I mostly need it for running various graphic design and editing software that I can't get to run reliably on Linux. Looking at the options I think that 10 with WinUtil & airgapping is probably going to be the angle here. Telemetry stripping is certainly an important part of it though my #1 concern is minmaxing performance on somewhat dated hardware. Thank you for the detailed insight, I really appreciate it.
They already tried it, it was called Windows S mode and was horribly unpopular.
For all intents and purposes it already does and has been doing for a long time, through SmartScreen, usually but not always triggered by the MotW that the average user won't even know about. There's exceptions for very popular binaries, because the licensing prices are exorbitant and it would affect users too much especially when you are not allowed to run them at all, but ask some independent windows developers how much of a pain in the ass it is. That'll change with time, and at some point you'll end up being unable to run any local application when some indian fucks something up, just like how it happens with the gay aids os. That's why nobody should ever allow them to take an inch in the name of false security promises, later down the line it'll be the whole arm.
Either that, or instead of mobile Linux getting these features there could be some specially made device that's entirely separate for this use case that is not a cellphone. I might be wrong, but that does not really exist, at least where I live. I used to use both a separate physical device and a separate mobile device that I only had for banking. But now they have largely phased out separate physical devices for some retarded "app" that also has to be tied to you. Lets increasingly force everyone to have a single point of entry into their entire personal life and all of their files. It really is all so tiresome... Who asked for this? Oh right, the average user that uses one password for everything stored somewhere in plain text, the same type of user who hated being "forced" to do even a minimal amount of thinking in order to prevent getting butt fucked in the ass by a random jeet. - So, so tiresome...
Personally, I had a good experience with NTLite (paid) for customizing ISOs. Even Windows 10 IoT LTSC 2021 can be cut down further. Then just run WinUtil.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pyotp
import pyperclip
from plyer import notification
totp = pyotp.TOTP("ABCDEFG12345")
code = totp.now()
pyperclip.copy(code)
notification.notify(title='OTP Code', message=code, app_icon='/home/<username>/bin/key.ico')
I know that some companies setup Okta as app push only, so when I connect to the company VPN(for instance) on my laptop the only auth method is to tap "Accept" on my phone. There are also other similar apps where you can't extract TOTP. Luckily most of mine are Microsoft and allow me to use TOTP instead of the MS Push app, but I think that could be forced as well. These sorts of apps can also enforce Play Integrity or whatever the hell it's called.
Speaking of, I have an unused playground T420 I installed Arch on. What should I try on it next? Debian 13? Devuan? Artix? EndeavorOS?
Yeah, as @DavidS877 says, you will often see it implemented as push only. Same with Microsoft Authenticator, and I'm sure many other shitty security theatre apps I just haven't encountered yet. Extremely fucking irritating when you have a nice workflow of just storing the TOTP secrets in your KeePass vault.
The way around it might have been with Anbox, except development stopped on that last year in favour of Waybox. As you can probably guess from the name, it only works in Wayland.
Guix, or NixOS if you prefer the trannyd version. Declarative config operating systems are pure kino. Also, I'd recommend aiming for a P16 Gen 1 if you like bigger screens, they are really, really great. Strongly considering buying off my work one once the turnover hits.
The only time this has happened to me was due to BIOS issues, check if yours is up to date, and double check to make sure something in your settings isn't fucky either.
Any experience with Ubuntu Touch? Fairphone 5 with it do be looking quite juicy, seems like 99% of stuff works OOTB, sans stuff like dual sim or wireless charging.
Huh, they go for about as much as I paid for a brand new L14 G5. I know, buying ChinkPads new, retarded, guess I didn't want to risk getting a worn battery. But I like it, and I prefer the smaller size since I want a laptop to actually be light and portable to be a stop-gap between my home PC and my smartphone rather than a replacement for my PC. Dropping in an LTE modem was also a worthwhile investment, feels really liberating to take it out whenever, open it up and be ready to do whatever.
I haven't gotten far enough in to really look at them too seriously. It won't be until sometime next year if I do end up moving to a Linux phone. The pine phone is the one I know about. I've heard it does have its problems. But I've also heard Linux phones have been improving a bit.
When buying a used laptop, that doesn't worry me too much. Because usually you are getting them so much lower than brand new. Even buying a battery to replace the bad one is still a lot cheaper than the full price.
Yea I ran into this at one of my old companies too. I was a devops admin and had a secret wireguard VPN running back then, but the security team was rolling out CrowdStrike and I knew I needed to kill that before it was discovered and get on the "official" VPN which didn't accept TOTP. I ended up running Okta in am emulator in Android studio. My phone doesn't have any GApps/Google services, so before we were on Duo and they just gave me a hardware device with a button to generate codes. I didn't feel like making a big deal out of it with Okta. If you push back, most companies get a box of hardware keys with their enterprise subscriptions and you can usually just request one, especially if you're a dev/admin.
I really like Gimp 3. I've been using it a lot when I need a quick image to go up with something I've written. Fuck using AI gen. Going to Unsplash or some other CC image site and combining some stuff together with my own photos always produces something I'm fine with. I've also just been paying artists when I need something designed. EU artists are fairly cheap these days, and I'll even ask them to add another 30 euro or so to the invoice out of appreciation (they're totally not use to tipping culture).
I still have a PinePhone in a box. I only played around with it a little. I need to charge it up again. If I can get it into decent shape software wise, it'd probably be worth getting the Pro. Most of my stuff is on my own services (Radicale for cal/contacts, my own e-mail, XMPP for VoIP/SMS, etc), so it shouldn't be too difficult. But a de-googled Android is good enough it just hasn't been a priority. Plus de-Googled Androids generally have better cameras too (Pixel/Samsung/Sony/etc.) and I'd hate to give that up.
One of the settings of this piece of shit prevents the actual reason behind denying the request being shown to the user. To combat abuse and slow down the arms race of bypassing checks, supposedly. If you can't get in even after enabling JS, run your IP against DroneBL. It's the default IP blacklist on a lot of websites that jumped on the PoW bandwagon.I was going to a website that was using the Anubis AI anti scraping tool, and it actually blocked me.
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