SayCyberOnceMore

Yep, totally agree… the right tool for the right job.

Get an SSH tunnel working first.

That’ll find all the problems poking holes through home routers, dynamic public IPs, etc.

Once you’ve got that part running, then you can look at VNC or… and hear me out… I just run the X11 apps remotely. So I’m opening their apps on my laptop, changing the config for their session and it’s done.

I reconfigured Thunderbird that way when we moved email providers foe the family’s email.

No need for VNC to transmit all their screen when just the app is needed 😉

Thankyou. For some reason thst just made me laugh and I’ve had a shit day… so thanks 🙂

I bet you it’s a hardware issue.

Run Memtest+ to check the RAM first…

Might be a PSU / heat issue…

It’s not about AV. It’s about vulnerabilities.

AV just uses (often multiple) vulns to do something, and with closed-source systems you can’t fix it yourself, so you need an application to do it for you.

AV is a block-list approach… always needs updating, even for things you don’t have. Linux can operate with allow-lists, so only the apps you have can execute.

Plus firewalls (outbound as well as inbound), SSH, secure package repos, etc.

You don’t need AV, but, you can have it if you want it (maybe file-less memoey resident stuff)

But, yeah, that other post was just mayhem.

And this is their only post.

The wording, the story… I can’t tell if it’s a collection of google searches or someone newer to computing.

I get that someone could be stressed out by something, but this just seems odd.

I’ve seen people flip out in Red/Blue team trials, but this isn’t the same

OP… if this did happen to you, you need to calm down. Maybe with professional help. Then come back to this when you’re calm.

Boot memtest

Leave it to do it’s thing overnight. That will at least check for badly failing RAM.

I’ve run this on machines that I thought were ok, only to find… they weren’t.

BSD?

Yeah, I’m the same, but if it’s an easy way to get people into the warm embrace of Linux, then hopefully they’ll look around and see other (Gen Purpose) distros exist.

Yeah, after reading the other comments in here, you should be able to re-read that page and see it’s not the best advice.

Top Tip: if you’re testing things, you’d modify PATH in the current session first, check that fixes the problem and only then modify any environmental files like .bashrc, etc. so if something got borked you could just logout and in again…

That page reminds me of Windows self-help pages that ask readers to defrag the harddrive in order to get a printer working.

They’re just using that symbol / rune instead of “th”… you’ll get the hang of it after a couple of reads

Wow, just looked that one up on Wikipedia… just… wow

Linux and BSD have the same heritage, but took slighlty different paths… so they’re cousins.

Look it up on Wikipedia, etc… it’s an interesting bit of history.

I’ve tried a few desktop environments and ended back with XFCE… all the whizzy snazzy stuff breaks over time, or get’s "up"graded to something I don’t like… XFCE just works…

This is the way.

The only way to find the right distro is to try them out, on the end device, with the end user.

~/Stuff(1) as well?

For a NAS, like, storage on the network, keep it as simple and as reliable as possible, so avoid Ubuntu and go to the core underlying OS: Debian.

Then just build up the functionality you need, is SMB, NFS, etc.

Personally, I went from OMV to a home built NAS, but went with Arch as that’s what I use elsewhere (btw), so am comfortable with it, but it’s bleeding edge which isn’t always the best if some functionality changes when you’re not ready for it.

If you’re going for a server running lots of containers, etc, then find whatever the container handler (docker?) is best on… I just put everything on bare metal, so can’t advise what’s best for containers… probably Debian again…

But, keep it simple.

… it’s a policy driven hell

Yeah, Point 1 here is exactly why I moved from Ubuntu to Arch ~10 years ago.

I was trying to get something working and found that the bug / feature had been fixed ~1 year earlier, but that version wasn’t in the repos… I couldn’t move forwards.

With Arch, all is well. And, I’m either reporting new bugs and helping to get things fixed, or I’m updating the wiki with any changes I notice.

For Bitlocker? Good point, OP would probably need that for the new mobo’s TPM.