OmltCat

joined 1 year ago
[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have alway been wondering who are actually drawing all these pictures.

That’s a awful lot of money to commission an artist to make all these shitposts.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Okay I am very confused… where are these characters from? Sorry for my ignorance.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s my point. Please take a look at group policy editor. You’ll be amazed how many settings are hidden from the settings app. And once it’s set there, it cannot be overridden by anything, INCLUDING UPDATES. You can even completely turn off automatic updates there and only update manually when you feel comfortable.

It’s meant to be a enterprise thing to lock down PCs. But on your own PC you are your own boss.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  1. With group policy you actually really need to do it once.

  2. I guess you didn’t read the next sentence of the one you quoted?

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I guess a better question to ask is: WHY do you want to switch to Linux. Is there a compelling yet specific reason. Abstract things like “better privacy” is not that valid for regular folks. You can tweak enough things in windows with group policy/registry to make it just okay. Surely it’s not out of the box but you only need to do it once, and I imagine this will only take a fraction of the time you would otherwise spend troubleshooting Linux.

If there are specific Linux things you need to run, why not use your server or even WSL?

As much as I love Linux, my main gaming/video production PC will always be windows.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s 12V so I guess you can Frankenstein something with a car battery. But honestly this sounds more like a LTT video than something I would trust not to burn my house down.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep I’m looking at system76. Not sure about how valid the 14h battery life claim is though. That seems awfully optimistic on a 10-core Intel chip.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some addition power management tools I suppose?

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s new info for me thanks. Never knew thinkpad can excel in this department.

 

I will need to get a laptop in the foreseeable future, and I really want to stick to Linux. However, I may need to be out-of-home for 12+ hours straight in a day. After some research, it seems people are generally not that impressed with battery life on Linux?

The laptop does not need to do anything heavy duty, as I will remote back into my already very beefy desktop back home.

I guess a common solution to this light use case is M2 MacBook if one wants to completely throw battery concern out of the window. Well... let's just say it's a love-hate relationship.

[–] OmltCat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Things you mentioned about windows before “etc” can actually be disabled through group policy or other means. It’s an annoyance nonetheless. But after ~30 minutes of tweaking after a new install, windows is not that bad these days.

Anyway, if I don’t play games I’ll probably be Linux all the way. Most things today are web based anyway.

But how is gaming on Linux nowadays, if you may elaborate? I have top of the line hardwares but the games I play easily max out their usage. I know there are things like translation layer, but I’m afraid the performance hit may be not ideal…

 

I see a lot of people here uses some form of remote access tool (VPN/Tailscale) to access their home network when not at home. I can’t really do this because my phone (iOS) can only activate one VPN profile at a time, and I often need this for other stuff.

So I chose to expose most web based services on the public internet, behind Authelia. But I don’t know how safe this is.

What I’m really unsure are things like Vaultwarden: while the web interface is protected by Authelia (even use 2FA), its API address needs to be bypassed for direct access, otherwise the mobile APP won’t work. It feels like this is negative everything I’ve done so far.

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