How about we sink to this level?

That’s all well and good, but these weren’t cheap or basic back then. Ugh, I sound old

Hey now, I was making $9 fixes people’s computers over the phone

I financed a couple vehicles in the 90’s… for 3 years. The payment on the first one didn’t even break $300, and the full sized pickup was like 375

Any way but the way my damned coding agent uses them

Add to this periodic CIS benchmark with OpenSCAP to diagnose any openings and certain types of vulnerabilities as you add additional software or make configuration changes. Hardening your OS is a tough task, but even with windows or macOS, you can run into vulnerabilities that are completely there from bad configuration or rouge software.

Now that I have that out of the way, it doesn’t matter what OS you run, there will be vulnerabilities. Being diligent in updating your machine (both the os and installed software) will do a lot of good to keep your workstation safer.

Unless they install elevators

I seem my cat posts on Lenny

We (the US) really are a shithole country.