Solaar is the one I use

Had the pleasure of installing some HPE proprietary crap on RHEL the other day.

After the cli installer ran it printed: rebooting now.

It then killed PID 1 to force the reboot ...

We were flabbergasted. Why would the first and only method of asking the system to reboot be to shoot the system in the head?

Because the linked article states that owls can rotate their heads 270°which is "almost 360°" according to the headline and post title.

When you see videos of owls this confusion becomes more apparent when owls don't stop rotating their head when they look right behind them. They will often turn their head even further which suggests they can do a 360° turn, when in fact they cap out at 270°.

NAT is not a security feature. Your firewall blocks incoming traffic, not NAT. It introduces new complexity that now needs to be solved.

In corpo environments you have to struggle with NAT traversal for VoIP communication.

In home networks "smart" devices attempt to solve it with shit like uPnP and suddenly you get bigger holes in your network security than before. You could find countless home network printers on shodan because of this. Even though (or maybe because) they were "behind" NAT.

NAT is just security by obscurity and actually not really security at all. What's protecting you from incoming scans, etc is your network firewall. That firewall works just the same for IPv6. Blocking incoming traffic for your home network is usually the default setting in your ISP issued router anyway.

Working as a network engineer, NAT in a large scale customer environment can quickly devolve into a clusterfuck. Many times we had week long reachability issues due to intermediate ISPs NATing unexpectedly.

My nemesis is GCNAT, which adds another layer of NAT because some ISPs don't have enough public IP space for all their customers to go around.

I have a customer where their ISP just assigned one of their locations public IPv4 addresses. Neither the customer, nor the ISP owned that address space. Their logic was that this address space is registered on a different continent, so it's basically fair game to use it themselves. Granted, they only route it internally for a MPLS network, but still...

What I'm getting at is that NAT increases complexity and breaks properly routed end to end connections. Everyone kinda fucks up with NAT, especially ISPs (in my opinion anyway).

I can really recommend the IPv6 study material from the major internet registries (took the v6 courses from RIPE NCC myself).

IPv6 is so much simpler for subnetting, writing firewall rules,... IMO the addresses just look kinda clunky.

Printing is one of the few things that I find much easier and more reliable on Linux (and Mac) than on Windows. Automatic discovery of a printer has always worked for me. Both at home and at work. With printers from Brother, HP, Samsung, Epson and Oki.

On Windows however, the same printers only works for about 30% of print jobs. My family's Samsung printer only printed from my arch and fedora workstation.

At my office recently our print server kicked the bucket and windows user couldn't print anymore. Mac and Linux users (both use CUPS) had no issues talking to the printers directly.

Just anecdotal evidence ofc.

While the technology likely won't go away, some of the companies behind the AI push take huge losses and may collapse. OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft and the bunch are spending insane amounts of money on datacenter buildout that may never return a profit.

Most AI subscriptions for instance are priced under cost to lock users in. However, unlike traditional services, it's trivial for a user to migrate to a competitor or (eventually) run a local model. Currently that market doesn't return a profit and it's questionable if it ever will

Increasingly, this looks like a death spiral of tech giants where nobody can admit to the sunk cost fallacy. Unfortunately these companies are in everybody's investment or retirement funds, so when they crash the economy will crash with it. I think that would be the "AI failing". Not the technical aspect, but rather the economical aspect.

Codeberg

Probably "Adam Something"

Got a free family subscription through my work. Before that I was paying for it.

1Password is just great. Wonderful Linux support (desktop app, cli client, identity agent for SSH).

The major update to version 8 was rolled out to Linux first, actually.

One of the few pieces of software where you feel that the developers care about their product.

Seems like you are in luck https://www.protondb.com/app/2767030

Off topic, but I love Hurricane Electric's website. Simple, but not ugly. Straight to the point. I find it quite charming in contrast to the hyper designed, but barely functional sites of other companies. (fuck you HPE)

Which makes it all the more impressive

Fedora is so, so nice. I have it on all my personal computers.

At my work they only tolerate Ubuntu. My God, it can be so frustrating. Snap gets in the way constantly. Somehow Ubuntu LTS seems to have a knack for precisely choosing the worst package versions for a workstation.

Fedora on the other hand just gets out of my way and lets me get shit done.

You can try flatpak repair. Or it could be a leftover .desktop file for that app.

You can check if that app is still installed with flatpak list