I don’t know how it works with a frequently updating OS. In my mind beaurocrats can become asses about certifying one exact version they inspected and then making users afraid that open source community can inject the next version with viruses and they can’t be sure it’s okay too. Ah, and making each certification a paid service and somehow fucking it up.

In Russia there are like two projects of local Linux with custom wine that you can buy just like other software, certified by FSB for sensitive business (I believe them being the first pieces of software to get it except specific cryptographic stuff), but I feel the reason it’s getting adopted and certified is because there are some nepotism and illegal connections with money not really changing pockets.

I see it generating less work for the helpdesk than Windows currently does. Linux can hardly brick itself without root while Windows can and has a lot of bloat and problems occuring on random on identical PCs. It also works fine on HDD and with less than 8GB of DDR3 RAM, so older hardware won’t become garbage that quick. And since users aren’t yet familiar with any Linux, there is a 5 year lag between deployment and when average users would start to dig in settings and customization parameters fixing\breaking things themselves like they do on their home machines.

It’s investing in your own working future.

Idk who downvoted that initially for it’s just a little random moment to share that. Probably, it was them being impulsive too.

It’s not a big part of me, but I struggle to contain critique of something and it leads to both actual fixes\solutions for some things and bad things happening to me for speaking out in harsh and uncultured manner.

to continue acting on their worst impulses

I feel seen.

These seem way more forgiving tho. Up to the point you can connect it hot and working and it’d go nice.

You have some code to do so?

These sockets without any holes at all look and feel like they need these. These are mostly in notebooks where you do need to secure the connection, and it feels like whenever you put it in it is ready to go off at any second.

After you properly connected it, sealing just one seems okay, isn’t it?

That’s when you use the ports placed on the motherboard in a standard verical PC case, meaning the system uses integrated graphics for the visual output instead of deticated videocard. Videocards that are put into MB at 90° are horizontal, right, but in most office setups I handle they are rare nowadays. Videocards are almost exclusively installed when you handle 3d and content rendering in demanding apps, and for office and browser stuff they are too costy after the crypto price hike and in a sanctioned Russia.

Nettops have horizontal motherboards tho.

Got it. I myself was a ‘both sides’ guy, kek, but gradually descended to just one and it’s yet to fail me.

Let’s say it’s for years, but this setup is not moving around at all and it’s one of like a hundred of machines you prepare for usage.

Today we have EXIFs and it’s better to wipe them all of these for privacy reasons. Because every picture you take otherwise contains a lot of your data like geoloc, model, exposuer, etc. That’s the angle they are yet to tackle - because most of these things are also leave us vulnerable.

It’s an interesting experiment, but why would we trust everything that Leica supposedly verified? The same shit with digital signatures and blockchain stuff. We are at the gates of the world where we have zero trust by default and would only intentionally outsource verification to third parties we trust, because penalties for mistakes are growing each day.

Or sitting on the edge of the row leaving empty sits blocked.

I tried but I couldn’t.

sad squatting in adidas noises

There’s always a time to learn good thing from others.

Neither does Russian. We only share right-hand rule from physics.

Can you, ehm, involve some psychological tricks?

1. Say beforehand that you are recording and explain how to turn the mic off\on to get their attention to the audio.
2. Test it with each of them to double down on that.
3. If that place is big (even if it’s not), use speakers to send there all the inputs to amplify the volume. They subconsciously get used to hearing themselves from the back and losing that feel makes them a little uncomfortable so they walk back to the mic. Just be careful not to launch a feedback loop of mic-speakers playing a human centipede to the eeeEEEEICK sound deafening everyone.

That is possible with (some splitters? and) a laptop.

But if you want to turn it into something basic but more fun (that your department may later use for more than lectures, so you can even ask for some funding), for a good cheap setup for nice recordings you’d need a laptop, a pair of headphones for yourself, a basic audio mixer you can get second hand with usb, a pair of dynamic mics (condensed are more specialized and too precize, that’s the next level) and a bunch of cords for them and said speakers. Mixer is important to take in multiple inputs and level their volume independently, turn them off at will, all in physical buttons\sliders.

And if you want to go superfrugal, fing a way to grab multiple audio channels with your laptop, use OBS for recording, add each channel and level them here, and use stupid ass webcam-tier mics aimed in a general direction where a group of speakers (teacher, students) appear, then right click at every input audio channel and play with it’s built-in filters for noise cancellation and compression, but be careful, because it can easily cancel out everything spoken (that totally didn’t happen to me a couple of times, lol).

I grew to be mweh about PhylosophyTube, but they did a good entry video into that discourse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyzd_a6vLWY

9\11 and other attacks turned security measures to 11, it’s hard to roll them back and you’d be criticized if you want them to.

Probable. And Reddit didn’t want to do so initially because, of many reasons, this way they also offload the liability on Imgur.