my employer gave us macbook pros’ to work on and it so much spyware/malware that it made my router go off like xmas lights; so i setup a linux vm using kvm/qemu on my own hardware and retired the macbook.

i now fully expect my employer to somehow force a return to the macbook; but i’ve already returned it to the company so they’re going to have to buy me a new one when they do so.

the windows driver allows for full wifi-6/7 speeds in ap mode and is the only way, afaik, to get it with intel cards

there are other efforts to backwards engineer or hack the changes that disables higher speeds in ap mode for linux; but none worked when i tried about 10-ish months ago. i tired these ones:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/wifi-6-gets-134-gbps-on-raspberry-pi-cm4 https://gist.github.com/iffa/290b1b83b17f51355c63a97df7c1cc60 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1163145/intel-wireless-iwlwifi-ubuntu-19-04-slow-upload-speed-but-only-on-certain-wi/1163146#1163146

and if you don’t have a windows key like me, do yourself a favor and create a windows image instead of a vm and keep re-using it to get around the windows validation setup timeout after 30 days. (i didn’t realize this until after the fact so i had to create a work around with ansible to stop/copy/paste/launch the vm every 30 days)

i have a single box i use for data storage; backup; wifi; router; and switch.

it runs ubuntu on the bare iron with

• a windows 10 kvm/qemu vm with pci pass through on wifi to get 1 gig wifi speeds on intel in ap mode (intel won’t allow it using linux drivers)
• a pfsense kvm/qemu vm for router & firewall to internet and with pci pass through on a 1 gig nic to gap the internet from the base ubuntu
• dns & ip masquerade along with kvm/qemu based sofware defined networking for windows, pfsense and ubuntu to forward all wifi and cabled network through to internet and
• connected via 3 gig nic and switch for much faster local data storage and backup on the ubuntu install.
• vpn and remote backup using pfsense for access to my setup from anywhere else in the world. (eg routing traffic from the office to my home connection for personal use and access to my data)

topographically, it looks like this, but in reality it’s all one box:

                              ┌────┐                    ┌─────────────┐                             
          ┌───────────────────┤vpn │ ┌──────────────────┤windows (wifi│                             
          ▼                   └────┘ │                  └─────────────┘                             
┌──────────┐                         │                                                              
│ internet │                         │                                                              
└──────────┘                         ▼                  ┌───────┐        ┌──────┐      ┌───────────┐
          ▲                ┌─────────┐                  │ubuntu │◄───────┤switch│◄─────┤  backups  │
          └────────────────┤ pfsense │◄─────────────────┴───────┘        └──────┘      └───────────┘
                           └─────────┘                                                              

intellectual pursuits combined with recent-ish DNA test revealed to me that i’m from a very recently dead culture (american yaqui & tarahumara) whose very few aware decedents have been fighting tooth-and-nail to re-cultivate it by patterning themselves after their nearest cousins (mexican yaqui & tarahumara) along with a recent recognition from the american government for the pascua reservation in arizona.

they were literally wiped out by the pogroms carried out by colonial settlers in the american southwestern united states during the 19th and early 20th centuries and it was merely the imaginary line on the map called the mexican border that allowed anything from the culture to survive at all.

if it weren’t for people who rejected colonialist narrative of indigenous people happily becoming mestizos (or americans with Cherokee princess great grandma’s); there would be nothing but a fringe belief and, if it weren’t for DNA tests that heavily bolsters it, that fringe belief would continue to wane into nothingness.

you’d think that 2/3rds of your DNA being tied to a group of people and their genocide occurring less than 2 generations ago would ensure that something of that cultural inheritance would survive, but I’m living & breathing proof that the colonial narrative is MUCH more powerful than any heritage as the older generations of my family continue to strenuously reject both the science and the lore of their true roots.

like kissinger, i’m sure he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the damage he’s done

both the basque and the catalonians have sought independence and were brutally pushed down by the conservative governments of the very recent past. the current left leaning government has made concessions to keep them on board; but the voting trends for the last 15 years makes it crystal clear that the conservatives will be in power again and both the catalonians and basque are well aware that the the peace will expire in the next election.

most catalonians and basque don’t think so

it gives me so much pleasure to know that yours is a minority viewpoint on the fediverse; perhaps you should go back to reddit, or facebook, or whatever group think hole you crawled out from.

it depends on what you mean by “corporate space”

end users of any type don’t use linux because of a mixture because that’s what they’re used to using; but end users can’t do shit w/o the service backbones which are dominated by linux and depended upon by end users.

i’m REALLY feeling like this rn; this 4 quarter project is going to extend into at least 5 at the end of this year.

fwiw: you do get to hear a little bit of ferengi in this episode, before they get their translators fixed

You weren’t hoping that Secure Boot saves your ass, were you?

i wonder if containerized firefox (eg snap/flatpak) will

either that or damn small linux

checkout out the treball channel on youtube; they did an entire one hour episode on the differences. tldr: they’re all extremely minor and there’s lots of them.

it’s selective; they didn’t charge anything for keeping chelsea manning out of their fellowship

i always felt that one of the awesome things about the show was how ftl was considered antiquated technology and that, besides the military, only the older and the nicer ships had them; while the newer and much more common average ships didn’t

something about a society that is both capable of traveling through the stars and has collectively forgotten where it had originated from in the galaxy; but widely considers both unimportant is super fascinating to me.

i started using kde once personal computers became beefy enough to handle it well around 2002 but switched to gnome because gnome felt more polished at the time and i recently switched back and, you’re right, the customize-ability is impressive after using gnome for the last 15-ish years.

it’s also daunting/frustrating at times too.

You are probably right.

Definitely right; she didn’t start criticizing trump until January 6th; well after he lost the election in the previous November

Bester was actually simply evil

evil with the friendliest smile and demeanor; pleasant evil like biden. lol

white women are probably the largest group of women and since a majority voted for trump; there’s at least one group of women that’s okay with trump supporters.