I’m good. I know very well there are uses cases for a self signed cert. LE is still far more practical for 99% of use cases, even internally.

But then you have to distribute CAs to all the devices that will reach this service, and not all devices allow that.

I’m with you, but that’s why I’m automating certificate expiry checking somewhere else (in my home assistant install to be exact).

Nothing in there is incorrect.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen people say it has CIA financial backing. It did however until only a couple of years ago have strong ties to the State Department’s Open Tech Fund (from the same financial envelope that brings you RFA/RFE/VOA).

Telegram doesn’t even encrypt group chats. And it doesn’t encrypt private convos by default.

Pretty damn easy.

qemu-img convert -f vdi -O qcow2 Windows10.vdi Windows10.qcow2

Here’s a more complete guide: https://cubiclenate.com/2024/05/30/converting-vdi-to-qcow2-step-by-step-guide-for-virt-manager-migration/

https://virt-manager.org/ is a no brainer. Built upon libvirt/Qemu/KVM it’s way more powerful and pretty much just as easy to use. There is zero reasons to use anything else.

Remember when the entire world was convinced there was absolutely no way Bush, an idiot, fascist, religious bigot, etc could get re-elected?