Do you use some kind of encryption on the VPS?
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How do you make sure the disk spins down? Is unmounting enough?
I look forward to Digital Wellbeing.
Considering Gnome 48 won’t hit stable distros any time soon, any recommendations for alternatives?
Is there any disk usage tool that allows you to browse the tree while it’s still being calculated, prioritizing current directory?
Can you elaborate what the risk is?
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•How to help a person who has bad times remembering commands when using Linux.1·6 months agoStick to one distribution. Using notes is fine. Make aliases if necessary. You will learn with repetition.
Learning to read manpages is honestly the best advice. They are pretty dense in information, so maybe that’s why some people go to great lengths to run circles around them looking for inferior sources of information.
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for December - Fedora Magazine5·7 months agoELI5 what is wrong with Flatpak.
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"1·8 months agoFinally, a cure for insomnia. Thanks, I hate it!
ouch@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia2022·8 months agoBad news mate. WW3 already started a while ago. The world is essentially in a proxy war against Russia.
You can start with
dpigs
. Then start marking packages automatically installed withapt-mark
.aptitude
may be a good frontend when removing a lot of packages, you can mark entire categories, like libraries, as automatically installed.Pay attention to the package headers when removing packages. You don’t want to remove essential packages.
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Intel Linux Patch Would Report Outdated CPU Microcode As A Security Vulnerability53·8 months agoThe Linux kernel would maintain a list of the latest Intel microcode versions for each CPU family, which is based on the data from the Intel microcode GitHub repository. In turn this list would need to be kept updated with new Linux kernel releases and as Intel pushes out new CPU microcode files.
Sounds like that would be outdated for everyone without a rolling distro.
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Manjaro distribution is introducing a system for sending telemetry about the system4·8 months agoNah, it’s still considered Personal Data under GDPR, because it’s possible to connect to natural persons. So GDPR applies. And this is illegal, there is no legal basis for processing this data.
Release submissions should really include a description what the project is about.
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop25·9 months agoWine was first released in 1993. I hope our children are there to see the take off.
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop98·9 months agoI hope this makes it easier to do TLS sniffing and security research on Android apps. A lot of developers seem to rely on no one simply looking at how much information is exposed in the APIs apps use. Currently because it’s much more difficult to sniff Android apps, a lot of privacy/security issues are not raised.
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•tension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctions8·9 months agoI’m optimistic, since technical arguments can be pretty heated yet they end like this:
ouch@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted5·9 months agoCan you find any links where one can read about this?
If Finland is wasting tax payer money to something shady, it should be brought to the local media.
Folders as a to do mechanism sounds interesting.
I’m wondering if a date-based system could work.