Of course. Sorry, but I meant no middleman as in minifying the role of the server in your messahing. Signal’s goal is to ensure the server cannot have access to your messages and its only role is to receive and send data.

It’s focused on ensuring there is no middleman between you and the other party, but it does not have a goal to provide anonymous messaging. Sadly.

I provided links to their websites in the original comment.

Since when does it not? I have found Privacy Guides community the sanest in that regard so far. I suppose you ran into some people in the discussions that are not related to the PG team and misconcluded that this is the opinion that Privacy Guides endorses.

Anyway, other communities that are usually more accepting over the radical ones are The New Oil and PrivSecDev. But again, note that this topic attracts many people with tin foil hats. No matter where you go, you will stumble upon them.

Another win for piracy community

Beautiful post. I am already foreseeing linking to it in a heated discussion, this is rock solid.

Looking at the system journal using journalctl is always a good start. Move to the page, which shows events around the time the described incident happened and try to see if there’s anything worth of your attention, likely highlighted as a warning (yellow) or an error (red).

Most of the cost from not moving from requiring phone to be connected to people’s accounts and not desiring for the central server to federate with others.

I gave Darkest Dungeon a try yesterday and it’s been a lot of fun. I love the whole premise of “getting the best of a bad situation” and learning to pass on with any mistakes and misfortune. Dealing with your inner perfectionist is a valuable skill and this game teaches you just that.

“It’s not censorship, it’s counter-disinformation measures!! 1!”

Seriously. Those are EXACTLY the thoughts I had after I was forced to deal with Python after a ton of time writing projects in JS.

I highly recommend checking out either Fedora KDE Spin or Fedora Kinoite! Both are great choices, especially if you want to leverage the power of Flatpak for app installation, as they both push the user towards it. Additionally, if you ever need to install .deb packages, you can easily do so using Ubuntu in toolbox.

Alternatively, EndeavourOS might also be a good fit for you, providing a user-friendly Arch installation with a rolling release system. You’ll have a modern and flexible environment while still being able to use Flatpak effortlessly. You can also install distrobox there to, again, use apt inside of an Ubuntu system.

Whichever you choose, you can’t go wrong! Happy tinkering and remember that the best way to choose a distro is to try it out.

I’m just using Arch in my toolbox. Can’t run into upgrade troubles if you run a rolling release system

For those who don’t know about Escobar’s axiom: https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/escobars-axiom-of-choice-1

I am yet to meet someone who doesn’t use VSCode for web development.

Flatpak does NOT provide sandboxing. It containerises your applications. It’s better for permission management but by no means makes the system invulnerable to malware.

Mine too didnd’t notice. Non-tech savvy people don’t even know what an Internet browser is :)

Many messengers did

You could write a bash script to automate this process. Pacman supports hooks for updates, so after kernel updates you could set it up to automatically run the script.

Fr, Mac does a much better job at serving their target users than Windows will (likely) ever do