No open source Flash alternatives? Disappointing.

My company has decided to dedicate me and another coworker to go computer-2-computer and check if they have TPM 2.0 support.

I’m doing my best to push a Linux switch in our workplace!

This is why I chose an ASUS nuc + external bay-storage for my home networking needs, felt like synology NAS would be a limiting factor.

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Not nearly as user friendly for the non-networking types hence why I recommend one with a fancy GUI.

Edit: Also, I suspect Microsoft will do Microsoft things and hide/prevent their telemetry from being blocked, ultimately I don’t know the state of Windows right now as I’ve made the switched to Linux many years ago.

Ah I figured Portmaster was only for Linux, I dabbled around their software and found it quite good!

I think the reason I stopped using it in lieu of OpenSnitch was because 1) most features were locked behind a subscription and 2) already had PiHole running so the firewall wasn’t something I really needed.

Regardless thanks for letting me know it works for Windows, I’ll started recommending it over Glasswire!

Quick way of accomplishing the “de-bloating” of windows is by 1) managing your own DNS and blocking telemetry connections network wide (quite easy to do with PiHole + Docker Engine) or 2) installing Glasswire and blocking connections on the specific device however, I believe Glasswires Firewall is subscription based so this may be a turn-off for people.

Either work and are more efficient than digging around your Windows install and finding all the different variants of the same bloatware.

And lying isn’t the answer either.

drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux

I dunno man, Debian makes it pretty easy.

1. Prerequisites

x64 Kernel headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

2. Debian 12 Installation

Disable secure boot & add ‘Contrib’ repository to sources list:

sudo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Install Nvidia driver

sudo apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

Restart system.

Bonus points for optimal performance follow CUDA doc & OptiX doc for Ray-Tracing & utilization of Nvidia cuda cores.