Non answer but it reminds me that Britainized Indian food is the same as Americanized Chinese food. Changed enough that its actually counts as its own unique thing which I guess is cool.

There’s a lot of misinformation in this thread. Linux malware targeted at desktop users has actually become more apparent in recent years due to the growing number of users.

That didn’t use to be the case because Linux was almost exclusively used for everything except end user desktops.

What you need to understand is Linux is fundamentally more secure from the OS perspective. A good example is how there are no network listening services running like how Windows has SMB/NetBIOS which had the infamous eternal blue vulnerabilities.

That means it is highly unlikely you will be targeted by system/service level malware that exploits known vulnerabilities, so long as you stay reasonably up to date with your package manager. Add on to the fact you probably won’t be running such software like Apache or NGINX anyways.

but is it a reasonable concern?

Yes, you should still stay vigilant as a user as current malware, even for windows, typically invovles some level of social engineering.

The bonus for linux is that you should optimally never have to download executables from the browser. Anytime you do, make sure to pay close attention to what you are downloading and where from.

Some key stuff for linux:

1. Never do a curl | bash. Always download the script and peruse it to see what it actually does.

2. Always prefer packages from package manager, and be careful if using 3rd party repos such as AUR or COPR

3. Don’t download binaries from untrusted sources, and never run as sudo without knowing what it does.

Are there sufficient tools for people who don’t really know what they’re doing to be reasonably secure on Linux and will they keep up if the threat profile expands as Linux picks up more users?

Yes, I suggest you become a little bit familiar with a distro that has SELinux (ex: Fedora). It’s just a MAC security control scheme, but it adds a lot of benefit if you aren’t familiar with Linux in general.

Aside from that, you can use ClamAV for virus scanning. AV and consumer EDR on Linux isn’t that widely available due to the low amount of malware at this time, but I do expect that to slowly change as the userbase grows.

As malware detection gets better, I’m sure ClamAV will add features and functionality to keep up.

I am literally just waiting for China to catch up and knock over all 3 of these TSMC suckers.

I don’t care if they throw a 2000% tarrif on it, I will figure out a way to bypass it so I can enjoy pre inflation PC prices again when high end GPUs were going for $300, SSDs became so cheap that the HDD market actually started falling behind, and you could chuck RAM sticks around like spare change.

Lol I’m pretty sure either NYT or WP had an article last week that was like “Lebanese may finally get a chance to rid themselves of Hezbollah” as if Israel didn’t just announce to like a thousand plus villages to “evacuate away from terrorist infrastructure”

He posts his class lectures on YouTube which are worth a watch since he predicted this almost a year ago, and now he has an updated one for this semester.

I think the only thing he got wrong (for now) was the US deploying ground troops. It could still happen, but I think it’ll take some time if it ever does.

But aside from that he even guessed the details right like the IRGC shooting thousands of protesters, and Israel pushing Trump into the war, and the idea that they would mostly bomb city areas which would completely remove the chance of any revolution or regime change.

As others have said, repeaters are pretty garbage for extending wifi. Even mesh systems are nothing compared to multiple APs connected with ethernet.

For hardware if possible, I’d try to stick to using proper APs and not just reused wireless routers so that you can ensure the radio settings are properly matched automatically or manually. I prefer Ubiquiti, but they’re on the pricier side. You can get something way cheaper so long as it has configurable radio settings.

When using multiple APs, you wanna make sure that the newer standards for device roaming are on, and that they are running the same WiFi network. Make sure any repeater or AP to AP wireless function stays off.

Best thing to do is whip out the wifiman app and look at the channel map which will show you what frequency your WiFi devices are running at, as well as any overlap with other people’s routers. Assuming you’ve taken out the repeaters, the packet loss will then most likely occur from overlapping SSIDs.

Now APs are supposed to pick the most empty channel possible, but lots of times they suck at it or are just overcongested (ex: apartments). This is where you can manually configure channels to eliminate overlap.

In my personal experience, you can just consider 2.4Ghz a lost cause and leave it on auto. There’s only 3 non overlapping channels, so there’s just no chance you’ll ever get a solid signal unless you live like a solid half mile away from your neighbor.

For 5Ghz, you get a ton of more room and bandwidth to play with. Once you feel comfortable playing with the channel settings, you will discover the super secret DFS channels if you live in the US. Those channels can interfere with weather satellite data, so you should totally never use them because its not like our current administration has been budget cutting the national weather service or anything.

