Do people usually just ignore these types of emails?
Yes, for the simple fact that half of the half trillion emails sent every day is spam mail. Trying to do something with them is a fool's errand. Just delete and make the most of your day.
162 billion spam emails are sent every day, with 49% of the 333 billion daily emails sent, considered spam (numbers recorded for 2022).(source)
Its not weird to you and as you said, nothing untoward is occurring so I don't see a reason to stop. I wouldn't share with peers though for obvious reasons. The small-minded would have a field day.
Does randomizing your MAC create any usability issues? Needing to log in repeatedly, getting bumped off network due to looking like a different device, anything else hindering usability?
Your story basically mimics mine. Guitar and drums, always wanted to play with others but at 50 years old, I jam every day by myself at home.
Other than about 6 months in my 20s, I've not played music with others. I want to but I don't interact with others and the thought of trying to is overwhelming.
I hope you overcome your aversion. The 6 months I did jam with others was magical.
The statement is completely age dependent. Not too long ago(before the movie), it was pretty newsworthy any time the next group reported that they were trying to find it.
I came to lemm.ee solely for it's defederation from threads. If they ever choose to federate, I'll move again.
I'm not going to shit on you, you seem pretty nifty. I think you're right, as well. Many people have forgotten how to disagree with someone and now just regurgitate catch-phrases at each other. I've been working on improving that myself. It's like reversing brainwashing or reconditioning. It's been hard-wired into us at this point by the social network scene.
Which is why I said "linux as a whole". Many distros will try to undo the nerdery and neckbeardism that is built into the parent distros but as a whole, linux is going to always be less welcoming to a new user than someone that's used to useless warnings and repeated password entries for elevated privileges. Being safer and being new-user-friendly rarely go hand in hand.
Yes but surely you're aware that even the most new-user-friendly distros and their tools aren't necessarily aimed at new users.
That warning is a perfect example of how Linux developers choose which hill to die on. They post a warning for an app that everyone knows can deliver bad times to two camps of users; those that know and don't care and those that don't understand the warning. If we could quantify the helpfulness of that warning, odds are that it saved 0 users from malicious action from that avenue of attack.
Never expect Linux as a whole to be "helpful" to the new crowd.
With the prices on the Pi5 your potentially getting into the price range where it might make sense to look at the Beelinks mini PCs, based around a 12th gen Intel.
Wow, wish I had known about that before. That looks amazing! I ordered one and will give it a shot. Do you happen to know of a community based around mini-pcs? If not Lemmy, forum, etc. I use places like Tomshardware but would love to see things like the Beelink when they pop up.
I see. I went a bit pricier and am running a refurbed EliteDesk 705 G4-Mini for one of my linux desktops but I'm also running linux desktops with a Pi4 and 5 elsewhere. All three have been working great but as you mentioned, running linux on ARM takes away a lot of software options, unfortunately.
I love OB with tint2 and conky , no de needed.