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Comment Impressive they're using the latest kernel (Score 2) 6

I had to have at least 6.12 to have drivers for all my hardware, and Debian is even now still only on 6.11. I'm using 6.14 now because that's the newest that will work without making other changes, and I've been uninterested in figuring it out as this is new enough for my purposes otherwise.

Back in times of yore it was normal to build your own kernel, and today Debian and Linux together make it very easy once you get through the long-winded documentation, as the files you need to make the debs are in the kernel sources. Especially if you are willing to go version by minor version, but often even if you want to skip a number of them, you can usually just make oldconfig and hold down enter...

Comment Re:Great single-point-of-failure (Score 1) 212

Oh, I'm plenty familiar with Microsoft's security failures. The thing is, I'm also plenty familiar with the security failures of Linux, Mac, Android, and iPhone. There are no OSes that "get it right."

That's exactly why nobody should be pushing updates to anything against your will.

Comment No they literally could not be (Score 1) 20

Intel's "Form" that made them famous was having superior process technology and parlaying that into superior performance.

Intel no longer has superior process technology. They have roughly equivalent tech, except that their yields are trash. Or, they use someone else's process technology, in which case it's still not superior.

Intel's Next-Generation Panther Lake Laptop Chips Literally Could Not Be A Return To Form doesn't have quite the same ring to it as the headline you used here, but it wouldn't have been ignorant fuckery.

Comment Re:Great single-point-of-failure (Score 1) 212

That is your opinion, which is not the same as it being factual

If you're not familiar with Microsoft's many absolutely unacceptable security failures, then you have nothing of value to add to this conversation, and there's no purpose in engaging with you further.

Comment Re:Great single-point-of-failure (Score 1) 212

So how is that any different from iOS, or Android, or OSX?

Once again, since it didn't seem to sink in for you the many other times it's been said in this discussion and this thread, Microsoft has demonstrated again and again that they are incompetent when it comes to security at every level.

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