You’re focusing too much on what you are supposed to do and too little on what you could be doing.
I would grab this with both hands. Max out the education, and work on side projects that don’t impact the day job. I mean, that is what the “show up sometimes” means, right? Ya gotta warm the seat but you don’t have much to do? So fill that time with things that improve your skills!
I still run a small constellation of programs (some obscure) that are required for my workflows that have neither a Linux version that is perfectly file-compatible, nor can be run reliably under WINE.
Plus, I also provide tech support for others, so being able to “mirror” actions on my own iron as I’m helping them is a massive plus. Differences between installs has helped me catch config issues on many occasions.
So unfortunately, running Windows is still a must-do for the foreseeable future. Now granted, I also have a good half-dozen workstations, which also run MacOS, OpenBSD, OpenSUSE, and various other virtualized fun shit (HaikuOS, etc.).
RUFUS is a lot simpler.
And upgrades keep all settings, including local accounts. They always have.
Build your USB installer using RUFUS.
The SELECT drop-down (the down arrow itself, not the entire button) even downloads a generic multi-version of the latest Win11.
It’s at the last step before creating the installer when RUFUS gives you a bunch of settings that you can leverage, one of which is a Microsoft Account bypass so you can create a local account.
Signing in with a Microsoft account is what they really want you to do.
And for the sake of your personal data, it’s the absolute last thing you should ever submit to.
The number of people who have lost their entire digital life thanks to losing access to their Microsoft Account (doubly so now that BitLocker auto-engages, which makes direct extraction from the drive impossible) is just too damn high.
Always, always create a local account on install. That path is still available, even through USB installer builders like RUFUS.
Windows 11 can be wrangled into something decent, but it requires an immense amount of wrangling on initial install to do so.
As an example, XP needed 8-12hrs worth of work before I was happy with the way I had it configured. Win11 needs about 32-48hrs of work and testing. Some bits - like violently bludgeoning File Explorer back into a halfway XP-like folder tree - takes deep, repeated dives into the registry to properly and permanently eviscerate things like the Library and Home (quick access).
A prior company I worked at had a compliance division whose work was about 80% Oracle. As in, their attention over preventing Oracle JRE installs in favour of Azul Java was 4× higher than ensuring anything Microsoft - or anything else under the sun, actually - was properly licensed.
basically none of what you say is true until ~2020 model year.
Ahem. You were saying?
OnStar had cellular modems in vehicles for the last 30 years. They were not “real time” like post-2006, when 3G connectivity started to be installed, but they did dial up the mothership to upload usage data and accept instructions like whole-vehicle immobilizations in the case of theft.
Ignorance is not a good look for you.
They exagurate,
Sorry, everything I have mentioned is happening right now. It is no longer any kind of an exaggeration.
Repairability is under direct attack from Hyundai as one of the first traditional automakers, and Tesla has been fighting repairability for a lot longer. You try and poke at most any Tesla part, and it drops into “limp home mode” until a dealership clears the problem.
DRM/Subscriptions are found from many manufacturers now, from Honda and BMW and many others.
About the only “old news” is the privacy one, with the Feds spying on always-connected cars since 2010. And connectivity has been there decades earlier via OnStar, albeit not in the form we now call “real time”.
Wow, you really are a bleedingly ignorant asshole.
The Feds have spied on connected cars for the last 15 years.
As in, real-time uploads being spied upon. Since 2010. Because that is when the tech became truly wide-spread
And cars have been recording and sending data for a long time before that via OnStar, just not in what we view as “real time”.
Pretty much nothing that you just said is true. What car can’t you change the brake pads on without going to that brands official repair shop?
Hyundai. In terms of the major/historical brands, it has started with Hyundai, and other brands are also getting in on the act.
Plus, Tesla has been doing it for years, now. A Tesla will go into “limp home mode” with almost any kind of unauthorized repair you do to it.
As for the data one, how exactly is all this data being transmitted?
Since OnStar was first released, in the late 80s, it has gone over cellular modems. It’s how anyone with OnStar in their vehicle could have it remotely disabled from the very first OnStar vehicle onward. And pretty much every vehicle manufactured after 2006 has a cell phone SIM or eSIM installed so as to provide real-time data stream to the mothership, and by 2014 this even included consumer access to the Internet via 4G LTE services.
Ignorance is how you’ve gotten egg on your face. You might want to do some fundamental research next time.
I strongly suspect that any images of him are AI generated, and this is a psi-op.
Judging from prose like Mobi Dick, it was written at about the same time, covered 10+ pages, had 342 commas and semicolons, and was a single epic run-on sentence.
Cars.
Most any vehicle made after 2006 will have one or more of these three issues:
ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any other data. So, for example, a person visiting a website can verifiably prove he or she is over 18, without sharing anything else at all.
Except that isn’t the point of age verification.
The entire point of age verification is to sledgehammer open state sanctioned mass surveillance. To definitively link online content to the people who made it such that dissidents against fascism and authoritarianism can be effectively neutralized.
The government wants to make “age verification” so painful that websites will be strongly incentivised to make use of “approved methods” like Palantier’s Persona platform. This will permit wholesale hoovering up of any and all personal data for analysis.
And did she learn anything from the experience?
She’s MAGA. So vanishingly unlikely.
Zoophilia imparts trauma.
Death relieves a being of trauma. There ain’t more trauma when you are dead. And when done correctly, death in an abattoir is largely instantaneous.
Of the two, the former is more immoral when focusing on lingering or ongoing trauma.
You have a network for employee’s personal phones and devices, correct? That still leads to the Internet, correct?
I mean, the entire point of such a network is to keep outside devices off of internal networks that have sensitive data. And because the insides of large buildings can be absolutely sucky at receiving LTE/5G data connections, employees can and will do anything needed to ensure they still have connectivity on personal devices. So just connect the router/bridge to that network, and Teams will be appropriately sanitized and think you are still at home.
And yet, “pro life”.
F**king hypocrites.