Europe and south korea apply VAT to both domestic and international companies products... Domestic companies then pay further corporation taxes on their profits, while international companies do not.
Having the "phone" processes is worse than all the network listening services desktop windows has (eg smb, rpc) which serve no purpose on 99% of desktops too?
Congratulations, you've found a niche operation which because of your specific hardware is more complicated on linux than windows... On the linux boxes i have with hp and dell raid controllers, simply replacing the failed disk is sufficient - it rebuilds automatically so long as the new disk is the same size or larger.
How about a niche operation which is harder on windows than linux - disabling telemetry... The windows instructions for this seem to involve lots of registry edits etc, for linux disabling telemetry is either not necessary at all or in some cases simply opting out from something during installation.
The problem is current desktop os's arent setup this way, they are geek toys designed for people who do have those skills. That's why managed devices work, 99% of users will be better off with such devices. There's only a very small percentage of people who are technically literate enough to run complex systems on a public network.
Nonetheless they are the recognised government of syria, and there are many other governments around the world doing terrible things to their own people. And the syrian government has sufficiently powerful allies (ie russia) that you cannot go and invade them directly.
Except that person needs to be present at compile time, which doesn't work if you are compiling it yourself or (more likely in the case of governments) having a central national body compiling the code for use by the various agencies in that country. Downloading someone else's precompiled binaries is only marginally better than someone else's precompiled proprietary code, although there are usually several options you can choose from at least.
It doesn't matter wether it's better... Apple are a niche vendor, the more they can do to ease porting of applications to their platform the better... If developers have to port all their code to a completely new graphics api then the effort requires increases significantly. This is going to directly result in less software being ported to apple platforms.
Yes, RISC-V is lowend for now... But ARM was always lowend, and so was x86, support from a large number of vendors and huge sales volume push the lowend up while the highend architectures have all failed or been pushed into tiny expensive niches.
An old windows box will have hugely complex services SMB, RPC etc open, it will have a full blown web browser installed etc. An old embedded linux box shouldn't have any of this, it will have whatever service the embedded device requires, and possibly a management service like http or ssh... If properly built in the first place, a linux system (or other embedded os) should require far less ongoing updates due to a much smaller attack surface. Not invulnerable by any means, but hugely preferable to the windows approach.
Most of the compromised Linux IOT devices out there are actually compromised via default passwords, which can happen to any system no matter how well updated it is.
The computer is probably generic hardware, so if it fails it can easily be replaced - there are millions of old computers and components available dirt cheap.
Only if you are attached to a trunk port... If you are attached to an access port then the tags will be ignored and you can only send traffic to your own vlan. End devices which only need to sit in specific vlans should never be connected to ports with trunking enabled.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s a lot of work went into trying to create totally consistent user experiences. Now the drive seems to be to move in the opposite direction, and users are paying the price.
Because for mouse and keyboard input the user interfaces of the 90s were just fine, but when you're trying to sell upgrades you have to make it look different so people think they're getting something for their money.
It depends on your usage patterns... As a long time unix user in a first world country with reliable power (and also having a ups just incase), i'm used to just leaving stuff running and expecting it to still be there whenever i get back to it. Recently i left my desktop at home running a slow ddrescue operation against a corrupt disk for several weeks while i was away, and it was still happily chugging along when i returned. I'm also used to leaving all my apps running in the background spread across multiple virtual workspaces, and having to restart everything and get it back where i want it is extremely annoying.
If i found one of my systems to have rebooted itself, and could not account for the outage (eg recorded loss of power on the ups) i would assume the system was hacked.
You never know until someone does the research and exposes them, such is the nature of proprietary products... The manufacturer is going to lie if it increases sales.
You make a backup before you go on vacation, how much *new* data do you generate during vacation? Maybe a few gigabytes of holiday photos? You store these on the memory cards used by your camera and maybe make a backup to your laptop... Most hotels also provide internet access so you can upload your photos somewhere.
Having a removable drive is a benefit for many reasons, being able to upgrade, take out for wiping/destruction etc... But the idea of the motherboard failing while the drive remains intact is a relatively minor concern. Of all the hardware i've had over the past few years, drives have failed the most often which means a failed drive kills the whole machine. If the drive fails you won't get your data back no matter what state the motherboard is in...
There really is no excuse for not having backups, and Apple actually make it very easy to perform regular backups and encourage users to do so. I don't believe either windows or linux provide such a simple integrated backup option as apple do.
Allowing unattended boot of the OS (ie without entering a passphrase) opens up attack avenues... The key is there, you just need to know how to recover it. At a worst case you could simply leave the laptop somewhere until a new remote root is found, then boot it up connected to a network and compromise it.
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Not only is he not one of the existing political class, he was also the only candidate with any hope of beating them...
Europe and south korea apply VAT to both domestic and international companies products...
Domestic companies then pay further corporation taxes on their profits, while international companies do not.
Having the "phone" processes is worse than all the network listening services desktop windows has (eg smb, rpc) which serve no purpose on 99% of desktops too?
