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I hope you're happy with the Trump administration you helped elect. If you end up in a camp, you can impress everyone with your moral purity

You don't think some people who consider trying linux make a web search or ask a question somewhere only to get turned off by people immediately arguing about distros and calling them brain damaged?

Right now it's ubuntu that's the meme target, but there's always something like this. If everyone stopped using ubuntu tomorrow, the people who somehow get their self esteem from having a better distro will find something else to fuel that. They will never be happy

I'm happy if people use linux. I'm even happy if they use WSL or homebrew rather than plain windows or os x as it's a gateway drug, even though having windows in particular as a base system seems needlessly painful

Gives it a fallback to send surveillance data to samsung, even if you don't connect it to a network

Or it would hallucinate and do weird shit, or get easily manipulated by someone

What people are calling AI in this bubble is just a mindless text generator

This silly infighting serves to perpetuate people staying on windows or mac os

The answer is often more complex

Every time I think Zuck is as pathetic as someone can be, he finds a new depth to sink to. Truly an innovator

Distro wars are silly. If someone is happy using Ubuntu, I'm happy they're a linux user.

It sounds like your job might be needlessly hard.

Coming up with a design for a new process that will fix all issues at once is very hard; you're very likely to miss something important. Making such a process change in one go is also hard, even if you somehow happened to end up with a improbably good spec. Doing it by interviewing people sounds kinda doomed.

An easier path might be to take whatever holistic understanding you have right now and start in some corner of the problem where there are clear issues. Bring engineers and people who use the system together. Have the people who use the system walk through their common workflow together with the engineers, noting what parts are usually hard or slow them down. Keep people focused on improving things rather than arguing about how you got here.

Together come up with small achievable process or software fixes you can implement and evaluate quickly (like in a week or two). If it works out, you have now made a real improvement. If it didn't work out, you understand the limitations a bit better and can try again, as it was pretty quick.

Helping to deliver real improvements in a way that's visible both to the involved engineers and the people using the system will buy you a lot of credibility for the next step.

(51k punches at one per second just takes 14 hours and 10 minutes)

I'm not sure if you can call them trolls if they've sincerely lost their grip on reality, and are a significant voting block.

Tailscale is very popular among people I know who have similar problems. Supposedly it's pretty transparent and easy to use.

If you want to do it yourself, setting up dyndns and a wireguard node on your network (with the wireguard udp port forwarded to it) is probably the easiest path. The official wireguard vpn app is pretty good at least for android and mac, and for a linux client you can just set up the wireguard thing directly. There are pretty good tutorials for this iirc.

Some dns name pointing to your home IP might in theory be an indication to potential hackers that there's something there, but just having an alive IP on the internet will already get you malicious scans. Wireguard doesn't respond unless the incoming packet is properly signed so it doesn't show up in a regular scan.

Geo-restriction might just give a false sense of security. Fail2ban is probably overkill for a single udp port. Better to invest in having automatic security upgrades on and making your internal network more zero trust