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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Definitely. You see it across all aspects of life: basic misunderstanding of risk everywhere.