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Use it to program an functional DOS emulator for MacOS 8?

I also recommend this. EntraID is pretty handy and it was a fairly painless experience to get everyone using the Microsoft authenticator app on their phone for MFA. SSO via a registered app in Azure is just an added bonus.

Our typical user reaction is something like “Oh, like my banking app?” when we enroll them in MFA

Maybe not a super beginner question, but what do awk and sed do and how do I use them?

Yes, it’s possible

You need a SIP trunk to connect to and a PBX server. I would also recommend a proxy server to obfuscate your SIP server as it will be constantly attacked.

It doesn’t technically need its own network, but having it on its own VLAN is recommended as you will want to have some QoS policies for the UDP voice traffic otherwise your call audio will be choppy

This article feels like an advertisement for AI-based cybersecurity tools.

I bet Microsoft is really hoping some people that follow this article to buy Copilot for Security™️

This is almost certainly Ubuntu server

This would turn the Internet into a hell scape if only because corporations could throw huge amounts of money around.

There would be incentive for the Pizza Huts and the Walmarts of the world to just assume control of the websites for any local competitors.

Domain squatting is incredibly scummy, but I have no idea how it would be possible to have any other system.

My understanding is that domains do expire unless you pay the fee to renew for another year.

Regarding unused domain names, how would anyone know if a particular name is being unused? Domain names are used for more things than browsable websites. You’d have to have a system that could determine if traffic is going to those names, which seems bad from a privacy standpoint and also pretty easy to script around.

I also use Veeam at home for this. It’s not FOSS, but it is still free, and works really well.

I agree that for this size of network AD is definitely not something you want to deal with unless you want to learn how it works.

However, I’m not sure it really increases attack vectors to have it running, outside of the fact that it’s a new network service on the LAN. The out of the box default configuration is not bad these days, security-wise

They’re mostly banking on the cost of change being higher than the inconvenience of staying.

It’s staggeringly uncommon for the desktop side of things outside of machines running a specialty app or a particularly tech-savvy IT guy.

The issue is that Windows is just really good at centralized user management and policy control. You can do all those things in Linux too but it’s significantly more complicated and harder to manage.

Just wait until they learn about Daemons

There are a few things that determine the amount of RAM your PC can handle.

Simplest is the amount of slots on the Mobo. It’s hard to put extra RAM into a machine if there is nowhere to plug it in.

Next is the motherboard limitation. This is mostly based on the type of RAM it takes. DDR4 has a maximum size of 64GB per DIMM and DDR5 maxes out at 512GB per DIMM

Finally and most crucially is the CPU. CPUs have onboard memory controllers these days and they can only handle the amount of RAM that they can address. This value changes from CPU to CPU so you’ll want to check the specs for the model you have.

If you go over the supported amount, the PC will likely just fail to POST and never boot. If it does boot it will just ignore the extra RAM and never actually use it.

I have a Protectli box running OPNSense and it’s been great once I figured out how to get its implementation of unbound working with my Pihole.

This is one of the problems with open source projects that not enough people are talking about.

There are plenty of kind and helpful people in the community, but there are also a huge number of people that have the attitude of “I had to suffer to learn this so you should too”

At the end of the day though it’s a numbers game. The larger the community is, the smaller the chance that you will run into people with that attitude.

It’s not really a secret why distros like Ubuntu and Mint are popular when there are people out there that unironically hold the belief that you shouldn’t use Linux unless you compile it from source yourself.

I use VLC

Windows comes pre-installed on PCs when you buy them because it’s what people are generally comfortable using, because it’s what they use at work too.

And Windows is used on business PCs largely because of how manageable they are at scale. Windows is expensive. Like, really expensive. If you have 1000 PCs that have Windows and Office E3, assuming a bulk discount, that’s an up front cost of ~$200000 with the subscription costing an additional ~$20000/month. If it was feasible for business to change to a free alternative, I guarantee they would’ve done so.

You’re right in that that Windows is not some super great OS, but it does some things way better than anything else that make it an ideal choice for business use.