As others gave said, the solution is a VM but once setup correctly, you won’t notice.

If Windows is your primary computer, install HyperV, the built in VM manager for Windows. Then create a Linux VM for your NAS.

Once setup, you won’t even notice. HyperV auto saves and reloads the VM whenever you reboot. You don’t even need a window open for the VM, it runs in the background until you run the manager to connect to the VM and see it in a window.

If Linux is your primary OS, do the reverse and put Windows in a Linux VM.

Don’t hassle with Proxmox, etc. That’s for running lots of VM’s and toggling between them.

You might want to consider that backups only protect very old data from ransomware.

Ransomware works by getting on a machine and sitting for several months before activating. During that time, your data is encrypted but you don’t know because when you open a file, your computer decrypts it and shows you what you expect to see. So your backups are working but are saving files that will be lost once the ransom ware activates.

The only solution is to frequently manually verify the backup from a known safe computer. Years ago I looked for something to automate this but didn’t find it. (Something like a raspberry pi with no Internet that can only see the PC it’s testing, compares a known file, then touches the file so it gets backed up again.)

They stopped that years ago. I refused to buy one until it worked without Facebook.

Quest is doing it with less power than a current Steam Deck.

Ad insites is 3rd party ads which as I said Roblox doesn’t do (yet).

Yes but if everyone used their services without paying, they would go bankrupt. Just like using Roblox without paying costs them money.

And if no one bought Nitro or advertised games Discord would run out of money.

That’s the same as using Roblox without giving them any money.

They got money from the IPO. The money let them build a plant to sell cars at a profit. In 2016, they had burned through the IPO money and weren’t selling the model 3 yet. Musk later admitted they were months from bankruptcy. The stock price was around $12 a share.

Selling cars at a profit is what caused their stock price to rise.

I’m unfamiliar with their games. They have no ads? Or are you talking about Discord?

Tesla gave cars away for free to gain market share?

Valuation is only useful for an exit strategy. They’ve already IPO’d. If they don’t show profit, the stock will collapse.

You are costing them money to provide servers and bandwidth for free. They don’t (as of yet) have 3rd party ads giving them any revenue from users that don’t buy anything. More freeloading users doesn’t help IPO because they already IPO’d.

The idea that more freeloading users is a good thing is an absurd idea from the 2000 dotcom crash. I once had a potential customer call me and tried to negotiate for free web hosting under the premise that they would increase hits to my website. I laughed at them saying, “You don’t understand how any of this works. I have to buy servers for thousands of dollars. I have to pay tens of thousands a month for upstream bandwidth because I wasn’t a Tier 1 ISP. Driving traffic to my site costs me more money.”

It’s free. If you never buy a hat, you are actively hurting them.

It’s lower performance in the one situation of iterating on an 8bit ASCII string for programs written 30 years ago but faster in more common uses. Multibyte doesn’t matter when everything is 64 bit. A 64 bit length counter is long enough for everything but the most edgy of edge cases. You take a performance hit if you aren’t aligned.

Can you tell where the end of this string is: “ABCDEFGH”? What about now: “ABCD\0EFGH”?

No because unicode and binary formats means a string can contain anything.

You answered your own question. Strings with length are better than null terminated. It is a mistake in the original C language library and probably a hack because the pdp11 used asciz format.

That’s Nvidia’s thing.

I find it intriguing that despite Intel hitting its numbers and getting great press for the past few months, the stock has been on a sharp decline. It’s as if some knew the bad news was about to hit soon.

Instead of having to do an Operating system setup with a cloud provider, maybe another cloud backup service would work. Something like Backblaze can receive your Google files. Then you can download from Backblaze at your leisure.

https://help.goodsync.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003419711-Backblaze-B2

Or use the filters by date to limit the amount of takeout data that’s created? Then repeat with different filters for the next chunk.

A processor that isn’t Turing complete isn’t a security problem like the TPM you referenced. A TPM includes a CPU. If a processor is Turing complete it’s called a CPU.

Is it Turing complete? I don’t know. I haven’t seen block diagrams that show the computational units have their own cpu.

CPUs also have co processer to speed up floating point operations. That doesn’t necessarily make it a security problem.

I replied to the person above “locally on Linux”.

Even in Windows, local queries give the possibility of control. Set your firewall and it cannot leak.