BreakDecks

No shit the VPN requires an open port, I never said otherwise, but if your router is the one running the server, you aren’t forwarding the port. The router itself is listening on its WAN interface.

The VPN prevents you from having to forward any ports, because the router allows you to tunnel in. The only open port will be whatever port the VPN server listens on, and it isn’t a forwarded port.

Source: I literally work at a VPN company.

going from a public device to a device in a protected network

You mean the literal function of a VPN?

A VPN eliminates the need for port forwarding.

Edit: Not talking about a “privacy VPN”, but an actual VPN that lives up to the name “Virtual Private Network”, where you are connecting to the private network you wish to access.

There’s an AliExpress link in the article that clearly prices it at $260…

Writing all those aliases probably helped him learn pacman.

Your browser?

Bad keming.

I bought a fully spec’d System76 laptop. Does that count?

I also give some money to KDE from time to time, so I know that counts.

Oh please, half the time on most computers after installing stock Windows you’ll need to install the NIC drivers from a USB stick because you can’t download drivers locally without a NIC. With Linux, it pretty works out the gate. Significant driver issues haven’t been a real issue with Linux in about a decade.

Nvidia drivers are especially weird to use as an example. Since the advent of AI, Nvidia Linux support has vastly improved since most AI use cases require Linux. It’s enterprise-ready at this point.

As for the games that don’t work well - the binaries were only built for Windows, so Linux has to jump through hoops to run them. That’s not Linux’s fault, it’s the fault of the game developers. Thanks to the FOSS community those hoops are only getting easier to jump through. Most of the games that don’t work at all depend on some sort of horrific anti-cheat rootkit that any tech literate person should consider a dealbreaker even if they use Windows as a daily driver.

And the games that do work, which is most of the games on Steam at this point, perform better on Linux than Windows on the same hardware because they don’t have to deal with the bloat of a Windows OS.

I guess if you can accept ads crammed into every nook and cranny of the OS, constantly fighting with Edge over your choice of browser, reduced battery life and system performace due to OS bloat, having every single aspect of your computing experience built around corporate profits rather than user experience, and buying a computer every few years because of planned obsolescence you could settle with a bad OS like Windows.

It’s always funny to me when people defend something by saying that it’s “not that bad”, because that still acknowledges that it is bad.

Not if HIP is a part of your network stack (adding a waist). Unfortunately this is not a plug-and-play solution unless you have the budget for my employer’s product, which is not priced for consumers.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/9601780

Oh man, uh, here’s a primer: https://mkomu.kapsi.fi/hipl/index.php?index=how

I am most familar with HIP, but there are ways to isolate hosts so that they can only talk to what you want them to talk to in a distinctly different way than a firewall. You could have three hosts (A, B, & C) on the same subnet where A can talk to B & C, but B & C cannot talk to each other. Likewise, A and C could have access to an Internet gateway, while B does not.

So far HIP is the only protocol I have seen for microsegmentation that actually works in an intuitive way, but I suspect Wireguard could be used to the same effect with some creative engineering.

This one of those questions I am overwhelmingly eqipped to answer, but only with the weird proprietary knowledge about software defined networking and microsegmentation that my job has endowed me with…

So I’ll resist the urge to give you that overcomplicated answer and just say get a firewall like others have suggested.

It’s funny working at a company that doesn’t allow Linux on a workstation, but is also actively developing and deploying tons of Linux-based products…

I think the real reason is that their MDM cant lock down a Linux machine the way it locks down a Windows or Mac machine…

“Windows Reserved Bandwidth” is just a QoS Packet Scheduler. The Linux Kernel has this too. Equally difficult to disable on any system, because its assumed you will want to be able to download a file and surf the web at the same time. You can turn it off I guess, if quality of service isn’t your vibe.

My favorite part about using an old laptop as a 24/7/365 plugged-in server is the anticipation of when the lithium battery will explode from overcharging.

I don’t know of any existing project, but this sounds pretty trivial to make with Python using http.server and PIL modules.

Upload file and store in RAM. Delete after first fetch. Optional watermarking for image files using PIL.

I have one, and it’s neat, but it just isn’t stable enough to be a daily driver. Used ThinkPads are the golden standard for cheap and friendly here.

Early 2010’s MacBooks also make excellent Linux machines.

If you can RDP, just copy and paste the file from one computer to the other.