how do you (I guess you don’t?) handle the idea that wine by default mounts your home folder and allows full read/write to it? as well as network comms?

I use winetricks for sandbox (i.e. don’t mount the home folder) and firejail to disable network, but I hafta do all that manually. was hoping this would be a more comprehensive writeup regarding the “pirated” part.

a bunch of that is wrong; people here read “what’s the best thing for this” as “what do you use” and treat it as rooting for a team. I’d still urge you to write up a more detailed post, but you do you.

sounds like you’re running your phones stock, with all the google spyware running in the background, along with the facebook crap; that shit ain’t just hanging back, dormant until you need it. that’s why you need the extra speed and RAM and storage, all that shit is constantly rummaging around the phone and sending stuff home.

get an ex-flagship with e.g. SDM8xx that has lineageOS support for like $50 and play around, you’ll find that no part of that thing is slow.

I’m outta that racket, but way back when I used flutter/Dart, specifically because multiplatform support was a must and having dedicated Android/iOS/web devs wasn’t in the budget. no idea how the landscape is now, I imagine react native is the thing. as to performance, it was way faster than the alternatives of its time (meteor, ionic, etc), but still laged a bit behind native app development.

dude, you need to narrow your query way, waaay down. are you ditching the mac and getting a PC? are you gonna rock them side by side until you transition? desktop? gaming? laptop? converting an existing macbook to linux? which one? intel? pre-T2, post? which wifi? what’s your daily software stack you depend on?

all the listed things are possible, some easier, some less so, but, respectfully, nobody’s gonna write up an all-cases guide for your lazy ass. so, hop to it, state your use case and ping back.

anyone know what’s new in this one? already have a gold edition, but don’t remember which one it was…

I mean, “invest”… is that the right word? if ROI is something important to you, maybe look elsewhere for buying stuff? I can get a whole bike for like half of your upgrade budget, and the items listed for a quarter. what I’m trying to say, buying and fixing things on my rig amounts to pocket change so I’m never concerned about getting a good run for money.

I type in four languages and I’ve tried 'em all, nothing close to Gboard exists. I was willing to give up a lot of comforts in order to switch to a free software version, but the drunken sailor typing from 2015 is a deal breaker.

so, install gboard, choose languages, block all network traffic (A15+) and updates and that’s it.

honestly, a rant is a rant and I’d let it go, but the final, entitled “I expect it just to work” is a tad too much.

first, press F2 in htop and then scroll down to enable show CPU temp and frequency. you’ll know if it’s running at full speed and what the temp is when it acts like that. if it’s stuck at 400 MHz or such, it’s a BD_PROCHOT issue, which is fixable.

also, try undervolting it a bit. if you make it to -100 mV and beyond, that’s a significant decrease in heat in stress-intensive activities and makes the battery last way longer.

the whole immutable distro idea is just ludicrous to me, in order to upgrade the software, i.e. the new image that got downloaded, I hafta reboot - what the fuck, is this windows 98? I reboot like never, close my laptop or suspend my desktop in the evening and resume in the morning with all my shit how I left it.

it feels like going the wrong way, wasn’t there some progress on hotswapping kernels after upgrade or sumsuch? that was what I thought we were going towards, this feels so awkward and bad on so many levels, nevermind the bloat of getting a whole new OS image because five packages changed… and the cruft and fluff of layering packages and adjacent voodoo, dios mio. basically, everything is way shittier because someone might fuck with /usr/bin or wherever…?

apple did this years ago, with little to no friction. but those fucks update the OS coupla times a year, so dealing with this once a quarter ain’t that big of a deal. apple also ships a stellar backup solution with the system that restores the system perfectly, system and user files, whereas no such thing exists over here.

leave it be. there ain’t any one reason for the influx of new users or the absence thereof. do your thing to the best of your ability and if you happen to stumble onto something better along the way, that’s a job for then. for now, it does its job.

I ain’t gotta offer nothing, my take is that securing the pipe to the stochastic parrot is a shit waste of time and effort, especially when it’s coming from techno jesus.

if he’s bored, there’s list of shit to implement in signal longer than m- err, it’s long. and what ain’t on it is more AI and/or crypto wallets. fuckin GRR Martin clone over here…

you should let go of the imprinted idea that in order to criticise something you hafta offer a better, fully fleshed out alternative; you are allowed to say X is shitty on its own.

coming from the guy who improved and converted the utterly cumbersome PGP stack to a usable thing with TextSecure/RedPhone (those got later merged into Signal), yeah, this shit is underwhelming, to say the least.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and state that securing the pipe between you and the word-guessing program isn’t currently high on anyone’s list.

off topic, but of all the fix-worthy things, that’s what needed his attention?

nah it’s utter shit, you should send it to me so I can dispose of it properly.

wtf, dude 12th gen i7, is it enough?! I run a 1st gen i7 on desktop and a 4th gen on laptop and my workload exceeds yours significantly.

storage can totally get upgraded with a bog-standard NVMe SSD. RAM can’t but it’s doubtful you’re gonna need more than that for standard desktop work, unless you’re into VMs, docker, and the like.

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I really don’t wanna sound like an asshole, but based on the question and its style, you’ll fuck something up and lose data. there’s too many moving targets in your stack; put aside the idea that a beginner is dicking around with proxmox (why!?)

exfil data, nuke the thing, create a new one sized right, import data, done.

if you really wanna have at it, add a live ISO to proxmox boot order for that VM, boot off it and once you get the desktop use KDE Partition Manager or Gparted to expand the file system. after you’re done, shut down the VM, remove the live ISO and put the old boot order back in.

then, maybe, get rid of proxmox and have a regular debian server with a buncha docker services where you’ll never have to pre-allocate virtual disks and such. good luck!

yeah, the original EFI 1 GB is plenty. but, creating partitions is just part of it, did you designate mount points in the installer? also I don’t think 20 GB is enough for bazzite.

them installers aren’t too good with multiOS setups, as you can tell that “error message” says shit. if you can anyhow manage, get a used 120 GB SSD that should be like $10 or such and use it whole for the OS, you’ll get up and running in no time; disconnect all other drives prior to install so you don’t accidentally fuck something up.

Cambridge University is one of the world’s leading university.

I liked this very much. Stopped reading right there.