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…you don’t have OOBM on every single networked device and terminal? Have you never heard of the buddy system?

You should probably start writing up an RFP. I’d suggest you also consider doubling up on the company issued phones per user.

If they already have an ATT phone, get them a Verizon one as well, or vice versa.

At my company we’re already way past that. We’re actually starting to import workers to provide human OOBM.

You don’t answer my call? I’ll just text the migrant worker we chained to your leg to flick your ear until you pick up.

Maybe that sounds extreme, but guess who’s company wasn’t impacted by the Crowdstrike outage.

There are probably more authoritative sources that have performed similar surveys or studies, but this was a recent one.

https://www.openlogic.com/blog/top-enterprise-linux-distributions

It was also the first relevant result that I clicked on, and it more or less lined up with my own anecdotal experiences working with a very diverse assortment of businesses, SMB through large enterprise.

If you don’t want to click on that link, or read through it, here is a graph with the results:

That’s a bold assumption for a global enterprise software company. Especially one that doesn’t exclusively target IaaS environments.

RHEL, Ubuntu, & Debian cover the vast majority of enterprise installs I imagine, and provide a solid testing base for developers in the Linux business software space.

Maybe you add Gentoo, some post-CentOS clones/forks, or other more niche industry/workload specific distros, but how you do skip Debian?

This isn’t a court of law, or the privatized forced mandatory arbitration that has mostly replaced it.

Out of curiosity, in your view, what has Google done to deserve the benefit of the doubt?

ISO certification does require a bit more effort than just the bare minimum necessary to legally advertise specific claims about a product.

That doesn’t mean all M-Disc manufacturing is immune to shitty business practices of a manufacturer, but they do have to meet certain manufacturing specifications.

Yes, they can choose to either NOT be a professional artist, or to work with Live Nation and Ticket Master.

It’s one, or the other.

Monopolies are the opposite of choice.

This is public record due to their financial reporting obligations as public company, but their password sharing crackdown resulted in not insignificant amounts of new subscribers.

Or at least, there was meaningful growth that occurred in time periods that aligned with those policies going into effect.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/business/netflix-password-sharing-results/index.html

Uh I’m pretty sure they offer trauma counseling to all those contractors.

I mean, sure, it’s from a sub-contracted provider, TraumaBots (powered by ChatGPT 3.5), but I’ve heard only 36% of TraumaBot’s patients end up killing themselves.

So… I’d call that a win/win.

Wait…you don’t audit every package and dependency before you compile and install?

That’s crazy risky my man.

Me? I know security and take it seriously, unlike some people here. I’m actually almost done with my audit and should be ready to finally boot Fedora 8 within the next 6-8 months.

I’ll wait for the financial analysts that I both trust, and I know hate Musk, before I have any confidence in answering that question.

But… my best uninformed guess is that it’s less fanboy worship, and more fear that Musk is the only thing propping up the insane stock valuation.

I’m assuming that Musk has a complex web of possibly illegal and highly engineered financial instruments that keep that stock pumping, or at least, not crashing - yet.

Maybe those who voted to approve might be aware, or involved, in that house of cards and believe removing Musk would be akin to blowing on it.

But I’m just pulling all of this out of my ass, so who knows…

It might be as simple as the majority of Tesla shareholders who voted to approve, including the institutional ones, are really just submental morons.

I don’t think they’re making a moral argument, but pointing out the reality of the situation as it stands.

This is a problem that can only be fixed through legislation and aggressive enforcement backed by large punitive actions.

Until that happens, it’s better to acknowledge and understand the reality of the situation, than to believe that a morally righteous condemnation will somehow unmake that reality.

It sucks. I agree with your philosophical stance, except for the payment for personal data, as I’d prefer a complete opt-out. However, none of that changes where we’re at right now.

I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:

“I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”

That’s somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.

lol.

Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

Customer pays

Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.

Every LG and Samsung major appliance I’ve had has broken within 5 years.

Refrigerators, washing machines, and dryers.

Prior, I only ever had 80s era American tank energy hogs. Switched back to American brands in the last few years, so too soon to tell if they’ll work out better…

Here’s to hoping.

Oh, and having dealt with LG warranty for both electronics and major appliances, I’ll never buy another LG product that isn’t a monitor.

LG monitors are the only higher end LG product’s I’ve owned that have survived well past the warranty date.

I maintain one baremetal Windows install that gets fairly regular use. It’s on a major OEM business class workstation with a legit Windows 10 pro license.

Recently, I had to wipe and reset and goddamn do they try and trick you into choosing all the worst spyware settings AND even if you successfully duck and weave past them, they’ll just cheat and enable them, or reinstall shit like co-pilot during an update.

They just made me sign into that shitty M365 app to install a legit subscription of Office, and on the next reboot, it converted the local user account into an online user account.

Make no mistake, Recall is going to be enabled by hook, or by crook, for the vast majority of Windows 11 users in due time. No matter how many times they disable it, or opt out.

Fumble what?

It’s a completely regulatory captured industry that makes the majority of its profit from being financially engineered gift card style quasi banking institutions via their milage program agreements.

This is just more cash off the top. Free $$$$.

I always setup my own new installs offline, with no Internet connected and assumed that the was the workaround this was referring to. Guess that’s my fault for not reading the article. I wasn’t even aware of the fake email bypass.

But my reasons were primarily because I wanted to disable as much telemetry as possible and tweak other settings before putting it on a network.