it to open everything for trusted programs. https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch I still recall the old days of Windows when I tried Kerio Personal Firewall and realized how much software already phoned home two decades ago. That was the last wake up call that pushed me into getting…
Keep in mind, OpenSnitch is Linux-based and none of Linux firewalls can filter incoming packets by process ID like macOS/FreeBSD (Lil'Snitch) can.
But does it have any sense? Usually you block inbound connections, allowing only certain services. If a rogue process starts listening on a local port, you could display a warning alert, and as inbound connections are already blocked you'd be safe (as long as you trust netfilter...) and you wouldn't need to ask the user to perform an action.
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the bar to drive in Germany is significantly higher than in the united states. Requirements for getting a drivers license in America is ridiculously lenient because the American lifestyle is completely car centric. taking someone's license away is tantamount to sentencing someone to poverty.
I think the other possible effect is the maintenance construction work in the Autobahn, which can create an upper speed limit anyway. Also, only about 70% have no speed limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn (ctrl+f "No speed limit" for a nice table)
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> is like driving 60 mph on a road with no lane dividers That’s somewhat funny, because a Landesstraße in Germany has no lane dividers and the speed limit is 100 km/h (about 60 mp/h). Unless I’m misunderstanding and lane dividers mean the printed lines.
Not so funny considering that more than half of fatal car accidents in Germany happen on exactly those streets (744 in 2021). Followed by Bundesstraßen (606 in 2021), which only sometimes have dividers and are usually limited to 100 km/h as well. In compare, on the Autobahn, which always has dividers but often has no speed limit at all and is not below 100 km/h under normal circumstances there were "only" 318 deaths.…
In many cases the roads are also used by cyclists or agricultural vehicles which many drivers feel compelled to overtake, which can be dangerous because of limited vision and the need to switch onto a lane that may contain oncoming traffic.
Compared to the Autobahn, Landstraßen are chaotic and often dangerous, not just for the people driving on it.
What I want is Little Snitch on steroids built into the OS where every process, including all native ones, including UI apps, are blocked from network connectivity by default, and the user gets an easy monitor of outgoing traffic with TLS/SSL inspection built in (you'd need some OS API to enable that). Kind of like granular oauth permissions, apps should have to declare which outgoing they have, a description/why, an…
I tend to just mitm said talkative devices and drop packets -- it is alarming the amount they want to phone home.
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The speed limit and the speed you should be driving are different though
Depends. In Germany we try to set the speed limit at the speed you should be driving in clear and dry (or slightly wet) conditions. In Sweden in the other hand I've seen roads where no sane person should be going the posted speed limit
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Depends. In Germany we try to set the speed limit at the speed you should be driving in clear and dry (or slightly wet) conditions. In Sweden in the other hand I've seen roads where no sane person should be going the posted speed limit
In UK there's basically single track roads that have a speed limit of 60mph, and you'd be crazy to use them at more than 30mph most of the time.
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Joking aside I think we are getting close, Photon did a lot to bridge with Windows in terms of gaming, GUI is often times at least on par with Windows/MacOS, if not better (obviously thats subjective), and reliability/performance has already been there for a while. That being said, I still think theres more work to do, and arguably the hardest work is ahead.
Proton, not Photon. :) It's true though. The Steam Deck is amazing, most games just work. I agree that the GUI part is subjective. I find even the jankiest of Linux DEs to be better than Windows 10 and 11. I still find macOS quite superior, and the one area where this is not going to change any time soon is the cohesion of UI/UX between different apps and the OS. Performance is unbeatable on Linux. Reliability depend…
Cohesion is without a doubt better on MacOS, though again linux is getting closer. A small thing I wish I didn't notice as much as I did is the "top bar" on not-so-well built electron apps. Apps like VSCode and Electron handle this really well, but others don't (Simplenote is the only one that comes to mind). On Windows, this results in a really very striking white top bar, fine if you use a light theme, not so much for dark theme. On linux, or at least gnome, the top bar (whilst being a bit too big for my liking) much more seamlessly integrates with the rest of the OS.
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Joking aside I think we are getting close, Photon did a lot to bridge with Windows in terms of gaming, GUI is often times at least on par with Windows/MacOS, if not better (obviously thats subjective), and reliability/performance has already been there for a while. That being said, I still think theres more work to do, and arguably the hardest work is ahead.
Linux is on par with Windows kind of but not really. It's a little ghetto For example, desktop environments are just wonky and buggy most the time, random games don't work, WINE is the worst piece of software on the planet, drivers suck, other random weird issues.
Of course it depends on the DE ou're using, but I'd encourage you to give it another shot. This was certainly the case at one time, but I tried Fedora earlier this year and was shocked by how stable the UX is. Not even in the "wow, this is nowhere near as buggy as it used to be" way. I can't speak for all distros, and I do know some which are less than perfect, but Fedora at least was certainly an eye-opener.
> random games don't work, WINE is the worst piece of software on the planet, drivers suck
I get why you, as the end user, wouldn't care about excuses, but to be fair none of these are entirely the fault of linux because they're trying to get things to work that the original developer didn't intend to run on linux.
It'd be like blaming Microsoft for MacOS apps not working on Windows, or visa versa. Again, as the end user thats not really your problem, if you need to run a piece of software and the OS doesn't run it, it doesn't really matter why, but I don't think this is an example of buggy software on the side of linux devs.
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Why don't you trust your macs since 2014. Also why do you still use them if you don't trust them any longer?
Not OP, but for me the answer to your question is: is a tool I need. I _could_ use Windows, and absolutely not Linux/BSD (for the programs/tools I need for work), and, frankly, I don't think Windows is better. Yes, I know that's not completely true. I _could_ use Linux (I even used Solaris on a notebook for 2 years in the past and I survived) but the cost in terms of effort, lost productivity would be higher than I'm…
Are you sure of this? Wine (or Proton for graphics stuff) is pretty good.