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I get the usefulness of technical telemetry such as kernel version, RAM, disk space, processor type, etc... but NIC MAC? HDD serial? WTF?

Focus instead on enforcing standards' compliance so i can open a .docx with any program and be usable anywhere.

Then focus on enforcing FOSS software in public services but don't bother with a "european linux distro", that's just a waste of resources. There are already a great deal of distros around. Considering geopolitics i'd go with SuSe or some other EU-based distro.

Meanwhile Dave from Accounting has password123 written on a post-it on the monitor.

Whonix or Qubes OS?

Oh, tariffs... i thought they were stating the obvious: christmas.

3. No shit?
4. That kinda makes sense... same strategy MS uses.
5. Is it though? Yes, i know about OpenJDK.
6. Less likely to crash, sure, it'll just hog memory instead...
7. Aaaaah now we're getting somewhere...
8. eeww

But this isn’t a significant issue if you’re a large financial enterprise with lots of money to hire lots of devs.

Lots of money, sure. For devs? Not really.

So does mIRC.

Unless you have a locked-down router and your ISP doesn't allow bridge-mode.

Gentoo!

XFCE doesn’t support multiple monitors with different refresh rates.

I have an LG TV and an old Asus monitor, i'd wager their refresh rates differ but i can't confirm atm.

Technically speaking: nothing really, provided you have time and skills.

Except maybe not having access to NDA-ed binary blobs or something...

But the status... /s