🏳️‍⚧️ Elara ☭

Something like this? https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem
It uses my Lemmy API client library :3

The main thing is just make sure you know what the command is going to do before you run it. There are no specific commands that are dangerous, there are many ways to make a dangerous command. For example, if you see rm, that’s the remove command. It deletes files permanently. Once rm removes a file, there’s no trash you can retrieve it from, it’s gone forever, so make sure it isn’t deleting anything important. Some important things are / and ~. If you see a command removing / like the one Sleepless One mentioned, that’s removing all the files on your system. / is the root directory, it’s the place where everything on your computer is stored. ~ is your home directory. It’s where things like your documents, pictures, etc. are stored. So, if someone gives you sudo rm -r ~ or something, do not run that. If it’s something like ~/.config/somefile, that’s fine because it’s deleting a specific file inside your home directory rather than the whole thing.

sudo is just running things as root, which is an account on every Linux system that has permission to do everything. The dangerous part is running a sudo command if you don’t know what it’s doing, because using the extra permissions, a command can do things like delete your files, break your system, install malware, etc. sudo itself isn’t going to do anything bad, but the command it runs could.

Here’s a screenshot of Waydroid running on my PinePhone Pro. I’m using an Android image with microG. The black bars on the top and bottom are part of Phosh, the desktop environment I’m using, then everything in the middle is Android running inside a Waydroid container.

I run Arch on a PinePhone Pro. It’s been working really well. Recent updates have improved it a lot. The phone now wakes itself up from sleep when it receives a call or SMS, calls and SMS have been very reliable, MMS messages now work, etc. I even have Android apps running on my PinePhone Pro using Waydroid, which is now hardware accelerated. I use it as a daily driver and it’s a very good daily driver.

The only major issue is that the drivers for the cameras haven’t been mainlined yet which means that even if you get a kernel that supports them, most camera apps won’t support them and the ones that do don’t have postprocessing yet, so the white balance is off and the quality is horrible. If you don’t need the cameras though, it works really well.

For some reason, my brain just doesn’t like having folders in my home directory that don’t start with a capital letter.

My home directories look something like this:

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├── Applications
├── Code
│   ├── Scripts
│   └── AUR
├── Desktop
├── Documents
│   └── Nextcloud
├── Downloads
├── Music
├── Pictures
│   └── Wallpapers
├── Videos
└── Workspace

• Applications stores appimages
• Code contains the git repos of any projects I’m working on
  • Code/AUR contains my AUR packages
• Desktop is pretty much unused, but it was created automatically so it’s there
• Documents/Nextcloud is the directory that’s synced to my Nextcloud instance
• Workspace is where I experiment with random stuff that usually doesn’t last long. If it does, I move it to Code.

Everything else should be pretty self-explanatory.