Ephera

I just want to say that you’re probably worrying too much about it. Of course, there is lots of things one can do to improve security (which the others here are listing dutifully) and it is foolish to just assume that one’s computer is entirely secure, because as a user, you will always have the ability to bypass that.

But there’s a pretty firm consensus in the IT industry that Linux is more secure than Windows. And that the popular Linux distributions are more trustworthy organizations than Microsoft.

So, it’s good to inform yourself, but if you survived on Windows, you at least should not worry about the Linux side of things. It’s more than fine.

It says “global” in the meme, so presumably all of them…

Mint’s desktop environment, Cinnamon, is technically based on GNOME Shell (i.e. a fork of it), but we’re not just talking “pretty heavily modified”. In many ways, it’s its own thing now and you can’t really assume things to work similarly.

You can uncheck this checkbox:

Ah, fair enough. Yeah, I kind of have the same problem that I forget about it. I have to use Ubuntu at work and APT is confusing in many ways, so I keep meaning to try pkcon instead, but I still have to do so…

Did you decide to use that instead of the normal distro package manager or is there a distro which actually only has pkcon for the CLI?

You can have a separate refresh/update command and still make the upgrade-command auto-refresh.

(You can also have a --no-refresh flag on the upgrade-command, in case you don’t want the refresh for whatever reason.)

Isn’t dpkg just the program that installs DEB files, without handling dependency resolution?

If you actually need to run some DEB or RPM or such, people seem to be recommending Distrobox a lot these days.

Starting to sound a lot like a self-fulfilling prophecy, that companies and investors get cautious and pull out their money, which is what makes the bubble burst.

But well, for good reason. You wouldn’t need to be particularly concerned about everyone else pulling out, if there was a clear return on investment, if you knew more money to come out of your invested money.

Well, on desktop I’m actually quite happy with that setup. I like writing with my default editor, because I know all the keyboard shortcuts. And apparently, you can configure Joplin to use an external editor, but then I don’t know what it adds. I also really don’t want to be running an Electron app at all times.

On mobile, I might have more of a use for it. In particular, I need reminders there. But I’m not happy with the sync format that it uses. It adds a lot of metadata and additional files, and names the note files with UUIDs. I’m guessing, it will likely also not be able to load files that I’ve created on my desktop by hand, because those will be missing all the metadata.
So yeah, if I get desperate, this might be another choice in the future, but not for now.

Haven’t checked in on it in a while, but I’d be surprised, if Teeworlds wasn’t still going strong.

Hmm, are you on an up-to-date version? Could also be a timezone thing, though, like maybe there’s an active community in India, which plays when you’re asleep or whatever.

Hmm, you should be able to set a custom command for it to run before suspend like this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/526290

And apparently, you can tell light-locker to lock immediately with light-locker-command --lock: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/light-locker/light-locker-command.1.en.html

I guess, you might want to try out, if it works at all, before you start editing files. If it works with this, then I’d expect it work when you put it in into the file, too:

light-locker-command --lock && systemctl suspend

That’s a bug in web Outlook. You can work around it by deleting cookies from Outlook before logging in. On Firefox, I always press Ctrl+Shift+H, search for “outlook” and then right-click on an entry → Forget About This Site.

Don’t ask me why it takes so long for them to fix it…

Ah yeah, that didn’t make a ton of sense. To some degree, I wanted to say that it may show up in various config files, which you’re right, I could template with a shell script.

But then I’m using Nix for scripting, which has a concept that everything should be defined in the repo, so you shouldn’t have dependencies on external state like $HOME or $USER.

I’m still working out to what degree that’s actually necessary/useful (and I do have a workaround, so I don’t need to check in my username). But I’m guessing, it comes partially from the ‘proper’ thing being NixOS, where you define the whole OS in your configuration, so you would need to type out at some point anyways, what the user should be called, so that it can create it.

Somewhat of a cheap answer, but I feel what illustrates the difference quite well is that Linux follows the design from UNIX, which was a research project with stupid amounts of money to at least try to get things right. On the other hand, Windows originated from an OS, which was referred to by its developers as “Quick and Dirty Operating System”.

And I do feel like these foundations have informed the design of all the layers built on top.

I split my notes/todos into multiple files, but I wrote a small program which basically just creates a file with a randomized name in a flat directory and then opens it in my default editor.
I just want to be able to start typing right away without worrying where to put the note or what to title it or whatever. Like, I will put a title on it and include some keywords to help me find things again, but I can do that later when I don’t need to noting things down…

I feel like the big name titles are all headed in a similar direction (realism, large open world, story-driven), because they need to differentiate themselves from the indie titles that cover the other bases for cheaper.

So, if that direction isn’t your jam, I can certainly see that you’d feel that way, because you need to inform yourself more actively to learn about those indies.

To be fair, the kids are just a pretty good indicator of where this whole boat is headed. Someone who’s been adulting for a while probably has savings and is willing to burn some of those to keep doing the hobby they like, especially when they’re invested with hardware or friendships that exist through gaming.