I’ll second that even in Sequoia now you mention it.
If I’m in a full screen application and I Exposé, the main desktop apps are in view despite the full screen application being highlighted. Swiping left or right between desktops updates something that corrects this, but definitely doesn’t feel like intended behavior.
I have dock magnification on and in certain situations, the cursor will leave the dock but the magnification effect remains where it last saw the cursor.
I haven’t kept up with the latest minor updates to Tahoe, but I’ve been staying back on Sequoia because while Tahoe looks very pretty and I’m glad to finally see a potential end to Material design, the readability issues with Tahoe are legitimate and rolling back to Sequoia has been a breath of fresh air.
I jumped over to the Mac world from Linux only this year (although I still keep my X260 with LMDE around) but perhaps it was the worst time to do so - I’ll see how I feel once Sequoia support ends and whether Asahi Linux would be more viable.
Obviously that would be a total compromise. However this all depends on your threat model and how you usually use your laptop, and if someone were to steal it, would they also mug you for your flashdrive?
In my case, I just type the passphrase I have into the laptop, although my homelab server uses a USB so that it can unattended reboot, and I can put the USB in a secure location if it doesn’t need to reboot unattended.
Otherwise, in my case I usually go out with a laptop that if stolen, is only worth about $150 AUD so not a big financial hit. While I have LUKS as a passphrase, I’m not likely to be a target of any individual or entity that, if they really wanted my data, would also mug me for a USB key, so I could live with either.
It’s quite possible to set up LUKS with a USB key instead.
This announcement is for Brave hosting their own repository to host the Brave browser on that’s compatible with F-Droid, rather than the Brave browser being added to F-Droid’s official repository.
Otherwise, perhaps you meant that you did add their repo and it’s still not showing up.
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is my pick.
I’ve got two study laptops and apart from Tailscale giving me some grief very recently with DNS resolution, I literally haven’t had any problems with either machine. Both have been going for 1.5 years.
I like the LMDE route for the DE already having pretty decent defaults and not requiring much tweaking from the get-go. Xfce (as it ships by default in Debian) absolutely works, but I end up spending an hour theming it and adding panel applets and rearranging everything so that it… ends up looking similar to Cinnamon anyway, because default Xfce looks horrible in my opinion
I no longer have any complaints about Beszel. Thank you!
Seconded. My only complaint (which this might already be a feature I haven’t found yet) is it doesn’t seem to support multiple drives. But yes, it is shit easy to set up and has a beautiful UI
Seems that everyone else has said the same as what I mostly already do, but I’ll just make a couple comments on the student communication topic:
My university already created a Microsoft 365 account for my university user, which included Teams. For my threat profile, I don’t consider Teams a terrible option if I’m only using it for study purposes, so I’ve communicated over that for assignments before (web UI only).
Otherwise like others have suggested, some students are open to something like Signal (a fellow student got me onto it years ago) if you kindly ask and mention upfront that it just requires a phone number. I did an assignment over Signal with two other students, so it’s very doable.
Everything but the fingerprint readers just works.
Good to know the struggle for the fingerprint reader wasn’t just me. I did “get it working” but it was extremely hacky and it wasn’t what I was after; I only wanted fingerprint for login, not additionally for sudo, but that’s not how it set up and I didn’t want to spend even more countless hours trying to fix that
Hey guys, my Dad was always a neck bearded Unix admin so I’ve grown up my whole life on FreeBSD, then moving over to Gentoo during my teen years.
I’m starting to have thoughts about switching to Windows given that’s what my new job uses, but I couldn’t find any instructions on compiling Windows outside of very outdated releases like 2000. Also, does anyone know if emacs and htop are compatible, as those are my most used applications?
On that ThinkPad, LMDE.
Genuine question because I’ve been out of the loop on this. I had a Galaxy S5 that only got one major upgrade from Samsung (4.4 to 5.x I believe) but CyanogenMod and later LineageOS took that thing right up to Android 11.
Why can’t the same be done with modern phones today? What changed between that old S5 and the Pixel 4a I ultimately sold for going EOL on GrapheneOS?
Edit: apparently I shouldn’t compare apples to oranges without so much as quickly checking support for the Pixel 4a…
Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480…
For devices I need to be productive on, I have LMDE 6. It is rock solid being based on stable Debian, but with the niceties you expect from Mint.
For my gaming PC, I’ve got Bazzite on it and so far so good. Just used it for entertainment and gaming but if I were doing coding or app development I’d either have to adjust how I do that to suit an atomic distro, or I’d just use LMDE as I feel I have easier control of what I’m doing on there
Its pedantic and distracts from the real conversation happening. I’ve always considered “stock” to mean how the device ships from the factory (that’s how the term is used in the automobile world), whereas I would think it fair to consider AOSP a standard, it’s something you can compare other ROMs against.
Regardless of mine or anyone else’s opinion, we’re just ultimately wanting to talk about how GrapheneOS is much closer to the clean and uncluttered experience AOSP offers
This might be for the better, but Discord was so infuriating about updates and forcing you to download them what felt like 50% of the time I opened it, I gave up and just use it in Ungoogled Chromium now. I’m pretty sure within a few months I ended up having 15+ debs of Discord in my Downloads folder.
For anyone else trying to use the native Discord app on Debian, I think they’ll find this a major treat.
It truly baffles me how teachers could morally justify that. I would immediately think “Wait, if I make my students buy my textbook for the unit, I’m just fleecing them and they have no choice in the matter.” and you would naively hope that anyone else would also feel the same way.
The digital sign the local university has is powered by a Raspberry Pi - I caught it rebooting while driving past
Bugger, I wish I knew this option existed before I replaced my 4a with my current 7a. I daily drove it with LineageOS once support ended from GrapheneOS but it was rather buggy and at some points, unstable.
The 7a isn’t bad at all, and it’s been quite reliable especially with GrapheneOS. But I do severely miss the back fingerprint sensor, the corner camera instead of the centre one and the headphone jack.
Oh well, hopefully by the time this 7a dies (because I will drive this thing into the ground, then replace the battery and go again) the Motorola options will be available and viable. And this 7a would finally become my second phone, probably for work.