Genuinely the single worst messaging app I’ve ever used. Worse than Skype, which is crazy because Microsoft owns that too.

Debian and learn to use the nix package manager for your bleeding edge stuff

The reason they don’t want you using your own WiFi access point is probably because dorms are prone to over congestion if everyone sets up their own WiFi network.

If you wanted to fuck with them-and you don’t mind spending money-then you could set up your WiFi and get internet via mobile carrier or starlink, so that you never actually have to agree to their terms. Then when/if someone comes around to bitch at you you can watch them slowly come to the conclusion that they’ve got nothing on you.

Otherwise your options are to follow the rules to the letter and live without vr streaming, or accept that you might get in trouble. Some WiFi routers can be configured to not advertise their network; annoying because you’ll have to manually enter the network information on every device, but it might keep you from getting caught.

As for connecting multiple devices without paying; there’s probably some creative ways to tunnel all your traffic through a single device to get around that. Could still get you in trouble if you’re caught.

If you’re doing anything that could get you in trouble with the school make sure you save the email in which they told you using your own router is allowed.

Already run it on my laptop, and used to dual boot. I’m just trying let proton mature as much as possible before migrating my desktop for good.

Well, I was gonna run win10 until its service life ends next year. I guess MS want to speed up the timeline a little.

Arch here I come.

Dual booting is a nightmare, you’ll need a specially modified kernel, and getting the pen to work right can be tricky.

Once you’ve finally got the kinks worked out it’s pretty cool, but that might take longer than you’d like.

I was using a surface pro 7, for what it’s worth.

And their customers are unhappy with the catastrophic service failure. Cry me a river.

I’ll stop using YouTube altogether before I disable my ad blocker. My time is simply more valuable than whatever video I’m watching.

Perhaps I should have added that I use arch myself. All meant in good humor, and I’m sorry if I offended!

I don’t think it’s the distro. Arch users are just always angry about everything whether it works or not.

This is really cool. I do wonder how often “third-party rights or security concerns” will be deemed to apply, though.

I mean, there is always the option of putting down YouTube and going outside, or picking up a hobby or something.

Gross, I know, having to live in the stone ages, but there’s always another option.

There’s a very pervasive idea in the corporate and governing world that private industry can be more secure, and that people not having knowledge of a software’s codebase is itself a security feature, not a bug.

The obvious counterpoint is that open source code has more eyes on it, so vulnerabilities are more likely to be found before they’re exploited. I generally agree with this argument, but it does beg the question: how many people are actually taking the time to vett open source software?

There’s also legal considerations. If your company leaks a bunch of data due to a Windows bug you can sue Microsoft (or try to, anyway). If the same happens due to a bug in an open source program you probably won’t be able to recover much in damages from the rag-tag gang of free-time developers who made it, assuming you can even figure out who to file suit against in the first place.

In two words: Active Directory.

A robust and well vetted set of tools with reliable GUI interfaces for managing very large numbers of users, their permissions, and the computers from basically anywhere on the network.

There’s nothing AD does that couldn’t be done in Linux, but nothing even close to the scope and maturity exists yet, as far as I know. Even Apple doesn’t have anything truly comparable.

Managing a large number of Linux users probably means relying on 3rd party software which isn’t baked in to the OS, which can have reliability issues, or developing user management tools in-house which is pretty hard to justify for most enterprises.

For software and devices running locally, sure. Much of what MS does these days is cloud based where the bulk of the electricity is being used in a data center somewhere and the customer isn’t (directly) paying for it.

You explicitly asked about apartments tho

Near all apartments around me have exclusively open-air parking, so this isn’t a viable solution for many. It’s not that the available power is inadequate, it’s non-existent.

An enormous percentage, especially in the current housing market, however…

Many (most?) American cities have wildly inadequate public transit and are prone to sprawl. Many Americans live in apartments, but are a multiple mile walk from their grocery store. If there’s any public transit at all it’s probably an infrequent and unreliable bus line that may not go anywhere near their home to begin with. They live in apartments, but are not anywhere near ‘downtown’.

These are problems that need to be solved, and quickly, but public transit is best grown with a city, which didn’t happen. Inserting a subway after the fact is difficult, expensive, and slow.

The reality of right-now (which is all a renter is likely to be able to consider financially) is that a reliable car is an essential item in most parts of the country.

I would kill for this. Trying to get logseq, or any other markdown editor to play nice with an existing obsidian vault is a nightmare. And none of them are nearly as feature complete or expandable.

Flameshot pretty much already does this, though perhaps not as elegantly