2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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    People don’t care about security until they get hit. Source: working in IT for 10 years.

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      And then suddenly they care a lot and do all the wrong things for wrong reasons because they know shit

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        “I don’t worry about missing security patches. I just have 5 anti-virus tools running simultaneously, they keep me safe.”

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          And all of the anti-virus tools are 50 updates behind so they’re essentially non-functional bloatware even moreso

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        Effective immediately employees must update passwords every week, and cannot match any past password.

        Managers will receive hardware security dongles to make their logins easier. Employees may feel free to register their personal hardware security dongles on site but off the clock.

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      Even IT people don’t give a shit about security until it’s way too late. Source: getting out of a job where the median age of a server is around 3-4 years old with no updates and runtimes hard installed outside repositories.

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        I think this is just kind of a side effect of capitalism.

        If it’s costing them in the short term, and the results aren’t evident or won’t be seen until the long term, they almost always won’t do it.