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This is not related to the admin trying to take control over the instance or something but something else entirely

I mostly use Jetbrain's IDE's and NeoVIM when changing configs through the terminal.

Do you happen to know how to change the display name for SDF?

Stock up, stay inside, and wait for the zombies to die from either dehydration or starvation.

We already have that one, what's next?

Sounds very appropriate for a government operation

I doubt the little green men have the same 2 "immutable genders" as humans may have, so I doubt they can get the required papers under the current administration.

It turns out I just needed to have a little more patience. My original attempt did work, but it just needed some time to process it.

I know this was supposed to be a joke, but you didn't really succeed judging by the comments. Perhaps try less sarcasm next time.

What is the intended use case?

We had a teacher that said phones could give you cancer due to radiation and the classic 5G causes X conspiracy theories. Certainly wasn't the worst teacher imo though.

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Keep in mind that in practice this didn't work that well, it wasn't very efficient at displaying modern interfaces over the network. Showing a simple text editor over LAN worked fine, but using Firefox from another place was quite spotty.

That actually seemed quite useful at first.

That's unlikely, the additional R&D cost probably won't weigh up to the costs incurred by the small minority that removes it.

It certainly seems so to me. They haven't responded to my reports in 8 months and their abuse email points to a broken SMTP server

I was just about to ask, this writing style reminds a lot of LLM's.

Why use triangles instead of hexagons? They're the bestagons after all

It works well when you want to install software that is not compatible with your distro, but it is not a great security measure since it integrates with your host system instead of acting as a sandbox.

Isolation and sandboxing are not the main aims of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drive, and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a Flatpak.

This is just incorrect

...or containers, e.g. Docker/Podman

Distrobox is a script that manages Docker/Podman containers

What you are installing can cause damage so IMHO it's more about keeping things manageable while having your actually important data...

Programs are installed the container, not on the host system. When you break the container the host system is fine unless using rootful (or Docker) containers.

...while having your actually important data (not programs, downloaded content, etc but rather things you did yourself, e.g. written documents, sketches, configuration files, prototypes, photos, etc) safe...

Using Distrobox does NOT keep your own files safe, it actually mounts your home directory and external USB drives inside the containers by default fully exposing your documents to whatever you install inside.

From the documentation:

Isolation and sandboxing are not the main aims of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drive, and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a Flatpak.