my employer gave us macbook pros' to work on and it so much spyware/malware that it made my router go off like xmas lights; so i setup a linux vm using kvm/qemu on my own hardware and retired the macbook.
i now fully expect my employer to somehow force a return to the macbook; but i've already returned it to the company so they're going to have to buy me a new one when they do so.
the windows driver allows for full wifi-6/7 speeds in ap mode and is the only way, afaik, to get it with intel cards
there are other efforts to backwards engineer or hack the changes that disables higher speeds in ap mode for linux; but none worked when i tried about 10-ish months ago. i tired these ones:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/wifi-6-gets-134-gbps-on-raspberry-pi-cm4 https://gist.github.com/iffa/290b1b83b17f51355c63a97df7c1cc60 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1163145/intel-wireless-iwlwifi-ubuntu-19-04-slow-upload-speed-but-only-on-certain-wi/1163146#1163146
and if you don't have a windows key like me, do yourself a favor and create a windows image instead of a vm and keep re-using it to get around the windows validation setup timeout after 30 days. (i didn't realize this until after the fact so i had to create a work around with ansible to stop/copy/paste/launch the vm every 30 days)
i have a single box i use for data storage; backup; wifi; router; and switch.
it runs ubuntu on the bare iron with
topographically, it looks like this, but in reality it's all one box:
┌────┐ ┌─────────────┐
┌───────────────────┤vpn │ ┌──────────────────┤windows (wifi│
▼ └────┘ │ └─────────────┘
┌──────────┐ │
│ internet │ │
└──────────┘ ▼ ┌───────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌───────────┐
▲ ┌─────────┐ │ubuntu │◄───────┤switch│◄─────┤ backups │
└────────────────┤ pfsense │◄─────────────────┴───────┘ └──────┘ └───────────┘
└─────────┘
it depends on what you mean by "corporate space"
end users of any type don't use linux because of a mixture because that's what they're used to using; but end users can't do shit w/o the service backbones which are dominated by linux and depended upon by end users.
fwiw: you do get to hear a little bit of ferengi in this episode, before they get their translators fixed
You weren’t hoping that Secure Boot saves your ass, were you?
i wonder if containerized firefox (eg snap/flatpak) will
checkout out the treball channel on youtube; they did an entire one hour episode on the differences. tldr: they're all extremely minor and there's lots of them.
i always felt that one of the awesome things about the show was how ftl was considered antiquated technology and that, besides the military, only the older and the nicer ships had them; while the newer and much more common average ships didn't
something about a society that is both capable of traveling through the stars and has collectively forgotten where it had originated from in the galaxy; but widely considers both unimportant is super fascinating to me.
Holy fuck Culber… Hot damn.
i almost ran into the actor in new york back in 2008 on my bike while crossing the roosevelt bridge because he was shirtless and i was too busy staring at his very prominent pecs to watch where i was going; so agreed, he could definitely get it. lol
i think he looked back at me too; but i suspect it was to wonder wtf was wrong with the fat guy on the bike. lol
i started using kde once personal computers became beefy enough to handle it well around 2002 but switched to gnome because gnome felt more polished at the time and i recently switched back and, you're right, the customize-ability is impressive after using gnome for the last 15-ish years.
it's also daunting/frustrating at times too.
i like that contemporary a & b list actors are joining star trek in the last few years whereas before it was really uncommon.
is it just my memory playing tricks on me?