Congratulations, you've found a niche operation which because of your specific hardware is more complicated on linux than windows...
On the linux boxes i have with hp and dell raid controllers, simply replacing the failed disk is sufficient - it rebuilds automatically so long as the new disk is the same size or larger.
How about a niche operation which is harder on windows than linux - disabling telemetry...
The windows instructions for this seem to involve lots of registry edits etc, for linux disabling telemetry is either not necessary at all or in some cases simply opting out from something during installation.
The problem is current desktop os's arent setup this way, they are geek toys designed for people who do have those skills.
That's why managed devices work, 99% of users will be better off with such devices. There's only a very small percentage of people who are technically literate enough to run complex systems on a public network.
Nonetheless they are the recognised government of syria, and there are many other governments around the world doing terrible things to their own people.
And the syrian government has sufficiently powerful allies (ie russia) that you cannot go and invade them directly.
Except that person needs to be present at compile time, which doesn't work if you are compiling it yourself or (more likely in the case of governments) having a central national body compiling the code for use by the various agencies in that country.
Downloading someone else's precompiled binaries is only marginally better than someone else's precompiled proprietary code, although there are usually several options you can choose from at least.
It doesn't matter wether it's better...
Apple are a niche vendor, the more they can do to ease porting of applications to their platform the better... If developers have to port all their code to a completely new graphics api then the effort requires increases significantly. This is going to directly result in less software being ported to apple platforms.
Yes, RISC-V is lowend for now...
But ARM was always lowend, and so was x86, support from a large number of vendors and huge sales volume push the lowend up while the highend architectures have all failed or been pushed into tiny expensive niches.
An old windows box will have hugely complex services SMB, RPC etc open, it will have a full blown web browser installed etc.
An old embedded linux box shouldn't have any of this, it will have whatever service the embedded device requires, and possibly a management service like http or ssh...
If properly built in the first place, a linux system (or other embedded os) should require far less ongoing updates due to a much smaller attack surface. Not invulnerable by any means, but hugely preferable to the windows approach.
Most of the compromised Linux IOT devices out there are actually compromised via default passwords, which can happen to any system no matter how well updated it is.
The computer is probably generic hardware, so if it fails it can easily be replaced - there are millions of old computers and components available dirt cheap.
Only if you are attached to a trunk port...
If you are attached to an access port then the tags will be ignored and you can only send traffic to your own vlan.
End devices which only need to sit in specific vlans should never be connected to ports with trunking enabled.
Windows is also too flakey for someone without technical knowledge...
Very few people intentionally buy windows either, they receive it when they buy the hardware - same as android.
The fact that the theories are blocked only draws attention to them and will inevitably recruit more people to believe them...
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
Back in the late 80s and early 90s a lot of work went into trying to create totally consistent user experiences. Now the drive seems to be to move in the opposite direction, and users are paying the price.
Because for mouse and keyboard input the user interfaces of the 90s were just fine, but when you're trying to sell upgrades you have to make it look different so people think they're getting something for their money.
MacOS doesn't do reboots on its own...
Just because something is used as a workstation doesn't give it an excuse to be unreliable.
It depends on your usage patterns...
As a long time unix user in a first world country with reliable power (and also having a ups just incase), i'm used to just leaving stuff running and expecting it to still be there whenever i get back to it. Recently i left my desktop at home running a slow ddrescue operation against a corrupt disk for several weeks while i was away, and it was still happily chugging along when i returned.
I'm also used to leaving all my apps running in the background spread across multiple virtual workspaces, and having to restart everything and get it back where i want it is extremely annoying.
If i found one of my systems to have rebooted itself, and could not account for the outage (eg recorded loss of power on the ups) i would assume the system was hacked.
It implemented standards around at the time just as badly as competing browsers (ie netscape 4.x) did...
Which is exactly what IE6 did... It encouraged you to use the non standard APIs, thus rendering sites incompatible with other browsers.
You never know until someone does the research and exposes them, such is the nature of proprietary products... The manufacturer is going to lie if it increases sales.
You make a backup before you go on vacation, how much *new* data do you generate during vacation? Maybe a few gigabytes of holiday photos? You store these on the memory cards used by your camera and maybe make a backup to your laptop... Most hotels also provide internet access so you can upload your photos somewhere.
Having a removable drive is a benefit for many reasons, being able to upgrade, take out for wiping/destruction etc...
But the idea of the motherboard failing while the drive remains intact is a relatively minor concern. Of all the hardware i've had over the past few years, drives have failed the most often which means a failed drive kills the whole machine.
If the drive fails you won't get your data back no matter what state the motherboard is in...
There really is no excuse for not having backups, and Apple actually make it very easy to perform regular backups and encourage users to do so. I don't believe either windows or linux provide such a simple integrated backup option as apple do.
Allowing unattended boot of the OS (ie without entering a passphrase) opens up attack avenues...
The key is there, you just need to know how to recover it. At a worst case you could simply leave the laptop somewhere until a new remote root is found, then boot it up connected to a network and compromise it.