There’s a really important reason for this! Wireguard is connectionless. The reconnection process is as simple as sending the next packet of data normally because the server will accept valid packets from anywhere. You don’t have to do some fancy re-handshake and re-authentication process every time you lose access momentarily.

This is perfect for a device like a smartphone that might suspend network access to save battery and switch between different networks on a regular basis. The software basically does nothing in these common cases. The server couldn’t care less where the packets are coming from so long as the crypto checks out. If the device wishes to sleep, just stop sending packets. There isn’t a connection to be broken.

Now, consider that the crypto can be handled in the kernel because the code is extremely simple and easy to maintain, which further reduces the power requirements through reducing the need to switch between privileged and unprivileged modes. The cryptography itself was designed to be easy to execute on a device where power consumption is a concern. Even if you don’t have hardware support for the operations, it executes very well on all virtually all processors.

Wireguard is an engineering marvel. It is simple, yet robust. It is good design.

With the i9, Intel is screwing their most profitable customers.

May I recommend a versioning or snapshot capable filesystem like BTRFS? It lets me tweak and make mistakes with little fear.

With that said, always keep proper backups of data you care about.

I feel like Linux respects me as the user. Like, I don’t know why this broke, but you get to keep both pieces. We believe in you. Good luck!

Sorry, that was before KB1103995. The new method requires you to check a box in your OneDrive account first before the entry is respected.

In my defense as a AAA member, my super compact in-town car doesn’t have a spare tire, not even a doughnut.

I hear you about the kernel. You can install newer ones or follow the HWE line (as I do) which gives you 6.5 last time I checked.

Don’t need to compete when users don’t have a choice.

It breeds complacency.

I hate this company. I jumped ship to use somebody else and avoid giving them my money as soon as I had another viable option.

I use Linux at home and am disappointed with this news. I can’t help having to use Windows at work.

I’d be happy to buy the OS too, but I want it to be a one-time payment and to quit with ads and all telemetry.

I’m in constant mild joint pain. Ibuprofen feels like god’s gift to let me be happy while staying off the prescription pain meds.

Not just that — Even if you exploited some bug to run unsigned code, it’s highly unlikely you could find all the drivers needed for that hardware. There’s not a lot of motivation from the open source community to support a tightly controlled platform where few users could even attempt to run it.

Hi! You live in Anonymous Proxy too?!

You might be surprised to learn that the Linux kernel as employed in Android does actually have a stable binary and programming interface. It’s called the Kernel Module Interface or KMI, and Android fixes the tool chain and symbols that may be used. It’s part of the effort to move devices to generic kernels.

That looks really annoying. And do not ever distract me while I’m driving. Save your ads for the route planning not execution.

Disgusting.

Bash, and shell script, is kinda funny looking but really does come in handy where I need some glue and a C program or Python is just overkill.

I learned the fastest by pair programming with AI and fixing the scripts.

If you throw a pair of dice, do they still have to roll if their final positions are predetermined from the point that you let go?

One view is that even a deterministic mind still must execute. An illusion of the capacity to choose between multiple options might be necessary to considering those options which leads to the unavoidable conclusion.

Microsoft:

Gets rid of Wordpad.
Turns Notepad into Wordpad.

They care because some users don’t actually own their phones and the carrier wants to keep strings attached, or they want to impose artificial software restrictions like preventing or limiting hotspot data.

Even when none of those conditions apply, you still often must deal with the locked boot loader. It’s BS.