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Derpy
Derpy
9:04 AM
@b_jonas The idea was to use a different machine for everything else and just use the chromebook for browsing / downloading.
that said, the inner integration with google account system kinda destroys my idea.
It is a closed system which inner working can be changed whenever Google feels the urge to.
Basically, today you can use the guest browsing mode, tomorrow it may disappear and leave you with a very expensive paper weight.
 
 
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Derpy
Derpy
1:40 PM
@b_jonas also, my point is that basically I have two options: Windows or Linux/Unix
I have the felling that Windows is becoming increasingly unsecure. By now, its architecture is a mess, with upgrades that are kept on hold for many years in the name of backward compatibility (where is the alleged new file system? They started hinting at it at least 10 years ago now).
At the same time, antivirus / security suite solutions are becoming less and less trustworthy. Too many complains, too many rumors, too many "ye need an account" bloat.
Yep, I know, there is a lot of folks out there that just live with defender. And they are still safe. The point is that lately I have been thinking that unless you don't do something not very smart - running a Trojan for example - the majority of the attack surface a normal home user will have isn't under his control.
Normal browsing has a good chance to get you some malware just because the sites you visit weren't responsible enough. And when even Youtube once again recently felt for a bad ads that contained bitcoin-miners scripts...
I know the basic tricks to make my system a bit more secure. Remove unused services, reconfigure the firewall etc etc etc. I use umatrix and check scripts sources when loading a page. Yet I cannot help to fell that the machine is unsecure as I am far from a network security guru and I don't live my life checking my 24/7 wireshark logs.
Linux... has a reputation to be more secure. Yet, as I said, I find myself baffled by the abundance of flavors and the lack of agreement, even on serious topics (just go asking people what they think about Mint update system for example...)
So, I could move to Linux, but then instead of a "Is my machine safe or it was already compromised" approach I end up with "did I even configure it correctly? Is firejail even really running at the moment? Why are the packages in the repo source outdated to 9 months ago?" and so on...
Mac OS. Very stable. Pretty easy to use. Yet I still cannot tell if a machine was really compromised or not.(apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282169/…) . In the case of the linked question, we had to assume that all the data on my friend pc was infected so he had to re-download a lot of stuff . Even worse, if the machine was compromised, hadn't that coincidence about live-id happened we would have never known.
on a different notice, about the season finale.
after all the items are collected, the quest marker advances and an animated cutscene starts.
the pillars are set free, and a second later so is the Shadow Pony - as expected.
And as expected, Twily goes into fangirl mode, almost completely unaware of the world around her.
On the opposite, Star Swirl (the one that in the original now uncanon journal was said to know her) is somehow annoyed that random purple pony
a) managed to break his spell
b) managed to free the usual "evil in a can" demon.
yet, they have little time to argue since the now-free shadow pony destroys the 6 dolmen in an attempt to prevent them to be able to seal him again.
Which makes me wonder: did they ever implied that the dolmens where needed in the first place?
 
Derpy
Derpy
2:42 PM
anyway, Shadow Pony attacks.
Star Swirl is out of mana.
Twilight has forgotten the move Kamehameha in order to make space for Round Eyes (which just lowers enemy attack stat by one level)
But fear not, because Starpony has mimic and can therefore copy Twily Chibi Kamehameha.
(Yep, I know this is not an anime and Starpony was the only realistic magic user there but I somehow wished they at least tried to use the full group in that scene)
 
 
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b_jonas
b_jonas
6:47 PM
@Derpy They didn't explicitly tell how much role Ponehenge had. But the Shadow Pony sought the darkest lands so he can bond with them and draw dark mana from it, so it isn't too surprising to me that an old sacred stone temple would also provide a mana bonding opportunity to help a banishing spell.
I think destroying Ponehenge was a reasonable attempt from the Shadow Pony. And don't forget the bonus: he's also destroyed Starswirl's diary at the same time.
The Shadow Pony explicitly says that too: “without the power of Ponehenge, your banishing spell is useless”. Also, Starswirl did summon the Shadow Pony there, rather than just seek him out whereever he was.
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
7:02 PM
When Twilight freed Starswirl and knew Starswirl was a powerful magic user captured for a thousand years, do you think she was subconsciously thinking of the stories about the genie in a bottle, who'll give her a wish or three wishes or serve her for a duration equal to how long he's been captured?
 

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