I’ve been using Windows since 3.11. I’ve been supporting it for a career since 1998 (although almost entirely servers not desktops for the last 23 years). I’m tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.
On the other hand, my expertise at resolving their (server) bullshit over the last couple decades sure did pay well. So I guess it wasn’t all bad. But these days they can kiss my ass.
Yeah I haven’t completely gotten rid of Windows. I have it installed on another SSD but in the last 8 months since I switched, I’ve only needed it for Dyson Sphere Project (needed AutoHotKey), Deadlock (crashes too often in Linux and they ban you for 2 hours every time you leave a game), and whenever I feel like playing C&C Generals which for some reason runs like absolute dogshit on my Linux box despite everything else working fine.
But that Windows SSD has nothing, NOTHING on it but Steam games and Winamp. Microsoft isn’t getting access to a damn thing anymore when it comes to personal data. I’m tired of protecting myself against them, and FFS I’ve been a Microsoft backoffice sysadmin for over 25 years so I know how, but I’m still sick of it! I don’t even surf the web on that install. I play my game and when I’m done I boot back to Tumbleweed!
Gonna have to look into Lutris, I really like the idea of that sandboxing!
Worked on me, I finally switched (like, REALLY switched) on my primary PC this year after using Linux only for servers and hobby projects for a long time. My only regret is that I may not live long enough to have used Linux longer than I used Windows. I’d have to make it to my mid 80’s just to break even.
Valve gets all the credit. Gaming was the main thing holding me back all this time.
I’ve been working on achieving this for years. So far I’ve managed 60-16, sometimes 60-18, but I really struggle when sleep dips below 4-5 hours.
Must train harder!
What happens when you call them?
“Huh… free orb! Honey, bring me some tinfoil!”
“A fully developed hurricane releases the same amount of energy as the explosion of a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes”
So Tsar at planned 100 is equivalent to 3 hours 20 minutes worth of hurricane energy.
Wouldn’t do shit.
Physics shows us the energy required just can’t be generated by man. All the nukes in the world won’t stop one hurricane.
Cosmopolitan magazine.
Infamous for being filled with garbage sex articles to further screw up women’s self esteem.
Wrong group of people to try to get a Cosmo article out of.
If I was in your shoes I’d probably build my own hypervisor box and rent colo space for it. Strictly because your requirement to migrate VMs to your own system later is more trouble than it’s worth.
I don’t know for sure but I’d guess you would pay less for colo than renting someone’s server for a year or two. Renting bare metal is stupid expensive.
This can’t be a real product.
I self host Bitwarden and it’s free to self host. You only have to pay for a license if you need multiple users or want to use their cloud services, I believe. My instance is 100% self hosted and completely isolated from the internet, and it works fine.
I self host it because I self host everything, but for credential managers I would never trust any 3rd party closed source utility or cloud service. Before I used a password manager I tracked them all manually with a text file and a TrueCrypt volume. I think giving unrelated credentials to 3rd parties is asking for trouble - they definitely don’t care as much about them as you do!
If you’re going to self host any credential manager, make sure you have an appropriate backup strategy, and make sure you have at least one client synced regularly so that you can still access passwords if the server itself dies for some reason.
Life gets a lot easier when you realize you don’t have to answer questions that you don’t want to, and “No” is a complete sentence. Not berating you, just letting you know that you didn’t have to fall for their pressure tactics. Just keep not answering their questions until they give up.
I hope you’re doing better these days.
That headline could also be describing me and my fitness goals.
Yep. My first thought wasn’t “No way” it was “I need to look that up”. It was only your disclaimer at the end that made me realize. :)
I know which one it is but I won’t spoil it. I know because I was like “wait what, that would definitely have been on the news and everyone at work would have been talking about it.” I work with that company quite a bit.
Do you by chance live near a pet graveyard built on Native American burial grounds?