that is the safest scenario, as safe as non-lineage android can be. they can’t mount your encrypted filesystem and get shit off it as it’s BFU.
the unlocked bootloader people are referencing plays no role in this setup, as all they can do with it is potentially install shit that will get at your stuff after you unlock it. naturally, that phone get tossed and never used again.
two points:
I haven’t kept up with that clown but if that’s a reference to the time he attempted to switch, that was a top-gear-like slapstick show, consisting of making wrong turns at every fork and having outliers galore in the form of some hardware he and one other dude on the entire planet got. that show of his is infotainment, as in not a reliable source of information.
you go with the beginner-friendliest distro, with the widest distribution which is ubuntu. that ain’t the distro I’m running, but it’s something you need to go through to figure out how this shit runs. after you’ve been around the block a time or two and you start bumping your head at the ceiling, you’ll have enough experience to switch to something better.
you have an excellent path as you can truly appreciate fedora only if you’ve been through ubuntu’s abuse i.e. the snap crap. my contention is that fedora should never be the first distro, but the next step, after you’ve figured out what’s what with ubuntu or mint.
KDE don’t got “closer relations” with fedora, it’s just that you’ll get new shit sooner. and fedora is the antithesis of LTS.
the only issue hindering normal, everyday use is rectified by following the step-by-step instructions from rpmfusion (codecs and GPU drivers).
not this. you need to reboot every time to get new shit. that’s antithetical to how I’ve used desktopS (plural, yo) since the early aughts. my shit gets suspended in the evening and woken in the morning with all apps and windows how I left them. rebooting and breaking my flow makes this thing is a non-starter.
I’m ignorant of the potential advanced offerings of bitwarden, but the idea that storing your passwords - essentially an encrypted csv file - necessitates a) a server/client infra and b) continuous, yearly payments of any amount is beyond ludicrous to me.
as many here, I’ve also dicked around with vaultwarden, as I already selfhost a buncha stuff, so what’s one more. aside from the stack, which is beyond ridiculous, the client app is some electron nightmare that doesn’t even have full functionality - you need the web UI for a number of tasks. I mean, how complex can you get!
KeepassXC is free in all senses of the word, the binary is minuscule, its database is easily versioned, backed up and syncthing-ed around and you’re done with that racket for good.
thanks, this looks good, gonna try it out with my next build
in case you didn’t know, jellyfin has support for hosting your books, and if you install the OPDS plugin, any compatible reader (librera, moon+, etc.) can pull books directly off the server and open them for reading.
first time I heard of this, thanks. so running it thusly it’s no different than a copr or apt repo?
can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they’re handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I’m some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw’s good name and whatnot…
the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?
dogdamn, that thing is still alive… forgot about that monstrosity. condolences to everyone who has to put up with that snapcrap.
you’re assuming the marketing copy you’re reading describes reality. it does not. it’s a bunch of cherry-picked outliers, confabulations, fantasies, and outright lies, endemic to the whole industry. since your premise is flawed, the follow-up question doesn’t make much sense.
you’re nowhere close to RAM exhaustion. I had similar mishaps on an all-AMD system a few gens back and it manifested itself as micro-stutters that occasionally grew to such manifestations. I think I remember it was fixed via a combination of kernel switches and progressively better performance as new versions of kernel and modules/drivers progressed.
no idea what KDE Neon is based on (Ubuntu LTS?), but I’m guessing you rock pretty old kernels and relatively modern hardware, which is a pain. also you don’t need a swapfile, use zram. or just switch to fedora or sumsuch that takes care of all them things for you.
you did what? I mean, dude, give with the pictures, wtf!
this is a problemXY type of deal. leave the work PC alone. metrolist on android has everything you mentioned, allows download so it’s even available offline, etc.
aside from it being the futo thing, I don’t think it has an android sender and it was incompatible with anything I tried last time.
I’ve been using macast for the past 5-6 years and I’ve been looking for a replacement but none seems to pop up. the thing @[email protected] mentioned looks interesting, might try to recreate.
anyhow, you let it run on your media-PC and you send it stuff from your phone - video urls (not limited to youtube), actual video files, since it’s a DLNA sink you can connect jellyfin clients to it, etc. on your phone you need allcast (not on the play store no more, get an archived apk from apkmirror or sumsuch). behind the scenes it uses yt-dlp and mpv to play back the video, full screen if you set it up so.
it mostly works fine, needs the occasional restart when it ran too long and it’s not aware of already playing stuff, like if there’s jellyfin-media-player already playing something, it would be cool if it would pause it and resume after video.
I feel this should be a functionality of JMP, doesn’t seem that hard to implement it.
was about to add this. kinda sad that I had to give up my searxng instance because I can’t get ublacklist to work on it (works on some public instances)
I’m glad your “shouldn’t” trumps my “did it”.
2010 i5/i7 (and previous, Core 2 Duo models) don’t take faster RAM. so e.g. 2007/08 models won’t take 800 MHz DDR2, only 667 and 2009/10 DDR3 won’t take anything faster than 1067. 2011/12 can run 1333 and 1600. all later models have RAM soldered.
anyhow, those 1067 are rare and thus the mentioned trick was needed. I’ll try to find the post describing the process and link it in OP. found it: https://hannuhartikainen.fi/blog/hacking-ddr3-spd/
forgot: I have a broken subwoofer from a 2.1 system. the woofer works but one of the channels is dead. I also have a monitor with decent stereo speakers in it. enter pipewire - pactl load-module module-combine-sink creates a new audio card comprised of all other audio cards and selecting it outputs all audio to all of them. I got the stereo speakers for mid/high tones and the woofer for low ones - awesome sound for nothing!
who’s “desperate”? I don’t wanna reboot to get new package updates. that’s a stupid concept that was done with in like Windows 98 days. I don’t reboot my desktop or my phone for weeks, that’s hella comfortable and I’m not going back from that.
if the crowd pushing the immutable stack would lead with that, or at very least mention it, I’d keep shtum.