Both the T14s and X1 Carbon would be good options. I also have an x390 which I quite like.

It’s increasingly harder to exchange for fiat anonymously, especially when you consider XMR or other privacy coins. Once the people in charge of money realized they were a bit subverted, you got the huge crackdown.

I still use it for various things. Buy LTC from a legit licensed exchange. Move it around a bit. Change to XMR through an exchange that doesn’t care. Maybe move it around some more. It’s a giant pain, but I don’t know a better way. This method isn’t perfect, more of a balance of risk, but it’s better than just handing your entire entity over for a simple transaction.

I don’t know how steamos works, but if it’s arch-based, can you just do pacman -Syu to update?

kitty, nvim, fish, zed, mpv, btop, borg. Weird how all the gone ones have short names. Depending on the system, I would add tlp as well.

yetCalc?

I don’t know if it’s on the play store.

Rofi is cool but don’t forget about qalculate (the backend)

That was my first thought, why is this not written in a scripting language. Any one.

For my desktop, I have two disks. One is root, one is home. They are single BTRFS filesystems with automated snapshots, compressions, and a few subvolumes. Works great.

For a laptop, similar but with only a single disk/partition and FDE. Also works well.

Arch on desktop/laptop because I’m very comfortable with it, and I can set it up the way I like.

Debian on servers because it’s stable and nearly everything has a package available, or at least instructions for building.

Same as OP, but I’m not likely to change them out. I’ve tried a lot of distros over the years and this is what works best for me.

There is not, but I will add one.

You could get started with Qt, specifically the legacy widgets. There are bindings for Python available (pyside or pyqt) if you don’t want to learn C++ or another language right away. You can also port your GUI definitions to other languages at a later date.

I’ve used https://changenow.io/ several times to get XMR from LTC or vice versa. It’s always worked for me, but I’ve heard of people’s transactions being held if they were large amounts, so exercise caution.

This doesn’t solve the problem of buying the initial crypto, which may or may not be difficult, depending on your jurisdiction.

Yeah, I remember someone getting all their Proton accounts banned, but they had a large amount, basically using it as a disposable provider. Don’t be that person and ruin it for everyone.

I have two with Proton and have had two with Tuta. I don’t think either would bother coming down on that. It could very easily be two people sharing a device with different email accounts or so forth.

MS and other corps love MIT and related licenses because they can just take the code and basically do whatever with it in their projects, so it makes sense for them to promote it. Generally speaking, they won’t touch GPL/AGPL as it would force them to distribute their source.

I believe it was a very intentional choice to use a permissive license for Rust. If they hadn’t, it would not have been as popular as it is today, nor would it have big money behind it. https://rustfoundation.org/members

This is basically the holy grail for finding how to do things or troubleshooting once you have the basics down: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page

A large amount of information is transferrable to other distros, particularly if they use systemd.

I would also spend some time getting comfortable with the command line. There are a million tutorials, guides, and free courses on this topic. Find a shell and terminal emulator you like. I’m using Fish and Kitty these days.

Going against the grain, maybe consider EndeavourOS for a distro? https://endeavouros.com/

In this scenario, the thumbnails are going to be generated when you browse the directory. Probably what network filesystem you’re using. Alternately, maybe there is a maximum file size on previews? I know dolphin has that option.

I think that error is related to a missing dbus session but don’t quote me on that.

You will probably find it easier to use a system level service, but run it as your unprivileged user with User= and Group= directives. Once you get that working, there are various other parameters you can add to harden the service if you like.

This is a good reference for hardening: https://docs.arbitrary.ch/security/systemd.html

The arch wiki has a good general reference for all things systemd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd

You can pick up a sim for about $15 and then get pay as you go from 7-11 wireless or whatever other cheap provider. This gives you a “real” secondary number and doesn’t cost much if you aren’t using any data.

I agree with the general idea of what you’re saying, but it’s a slippery slope.

Most people I know personally would never take the effort to learn anything past the point of “Ask ChatGPT” when they have a problem. What happens when the model is wrong, or simply cannot solve the problem? Or maybe they have no network connection and cannot run something suitable locally?

At that level of coddling, then they might not even have the ability to find and open a man page, or edit a config file without a GUI. And that’s a problem. It’s not even Linux-specific. I went to school with “smart” computer science students who don’t even understand file extensions or what a shortcut conceptually is.

What I’m getting at, is there needs to be some kind of balance, or people will just gradually become more useless.

Overall, it’s good, but you need to know what exactly you’re signing up for. The reality is that you can run a decentralized or centralized E2EE chat server, along with voice/video calling, without much effort. There are hiccups with the key exchange that suck, and metadata isn’t really protected. It really comes down to if it meets your particular requirements.