Yeah that’s fair. nheko is themable with qt themes though; I have it set to use my system qt theme. But I agree the UI gets a bit clunky. I think I just picked nheko cause it seemed the most feature complete when I looked, but I’ve just been using it since then so maybe the meta has changed.
I find Matrix janky but still usable. What homeserver implementation and what client are you using? I use tuwunel and nheko. tuwunel works great for me and I think it’s probably a disservice to the Matrix protocol that the “canonical” homeserver implementation is written in Python. Nheko is somewhat janky for me but I like it more than Element, and I think most of the jankiness is because of the Matrix protocol rather than the client implementation.
I use self-hosted Jitsi for screen share, although this is just video conference software without the IM aspect of Discord. (Jitsi does have IM to be clear, but it’s a chat tied to a particular meeting, not like a persistent groupchat.) You could just use Signal chats as you have already been doing and send Jitsi links when you want to call. Jitsi has E2EE although I’m not up to date on the details of how it works.
Well those insults are usually not very serious. If they are intended genuinely then no I don’t care if you insult my parents.
I mean… you can do that manually. Apply gzip or xz or whatever to each file then just make a tarball of the compressed files. You could write a shell script to do that.
You could probably do this for an extended period of time if you freeze the soup as that entirely stops microbe growth, but there would still be periods of time when the soup is not entirely frozen when microbes will grow and create toxins that cooking doesn’t get rid of. Freezing doesn’t kill microbes, only stops them from multiplying. So probably advised to not do this literally perpetually.
Do you have the relevant graphics driver installed? I get that error (“failed to connect to a wayland server”) when I haven’t installed the right graphics drivers. You can also check the logs for anything more useful—maybe use a live environment if the installed system isn’t working.
Jesus. I hope your neighbours are ok?
It’s been around for ages and is made of the same stuff as cast iron, but instead of being poured into a mould, it’s sheets that get stamped into shape. So it has similar properties eg you can season it, you take care of it the same way, but it has a smoother surface and tends to be a lot thinner. I don’t have one but I got gifted a Teflon wok for free; once I need to replace that, I plan to look for a carbon steel wok.
Daily, or on machines I don’t use daily, every time I boot into it
Not sure what counts as a “gadget”. If it can be any cooking implement, then my Dutch oven. If it has to be something more “gadget-y” then my rice cooker.
MX Linux, AntiX, Puppy Linux?
I think the average user wouldn’t care, Linux just attracts nerds. And I think it’s totally fine and even good that people care how their computer works—it shows that users care about their software working for them, rather than just wanting to go along with whatever is given to them. I think a lot of the positions people take about these things are very silly, but I’d still prefer someone to have a silly opinion about X11/Wayland or pid 1 than to not have an opinion at all. It’s nice that users are being actively involved in deciding what they want their system to be; it’s a nice change from the average user who’s like “well microsoft is screenshotting my screen every 5 seconds and feeding it into copilot now, guess I’m going along with that”.
My point is that raids are for the purpose of gathering evidence. The way it usually works is that the state decides they want to criminalise you for something so they search your place for anything they can use to incriminate you—not vice versa, ie they dont already have enough evidence to incriminate you when they plan the raid.
I don’t know about a majority of people, but with the rise of the far-right across many countries I think it is a significant number of people who are at risk of this, and I think it’s rather short-sighted to assume only a small number of “cool people” are affected (thank you though). Like I am a nobody, I’m not famous, and there are lots of political organisers and militants like me you’ve never heard of being targeted for their political activities. You don’t need to be a Snowden to have some degree of state interest in you, and most state repression (raids, incarceration, arrests, etc) is relatively cheap to dish out willy-nilly.
Not true at all. Governments regularly raid political dissidents. It’s a disciplinary tactic in and of itself. I’ve been raided for plenty of shit and never been convicted of any crime.
Automatic daily updates for system packages. Automatic daily container updates with watchtower. I normally have things pinned to a reasonable major or minor release, so I do manual upgrades for new OS release branches and usually pin to a major version for Docker containers but depends on the container.
I suppose it’s targeted towards getting people who fall for these scams to get onto Linux. At least they’d probably fall victim to fewer tech scams if the scammer doesn’t know how to deal with Linux.
There was one question where it wouldn’t let me do this. I think the media streaming question I had to click “Other”.
Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.
I’m a bit confused. What is the actual problem? You’re getting an error in Thunderbird?
Are you able to use your home partition normally outside of Thunderbird?