JubilantJaguar @ JubilantJaguar @lemmy.world

European. Contrarian liberal. Insufferable green. History graduate. **I nev

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Typing with your thumbs is a shifitty user experience. Come join the grown-ups, we have keyboards here.

if you’re not sure, try to use a VPN and HTTPS everywhere and use firewall to lock down all your exposed ports

If beginners are reading, don't panic. This advice should be taken with a grain of salt. I remember being a beginner and getting this kind of advice and how it caused me a whole of lot of completely unnecessary anxiety.

VPN: all but unnecessary for security purposes (it's useful for geo spoofing). If you really don't trust your wifi, then start by manually setting your DNS (to 1.1.1.1 or whatever) as others have said.

HTTPS everywhere: sure, and this is now the default in your browser.

Firewall: totally unnecessary to fiddle with this on a home PC. It will be hard-set in your router anyway, there's nothing to worry about.

Examples? Would have thought that this would apply more to the FDP. The SPD has zero incentive to roll over, given the ideological difference and the need to keep its identity intact for the next election.

Yes I know, I literally do it myself with a Python script right now for 3 sites. I just wish someone would generously provide a hosted and maintained service that does this. IMO it could be a game changer. For some people a single source that lacks a feed is a deal breaker for RSS.

If it, or some other service, could find a way to publish feeds of content for sites which don't have RSS feeds, now that would be really useful.

Several years ago I came to the conclusion that, for the kind of device models that I personally use (i.e. cheap ones), rooting has now become too complicated and dangerous (if not impossible) and that it's better simply to move my computing back to the desktop while waiting for a more open and free mobile platform to emerge.

And your point is... what?

Well that puts the loss of my little VPS into perspective.

Sure, I get that. The simpler remedy here would just be to ban ultra-niche support questions. Look at the title of this community then look at the title of this topic and ask yourself: were you interested in it? I wasn't.

And terrible, archaic, chaotic practices such as activating your 2FA without permission and then locking you out of your account for weeks pending multiple signed paper letters. Oh, and sometimes their datacenters burn down and take your server with them. I'm sad to have to throw them under the bus like this. I want OVH to succeed but personally my patience with them definitively ran out.

What would happen if everybody decided to do that? Personally I think there are places which we should be content to admire from a distance.

Insane is a big word. There's a separate one on the R-site so why not here? Then people who want to participate in Stack Exchange-style Q&A can subscribe to that and those who just want to discuss Linux as a subject won't have to bat away spam about the exact syntax to some obscure video-editing utility.

Which begs the question of how it can ever be justified to create a green desert using a gas-powered lawnmower.

On the R-site there was a "Linux Questions" one. I guess it needs to be recreated here.

And that's only the start of it. Think of all your vehicle emissions, and the land needed to sustain your diet!

But you didn't get a say in your existence. Nobody has to apologize for being alive. And there are plenty of things we can do to minimize the impact and even affect things positively.

Mod+Enter to get a terminal then look in .config/sway/config for hints.

This question does not belong here.

PS: yes, you all disagree, but how many of you other than OP were actually interested in the answer to this ultra-niche support question which concerns a single utility that you probably don't even use? There needs to be another community for these questions.

Small-time dictators, shorely.

Absolutely. The 8-hour sleep is probably just a marketing invention, related to modern electric light. In pre-modern Europe it was common to get up and do housework in the middle of the night.

I can get on board with that.