how's the experience with snaps? I've been thinking of switching from Mint to Ubuntu but I heard snaps are a pain to deal with

Mint stops snaps from being installed at all by default because of it

linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sn...

I assume the OP is about GW2

in which case luckily GW2 has a lot of things to do that don't involve PvP

coming from someone with almost 400 hours in the game who has never played PvP

...Beebee?

It's Guild Wars 2

would you be willing to add these to a Discord server? these are really cool and I would love to be able to use them with Nitro

I think what they mean is that the artist should add their Bluesky handle to the comic strip, to advertise that they also have a Bsky account...

All of it now collapsed into Android TV; most "Smart TV" sticks you see around are just mini PCs running Android TV.

So really, what matters most is that you get one that has specs decent enough that it won't take approximately five years for you to scroll Netflix and etc.

Yes, that's why generally it's a good idea to buy your own and set your ISP provided one to bridge mode.

It's what I do at home; pictured you can see the modem on the back and my own router on the front.

I already addressed the thing about public networks in a different reply.

Sorry, I think I messed up the explanation. All ports are closed by default because there's nothing listening on them. When you install software that wants to listen on a specific port, it creates a network socket via which it listens on that specific port, opening it to the outside.

You're right in that regard. Network security is confusing.

I've been working as a backend developer and IT engineer for 3 years and I still don't understand how VLANs work.

If you don't trust your router then you've already lost. As far as I'm concerned it could already be hijacking DNS requests to redirect google.com to a server containing a phishing site.

You should be able to trust your router. It's the most important link in the network security chain.

Windows has the firewall turned on by default because it detects applications trying to listen on a blocked port and then prompts you to either allow it or deny it.

Which in my opinion is a pretty flawed way of doing it; the user just clicks "Yes" without thinking about the security implications.

That's why the firewall is off by default. So that applications will work out of the box with no meddling.

You turn on the firewall when you want to make a conscious decision about who is allowed and who isn't.