Not really. The first local login to configure it requires a Plex account. And that account times out maybe monthly? It seems every few months when I remote to the Plex server it wants the plex account to login.

The problem with Plex is it isn’t fully hosted. Plex controls user passwords. You can’t use it without logging into their servers.

Preventing users from breaking their machines unless they really work to bypass the defaults is a good thing. It’s the same path all major Linux distros have followed by doing things like disabling the root account at install. The entire ethos of distros like NixOS is to not be able change your own OS unless you actively go out of your way.

The important part is that you can change it.

Obviously an elevated super user like linux has would be much more secure,

NTFS access control entries are more secure than traditional Unix owners. It’s why Linux copied NTFS style ACE file permissions years ago.

F/ ?

It doesn’t break anything to add privileges. It’s only a security risk.

There are free dynamic DNS services so you don’t need to pay for a static ip. I like noip.com.

If build volume is a limitation, I’ve seen all sorts of snap together plates you could crib from. For example I recently printed this pacman boardgame. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5396911

The interlocks are completely hidden by the overhangs of the other plates. Once snapped together, you can’t see that it is made of separate parts.

It must be c# because of foreach but the arguments aren’t right. I pasted into an online c# and it errored out. Maybe the screen capped cursor is blocking something?

Earthlings are fond of watching entertainers like Eartha Kitt.

It’s not clear at all from that pic that there’s a boot print in the planter. I see several small holes in the second planter that looks like squirrel digging.

I don’t get it. $1995 USD for a 3 year old exploit?

They got away with lying for 10 years without repercussions. The only thing that killed them was Musk going full Nazi.

If that were true Tesla would have been out of business years ago.

I used those as examples but I claim that most everything was C by the early 90’s. The statement that C compilers got fast which allowed it isn’t true. When a new compiler came out it was always a couple of percentage points faster than the old version. Meanwhile hardware was doubling in performance every two years.

C compilers didn’t need much optimization because there wasn’t much performance that could be optimized into code on the simple CPUs of 1992 when Doom was being written. CPU’s weren’t the superscalar multi core monsters they are today. A compiler couldn’t take advantage of reordering instructions to use multiple adders because there was only one.

having no reliance on assembly code

That’s not true. The original Doom has assembly. They replaced it for the Linux source release. But by that time PC hardware was much faster ( remember back in the 90’s performance doubled every 2 years) so it wasn’t needed.

“Planar.asm”

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_source_code_files

Before Doom (1993), almost all games were assembly.

Carmack wrote Wolfenstein 3d in C. Star Control and Dune 2 were C.

Well it’s nice to see people have moved on from thinking Bill Gates is CEO. 11 years off but getting better.

There are lots of assembly programming YouTubers. My way of scratching that itch is Arduino / ESP32. The tool chain is all C code but it’s so stripped down there’s not even an OS. It’s just your code on the hardware.

That’s been true ever since the first graduates came out knowing COBOL instead of assembly. Everything keeps getting more bloated and buggy.