There is way to do this that works with even older computers and is easy to manage.

That’s with Edubuntu and thin-client computing using the Linux Terminal Server project, LTSP.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/Chapter_5_-_Thin-Client_Computing

In that model, you install Linux once on a server. Each computer in the lab is set to boot over the network from the server.

This way there is one computer to maintain, the users can’t access root and all the storage is centralized.

Even old computers with low CPU and RAM and no hard drive can make good thin clients.

A number of schools have been using this approach for 15+ years.

https://www.edubuntu.org/

It appears to have the display functionality of swaybar, the default dock of Sway.

No, you can’t prevent open source software being mirrored, nor can you can compel citizens and companies of other countries to stop working on it.

Must be completely unrelated.

In 2004, Munich, Germany led the creation of LiMux and switched the city to that from Windows.

In 2017 they reverted to Windows.

In 2020 they re-asserted the intent to switch to open source.

What’s old is new again.

This was downvoted, but is a good question.

If your account is compromised, the shell init code could be modified to install a keylogger to discover the root password. That’s correct.

Still, that capture doesn’t happen instantly. On a personal server, it could be months until the owner logs in next. On a corporate machines, there may be daily scans for signs of intrusion, malware, etc. Either way, the attacker has been slowed down and there is a chance they won’t succeed in a timeframe that’s useful to them.

It’s perhaps like a locking a bike: with right tool and enough time, a thief can steal the bike. Sometimes slowing them down sufficiently is enough to win.

Journalists are trying to cover it, but the FBI isn’t talking and issued a gag order to IU not to discuss it either.

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/wang-xiaofeng-iu-luddy-fbi-search

I have a kid about that age interested in games. There was definitely interest in social pressure to switch to Windows for gaming for the bigger selection and what friends were playing.

My experience with systemd has been the opposite. Thanks to systemd, many core tools have consistent names and CLI behaviors.

Before systemd I used sysVinit, upstart and various other tools.

I’m glad systemd alternatives exist as part of a diverse Linux ecosystem but I haven’t had a compelling reason to not use systemd.

What mailing list features do you need?

uutils is not distro-specific.

Yes, we are waiting for the CrowdStrike aha moment where the industry learns the hard way that anticheat with root privileges was a dangerous idea not worth the risks.

That’s right. Zitadel is another option that’s open source, self-hostable and supports OIDC.

And: Fish implements aliases as scripts! When you use alias —save, fish creates as script with a function in it.

Qutebrowser is small in market share but not in resource use.

I was scared to move the cloud for this reason. I was used to running to the server room and the KVM if things went south. If that was frozen, usually unplugging the server physically from the switch would get it calm down.

Now Amazon supports a direct console interface like KVM and you can virtually unplug virtual servers from their virtual servers too.

I started to DBAN (wipe) my internal drive once instead of an attached drive. That was the last time I ran DBAN on a machine with any drives of value plugged in.

Yes. I used to use Knoppix. It was cutting edge for the time. Similar in concept to immutable distros today that allow you have some mutable data storage.

I agree the question here is not so much which distro but which browser.

Todays low-end laptops often come with 8 GB of RAM. Even common phones have more than 2 GB of RAM.

My town’s subreddit just started a policy to disallow links to X for similar reasons.

There is a movement to avoid the platform.