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[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago

I've been using Protonmail and it does the job (although not for free). To use it with Thunderbird I need to use a "bridge" background app to decrypt it though.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 24 points 4 days ago

I use Thunderbird. I'm sure there might be other ones that are better, but it does the job.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 34 points 4 days ago

Hasn't Debian relaxed its stance and now allows you to fairly easily use nonfree software?

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 12 points 5 days ago

Looking at the video they posted, surely the act of navigating and selecting a location via the file save portal should implicitly give permission?

Iirc, that's something Flatpak allows.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

I actually don't know! It was a meme a while ago, but they might have fixed it by now.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 72 points 6 days ago

Apple devices make sense - how else are you going to deal with the overheating problems?

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

People playing Rust code while they sleep so they can learn it through osmosis.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 31 points 1 week ago

I think Windows has a very poor track record for ui consistency as well. It feels like every Windows app wants to roll its own UI; Firefox, Discord, Steam etc. I know Discord and Steam also have those issues on Linux as well, but it feels like every Windows app wants to roll out it's own window decorarions and theme.

Honestly, I'm pleased at how consistent most gtk based apps look.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

If my /bin contains exe files, something has gone very wrong somewhere...

Also, all these infographics are a sad casualty of the /usr/bin merge.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 38 points 1 week ago

There's a package called molly-guard which will check to see if you are connected via ssh when you try to shut it down. If you are, it will ask you for the hostname of the system to make sure you're shutting down the right one.

Very usefull program to just throw onto servers.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 10 points 1 week ago

I think user friendly distros (like Mint) are very user friendly if you're just doing simple things like web browsing or using Steam. Mint (and other distros) have a realy nice software centre that can install a lot of software with a single click from https://flathub.org/ , which removes a lot of headaches that there used to be with installing software.

However, when things go wrong (which they do sometimes because computers are complicated), you may have to troubleshoot and play around with the command line.

... But that's honestly happened a lot with Windows in my experience as well. Only with less command line and more running esoteric exes.

Honestly, given that most Linux distros are free anyway, you may as well try it out and see if everything works. Worst comes to worst, you find something doesn't work and end up installing Windows over the top of it.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

I have a server that has multiple services running under multiple users that each store data. I want to be able to bundle all this data up and send it to another server for backups.

At a high level, how do I manage permissions for this? Currently I run the backup as root, then chown it to a special backups user which can log in through ssh. But this all feels clunky to me.

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