Ya and taking off the serial number doesn’t really matter when it’s less than 10 😅

… I said to myself as I meticulously removed all traces of the serial number.

Lol who is this guy, the chief of police?

I really enjoy running nixos because there is very little uncertainty of what’s installed. I don’t run any games so I can’t speak to that, but the centralized configuration makes fixing problems relatively easy. The downside is a steep learning curve to writing your own derivations, the community is split between “flakes” and normal nix derivations, and sometimes you just have to accept that it doesn’t work on nixos without putting in the work to write the derivations yourself. (Don’t get me wrong, people have made derivations easy to build, but it’s an unexpected side quest when you just want to try some new software)

Whatever else it may be, macos most certainly Is Unix unfortunately

Although you may eventually want a ram

I just use ssh, it seems to be built in to powershell these days

Better than the unlabeled sponsorship behind the default search engine.

I don’t encrypt because it’s too much effort to learn about it.

Id rather keep my filesystem unencrypted so that I can easily recover from problems and encrypt important files as needed, but let’s be real I don’t do that either.

I would recommend using multiple versions of windows, and maybe running it all in a VM in a web browser on Android,

like https://www.pcjs.org/

Only a few days, maybe 12 if I had to guess. Im running with memory overcommit disabled and building a rust project with vscode and Firefox open will hang the kernel eventually. I caved to the kernel’s expectations and set up a swap partition but it still dies.

I should say it’s been on for probably 2 years straight ignoring reboots

This is a stupid question, but you are powering the monitor externally, right?

What does dmesg say when you plug it in?

We do willingly summon daemons to inhabit our magic crystals.

It pains me to admit this but VSCodium has become my de facto standard

https://vscodium.com/

Can’t believe I missed this by two decades

I think reactos is just in a weird space of semi uselessness like haiku. It’s not good enough to use daily and doesn’t have as much retro appeal as game emulators so not enough work is done to it.

Also building reactos is terrible, or at least was years ago (it’s a whole os and userland after all, I know it won’t be simple). If the development workflow improves the project could get off the ground.

As far as posix support goes I would love to see reactos get to the point where a posix nt personality could be real again, but really I think humanity has learned enough about operating systems to build a new one from scratch instead of liberating proprietary tech at great cost.

The ultimate protection for your truck

Bansi Buddy and NetZero of course!

But really it’s winamp, which of course I would still use on Linux except I’ve become a disciple of the streaming gods.

I second the idea that this is a bad idea, but…

Maybe a remote desktop solution is what you want, keep your data local or in your cloud account and provide remote access to a machine that can use it?

You could roll your own self destruct script that will wipe the machine on boot if it hasn’t phoned home in a while. You would want to lock the bios and use secure boot. Qubes may have some relevant features.

Also, consider getting a Chromebook instead. ChromeOS is already a walled garden and I think they are remote wipeable and they can run a Linux vm supported by elgoog.