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  • IP based blocking is complicated once you are big enough or providing service to users is critical.

    For example, if you are providing some critical service such as health care, you cannot have a situation where a user cannot access health care info without hard proof that they are causing an issue and that you did your best to not block the user.

    Let’s say you have a household of 5 people with 20 devices in the LAN, one can be infected and running some bot, you do not want to block 5 people and 20 devices.

    Another example, double NAT, you could have literally hundreds or even thousands of people behind one IP.






  • MTK@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWindows doesn't "just work"
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    1 month ago

    In my experience, a stable beginner friendly distro such as mint, is 10x closer to “just working” but…

    I do think that the windos DE tends to be more reliable than any linux DE I have tested. The only DE that compares is gnome, which I find very very stable (but I hate it)

    I think that non-technical people are just used to a simple playbook of:

    1. GUI is rarely the issue, so you never need to see the terminal.
    2. If there is an issue, restart
    3. If that didn’t work, ask for help from your local techy

    And for linux step 3 usually doesn’t work because your local techy is probably someone who just knows how to google and paste into cmd.



  • MTK@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhich browser do you use and why?
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    2 months ago

    Ungoogled chromium, sadly FF has been getting worse over the years (partially because it is getting worse and partially because web developers happen to ignore it’s existence) also Chromium has superior security.

    I’m hopeful about the future of ladybird but it will take a long time until it is a possible daily driver.


  • The whole point of Linux is to be a FOSS kernel/OS, that’s it.

    Anything you want to (legally and morally) do with it is fine and you should not have to conform to arbitrary limitations set by others.

    If you think that Linux is only for tinkering, not only are you completely wrong (since most machines running Linux are meant to be stable and not tinkered with, think servers, iot, embedded devices, etc) you are also missing the point of FOSS, since it aims to give the user freedom to do as they see fit, which includes preferring stability and security over tinkering.