My Linux laptop at work is enrolled in Intune

Will be interesting to see how the Jolla phone turns out :)

I would like to use my current phone (Fairphone 4), so I will donate to postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, and some of the DE (ME?) like KDE Plasma Mobile and Phosh.

Oh, I wish. I will be focusing my year-end donation round on efforts to make that happen.

Their Linux marketing department seems to have been quite effective over the last year.

I need to do this, good memories!

I set up VNC to only allow connections from localhost on my mother’s computer, and then forward the required port via SSH when I need to connect. SSH is set up to only allow public key authentication. Works quite well

Oh, I had the impression that it didn’t work on Waydroid at all. What would be the benefit of using Signal UT over tje Waydroid version?

Surely that is just the Kerbal Space Program-DLC?

I recently got my Linux-laptop in a heavy MS-based company. It is enrolled via Intune and I can access all company resourcws an MS365 apps through Edge.

Apart from having to use Edge for all of that, it is a great experience compared to what I am used to.

But it took a while and a lot of complaining about being allowed to use more appropriate tools for our job. But the bottom line is: ask for it. Tell them why you need it. When they say no, try again later, document why your current setup fails and why getting a Linux-machinee would work. Maybe you will succeed. IT here has gone from “we don’t use open source” (actual quote) to giving us Linux-laptops and setting up Linux-servers on OT. They grow from this also.

Being one of the best paid traders in the world does not necessarily qualify you to advise the government… There are plenty of morons who (for some time) are able to make a killing as a trader due to taking excessive risks and being sufficiently lucky for some stretch of time.

I think I will take the jump with my FP4 sometime in the first half of 2026. So far the big blocker is Signal, as it still requires a mobile app to be the main application. Maybe I will keep a secondary, cheap Android phone running Lineage in a drawer somewhere.

I would rather go for postmarketOS than Ubuntu Touch, and there have been some recent advancements on that front for Fairphone 4 (camera and battery gauge), but I think Ubuntu Touch could be a good stepping stone.

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Because line go up

Is it essential that you get the 3rd edition? 1st and 2nd are on Library Genesis+ (from 2017 and 2021 respectively)

Otherwise, my university had some deal with Springer that allowed the purchase of a softcover book for 25€ (I think it increased to 50€ later), but also free access for the online edition (though not necessarily the whole book in a single PDF, but each chapter separately). Have you checked for similar deals at your university’s library?

ThinkPad T14s Gen 5

Yeah, T14s Gen 5

Someone has obviously not been forced to work with Windows 11? :p

It’s a massive upgrade and miles better than what I came from, and while not ideal, I’m certainly not letting perfect be the enemy of the good here. Edge is just for those MS365 apps I need to work with once in a while (and a couple of other services that rely on SSO, most annoyingly GitHub). I’ll live

Also, I’m a KDE person, but so far I don’t hate GNOME.

Yes. Using it through Edge with no issues so far.

Internal team communication goes outside of Teams though (we self-host Mattermost).

ETA: No more issues than the native app under Win11, I meant to say.

Yeah, but it has also required many hard fought battles internally, and I can be happy with my coworkers and team lead for taking the charge in several of those. It helps having had multiple examples of their policies getting in the way of getting stuff done, and that we are able to accomplish our jobs when we get our way.

Worst part is that we’re not a terribly big company - but the IT department can still make it feel like I work in a multinational megacorp some times. I can only imagine what it is to actually work in one of those…