sibloure

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on Distro suggestions? · c/linux · 2 pts · 3y

Fedora 38 is great. Debian 12 is also good if you prefer apt. But with Fedora just use dnf instead of apt and its basically exactly the same.

Genuinely curious, as an offline password manager (versus something like a web browser), does it really need to be updated very often? What needs to be added or updated?

I feel you. I recently got every device in my home to use USB-C (except airpods). I made sure all my chargers power up to 80 watts and no matter what room I'm in or what device I'm using, I just plug it up and it works. What a stress relief that is! Now only if Airpods used USB C charging...

The article states:

Chrome already had its reading mode on ChromeOS, and now Google shares that the feature is expanding to the browser on all computers

The author of the article only speculates:

Maybe we'll one day see a version of it PDFs?

Setting aside the question of privacy, this is a very nice feature. I do worry how Firefox will compete with many of these small comforts and if it may eventually fall out of favor as a viable mainstream alternative and there goes our chance at having a privacy respecting browser. I guess (hope?) there will always be a niche alternative for privacy-minded folks?

But as far as privacy I'm not sure how the scanning of PDFs will affect it. I mean everything on the internet is basically already scanned and cataloged and sharing information over public internet through PDF rather that HTML shouldn't make a difference? Unless the article means Chrome browser would be scanning private files opened through the user's computer.

Unless OP is already in deep with home automation devices or plans to be, I agree keeping it simple this way will keep the overhead/maintenance low and be more reliable.

on Word of Warning: Backups · c/linux · 2 pts · 3y

If you have any friends or family in a nearby town, ask if you can leave an external hard drive at their house. You could make a full disk encrypted backup of your machine every week or so and then when you visit them leave a copy of your backups. It may give you more peace of mind if the data is valuable like journals or family photos.

Yes exactly. I didn't mention it above but it seems like the people who use "and I" incorrectly are the same ones trying to sound smarter by being more "proper" or formal. I agree people should just focus on the content of the message. I would not correct anyone in real life, but secretly inwardly it drives me crazy.