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    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    Man I'm just trying to get my external speakers to work without blaring static whenever the powersave kicks in, and nobody seems to know what to do ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

    [โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 5 days ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

    Frets On Fire solo

    [โ€“] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    If you think being on Linux makes you immune for attacks, I have bad news for you.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    there are much less vulrenabilities on Linux. No system is totally unpenetrable, but having 2-5 vulrebabilities is always better than having 30-40

    [โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    I've got a link for you to click, Mr super secure OS user. I promise your OS will protect you.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Here I have a cool program to install. Just pipe this link into bash really quick...

    [โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

    With sudo. Can't forget that or it won't work.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Jokes on you, dude is rocking Qubes /s

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Regardless of us using Linux on our home computers, most businesses and services use Windows machines. Your information is likely still stored on Windows machines elsewhere if you interact with the world at all.

    With that in mind, it's worth being aware of Windows security problems when they come up.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

    Got it, stop interacting with the world

    I was already mostly doing this so

    [โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    What would we do when these happen? What could we do in the moment to change anything?

    Join an eventual class action?

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Taking the internet into consideration, I would doubt "most".

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

    You'd be surprised. For medical info a lot of that is going to be sorted in windows servers running as either file or sql servers.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago
    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

    Same for people using windows 7

    [โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    People here running *nix OSes while I run a Nix*OS

    [โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Sometimes Mint tells me there are security updates available. Happened just this morning. Updating makes me feel good :)

    [โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

    And I can do it wherever I want. And my work is in no way interrupted, while the updates go through.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

    And it had the Edge of not installing Candy Crush

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I mean... a form of Microsoft Defender is available for Linux, but only for enterprise customers if I remember correctly ๐Ÿ˜…

    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

    Yep, my company allows me to use Linux but for Compliance Reasons I need to have Microsoft Defender installed and running. Still beats Windows 11 by a mile

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Is not having an anti-virus good for most people though?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    most antivirus apps are very invasive, heavy on resources and even spy on you. Windows defender is usually enough. However, virustotal is still recommended

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

    On one side, if you have a brain you're fine.
    On the other side, *glances at general public typing google.com into google* ...yeah

    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Anti-virus is not going to stop you from stupidity. You classic "Anti-virus" won't stop anything more than run of the mill simple stuff.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Most of the time that's what people need an antivirus for, most attacks the average person will suffer will be some script that's easily caught by the antivirus.

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