Cheapest new device that can run linux?
utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.ml Posts 2Comments 801Joined 4 yr. ago
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What is typically done, e.g. buying a PinePhone with PostMarketOS or refurbished setup deGoogled Murena phone, is having a default user with a well known password, e.g. 123456. AFAIR when you setup Rasbian you do have an interface to have a default user with a password.
I personally made an ISO of a configured distribution, see https://fabien.benetou.fr/Cookbook/Electronics#SocialWebXRRPi0 and that worked quite well for my use case.
Well you could do that but honestly a NAS is "just" yet another computer with a specific form factor. So ... do buy one if you want to but nothing is preventing you from grabbing whatever hardware you have around, e.g. old laptop, unused SBC like a Raspberry Pi, desktop gathering dust, put Docker or Podman on it, get going. If you want access from the outside you can use TailScale (easiest to setup), WireGuard indeed or OpenVPN.
Yes IMHO having your own data on your own NAS where you entirely control access (e.g. LAN only, no VPN even unless you go on holiday) is the safest and most reliable.
kSuite. (I left Proton cause of the lack of webdav, caldav, carddav)
Interesting, I'll check that because indeed for now the support is not non-existent yet still not good enough IMHO.
I wish there was a budget for every company and government to pay retirees part time to go back over their oldest code that’s still in use. A lot of retired programmers would do it for fun and nostalgia.
There is no budget for it AFAICT but there is https://github.com/abandonware and others trying to help on that path.
Isn't that just delegating trust to a third party, e.g. here Google? It's not as if Google was somehow immune to 0 days.
how do you know you’re interacting with an authentic signal client, and not a bastardized one.
I don't think that's the point... it does not matter. Even if it's an authentic client, if the device (e.g. 0 day vulnerability on the OS) or the user (e.g. does not lock their phone while going to the bathroom) is compromised, your conversation is not secure.
Indeed, my bad, what I was trying to say is that I believe most of the efforts put into Proton stems from the SteamDeck, namely that Valve invested resources in the compatibility layer before the console but it really started to gear up then in order to bring value to players.
Edit: post amended.
I have a i9-9900K with a 2080ti and 32GB of RAM (I had to check because it's so "old" I didn't remember) and honestly, until I buy the ONE game that needs better specs, not just for ever so slightly better graphics but because it wouldn't run properly without, I'm holding on to this rig.
I don't have AMD vs NVIDIA recommendation. I use both (as I also have a SteamDeck) and have no big problem with either, I just work and play, no worries. For CPU/RAM I don't think it matters much, what does though is making sure the hardware is compatible, e.g. if you have a top of the line CPU with a low-end GPU or vice versa, you will have a bottleneck and won't use one fully. So just be coherent with your purchase and again check what are the recommended spec for your favorite games.
Regarding the distribution, I'm on Debian stable so if you are familiar with that and have no need for anything specific, I don't recommend changing, stick to what you know.
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Civilization+games
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Dwarf+Fortress
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Rimworld
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Battletech
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Into+the+Breach
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Brotato
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Vampire+Survivors
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Balatro
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=FTL
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Caves+of+Qud
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Persona+5+Royal
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Blue+Prince
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=ANIMAL+WELL
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Factorio
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Return+of+the+Obra+Dinn
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Anno+1800
- https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Project+Zomboid
... so they all look quite promising.
Check ProtonDB, e.g. https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Civilization and that, even though very useful initially started for the SteamDeck it is also a very reliable source to know if a game will work well on Linux. Overall the vast VAST majority of games do work unless there is a kernel level anti-cheat which is mostly for competitive online games only.
Now in terms of performances, get the GPU you can afford but overall its comparable with other OSes (not to name them) and sometimes even better, so on average, you can trust whatever the publisher is recommending.
Source : been gaming on Linux, in VR and on "flat" 3D for years now, pretty much daily.
I already made browser suggestions https://lemmy.ml/post/29712598/18453254 but I would also add Ceno https://ceno.network/ in the 5th layer due to its P2P and caching nature.
Up to you and OP but the fact that there isn't even Firefox or LibreWolf or WaterFox but there is Chrome, Brave and Chromium is problematic to me. At the very least Firefox should be there and IMHO below Chrome.
Right? Why doesn't everybody see how obviously powerful it is to be THE main browser engine and thus how every single Chromium installation and further usage solidify the position of dominance, and thus to dictate the future of the Web (no less!) that it gives to a gigantic corporation? A corporation so big it is at risk of being split in pieces as it was ruled just literally weeks ago that Google had formed an illegal monopoly in its ad business?
Come on people, don't be fucking naive of course it's bad! Of course we SHOULD dunk on Brave and every other browsers doing the same!
More on Brave https://lemmy.ml/post/29741804
Again I'm not comparing a perfectly setup productivity machine online versus an offline one, I'm comparing an entertainment machine also used for work vs an offline one.
FWIW I did do offline holidays and yes, I was missing a lot, yet arguably it didn't make me less productive. Now I travel with kiwix with StackOverflow and Wikipedia .zim files and each time I believe, maybe naively, that I'm more productive, so indeed iteration helps but my point was more against distractions.
IMHO with these 2 you cover most.
I'm not sure what's that's supposed to show as "there are built in settings for some of this stuff, it’s not complete and many settings are abstracted away from the user. Enter about:config" since it might be hierarchical, i.e. disabling a single telemetry toggle, either via Preferences or about:config might disable all the other ones. I haven't looked specifically at that part of the code of Firefox but I'd trust more a Wireshark analysis than this since it doesn't actually show (unless I missed that part, quite possible as it's relatively long) that information does actually go back to Mozilla even while one has disabled all telemetry option.
Fingerprinting is fair, in the sense that yes, if you do broadcast your userAgent and other public information you do narrow the potential search space and thus expose you as an individual more, yet has nothing to do with Mozilla.
Do you trust this preference panel on telemetry? If not why not? If you do believe it is legit what do you believe it remains problematic?
What does that have to do with a phone?
Edit: FWIW you can say no (ideally explaining why, even providing an alternative while doing so, e.g. NextCloud with CollaboraOffice, for email... well you can clarify in a footer that this email thread is not private and suggest creating Tuta or ProtonMail account, even if one time use) to people who use Google Docs and GMail. You can also have a one time use account.
I bet you can find stuff on AliExpress for a lot less but then you have to insure support is descent.