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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • This is it. Exactly it. Internal IT management wants a good, centrally managed system to lock down and control corporate devices. Heck, corporations often even contract this task (and help desk) to management companies.

    Let’s assume the tools and the experts are there to perform these remote management shenanigans, after this it only comes to “money talks”. Don’t have to replace a 2-4yo laptop with a new one if the old one still performs fine for another 2-4 years. So then you have to weigh the cost of expertise against slower amortization.


    My company disabled VPN access for anything but macOS and Win11. Because even though the VPN we use is mandated to be used with a closed source app, and the app has a Linux version, the IT dudes couldn’t exit vim when asked to manually edit /etc/environment







  • dubyakay@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlShould I eat it and jump to win11?
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    3 days ago

    Whatever you do, don’t switch to the react start menu OS.

    Stay on win10 with an ltsc version, or don’t. Get a second SSD or your crotch goblins mom’s laptop that you install Fedora, LMDE or another “easy” distro on to experiment with. Either way, you are not in a rush. Win10 support ending is not as imminent.

    Honestly, at 1.5 months it’s hard. Really hard. But once you get the pattern down and sleep schedule starts stabilizing, say 4-6 months in, it may be your most productive time when you know the kid is asleep for the next few hours.

    This is how I’ve learned to solder and build mechanical keyboards during the first kid hitting that age# and ditched ms shit for Linux during the second. There’s always other challenges, but not having to deal with a user hostile OS reduces stress tremendously.







  • I was thinking about this being wrong. But then I realized that parents can still grant access to YT for their children. However the unattended restriction age should be lower imo.

    The problem is too many parents not supervising their children at all, and letting the algo make them go down in a truly despicable pile of shit of auto-play queues. My oldest one is six, and if I leave her alone on her tablet or the family room TV with YT, setting her on a path of kpop dance practice videos or some popular non-english kids show, if I check back half an hour later, sure enough the thematic changes from (likely with the help of recommended videos as well) to mindless marble/magnet builder videos, some yanky animated minecraft story or even worse.

    So now imagine a kid that gets no supervision at all, and an impressionable youth without critical thinking is seeking answers and then believes whatever they are told by a late millennial just saying bogus shit for the views.

    I am not sure what the right solution is, and this may not be it, but at least Australia is trying something. Let’s see how it works out.