It's not just the Office Suite, although those are very important, it's running the Line Of Business app that was written a decade ago or professional tools like MATLAB or Crystal Reports

This also discounts the abilities of ActiveDirectory, unless you're running Chromebooks nothing comes close to the orchestration power of AD.

I think the bigger issue would be keeping these machines disconnected from the internet. No need for patches if it's an isolated system running DOS.

I like Linux as much as the next guy but I'm not sure how you can work in a corporate environment and expect the day-to-day to function without running Windows on end user machines.

I wouldn't paint Windows 10 as being "old" because it was originally released in 2015. It's been getting monthly patches since then and it'll continue being supported for 5+ years.

I really wouldn't blame this on windows. A third party kernel driver that can get remote updates without rigorous levels of testing is just a recipe for disaster. You could maybe make the case Microsoft should limit kernel level drivers to the level macOS does, but Linux sure doesn't so it's a moot point.

are you taking advantage of that fact then?

Yup VOO/VTI for me

I feel like it's hitting a bees nest but I kinda still don't see the harm in making a variable block size - on paper. I get that it's a linear solution to an exponential problem ("blockchains don't scale") but playing guessing games with unpredictably high fees is one of my least favorite things about BTC- I feel like it could still alleviate it even if it doesn't solve it.

Granted the best argument I've heard against any huge change like this is you will have an effect on the value of bitcoin so you're better off doing nothing (the value of Bitcoin is partially due to it's unchanging nature). Seems like a great idea as a store of value, I'm not sure if that's a winning stance for a technology.

I generally don't only use code that shares my exact ideology. I like free software because anyone can use it and ignore the creators personal opinions.

I'm not positive but i don't think those would prevent downstream use or simply avoiding contributing back upstream.

People push trades a lot but i hear a lot of complaints from friends how the "old guard" keeps new comers out to keep wages high. If you can break in it can be lucrative but i can't tell you how many of my younger friends end up going to other fields because of poor or non-existent on-boarding practices. God forbid if you're a woman too, I don't want to be woke but a lot of the people in trades aren't exactly egalitarians.

I don't think this should keep you from the wonderful ideas of NixOS. I believe most of the activist members have forked it.

I help run the slides at my church so my mornings are early and busy but after lunch it's nap time 😴 Saturday is my fun day usually, I like hanging out with my local friends that day.

Yeah it was awful, I feel bad it's a face of Bitcoin for some people.

A pro move for "cash to BTC" is to use CashApp - you can deposit under $500 cash (iirc?) for a $1 charge into your CashApp account at places like Walgreens or Sheetz. Then you just swap to Lightning in CashApp!

I wouldn't wish using a Bitcoin ATM on my worst enemy.

We got one nearby and i figured I'd throw $40 into it having never used it before. According to the receipt market price was $60,171 at the time (4/30/24 at 5:20pm EDT) and they charged me 81,625.05 plus a $3 service charge 🤯 so that's over 40% of my $40 in fees alone, complete ripoff.

I’m not a cryptographer but my understanding is your actual bitcoin private key is 128-bits. So using a 24 word phrase that generates a 128-bit key anyway is unnecessary complexity.

The key you’re going to use is 128-bit.

Lot of people are using this as an indictment against Windows. The fact is code will have bugs and vulnerabilities, even the most defensively coded Rust code.

The important thing is having a good software cycle where you can address these vulnerabilities swiftly and effectively. Linux does not have some security silver bullet under its sleeve and needs to be treated with as much due diligence as Windows- because it’s code all the same.

I’m not the poster, but I actually do enjoy PowerShell. I’m mostly a Linux admin but I could totally see a shop where they orchestrate all systems with PowerShell.

I love fish because it does everything for me out of the box.

I enjoy zsh if you absolutely need bash compatibility (I recommend just calling bash directly though) but I don’t like relying on third-party plugins like oh-my-zsh for something as essential and high security as the shell.