Interesting, never heard of Wazuh until now. That looks closer to what Trellix allows.
The guy in charge of picking endpoint security products (whose team writes these rules) has tried Defender and found it lacking in comparison. Also, that link is about historical search for threat hunting, so I’m not sure if it’s the correct one.
Edit: I just saw the section about writing detections, but that seems to be more of a reactive than proactive approach. It still does the detection from searches.
On the enterprise side, we use McAfee/Trellix and we’re pretty much glued to them for endpoint security. Why? Nobody else allows you to write custom YARA rules straight to the IPS engine like Trellix does.
Every other vendor only allows you to use rules they have defined for you and doesn’t give you that low level access. It’s frustrating because their support is dogshit too, but my company has niched itself into a corner.
Additional reason along with what others have said: my mom has been massively consuming books on Prologue. It’s easier to keep her on a single app than to switch her to ABS or Plappa.
I’ve been using Plappa while waiting for Prologue. Pretty solid app so far.
It’s been the Prologue developer’s next biggest priority on their roadmap. Apparently it’s coupled with the v4 Swift rewrite. I just saw it in the subreddit posted about 3 weeks ago.
ABS TestFlight is constantly full is one reason lol.
I’m looking forward to when Prologue v4 comes out and finally supports ABS. After that, I can finally move myself and my family to ABS and I’ll be one step closer to removing Plex.
I've recently been working on this kind of migration as well (but to Fedora instead), so I can speak from my own experiences:
- Cloud storage: I've heard fewer issues with Google Drive and Dropbox, but I had tried syncing OneDrive and ran into some issues. I ended up purchasing a license to Insync a while back, which was a bit overkill for what I needed it to do. I'm still working on weaning myself off OneDrive entirely and instead going to self-hosted cloud sync.
- Software installs: there are a ton of different methods to do software installs on Linux these days. I think Synaptic only does apt (it's in the name!), but a lot of apps are distributed through flatpak, AppImage, or even Snaps.
- Native packages tend to work better with your desktop environment in terms of theming but any library dependencies will get installed with them, while the others are easier to distribute and include the dependencies with them.
- Other advice:
- Play around with different distros and desktop environments until you find something you're really comfortable in.
- Make a list of your required apps and verify which distro's native capabilities may or may not meet your needs.
- It took me a few tries before settling on Fedora KDE spin, particularly because KDE had a feature I really wanted: per monitor wallpaper settings without having to install a separate app. I've found that many other KDE apps are really nice too, so I'm sticking with it. KDE also puts me in a familiar desktop environment coming from Windows as well.
- One irritation I've experienced: gaming-centric hardware is designed for Windows and if you have stuff designed around that, it's going to become very obvious. Yes, there's open source projects that help adapt them for Linux. But they are nowhere near equivalent and generally they lack maintainers to keep them going.
- I have a Stream Deck that on Windows, I used it for monitoring hardware temps. On Linux, you get app launcher buttons at best.
- My mouse is a Logitech G604 Lightspeed. Piper + libratbag does a pretty good job at trying to support it, but it's middling at best and unfortunately looking at the repo, they're in pretty desperate need of maintainers.
This is my own personal (and recent) experiences and I'm pretty new to using a Linux DE for a main OS too, so anything I say could be incorrect and I welcome suggestions/corrections.
Thanks for the info. I wonder if it’s just the older Intel laptops that need the catchup then.
The only caution I would provide on Framework is their relative lack of BIOS updates: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/
They don’t have a BIOS updater for Linux (yet) and they have a history of overpromising stable updates. I get they’re hamstrung by upstream providers, but it’s a bad look on them to basically deliver a promised Thunderbolt update 1.5 years after announcing it. The CEO did say at least that they’ve hired on a new development team to get things moving, so hopefully they’ll be able to catch up.
Everything else I’ve heard about Framework is stellar.
Back in college during finals week, the school would do pancake parties for everyone studying. It was apparently a tradition stretching over 30 years.
Yep, you forgot Palo Alto’s GlobalProtect telemetry allowing for remote code execution. A perfect 10.
More famous than Genghis Khan? That’s an achievement.
Reading the article, it sounds like this might be it for Suyu if the pastebin is to be believed. The development team kinda imploded and the code used the Switch SDK, which makes it toxic to continue development legally.
One thing to keep in mind with ALL EVs when shopping: the advertised mileage is under certain conditions. The estimated mileage shown in your dash is under certain conditions.
The number you really need to keep an eye on is the estimated miles per kW. The Ioniq 6 has a 77.4 kWh battery on the SEL model (minimum model I would recommend), so at highway speed it was estimating me between 2.5-3 miles per kW. So for highway speed, my estimate is about 193-232 miles before empty. I actually calculated it while charging up yesterday and the miles per kW meter was fairly accurate, while the estimated remaining miles lagged behind significantly due to my largely short commute miles.
Your highway mileage will always suck. That’s why you must plan ahead accordingly.
The other thing I recommend…if you are looking now, lease, don’t buy. If you want to buy, wait for 2025 models with NACS plugs.
I cannot understate the impact Tesla has had on charging infrastructure. You will find many more NACS public chargers before finding CCS chargers (that work).
Edit: also, for the Ioniq 6: digital green exterior is the best color imho, but the green shows up best after either paint age or the right lighting. Everyone called my car black when I first bought it.
Bought mine back in October. Tesla was permanently off the table, first because of Elon, then second from all of the QA issues, shoddy quality, and months long waits to fix anything needing parts.
I went for a Hyundai Ioniq 6 instead. Absolutely love it.
Have you seen his diaperbutt? Pretty sure he’s already incontinent and just hiding it.
BYD also owns the entire supply chain, from lithium mines to battery manufacturing to car assembly to sales. Nobody else can do that right now.
And China has the overwhelming advantage in lithium supply to the rest of the world.
IIRC it’s not R&D that is the main cost of EVs these days, but the cost of the batteries themselves is still absurdly high. It’s down to $139/kWh as of Nov 2023, but keep that in perspective of an EV: a 72 kWh battery is $10k in raw material costs alone. I think I remember seeing a quote that affordable EVs (unsubsidized) can’t become a realistic goal until lithium prices break the $100 threshold.
Yeah we tried a few other systems after our main 5e campaign ended. Ars Magica, Lancer, WH40k Wrath and Glory, Blades in the Dark, Cyberpunk Red. My group is not one for roleplaying much, so we prefer crunchy systems. Lancer was great for that, and so is Pathfinder 2e.
Agreed, we’re about half a year and halfway through Abomination Vaults right now. Using PF2e with Foundry VTT has been amazing, especially with all the built-in automation.
The thing I like most about Pathfinder is how well documented their rules are. 5e had a bunch of hand wavy DM-fiat rules, while PF2e typically has a rule for almost everything.
Team Wolfas wins the NA Crystalline Conflict Regional Championship!
Team Wolfas managed to defeat Team Verkittens 3-1. It was a close fight and it was a great watch. Congrats to Wolfas!