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sir_reginald, in [SOLVED] Brave Browser not launching in LXQT in Debian 12
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If you really need Brave, install the Flatpak. Not official, but neither it is the one from the package manager.

I’d also recommend to just install Ungoogled Chromium instead of Brave and be done with it.

avidamoeba, in Cleanest way to maintain AppImage installations?
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Use a package management system that supports this use case.

interceder270, in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?

I would use Remmina VNC.

stepanzak, in KDE Plasma - Is it possible to show the user running a GUI in its window title ?

I have no idea, but couldn’t this be an XY problem or how it’s called? I mean, do you really need to use apps as different users? Maybe you do, I don’t know, but sometimes it’s good to think about whether the problem you are trying to solve isn’t just a result of another peoblem.

velox_vulnus, in [SOLVED] Brave Browser not launching in LXQT in Debian 12

If you love it so much, then you can use Flatpak, Snap, Guix or Nix - there are user-level package managers that will give you the required choice. But why Brave? Aren’t there better Chromium alternatives out there?

liberatedGuy,
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I don’t like to leave problems unsolved. Secondly, brave comes with default adblocker. What better FOSS chromium alternatives are there?

PerogiBoi, in What dock do you use in Wayland?
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Use an auto-hiding panel instead and add a taskbar so that your running programs are there. I use that with KDE Wayland and it works well and is highly customizable.

interceder270, (edited ) in The cost of maintaining Xorg

I guess Wayland isn’t as feature-rich as X because people from RHEL don’t want to put in the work to maintain it.

Not surprising, really. It just follows the modern trend of removing features so incompetent programmers have an easier job.

danielfgom,
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You are the boss! 💪

Gecko, in Cleanest way to maintain AppImage installations?
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Not to be that person but I’m curious what made you go with AppImage over Flatpak, given that you already mentioned using the Flatpak as an alternative ^^"

SkullHex2,
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Force of habit, I’ve started using Flatpak only recently

Ropianos, in Cleanest way to maintain AppImage installations?

There is also AppImage Launcher which works nicely for me. It automatically integrates AppImages into the DE (e.g. search and start menu) and a few other nice things.

github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

MrPoopyButthole, in [SOLVED] Brave Browser not launching in LXQT in Debian 12
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Don’t use Brave…

vsis, (edited ) in How safe are my data if my hard drive isn't encrypted?
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If the device get stolen, your drive and its files can be easily read.

Other attacks like malware or ransomware are almost the same if the drive is encrypted or not.

Disk encryption is important for laptops and phones because these devices are frequently stolen. For desktop or servers is still good idea, though.

Guenther_Amanita,

Thanks a lot for your answer. How would you encrypt a server? Typing a password every time it boots isn’t possible for me, since I would need a monitor for my headless server.

AdamantiteAdventurer,
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I use Luks/Tang to unlock the server at boot from another computer that is always on too. If that one is down I’ll need to type it or power the other PC on, but otherwise it auto decrypts for me as long as I’m on the same network.

dime,

One option may be a hardware security key. Here is an example: https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2022/03/disk-decryption-yubikey/

vsis,
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That’s why it’s not always an option.

Some servers have some kind remote console hardware, with their own security issues.

Your “threat model” is important too. Do you expect that server to get stolen? If it happens, is there critical data that should not leak?

Maybe you need to encrypt a directory, and not the whole drive.

Guenther_Amanita,

My threat model isn’t high. Just normal stuff everyone has, but that would be disadvantagely if someone else got them.

It’s more if a precautionary measure. It doesn’t have to be super safe, but better than nothing.

rgb3x3,

Is this for your home? If it is, you don’t really have to worry about someone stealing your desktop. If someone breaks into your home, they’re looking for quick cash and jewelry and TVs. They’re not going to bother stealing your server to dig through files for something usable.

Guenther_Amanita, (edited )

I’ve had quite a bad experience with police for example.

30 cops raided my home because of something trivial (I ordered a bit of non-psychoactive CBD-weed, which is, even in the most restrictive country you can imagine, ridiculous).

Of course, I got the whole experience-pack, including strip searches and confiscating all electronics.

Even though I believe them getting hold of any data wouldn’t have changed much, I’m still glad I had my devices encrypted.

Just knowing they didn’t see my cringy pictures of my teeny-me, where I discovered Snapchat filters, is a big relief. 😅

Yeah… that traumatized me a bit and maybe that’s the reason I’m worrying.

Also, you could never know what will happen in the future. Maybe my GF will turn crazy tomorrow and use those embarrassing pictures against me. Who knows?

I believe everyone should use encryption, even if they don’t have much to hide…

rgb3x3,

Oh that’s a really good point. Don’t trust the cops, keep everything encrypted.

Way safer in those situations.

Frederic, (edited )

If Windows, use BitLocker.

If Linux, use LUKS but you need to enter the passphrase at boot, you can securely put the key in TPM2 I think (à la Windows) but it may be complicated to setup, or just seal the phrase in TPM2 but if you boot on grub you can break grub and replace init with a shell in boot option and have access to the system I think :-/ but a simple crackhead thief would not understand that.

You can also have the key on a USB key, but if on the server and the server get stolen, it’s useless. You can setup a “anywhereUSB” and have your USB key in another room/place, etc, there is others possibilities.

I wanted to unlock with bluetooth but having the bluetooth HW driver and stack in initramfs was nightmarish a little bit :-/

wmassingham,

Either self-encrypting drives (if you trust the OEM encryption) or auto-unlock with keys in the TPM: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module#…

Ing0R,

You can use SSH for unlocking: cyberciti.biz/…/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear…

GravitySpoiled, in Add YOUR city to the Gnome weather app [Solved]

Afaik the problem is solved within the code. I remember having compiled the app myself. It’s just a matter of time that it’s solved.

BUT it’s weird that this is so low priority to all gnome devs. It seems like noone cares about the correct weather. The source of weather is also not really perfect.

maniel, in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?

x forwarding is the way to go, i mean i remember i’ve run NetBeans IDE on linux, forwarded it via ssh to my windows netbook (netbook!!!, it was 2009?) to show my project to my professor at college, i remember i used Xming on Windows

frogmint, in What are your thoughts on Homebrew for Linux?

With access to the AUR on Arch-based distros, I don’t have the need for it. Normally, I choose:

  1. Distribution package
  2. Flatpak
  3. AUR
  4. AppImage

I haven’t yet come across something which is available in homebrew but not in one of these options. I’d use it if I had a need.

ArtVandelay, in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?
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I’ll add to the mix, if it’s Gnome DE, rdp is built in now, it’s under settings > sharing > enable rdp. Then you can use any rdp client, including windows. (Or remmina if from another Linux box)

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