If you want to have some extra fun, spin up Kali linux on a laptop or anything with WiFi and run bettercap to see the inevitable smart home or IoT device spamming the airwaves causing even more packet loss.

EDIT:

If you’re on a tight budget, you can reuse the routers that you have, just know that you might not be able to change the channel settings depending on the router, and that AP to AP roaming will rely on your client devices to work, which can be a mixed bag sometimes.

The American Auto Industry has been struggling to keep pace since the 80s lmao

They only exist because they threw their money at congress to make horsecrap legislation that bans competition.

They even assassinated sedans with EPA laws that stimulates everyone to make SUVs lol.

Yeah it was the super secret drone mothership:

If that were the case, Iran would have claimed the air kills which afaik they haven’t.

Iran did claim to shoot down an F-35 last year which was an obvious lie, so I wouldn’t really put too much weight on this claim.

That being said, an F-15 is more plausible of a target against some hidden SAMs. Even Iraq shot down a prrtty decent handful of aircraft during the gulf war, despite losing their airforce in a matter of hours just because they had a crap ton of SAMs on the ground.

Not aimed at you specifically, but Iran isn’t attacking these countries because of their political or religous dogma.

They’re attacking them because they are all valuable oil vassal states of the USA. None of them are nominally neutral because they all have several US staging bases, supplies, and armaments that are only there to protect US interests.

It would be pointless for Iran to expend its entire ammo stock to take out one carrier strike group when the US can just deploy 4 more. They would fall into a similar trap as Ukraine and enter a scenario where they will ultimately lose.

Nothing is more damaging to the US in this war than money, and the fastest way to cost them money is to effectively delete the oil trade in the region, which means they’ll hit a ton of undefended infrastructure.

Yeah I highly doubt Iran offered to resume talks after they bombed Tehran during the talks.

Buddy they literally have a 24/7 live video feed available, with enough resolution to make out a sheet of paper.

That’s how they kept their eyes on the supreme leader’s exact movements.

China even published snapshots of a ton of locations immediately after they were struck.

marshal law.

Lol this used to be so common in Pakistan, that the natural dialect and dictation caused people to pronounce it as one word: Marshalah

Define right wing because the last time I used that insult, it was against users spamming DNC propaganda lol

If you want a very good in depth answer: https://youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo

The gist of it is that the USA, KSA, and Israel all want Iran’s current government to be toppled as they are a direct military/economic/political threat.

What’s the logic here? Not just the conspiracy. But why now? Why at all? Is Israel gaining something that I’m not seeing? Destabilization the main goal? What’s the USA gaining here?

Israel is an ethnostate so they do ethnostate things, which means constantly attacking anyone they view as “not us”. Iran happens to be on the top of that list after Israel’s former enemies, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and KSA were passified via the US or Britain.

The US and KSA also want to secure their oil regime, and now that Venezuela is dealt with, Iran is next.

Why does the USA love Israel so much?

They have a significant economic and military investment in Israel, and many of those Israeli billionaires are a part of AIPAC, which successfully lobbies the US to do what they want.

A bonus is Christian zionism which reinforces the idea that Israel must exist to cause the second coming of christ, or the messiah for the Jewish zionists.

Yeah “accidentally missed” an INS + GPS + TV + Laser guided 21st century bomb.

Just like how they “accidentally” bombed practically every Hospital in Gaza.

Or the time that the US “accidentally” bombed the Chinese embassy.

Even the Indian Air Force only missed their target by 50m meters back in 2019 with their crappy Israeli guide bombs. 600m is an order of magnitude larger.

Before it was even run as “accidentally missed”, people like you were claiming the IRGC had a missile launcher nearby that failed to launch properly.

Because again, 21st century ballistic missiles just automatically explode upon hitting the ground in the event of a misfire. There’s just no such thing as failsafes and fuses.

If I dropped a WWII VT shell, it would just explode immediately right.

Insert joke about Israel owning the USA with a dog leash here

Everytime they say this, they go out of their way to find opposition which they can then claim is 50% of people because they interviewed 2 people.

Also the old picking the stupidest person in a crowd for an interview.

iran.liveuamap.com

I think the “cooler heads” actually delayed this for a couple of months. Netanyahu kept showing up because of that, and it was probably him who eventually coaxed Trump into it.

If the pentagon thought a regime change was possible, they would have capitlized on the protests.

Instead they waited until after it fizzled out, and then reinforced Iran’s regime by killing their leader and bombing a school full of children.

That’s highly indicative of Israel’s method of operation, not necessarily the US.