Guenther_Amanita @ Guenther_Amanita @feddit.de

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I quite like your idea of just moving my data (not the other stuff) to another drive.

How can I decrypt my drive without a GUI, monitor or keyboard?

I've had quite a bad experience with police for example.

30 cops raided my home because of something trivial (I ordered a bit of non-psychoactive CBD-weed, which is, even in the most restrictive country you can imagine, ridiculous).

Of course, I got the whole experience-pack, including strip searches and confiscating all electronics.

Even though I believe them getting hold of any data wouldn't have changed much, I'm still glad I had my devices encrypted.

Just knowing they didn't see my cringy pictures of my teeny-me, where I discovered Snapchat filters, is a big relief. 😅

Yeah... that traumatized me a bit and maybe that's the reason I'm worrying.

Also, you could never know what will happen in the future. Maybe my GF will turn crazy tomorrow and use those embarrassing pictures against me. Who knows?

I believe everyone should use encryption, even if they don't have much to hide...

I had the expection that Linux is already set up as a multi-user environment and has that feature built in.

Of course that "isolation" of data, as I had it in my mind, wouldn't be really secure, but it doesn't have to be that for me. I just don't want anyone to access it easily.

Crosspost. Click on it and you'll land on my original post.

I didn't want to duplicate it. You can always suggest me how to make the crosspost more visible, I just did it how my client set it up for me.

My threat model isn't high. Just normal stuff everyone has, but that would be disadvantagely if someone else got them.

It's more if a precautionary measure. It doesn't have to be super safe, but better than nothing.

Even if firearms were legal in my country, I wouldn't murder someone because of some embarrassing photos where I discovered Snapchat filters when I was 15.

Also, if they were legal, they wouldn't help, since I'm not 24/7 at home

Wtf, no?!

If I had CP, I wouldn't ask publicly and make myself vulnerable.

I just don't wanna have anyone snooping around my stuff, just as everyone else.

Thanks a lot for your answer. How would you encrypt a server? Typing a password every time it boots isn't possible for me, since I would need a monitor for my headless server.

Well... shit. Thank you for your great advice. I'm gonna look for how I can secure my data.

Safe in the context of someone stealing the hard drive and look through private photos and stuff by plugging the drive into another device.

I think you misunderstood the motive of this community.

Also, I don't wanna be rude, but who cares? You could post your experience after a month or so in a sub that focuses on stuff like that, but we're all here for life hacks and, you know, stuff YouShouldKnow 🙃

Yep, I see it the same.

I didn't use Hyprland, or any other TWM, yet, due to the same reasons as you.
I just want something preconfigured that "just works". Hyprland seems to be very very smooth, but barebones.
I'm not that much into ricing and don't want to spend many weekends DIYing my desktop.

I wish Forge would implement some animations, then it would be perfect.

There is a Hyprland-Silverblue-image called Hyprgreen that provides that sort of, maybe you could test that? It is a rather small project and still on F38, but should still work fine.

Try Forge. It's a Gnome extension that provides you a tiling window mode, just like the one from the Pop shell. You will love it!

It's not bleeding edge, it has a release cycle of 6 months.
It's more leading edge, since it uses the most modern technologies like Wayland by default, btrfs, and so on.

You can have both! Just install Distrobox and set up an arch container.
I do that on Silverblue and it works great :)

I find that really cool, BUT, you should delete that link.

First, installing a tweaked Windows version from somebody else is risky. It's hard to check if you included malware for example. I mean, I trust you that you didn't do that, but it's still risky. That alone isn't the reason you should delete it. If I install a malware-version, it's my fault, who cares.

The real reason you should delete that immediately is because it's illegal! The licence doesn't allow you to share Windows. With scripts on your own install its a grey area, but sharing installs or isos is definitely not allowed and everyone here could report you for that to MS, the police, the admins, whoever.

Anzeige ist raus! (Jk)

I use Distrobox on Fedora Silverblue.
More precisely, uBlue. It came pre-installed there and I quite like it.

Toolbx is more of a "use it to install command line dnf-packages on SB", while Distrobox is way more capable.

I can have any distro I want as container and export graphical apps and binarys.

Which isn't an unique feature of VOS. You can do the same on Fedora Atomic or any other distro too with Distrobox and Waydroid.

BUT, I like VOS' implemention. It's nothing special, but still neat!

I'm a huge fan of Silverblue, but VanillaOS still looks pretty promising.

It doesn't have much unique to offer imo, but it seems to be "the next Mint" in how I see it.

It has a similar philosophy (user friendliness and reliability), but kind of a different implementation.

Mint tries to archive that by looking similar to Windows UI-wise and being "stable" (in terms of a conservative release cycle).

VOS archieves that by looking simplistic (appealing to younger folks like myself) and being immutable + self managing.

Both are valid, but the key difference is that Mint is "old fashioned", while VOS tries to use new technologies for it's goals.