lemmyreader

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lemmyreader,

Yes, this! uBlock Origin rocks.

I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...

lemmyreader,

Welcome to the Penguin party - you are free now :) And thanks for sharing your OS adventure.

lemmyreader, (edited )

Firewall for incoming traffic :

  • If you a home user with your computer or laptop inside a LAN you would not really need a firewall, unless you start to use applications which expose its ports to 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1 (I believe Redis server software did this a few years ago) and do not trust other users or devices (smart home devices, phones, tablets, modems, switches and so on) inside your LAN.
  • If you are running a server with just a few services, for example ssh, smtp, https, some hosting company people I knew argue that no firewall is needed. I am not sure, my knowledge is lacking.

Application firewalls, watching also outgoing traffic :

If you compare Linux with some other Operating System you will see that on Linux for years an application firewall was non existing. But there is a choice now : opensnitch This can be useful if you run desktop applications that you do not fully trust, or want more control.

lemmyreader, (edited )

Few years ago I had a collection of maybe fifteen old disks, which I wanted to get rid of, by means of recycling. First I wanted to check the content and then format all so I put them in an external enclosure. It turned out that some disks were unusable. A closer inspection showed that these were all a certain brand and type (Forgot whether it was Seagate or Maxtor or WD). These disks would probably still do fine in a desktop or server computer (Which I no longer had at home) but not with the external enclosure. Perhaps your enclosure is the bottleneck here as well.

lemmyreader,

TL;DR

Don’t use snapchat

TIL that Snapchat is an app used in 2024 without E2EE, Wikipedia article on Snapchat :

Encryption

In January 2018, Snapchat introduced the use of end-to-end encryption in the application but only for snaps (pictures and video), according to a Snapchat security engineer presenting at the January 2019 Real World Crypto Conference.[138][139][140] As of the January 2019 conference Snapchat had plans to introduce end-to-end encryption for text messages and group chats in the future.[141]

lemmyreader,

OP wrote “OS or FOSS”. What is the license for Matrix, btw ?

lemmyreader,

Arch Linux, rolling Linux distribution, would give you the newest stable software, with probably new application features, but you can use distrobox, podman-toolbox, VirtualBox, KVM (QEMU) or a live Linux cd image to play with Arch Linux every now and then, without having to install it :)

lemmyreader,

Yes. I know Manjaro got bad press several times, about their SSL cert and about firing their treasurer but as a Linux distribution Manjaro is pretty decent for the average user, in my opinion.

lemmyreader,

If you like Arch-based, there’s Manjaro and EndeavourOS.

lemmyreader, (edited )

Both Snap and Flatpak provide an easy install for the really old, pre 1997, NCSA Mosaic browser. The Snap page gives a hint about how this was done :

Built from source code hosted at: github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic Thanks to John Lenton for the snapcraft config.

This suggests that if you can build the ROS 1 from source, you have Flatpak and Snap as option, and maybe also AppImage.

Besides that there is also Linux KVM (QEMU) which may perform better than VirtualBox. Cannot find a good page for Ubuntu on it, but here’s the KVM entry of the excellent Arch Linux wiki wiki.archlinux.org/title/KVM

lemmyreader,

Go for LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Both can be installed natively or with Flatpak or Snap (or maybe AppImage) is a safer bet.

lemmyreader, (edited )

If you like NixOS for its packages, you can install a Systemd free OS, and then add Nix package manager. For example Nix-bin is packaged for Debian and the Systemd free Devuan : pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=pa… Here is a very old howto for Void Linux, but maybe still works : voidlinux.org/…/Using-the-Nix-package-manager.htm…

lemmyreader, (edited )

Ubuntu uses LTS with five year support, which is why they like to keep a lot of software versions back. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu I think. PPA is something you can add to Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Linux distributions to have newer or specific software repositories as extra on your system. Here’s a guide on PPA : itsfoss.com/ppa-guide/

lemmyreader,

According to that article mentioned in my earlier comment you won’t need the nerdfonts.

lemmyreader, (edited )

There’s a PPA for neovim, currently at 0.7.x : launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/stableOh, sorry, I see NvChad wants 0.9.4 and Nerdfonts (Though not a hard requirement : docs.rockylinux.org/books/nvchad/nerd_fonts/).

launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/…/unstable -> 0.10.x

lemmyreader, (edited )

Cypht can do that and can be installed via Yunohost for example on a Raspberry Pi or rented VPS.

lemmyreader,

Penguin party :)

lemmyreader,

From past forums reading I remember that a boot loader in Linux can have trouble booting properly when you use two different physical drives (Rather than one drive and different partitions), I think it needs to specifically get to know about both drives. Does this help ?

lemmyreader,

The Snapchat has a word-filter suggestion makes most sense. But then again Cloudflare is very popular on the Internet as the cheap and well-known MITM anti-DDOS tool.

I haven’t read much about i2p, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the government has their paws in there too.

You will have to trust something if you want to communicate, there’s also GNUnet, ZeroNet, DeltaChat, and probably a lot more.

lemmyreader, (edited )

I believe that both VirtualBox and KVM (QEMU) can do USB passthrough. With either one you can have the full Windows OS running on your Linux desktop, which could be more comfortable than going for WINE. Here’s an example with KVM and Arch Linux.

lemmyreader,

Murena might be easiest and fastest to setup. Getting a new disroot account approved can take a lot of time, I think.

lemmyreader,

Lots of other choices : searx.space

lemmyreader,

Thanks for the reminder :)

lemmyreader, (edited )

Welcome to the Penguin party ! 🐧 And thanks for sharing your story.

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