I work at an MSP 99% of all machines we deploy for our clients are windows based. The oobe /bypassnro is just mandatory for initial setup. Yes, there are ways around it post setup but it’s just that much extra to do.

Having a local admin account for domain or azure/entra joined is still very useful. I don’t get why MS refuses to accept this. (Money/data harvesting aside, we all know the real reason, just wish they’d just admit to it).

Not no, it will then hallucinate entire emails just to have something show

Fair enough. I also run a local pihole too with a fairly extensive lists. (~2.2mil). It’s mostly a concern for work. We have freedom of browser choices, but extensions are monitored. Though I can’t make use of pihole on my work laptop.

I’ve been meaning to do more testing with it’s built in blocking. Guess we’ll have to see when the time comes.

You need bigger tools. An 8+ pound sledge hammer. Just be sure the smashing happens on concrete or any hard flat surface. Hit the area where the platters would be. Should only take 1 - 3 hits a piece. Once you hear sand inside you’re done.

My 30lb sledge delete drives in one hit usually. Turns the platters back into dust lol.

I’ve been using Vivaldi more and more. Been aware of it for years, even used it back in beta. It’s almost too kustomizable. It boarders on being an OS with how much is built in.

One of the best, for the time.

My default setting. Big hands =\

Patience, and knowing when to look for documentation. Keep notes of stuff as you go. Just like in real IT, documentation can go a long way. Forgetting simple things can cause everything to fall apart at some point.

That a lot of the lower level components are already there. Id imagine it’s easier to recycle working code than redo from scratch.

Browsers, at the core are just file browsers. Websites are just files on another computer.

Not too mention the scary browser warnings. It’s not a good look tbh if this is your portfolio. Lots of great considerations and tips here already though.

Still a ton of devices with no c port. Even if op went that route they’d likely have to keep an adapter around too. I recently picked up a hybrid A/C drive. Using the C port side always feels like it’s gonna just snap off lol.

Idk, worst I get is about 5 seconds of silence

I still use it, often. And no ads either with wireguard going to my pi-hole.

Ive been tempted to setup a Honeypot like this lol

True horrors

Like, that’s what vpns and jump boxes are for at the very least.

Maybe, if the system taught more of HOW to think and not WHAT. Basically more critical thinking/deduction.

This same kinda topic came up back when I was in middle/highschool when search engines became wide spread.

However, LLM’s shouldn’t be trusted for factual anything, same as Joe blows blog on some random subject. Did they forget to teach cross referencing too? I’m sounding too bitter and old so I’ll stop.

It’s not so much the thermometer temp here in Louisiana. It’s the 80-99% humidity. At these levels your body’s main heat defense: Sweat - no longer works as it can’t evaporate fast enough or at all. Then it becomes an insulator and a feedback loop of hell. Like being wrapped up in a wet electric blanket.

I can remember a few summers in the desert where it would reach 130’s. And as a kid back in the early 90’s, we had the hole in the ozone too. No joke we had ozone warnings, and no outside recess cuz of it.

Plenty of summer nights were the temp never dropped below ~100f

Strangely, we often got winter temps below freezing.