i hide a treat first and eventually guide her to it

Laser pointer is a big help. With one of those, my effort is multiplied tenfold!

I cant upload images to lemmy unless they are pretty low-res. is that server-side or client side?

Much like how crustaceans have repeatedly evolved into pseudo-crabs, Linux distros tend to evolve into pseudo-nix

New distros get a lot of crap, but often they are solving a need for someone.

Take Windowmaker Live: ostensibly it’s just Debian + Windowmaker. I have seen comments saying why not just install WM on Debian? By asking that question, it’s clear the asker hasnt tried recently. There is a lot to configure, and there are lots of usability papercuts.

A custom distro allows someone to fix those problems for themself, and share those fixes with others. It’s not fragmentation, it’s just FOSS.

i am using Lynx launcher, which is also pretty GNOME-like

The new kid probably because of new users, rather than it being a new distro.

They probably moved from one school district over, so they know a few other kids but not that well.

Yes but the janitor plays bass in a band with some of the students

Is it? I still get regular updates. Yes there are a few, i use Morph

https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/

Thanks for the elaboration. I’m not familiar with how Signal works.

Less than some. The US gov has a history of forcing US-based corporations to disclose private data regardless of their policies or the law.

I can’t give you a good alternative though. I’m sure the same thing happens in many countries

It’s a messaging app, it’s useless if there is nobody to message. I dont have any friends using signal yet.

Also it doesnt work on my phone (Ubuntu touch). There used to be a community app but it’s not currently working.

I sincerely wish them success, but it’s hard to have faith that a US-based company will actually protect your privacy. Not that Telegram does either. I dont know what information they do even collect.

I couldnt find a working Ubuntu touch app last i tried to use it

Nothing new here. E2E is only available in one on one chats and is disabled by default. Dont use Telegram if privacy is your main concern.

At least it has an open-source client. Very few messaging platforms can say that, and fewer have a decent UX.

It’s not perfect, but it’s got a good combination of features and multi-platform availability. None of the other messaging apps support all of my devices except Matrix, and Matrix doesn’t have stickers

Edit: Signal doesn’t support all my devices but maybe someday! The network effect is also big. None of my family and friends are on Signal, but most have Telegram. A few have Matrix.

Also Signal is a US-based company.

Edit 2: Matrix does have stickers, i guess I’m switching

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Looking at RHEL docs it seems to also work there. The same instructions probably work in Fedora but idk I’ve never done it myself

I think the traditional way to do that is via dm-crypt, which you can set up with an ssh server.

You can also use a network-shared file rather than a password for LUKS but it’s not as straightforward to set up as a password. If you are doing something like tailscale then it’d be unlocked as long as you are on the VPN

Typing in a password in-person at a data center would be a huge hassle, agreed

I’m happy with regular password FDE, i think i’m more likely to encounter hardware failure (and then need to read the drive from another machine) than theft of the drive.

It’s a good point though, I’m sure many people do need this feature. Ubuntu is “working on it” but so far i guess it’s mostly not working except for VMs

I believe you, but my experience is the opposite. Generally wifi doesnt work ootb on Windows for systems i’ve set up, and newer games are crashy until you install the latest chipset drivers. The drivers Windows installs seem to be many versions back and have been unstable IME

on Ubuntu or Fedora i’ve not had a single issue in over a decade. Not one time has a component not worked for me on the first boot. It’s been truly flawless. Games work at full performance right away.

My only possible explanation is that we must be working with pretty different hardware

See, Ubuntu only requires pressing next 6 times, and Fedora is only 8.

That’s essentially what it boils down to nowadays.