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Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account

From RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account
Date 2025-02-08 15:43 +0000
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On 2025-02-08, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-02-08 2:27 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-02-08, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-02-07 12:41 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-02-07, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-02-06 7:44 p.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/6/2025 4:18 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> when I see Winblows now it just looks inferior.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What about it looks inferior to what you're using (Debian 12)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I haven't run a Linux DE in a few years probably, so I am curious how
>>>>>> they're looking and feeling these days.
>>>>>
>>>>> KDE is spectacular, the rest is underwhelming. However, most people
>>>>> using Linux aren't looking for something pretty since they believe that
>>>>> the OS should stay out of the way. They would want resources to
>>>>> primarily be available to the software rather than the operating system
>>>>> itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> Still, KDE compares very favourably with the commercial competition.
>>>>
>>>> To me KDE is kind of "gimmicky." I like Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce much better.
>>>> (Mate and Xfce the way Linux Mint sets them up, not necessarily "generic"
>>>> versions.) I don't like "standard" Gnome at all.
>>>>
>>>> That's one of the advantages of Linux. Lots of choice, not "one size fits
>>>> all."
>>>
>>> I find just about everything about KDE to be perfect. The fact that it
>>> allows me to know how much wear there is on my battery by default is
>>> spectacular. In Windows, you need BatteryBar to get that information or
>>> to run a command in the terminal. It also makes theming easy unlike
>>> Gnome. Desktop effects are also there if you want to make a change or
>>> modify how it works. Meanwhile, it doesn't feel heavy at all and I found
>>> it to be rock solid. It will definitely be my choice of desktop
>>> environment going forward.
>> 
>> I understand. I don't like KDE. Too "busy" for me. But that's the advantage
>> of Linux with the ability to choose and use what you like.
>> 
>> As for battery health I can just type inxi -B in a terminal. Now I see I
>> have a discrepency. The BIOS shows "excellent battery health" and inxi -B
>> shows 67% health on my newest laptop. I'm guessing inxi -B is right since
>> I'm only getting about 7 hours battery life on this Latitude 5300. It's
>> supposed to be somewhere around ten hours (or even 12).
>> 
>> inxi is useful for a lot of things.
>
> 67% health suggests that you routinely charge it to 100% and let it 
> drain to 0%. I never do. I charge to 80% and usually charge before it 
> gets to 40%. As a result, even after two years since my battery change, 
> my health is at 98%. It was the same on the Mac before I got rid of it.

I haven't had the computer long enough to "routinely" do anything to it. But 
I honestly beleive that these Latitudes were used for desktop computers at 
Idaho Power and we're always attached to Docks — so constantly charging to 
100%.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-24 14:00 -0500
  Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-24 17:39 -0500
    Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-26 03:46 +0000
      Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-26 10:52 -0500
        Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-27 05:50 +0000
          Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-27 08:26 -0500
            Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-06 21:09 +0000
              Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-02-06 19:55 -0500
            Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 16:18 -0500
              Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-02-06 19:44 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 19:55 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 09:05 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 17:41 +0000
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 12:45 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-07 20:13 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 07:27 +0000
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 02:33 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 08:28 +0000
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-08 09:06 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 15:43 +0000
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-08 11:06 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-08 17:08 +0000
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-02-09 08:23 -0500
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-02-10 07:56 +0000
                Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-02-10 18:50 +0000
          Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-30 14:41 -0600
            Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-30 14:46 -0600
  Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-26 01:48 -0500

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