AllOutOfBubbleGum

Samba daemon

I would say not much. If it's your own personal LAN, and only your devices are on it, and you're not hosting super sensitive data, then I wouldn't personally be worried. Just depends on your risk acceptance.

Edit: But if you are hosting sensitive data on an untrusted network, then definitely require a user with a strong password. Also, SMB3 and higher supports encryption (both in Windows and Samba for Linux). Encryption isn't enabled by default, though. So keep that in mind. Easy to setup on both Windows and Linux.

That's a security quirk. Microsoft reeeeeally doesn't want you to do anonymous SMB anymore, and with every version of Windows, Microsoft has made is more complicated to get it working like that. It's probably still possible, but easier just to make a quick local user account and assign it read/write permissions to the share. Samba on Linux can still do it without as much fuss, but I've long since just accepted the extra step.

Interesting. Never heard of that. It'd just be a guess, but I'm doubting this was a person familiar with that. Just a humorous oopsy.

"Dear Slim, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin'..."

I agree. One of my favorites. Feels like a Black Mirror episode. I watched another one recently called Companion that I'd recommend to anyone who likes Ex Machina.

Oui!

Yeah, that makes sense. I just hope I'm not one of those people that can't find hobbies to fill the day.

I've known quite a few people that retired and ended up coming back because they were "bored". That terrifies me. I always thought the deal was that if you made it to your 60s and didn't die, that you're finally free. Now I find myself dwelling on that scene from Shawshank where Red is talking about prisoners getting institutionalized and not wanting to leave.

Well, ya got me there.

Maybe because IBM bought Redhat so they're saying it's corporate? Just a wild guess. I use Debian, and not sure why that makes me the hide the pain meme.