skeptical1

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by skeptical1 5y ago
You seem to have expertly missed the point.
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Who cares? If you don't take computer security seriously, you won't be computing much longer. Before it's over with, mine will be the only opinion still in existence. It's called "natural selection."
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by skeptical1 5y ago
I don't want or need popup permission prompts. If something needs to run as root, I run it as root from the console, as God intended. In the process I am assuredly avoiding all sorts of potential security vulnerabilities, such as this
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by skeptical1 5y ago
You're part of the second group I mentioned: the one that won't be computing much longer. > Computer security really isn't THAT much of a nightmare for an average user. "Average user" and "common idiot"
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Some programs can be configured to run without it. Others require patching to remove it. Some patches are trivial, others not so much. I've done a lot of patching, with still more required to get other applications running that I want
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Has bugs, is way too complex for the given functionality, and is completely unneeded in the first place--yes, get rid of the damn thing. Unless of course you enjoy getting "your" system OWNED and dominated by bad actors. My custom
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by skeptical1 5y ago
I've seen enough of this crowd to not be surprised at any ridiculous thing that happens here. Like having a 50 page Very Serious argument back and forth about some minor, irrelevant detail, possibly having nothing at all to do with the
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by skeptical1 5y ago
I read your comment profile, and know exactly what you mean about the "cancel culture." This is the first profile I've had here where I've actually managed to get a little positive 'karma' built up and avoid im
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Yes, this is exactly why I don't run any of this crap on my distro. No dbus, no polkit, no systemd, nothing. Computer security is already enough of a nightmare without all this crap added on and linked in to everything.
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by skeptical1 5y ago
It was a joke. Obviously. Jesus, this place is so humorless.
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Hmmm...how about the fact that I don't engorge my piehole with mass quantities of junk food, become obese, then make pitiful and pathetic excuses for my lack of self control? How about the fact that at 41 years old, I am much healthier
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by skeptical1 5y ago
The real problem here is self-control and self-discipline, or the total lack thereof. It's just like the people I see on here who have some bad habit, like browsing Facebook or HN all day when they should be doing something more produc
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Luck has nothing to do with it. It's your diet, full stop. You are eating junk, and/or simply eating TOO MUCH, guaranteed.
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Here is my own experience and advice about health and physical fitness, shared in hopes it will encourage and help people who are living unhealthy lives, because they have been misled by society. I'm typing this on a touch screen, whic
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by skeptical1 5y ago
In my experience, yes. Try discussing in an impassioned manner something of importance to the human race, or of life and death importance to the human you are speaking to, and watch how quickly people will change the subject to whining abou
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by skeptical1 5y ago
> I genuinely don't see what's so complex about a service unit file It't not the unit file that's the problem, it's the mountains of junk, low quality C code written by an obnoxious, arrogant twit named "Lin
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by skeptical1 5y ago
Maybe he's just tired of people who offer ignorant opinions and argue based on conjecture and not actual knowledge.
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by skeptical1 5y ago
On my desktop I run with no swap, overcommit disabled, and earlyoom. I frequently do heavy work with it including such things as Chromium builds and it's trouble free. See above for the tweaks I've made to ensure perfect responsiv
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by skeptical1 5y ago
For a long time after creating my own Linux distro, I had the same kind of problems also. It turns out the Linux kernel is horribly tuned by default. After a number of tweaks and adjustments, I finally got all those bugs ironed out. Now my