Yeah, I may catch flak but I wouldn’t be inclined to ditch windows altogether. Unless you literally only do web browsing on your laptop, there’s a high likelihood you may run into a few things that need troubleshooting to get working under Linux, and dual being able to switch back to Windows seamlessly is a huge help/comfort.

If you can find the model number or service tag, that would be a big help for troubleshooting.

There should be a sticker under your laptop with a bunch of tiny text, or if I recall correctly you can use System Information. See this article

There should be a a button that you can press repeatedly to open up a boot menu - it can be the delete key, f2, etc.

Depending on how new your laptop is, you may need to disable something called “Secure Boot”. Keep in mind if your windows installation is encrypted with BitLocker or whatever else Windows is using these days. If it is encrypted, and you have secure boot enabled you may run into issues booting back into Windows - it will freak out that secure boot was disabled and require your encryption key.

At least, that’s what happened with my ROG Zephyrus M16 - I had to find my BitLocker key to boot into Windows and then decrypt it using the settings menu.

Also, if you want to be able to use both Windows and Linux - see if your laptop has an expansion port for a second hard drive. Windows historically has screwed over dual booted Linux grub with updates, and if you can just boot to a entirely different drive that won’t happen.

Plus oh-my-zsh and the powerline 10k theme - this is my go-to shell.

Oh, I think CachyOS looks interesting - I’ll try that one first. Thanks!

Shit, there are discord mods? Is there a list somewhere of popular mods/what do you recommend?

Holy shit, 35 tmux windows?! That’s insane.

I’m not that far, it’s mostly the battery life of my wireless keyboard that’s really poor. I had a Logitech k830 that was amazing, but looks like they don’t make it anymore and the replacement K400 chews through AA batteries.

Luckily, I have three of them 🤣

I’ll try picking it up again, I do absolutely love the touch pad + trigger to click - I just never got very far with typing.

Man, if you figure it out, I’d be blown away. I’d love to use it instead of my janky wireless keyboard for my PC/TV setup.

Ah, the cobra chicken. A majestic beast.

Fun fact (that I just took advantage of in a CTF), sudo can also limit command line arguments. If you only want a user to restart a service but not stop it, you can restrict sudo to only

systemctl restart mysvc.service

Pro tip. Take these good awful images and post them user on the right can’t meme.

As I get older and the abuse I put my ears through starts showing up, I completely agree. After upgrading my music library to FLAC from VBR mp3s, I stopped having the, “Oh! There’s a subtle instrument going on in this part of the song!” moments.

It doesn’t stop me from trying to listen to the highest quality music formats that I can get my hands on, but I 100% know if I think there’s a difference to my mid-40s ears, it’s probably a placebo.

Yeah, after the yuzu debacle, if I were anywhere close to the gray side of piracy I would pull down any and all links to funding.

I’m not sure how you would actually get that necessary funding - maybe through discord links periodically?

The closest i have is Local H, Bound for the Floor. The staccato distortion throughout makes (to my ears) a sound very similar to a 1992 Ford Tempo’s “Your seatbelt isn’t latched” chime.

I would be driving like a madman to highschool after oversleeping and it would make me keep double checking my belt.

I’m partial to Pokemon say.

Documentary by the For-profit side of Noclip!

They’ve been hush-hush about this for months on their Patreon, it’s delightful to see what all the secrecy was about.

So first, let me be clear - I don’t know if an alternative to that software you first brought up. But some of our earlier CTFs had a similar issue with isolation.

We ended up spinning up new VLANs per contestant, each having a single Kali Linux VM with xrdp, along with each contestants target systems. Our router/fw blocked all access in/out of those VLANs, save for RDP/SSH traffic from our Apache Guacamole server on the DMZ.

So contestants would hit our portal (Guacamole), then from there connect into their own dedicated Kali instance and environment.

Later, we had to make additional fw exemptions for our scoreboard/docs, etc.

I throw CTFs for a living (among other things), and I’m happy to help out a fellow Infosec person.

What kind of infrastructure can you deploy? Is this going to be in the cloud, on-prem (via a hypervisor like Proxmox/vSphere, or hosted on a single laptop/server?

I found it myself, Note that if you’re on a Steam Deck (like I am), you’ll need to go to desktop mode.

1. Go to Steam, then Settings
2. Scroll down to Compatiblity, then look for the two toggles: Enable Steam Play for supported titles, and Enable Steam Play for all other titles. Ensure both are checked.
3. I also noticed that my “Run other titles with:” was not set to the latest Proton, but the dialbo 4 proton. Not sure if this made a difference?