Posted on 11/06/2025 9:34:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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“93% of all breaches start with a phishing email.”
That’s why we have one system dedicated to finances, shopping, banking, etc., and absolutely ZERO email accounts on it.
The ones with email might phish, but at least they can’t get serious data and info.
“...go in and click a button answering if you like support to continue one more year...”
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Where do I find this “button”?
They won’t attack you. You will let them in.
I can vouch for Geekcom mini PCs. I helped my friend set one up with his new LED monitor. Geekcom should be upgradable RAM and NVME. But you must consult spec and/or AI on this.
My friend bought this Geekcom mini. Minis are legit. For their small size they use smaller cooler Laptop RAM, cooler laptop CPUs and smaller motherboard.
Think of them as laptop electronics in a small box, smaller than a red brick, that you hook up to a monitor, mouse, keyboard.
He bought and check out its dimensions....... 4.6×4.4×1.9-inch metal chassis >>>>>>>>>
The writer is obviously a computer geek. His solution to install Linux to work side by side with Windows 10 is above my paygrade. By the time I get by the aggravation and hiring a geek I’m better off s\just surrendering to Microsoft, although I’m considering Apple.
Bkmk computer
If that system is connected to any network, it’s subject to breach. “Assume breach” is a mentality adopted by most cyber firms for a reason. I’ve seen multimillion-dollar SCADA systems get breached by one single Internet-connected system. 93% isn’t 100%. That 7% consists of other vectors for compromise such as unpatched systems.
To reiterate: Linux is not natively secure. Security through obscurity is not a cyber strategy. Many people think, “Oh, I’m on Linux, I’m safe.” You’re safER, but you’re not natively impenetrable.
Finally! Thank God and the devos
But that would militate against certain promoters that insist that you do not switch to any one of the 1,000 different Linux distributions then there is something wrong with you. Actually, very few Windows users even search how to install W/11 without TMP, and turn off/disable MS telemetry, and how to make W/11 more like W/7/10..
Those who just use what is handed to them and do not seek customization actually may be more adaptable to Linux. For me, the latter simply does not justify the time and energy to switch to a linux distro (PCLinuxOS being my current favorite, though I do not use proprietary multimedia codecs) and engage in the extensive customization I can obtain in Windows (via third party and reg. files), thank God.
However, there comes a point in the lifecycle of every Linux distribution where it is deemed “End of Life” (EOL). - https://tuxcare.com/resources/learning/end-of-life-linux/
Reminds me of what you were trying to do with porteus was it? (The ,inux with no persistence... cant remember which one now you run? i never could get wither porteus or the other linux with no persistence to boot- i tried and tried, emailing the help groups for both- those linuxes just did not like my computer. I did get one similar running, but coukdnt stsnd the gui.
Y3p, been loo,ing at those on ebay. L3novo computers, older ones, are also very uograd3able and easy to work on, however, th3y are a chinese brand 8 beleive
That's the XP dilemma.
Windows XP did (and does) EVERYTHING 90% of all PC users need their PC to do, and 90% of what the other 10% need their PC to do.
The problem for Micro$loth is that they created the most popular OS that ever was, and probably that ever will be. In 2006, 76% of all PCs on the planet ran on XP. If they had gone ahead with the development of 64-bit XP (as opposed to promoting -- pardon my French -- Windows Vista), the majority of the PC users on earth would have remained contented with it.
XP was the last OS that M$ created that people lined up to buy. Everything since then, M$ has had to bribe or strongarm consumers into buying.
One pther idea for safety for say online banking, or signing up for stuff kr whatever where you need creeit card info is to boot and run a linux from a usb drive and only use that for banking or buying online. And keep cr3eit card info and such off ypur main computer, your daily driver so to speak. Wish i had thought of doing that long ago. Id have to reinstall my daily driver computer to do it now though.
Where do you get older windows versions from safely? Cznt even get anything but 11 25h or whatever newest version is from ms site i dont think?
Yup. I realize that we’re all sitting ducks and waiting for the other shoe to drop. (How’s that for a mixed metaphor?)
Ours is connected to the internet. No network other than that, and absolutely no cloud. The cloud would be convenient a lot of the time, but we don’t trust it. It’s someone else’s computer. (Not like the low-IQ people who think it’s an actual cloud, and that rain can impact it.)
We do the best we can.
How do you use virtuwl credit card? Ive been loo,ing for way to do something like that- gift cards only work in the us, so cant use them for any ove4seas purdhases unfortunately
That’s a good idea — running from a usb. I have no clue how to do that, but it’s something to look into.
Sorry, shoulda inc,uded in last post... where did ypu get lot version of windows?and it is it safe?
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