u/Homework_Allergy

set up spectacle to take screenshots every 5 seconds, then feed them through an image recognition thingy and secure the database in the worst possible way.

also, set the trash can icon as your wallpaper and the windows logo as the trash can icon.

seriously though, this is impressive. i fear for your mental health but respect your dedication to... whatever you're doing this for.

don't get too worked up over weirdos on the internet. some people will complain about everything. if you're still getting security updates and stuff you're fine, anyone who starts flaming about not updating before EOL is probably just trying to compensate for some insecurities or something.

do i really need to mention anything beyond "autism+adhd"?

yeah, i figured... studied for sysadmin, currently unemployed and in therapy because mental health issues.

seriously though, this game is almost as much of a benchmark for autism as factorio. looking at me and my steam friends' playtime there's a pretty clear relation between autism and playtime with only one outlier as far as i can see. and you can guess who tops the chart.

European going to America and seeing the bulletproof vests in the "back to school" corner:

no, he's talking shit. we've got ACs in the places where they're actually useful more than once a year.

i'd say "ouch, burn" but i'm afraid their houses will catch fire.

yeah, because Europe definitely is only that one place you went and not, say, a bloody continent that goes from the arctic to the mediterranean.

between the shitty english and the complete bullshit you're spouting i'm wondering if you're on psychedelics or from India and farming for clout. surely Americans aren't this dumb... oh wait.

wait wait wait, debian is at the top of your list and red hat is outdated? i take it you're running sid then?

the question is, do i ever not? it's generally just easier as i tend to have massive stockpiles of nearly all required intermediate ingredients lying around, no reason to set up a full production line when just a couple containers would suffice. as for the spaghetti: occasionally.

you are an absolute legend.

512 tends to be sufficient for most non-gaming usecases. if it starts running out i'd recommend using a usb3 or 4 external nvme ssd for the VM drives if possible as VM drives tend to take the most disk space. also, you should try to use sparse disks wherever possible as those will only use the space they actually need instead of allocating the entire disk on creation.

Murphy's law: if it can go wrong, it eventually will. no distro is perfectly stable. opensuse does however come with a lot of recovery options out of the box so when it does eventually go wrong recovery is almost trivial. in addition, opensuse does some weird automated testing stuff that does miracles for its (especially TW's) stability. for reference: my horribly mutilated TW desktop install running on a questionable machine has proven damn near immortal, dealing with almost every kind of abuse i throw at it and being easily recoverable whenever it does break, while my ubuntu server vm just kinda rolled over and died on a reboot one day, with zero chance of it ever working again. again, it WILL break but TW doesn't break significantly more often and it makes recovery really easy in most cases. if anyone's trash talking it, they either have no idea what they're talking about or they're just downright malicious. it's a good distro.

i'm not a machine dammit

not gonna lie... you'll probably be fine with anything starting at i5/ryzen 5 and 16G RAM. decent midranger basically. i do more than that on an old i5-7200U with 8G of RAM nowadays and it hasn't let me down yet. packet tracer is also pretty lightweight, unlike GNS3 for example. most of the trouble with VMs tends to be memory usage and the type of hypervisor used so i'll just tell you what i tell everyone: get 16 gigs and windows pro and use Hyper-V. the interface is garbage but it's pretty fast and it's a first-party microsoft product so you've got a lot less risk of running into compatibility issues.

concerning Lenovo/Superfish: it's purely the principle. they chose to actively harm their users' privacy and ended up causing a massive security incident through sheer incompetence. any company that has shown such an outrageous level of greed and stupidity should never be trusted again, at least when it comes to security.

other than that: every company ships bloat, every company has the occasional design flaw and i don't think Lenovo is any more risky than any other company nowadays. just make sure to reinstall windows cause in my experience most of the bloat is installed from the factory and only a small fraction is actually reinstalled after a clean installation. there's also the option of switching to linux but if you'd be willing to do that you probably wouldn't be worrying about suspicious bloatware right now.

good luck with finding the right laptop. i don't think that from an objective standpoint Lenovo is a particularly bad choice, i just think they're disgusting for pulling that stunt.

honestly, i would... if only for the fact that libreoffice supports more different file formats than ms office does. just set it up for ms office compat and you're good to go. also, clients are one thing but it's the servers that really tick me off. it's the idea that ease of management is more important than security. i can understand using windows server for the stuff where it just really shines and it's not a big trade-off in security but i've seen it used in places where it just doesn't belong. file servers? consider reconsidering. web servers? please tell me there's a reverse proxy in front. and when i ask them "why?" they just answer with "we've got nobody who knows linux" like you can just stop learning once you've finished school. i know commandlines can be a bit scary at first but you're a sysadmin, you studied for this. sorry for the rant but it really gets on my nerves.

at this point i'm wondering why people still take microsoft seriously, or worse, use their software in any context where security is involved.

"are you treating me like i'm stupid?" "prove me wrong"

it feels a bit open to interpretation to me, but i'm pretty sure that's what they intended. we know the deal is honored, Prez is probably still alive, whether she was in the backseat or on base and that's all that really matters to me. honestly, i'd be glad to see at least Comic, Dip, Kaiser and Galaxy being alright but i can understand why they decided to leave it out.

I don't think it's stated anywhere that Monarch wasn't doxxed. Frost only calls out Mick and Dip but in the following cutscene it's implied all of Hitman's names got out, including Monarch and Prez.

it adds a bit of challenge as you're restricted to planes without an AOA limiter and the most nimble one of those is still technically an interceptor. other than that it's just voicelines and a bit of extra drama in the final battle as she literally passes out.