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  • EC2 are cloud based virtual machines, very easy to spin one up exactly as you need it to run whatever.

    But they’re billed hourly and they get very expensive very very fast especially when you leave it on (the hourly billing is for a machine that’s on and running) and have shit tons of resources on it. You can have multiple terabyte RAM machines at the click of a button























  • compile the software you want to use from source more often that is acceptable for the average user.

    Wut? I’ve been using Linux in some form or another for years and that is greatly exaggerated even for back then

    Linux is way too fragmented and trying to get up and running with basic apps requires way too much technical skill.

    Um. WHAT. most distros are just some flavor of one of the handful of major ones, like Debian (Even Ubuntu is based on Debian). If it’s a Linux application, it’ll probably work on your distro. There’s some other cases, like FreeBSD which isn’t a Linux kernel, so things differ there, but it’s unlikely you’ll be running it at home unless you’re venturing out of “average user” domain, like Arch for Linux.

    Things have never been easier




  • I have contacted the support team of the app to find out why it needs these privileges, but I didn’t receive any helpful information.

    Tier 1 probably doesn’t have a clue, you’ll have to escalate, or alternatively use procmon to see what files and folders it’s accessing that might need admin privileges. Like if it’s trying to write files to its own subfolder right off C:, basically it’s probably poorly coded.

    Once you know what files/folders it’s trying to access, you can give everyone permissions to just those specific ones and then it should run without prompt

    Alternatively alternatively, you can screw around with the task scheduler, off the top of my head you could probably have TS run the program as an admin user on login of any user