Yeah, at least the ones I used have some kind of console/terminal you can use and often you can access BIOS and reinstall the OS if you want.

Moode maybe.

https://moodeaudio.org/

Well, I at least chuckled.

Yeah, absolutely!

I actually like the change.

It’s just that it will create a lot of work for us (especially for me and my colleague) short term. I would very much appreciate it if Google actually bothered to give an exact timeline (optimally a few months or a year in advance).

PSA: All public certificates (private internal certificates won’t be affected) will have a lifetime of only 90 days soon. Google is planning to reduce their lifetime in 2024 but considering that they haven’t given an update on this since early this year, I doubt it will happen this year.

But it will happen soon.

This will be a pain in the ass for my workplace because we primarily use Digicert and manually renewing certificates every 90 days is just impossible for use. We are currently looking into a way to switch to letsencrypt or similar.

Corporations are run by stupid humans though.

Yeah, that’s also fair. I have a tendency to overcomplicate things like this when all I wanted was a simple service.

Fair enough.

But personally I would recommend trying to setup wireguard if your router doesn’t have it integrated. It’s just so much faster than OpenVPN (usually the only built in option).

Moving to another port isn’t a bad idea though. It gives you cleaner logs which is nice.

You don’t have to host the VPN on the router. You can also host it on a separate machine or the same one that’s running the Minecraft server.

Yes, but how is it malicious to comply with the license? If the license doesn’t require the code to be usable without a backend they have fully complied. Does the license even require usable code at all?

As long as they give the source code they are required to give I don’t see any problem with it.

Depending on what OP actually wants to do it might be simpler to just install Linux normally in a VM. I recommend Hyper-v if you are using Windows Pro and if you are using Windows Home I recommend upgrading to Pro using MAS scripts or using a workaround to install Hyper-V on Home.

You could also use a hypervisor like virtualbox but they are type 2 hypervisors which are usually slower compared to type 1 like Hyper-v or KVM.

You said it was malicious though.

some companies will get creative with it and make their source available but in a way that is useless without the backend. And even if they don’t maliciously comply with the license, they can still charge for their services.

What is wrong with charging for your services?

Open source licences aren’t meant to make it impossible to earn money or anything. As long as companies comply with the licences I don’t see anything wrong with it.

If a licence wants to make it impossible to earn money they should put that in the actual licence.

You don’t have to have a technical background though. Anyone from any background could learn it if they wanted too. A technical background obviously helps though.

Also what the hell is up with everyone saying “free as beer”?

Beer isn’t free!

Are you referring to their ridiculous terms restricting what streamers could talk about?

If so how is that racist?

Edit: nvm saw your other comment. It’s still crazy to put out terms like that though.

My work use it in a limited capacity.

We primarily use Windows but some also use MacOS and some use our internal Linux spin off Ubuntu. With some internal tools and all that.

The Linux users are primarily developers and a few Linux admins and I’m pretty sure the Linux platform is maintained by a developer.

Those have existed here for a long time and we got none of those problems.

Yeah, gnome seems to be something you either hate or love.

Admittedly I haven’t used Gnome that much (because I don’t like it) but I’m in the former group, I can’t stand the UI and the UX sucks for me. Gnome really feels clunky and like change for the sake of change.

I really like KDE though. I’m also not a fan of MacOS and especially not the way they take out the menus in programs and force it to be OS integrated. I really really hate that. The program should stay inside the program and not invade my OS.