My computer would often have trouble connecting to WiFi on Windows 11, literally to the point that the WiFi option wasn't showing up at all. I switched that computer to Linux late December and I have not had that problem yet.
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I never thought there'd come a day where I'd read this statement
My Windows (10) broke Bluetooth in an update over two years ago and the situation has not changed. Never had a problem with Linux on the same machine (dual boot).
If "it just works" was ever true on Windows, those days are behind us.
NoooOooo, regular users don't have time for... Less technical issues! /s
Getting certain programs to work on my Linux machine does take extra time as opposed to if it were Windows, but it's counterbalanced by all those times I'd have to look up how to get the WiFi option back and try every single thing on the list because it was never just one simple solution that worked each time… also I don't get hit by unwanted forced updates, and now I update voluntarily without fear of even more unwanted telemetry being stuffed in there.
But if I just wanted to browse the web, check my email, shop, and do my banking, Linux would work out of the box better than Windows 11.
Did you try sfc.exe /scannow?
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Yeah I agree. There are trade-offs but the number of issues I have on windows is far from zero, and like you said, a lot of the issues I do have in linux only happen when I opt into doing more advanced things. Normal computer stuff, once Linux and a browser is installed? Easier on a daily basis. Some Linux installers are easier than the windows installer too
Pff it's not like Linux has perfect WiFi either. I set my WiFi to auto connect to a VPN, and then delete the VPN later. That caused WiFi to always fail with no error messages except some incomprehensible deauth message in dmesg! Good luck figuring that out.
In the long time before now, we had many problems with wi-fi. Now we don't speak the word. Ethernet cable is the only way for connectivity.
I recently drilled a hole through 21cm reinforced concrete, just to avoid wi-fi.
i mean if you have that much concrete between you and the isp line you kinda have no choice
Sounds like every perfectly normal load-bearing wall I have ever seen...
Microsoft is in talks to buy Tik Tok and thereby make is so uncool it fails, so windows isn't all bad.
Linux>Windows10>Windows11
I started making a joke site https://windowsupgra.de/ (hosted on codeberg using codeberg pages). The goal is to make it look like some amazing way to upgrade Windows and actually install Linux. Like those product or marketing pages selling you something.
It's completely rough, but if someone with UI experience could spiffy that up, feel free to make a PR with screenshots. Don't forget, codeberg doesn't have a CI. So at the moment, deployment is literally copying src/ to another folder where the pages branch is checked out, committing, and pushing it.
Connect to your VPN before opening peertube.
Why?
Genuine question. I haven't really used peertube.
Your IP gets exposed to others since it has a p2p feature to share the bandwidth of the video with others.
Makes sense, thanks
That's true for a lot of services. Your IP address doesn't really matter much. P2P is way better for performance.
What are people going to do with your IP? The worst they can do is do a Geo lookup. However it doesn't matter.
I could scan your network for vulnerabilities.
I could anyway but knowing a target used a service like peertube increases the odds of unpatched hardware or self hosted services in my experience.
If you’re using an older router you probably have a problem due to unpatched vulnerabilities.
If you self host you might have a problem, as many package maintainers and developers lag a bit behind security patches.
A good VPN provider will also block unusual ports.
You are welcome to scan my public IP. There are bots scanning it every few seconds. If there was a vulnerability it would be exploited in the matter of a few minutes.
Also, you have no way of knowing who is behind a website. That's why web browsers have strong security mechanisms. It is by necessity.
VPNs do very little. However, VPN companies want to keep up the fear mongering to make money.
If there was a vulnerability it would be exploited in the matter of a few minutes.
Around 10 minutes for an unpatched XP box with no firewall.
Much longer for obscure vulnerabilities in routers or more difficult to exploit vulns in hosted software.
It is also possible for vulnerabilities in peertube itself to exist, which will be an issue regardless of VPN use.
VPN's have zero impact on that
That depends on whether they are port blocking as I said.
Why wouldn't you port block on your Firewall? For that matter, why do you have any ports exposed to begin with.
Like I said, people doing self hosting, they often open up ports for those services and management ports.
Some routers have backdoors built in, such as the Fortinet NGFW backdoor, that can also be exploited.
I work in this industry and believe me the risk is real, no vpns aren’t a silver bullet, but there are a few good providers out there that can help mitigate some risks of using P2P for more than piracy.
Probably because you don't want your IP address to be associated with some of stuff on there.
Why? You aren't committing a crime
Maybe you shouldn't vote since they have cameras at the booth
Where are you that there are cameras in the booth?
At the booth
They have security cameras everywhere these days
That would be illegal in Australia and I have to imagine most functional democracies since it has the potential to link voters to votes and undermine the electoral process.
Welcome to mass surveillance. It is not illegal if it is in the name of crime stopping. Whats worse is that Australia has laws that require companies to back door everything.
Worth clarifying that it requires individuals to insert backdoors if told to, it's not a blanket backdoor and frankly I'd be shocked if it held up in the high court.
Nothing ever makes it there though, and it's full of baked in secrecy. I don't use local or US services for anything where privacy is important for that reason.
Good thing Australia doesn't have electronic voting, hey?
Because I said so!