This looks like a pretty good hook-up. 1P has always been the standout (non-free) password manager, and Kolide was always on my radar as a good zero-trust device security offering.

Matryoshka

> "We expect this change to affect a small number of users," the fruit cart wrote in an explanatory note covering its obligations under the DMA.

"fruit cart" made me laugh, but otherwise, this is quite an annoying (albeit unsurprising move) from Apple.

What does this give me that I don't already get from KVM and virt-manager on Linux? Not getting it.

The out-of-the-box performance of Windows in VirtualBox is very good and usually better than virt-manager (Qemu). You can tune Qemu to great performance as well, but it takes some fiddling. VirtualBox is in general very user friendly.

Guest integration (drag'n'drop, clipboard), USB passhthrough and audio support is also top-notch in VBox.

> The out-of-the-box performance of Windows in VirtualBox is very good and usually better than virt-manager (Qemu). You can tune Qemu to great performance as well, but it takes some fiddling. VirtualBox is in general very user friendly.

I haven't found a significative difference but if you have found one and can tune qemu to same level,why don't you share the xml template of your machine to the world and to upstream's virt-manager project?

> Guest integration (drag'n'drop, clipboard), USB passhthrough and audio support is also top-notch in VBox.

These things works well with libvirt too provided you are using the spice-guest-tools.

Not sure about drag'n'drop. Also I've noticed that even when you're aware of the way USB passthrough in virt-manager GUI works that it seems to have some bugs.

I'm mostly interested in if I can use virtualbox accelerated video with kvm because virgl3d seems well behind in that area.

ah yes maybe drag'n'drop is not working I have no idea tbh but I don't remember it working reliably in virtualbox and shared folders always worked better in my limited experience.

Shared folders does indeed seem like a weak point for kvm/virt-manager. There's the virtioFS but this is a pretty recent addition that was also recently pretty buggy on Windows.

I'm not even sure what your alternatives were for this before now, I guess everyone was just using samba.

Until you want to pass a GPU to the VM

With this version of VBox, it's quite possble to pass a GPU to the VM. Have a look at https://www.cyberus-technology.de/products/hypervisor if you want to see a demo.

I virtualize most of my desktop environment. I wanted to go with KVM and virt-manager initially, since I'm mostly using a Linux host and Linux guests, but there were two important features I wanted and couldn't figure out how to get that way: encryption and portability.

Most of the VMs are encrypted, so I feel safe traveling with them. Various secrets are also encrypted, but the encryption of the VMs themselves mean that I don't have to worry about losing my device at an airport and someone else potentially getting access to things they shouldn't. There are schemes that make this work in virt-manager and KVM, but I didn't like any of them as much; I didn't want to rely on the host for filesystem-level encryption (see portability), and I have previously had a bit of trouble with full disk encryption, so I wasn't comfortable relying on that. VirtualBox essentially is also doing full disk encryption, but it's invisible to the guest and seems to be reliable.

For portability, I should be able to use https://www.vbox.me/ to install the VMs and a host onto a flash drive and be able to run any of my environments from any Windows host without additional installations. Haven't actually tried this yet (happily, I no longer have easy access to Windows machines!), but it was a big point in favor.

Most of my environments now get auto-configured through Vagrant: https://github.com/robsheldon/vagrantfiles, so I get some of the benefits of virt-manager that way.

I really don't love relying on Oracle for anything

A decent UI and hopefully support to use virtualbox appliances

Right. Plus all the central Asian "*stans"

Yeah, it sucks just like democracy does... Pity we don't have anything better.

How about the ancient Chinese game of "go", next? Not convinced that can easily be solved at all.

Go is considered close to being solved on a 7x7 board [1]. The grand challenge would be solving 9x9 Go, the standard beginner board size.

Note that professional players are far from mastering 9x9, and regularly play 9x9 tournaments.

Solving the full 19x19 game is utterly out of the question.

[1] https://forums.online-go.com/t/katago-attempts-to-solve-7x7/...

There was a recent push for 9x9. It's not solved but it is believed to be near perfect play.

https://katagobooks.org/9x9highlights.html

Among popular board games, Go is more computationally complex than chess, so the latter would probably be solved first.

Well. These people don't even know that a request to merge code to the trunk is called a "merge request" not a fucking "pull request"

Sure, if you don't mind their fees and ATM limits, or that they have run afoul of regulators in the UK (their base) for repeated non-compliance. They don't have a banking license. They do have tech bros, a demographic I personally don't trust.

Agree, I've had both a Revolt account and a Wise account.

My Revolut account evaporated into thin air with no response from their so-called 'support' channel.

I became locked-out of my Wise account for some trivial reason, may have been my fault? Anyway, support required a selfie to reactivate but would not accept the image as it wasn't clear enough. I tried 3 or 4 times before giving up.

In both cases there wasn't much of a balance so I didn't bother going any further.

The lesson here is that any provider is likely not to be perfect, so don't put yourself in a position where losing access to the account is going to be a tragedy.

Revolut upgraded my account as a "promotion," without my permission, then started charging me for the premium account. When I contacted them to get my account downgraded to the free tier they told me I would have to close my account and open a new one. That took several days of email back-and-forth.

Revolut wants the profits and prestige of a real bank but like so many tech "disruptors" they play fast and loose, have a slick web site and app and "cool" customized cards, but operate outside of banking regulations. The terrible customer support alone should scare people away, but you don't discover that until you need it.

Most _US_ startups, you mean.

Startups actually do exist outside of the US, believe it or not. And you may find that those are a lot less picky than US ones about the location of remote workers.

UK based here, and HMRC (the UK tax man) is quite picky too. It is, as others have noted, a hassle to hire outside of your government's jurisdiction for many legal reasons, tax being the first of them but not the last.

Medium-sized companies will have a "legal entity" in e.g. EU and US as well, and can hire workers in those polities. The workers are then "employed" by the legal entity for HR purposes, regardless of where their immediate co-workers are located.

There are also legal limits on how many days per year one can work "abroad" - company policies on this do vary, but HMRC imposes strict constraints on what is allowed. A max of several weeks per year is what I've seen. Also it's not from "any country", it excludes the ones on this list: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/financial-sanction...