Damn, some months ago I came across a void for adoption that had very unusual white flecks on its body. Now I’m even more sad I didn’t adopt him 😿

Too bad, its April 2nd for me lol

Came here to say the same thing. Using the term “bricking” in the title had me very confused. It would be catastrophic if this was actually bricking computers.

If you want to get really technical, each Signal account actually has a ‘secret’ account number that the phone number is linked to. The phone number requirement is actually a means to reduce spam and scam accounts.

Maybe its a shared device that kids also use? We have a laptop that’s shared amongst everyone and I constantly come back to finding random desktop wallpapers from Minecraft to Undertale to Pokemon and I think the latest is Transformers related lol.

Yes. I have an NVME as my OS drive but most of my home directory (Documents, Videos, Pictures, Music, etc.) is on an older large data HDD. My .config and anything else is still on the NVME. I use fstab to mount the directories automatically.

And why I replaced my phone with a Pixel and installed GrapheneOS straight away.

My single longest install of Linux was 6 years and only ended because I built a new PC. Windows I generally reinstalled at least every two years. I couldn’t stand how slow it got.

Hello from another Loki variant!

I stopped using it when I learned they censor search results. My beliefs aligned with theirs but I don’t want a search that’s censored. I’m adult enough that I can decide for myself what links I will or won’t click on.

Now I’m imagining an angry Gentoo penguin snapping at fingers any time someone wants to use their PC 😅

Ironfox for Android

Long time Firefox user. Installed Librewolf today and so far so good. I used Firefox sync to get all my settings, bookmarks, open tabs, etc. back. At some point I will probably find an alternative yo Firefox sync but it’ll do for the time being.

I’ve switched to a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS as part of my continuing deGoogle. Thanks for this, its further ideas to work on. One recommendation I would add however is that people use Obtainium instead of F-droid. This article is a pretty goof summary of why: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

Its definitely more friction to get apps installed but once they are installed, I find Obtainium better for automatic updates than F-droid.

I started out on Cinnamon (via Mint). Although I have used Ubuntu many moons ago but despised Gnome and never touched it since. After Mint In went to Arch where I DE hopped for many years. I tried XFCE (didn’t like the visual inconsistences); Openbox - liked and loved for quite a while as a minimalist setup; Mate - too old looking so didn’t last; Deepin - lasted a very long time because I loved it so much but eventually stopped because they changed the design too much to be link Windows; Budgie which lasted a little while and was the next closest to what Deep in provided. Was too immature at the time to be enjoyed long term; Pantheon - I still love Pantheon. It’s consistent, polished and cohesive. To me a perfect blend of nice looking, minimal and functional. Stopped using because I got tired of having to fix it on Arch; Finally KDE. It’s what I’ve been using for several years now because it just works, it looks nice, it’s very customisable (I can make my desktop look similar to Pantheon), I like the integration and ecosystem of apps, it has great support and devs that listen… I’m yet to have a DE tempt me away from it. Not even Cosmic lol.

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

Or buy a Kobo instead and it just works. Bonus, no money to Amazon at all.

If that is the case, that’s a weird way to think. I mean, if I was using Windows and one app stopped working, I wouldn’t blame that on Windows, I would just assume an issue with that particular app being incompatible with an update. 🤷🏻‍♀️ At least, my definition of my system breaking is either it won’t boot at all, or it won’t boot into the DE. Even then, not booting could be a broken bootloader (not a broken system) which is usually straightforward to fix.

Its Xanavi. I don’t know if they’re still around as we did about 3-4 years ago now. There might be alternatives by now. I know its not as simple as just flashing an OS as unfortunately each head unit has a unique key that has to be preserved (else it stops working, I assume for anti-theft purposes)…