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Great advice. Once all our organization’s apps were web-based with SSO, moving from Windows to ChromeOS was painless.
Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same: Don’t try switching OS *first*. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch *applications* first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives. Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is *very* easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle. I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.
If you haven’t realized by now that a Windows domain is not reliable enterprise infrastructure and should not be exposed to endpoints, maybe now is the time.
So CVE-2026-41089 (CVSS 9.8) in Windows Netlogon can be triggered by sending a username that is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA or longer. How original.
I pay for Google Workspace to host custom email domains so they don't get blocked by the cartel. And gmail has stupid AI nonsense in it (that is broken and impossible to disable without support due to the age of the account, I don't use it).
But the thing that drives me the most nuts about it is its insistence on replacing idioms with bland corpo speak.
I get that these don't translate well to other languages. But sanitizing all language down to a lowest common denominator is awful.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/116580485126011187
In olden days, I could literally sense where the electronics section was in a department store thanks to all the CRT whine.
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