I blocked their sub about dongs and it seems to have been enough.

Lemmygrad are reddit shills confirmed.

I would if it wasn’t full of authoritarian masturbation.

Maybe if you haven’t yet installed a dosplay manager but to to remove it after its installed is kinda dumb.

Not to mention someone could just crash your xorg session and still be logged in to your account.

Yeah if you dont configure it properly. Ive never actually know anyone get locked out by fail2ban

It really isn’t. If you’re already an Ubuntu user you can just reinstall all your applications and preserve your home directory.

Switching to an entirely different packaging ecosystem (especially RPMs, bleh) seems like a lot more of a leap rather than restoring your previous desktop on a Debian install.

Switching from Ubuntu to something like pop or mint is at best a lateral move in terms of usability, unless you’re totally inept at restoring your own dotfiles. Any Ubuntu user that is getting fed up with stuff like snap should have enough knowledge of Linux to be able to switch to Debian without issue.

If pop or mint have anything else over Debian other than noobie usability, I’d love to hear about them.

If you get locked out by your own fail2ban rules then you’ve probably forgotten your password.

Not to mentionyoull probably be able to get control back using your hosts console.

Not really. Especially the antivirus. Its pretty easy to avoid such things by not installing any untrusted aoftware. Not to mentionitf youd likely be ransomwared before you detectedanhthing.

But hosting publicly facing services is always a risk.

Also try to set it up without installing sudo , which will eliminate a lot of privilege escalationvulnerabilities.

Why do Ubuntu users who get fedupp with canonicals bs seem to choose something like fedora when they could just go with Debian and have it be nearly the same just without the stupid bloat.

Same here. Yes battery life suffers when running multiple profiles but that is a meaningless argument since any other device would be affected the same. Just don’t keep the second profile running if you’re not using it.

I have seen no other battery life issues with graphene. It is solid.

Cringe.

I keep my old phone in my car and use it as a dedicated media player/GPS that tethers to my active phone when it’s in range.

Also use it for car diagnostics with a Bluetooth obd2 scanner.

Technically they are not FOSS, just open source.

Really? Liberals have enough soap boxes, they can surely pay for another if they want it.

I do dig the idea of more general purpose instances tho, as long as they keep up on spam mitigation.

I asked this question when I first made a lemmy.ml account and was told to start my own instance and dont include them in my list of federated instances.

I have yet to do that and have since just blocked genz dongs and call out bs when it leaks out into other lemmygrad cummunities

I had to put it on the blocklist because it filled my Lemmy feed with a bunch of terrible memes. The reddit bridge was a mistake and tankies are cringe, even if they have a rare good take.

Their economy sure is.

I dont care as long as reddit dies

Definitely try proxmox.

It depends. Are you talking about VMs you will be using on your desktop or on a headless server?

Proxmox is great for server management but the way it handles storage puts off a lot of new users and honestly still drives me nuts. For example the native zfs webmanagement doesn’t give you any options for dataset management, compression, or encryption options. If you want to configure that you’ll have to do it through the terminal or with another tool like cockpit zfs manager (which has been discontinued by the dev). Cockpit also has a virtual machine management plugin, but in my experience cockpit leaks memory which causes a bunch of other issues.

If you’re talking about desktop, virt-manager is pretty great. Never really found any reason to look for alternatives. You could also technically install xorg on proxmox just like any other linux package but I wouldn’t recommend it.

You didn’t cite anything

Leave them be and put up more public toilets and clean injection sites.

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This dude writes stuff like this just to fracture the ‘community’ even further. Stuff like this and his graphene video just come off like whining and it does no good for anyone. There is no ‘privacy community’, its just a topic and people have differing opinions which this guy can’t seem to wrap his head around.

Its quite the shit show and they should just stop.

I never advocated against asking for help, I’m just saying the majority of people who have asked for my help in the past completely ignored the documentation.

I dont know how you brought learning disabilities into this. Its not like they would have an easier time following directions if someone is telling them what to do vs a prewritten guide with the exact same steps.

I get what you’re trying to say, but would you ever expect that old man to attempt to install ANY operating system whether its linux or windows or temple os?

I think maybe you should be advocating for more OEM systems to come preinstalled with linux rather than windows. It obviously doesn’t make a difference if they’re using windows or Ubuntu, the general principles are the same as far as using a mouse, finding a minimized window, etc. People like that are never going to consider doing their own installs and should probably have some support structure that assists them like you were doing.

As far as people in offices being computer illiterate, companies need to do better training of their own or just give a basic proficiency test when they’re hiring new people.

Hi there

That’s more of a genrral lack of awareness rather than a lack of computer skills.

Only one, but you’re equating critical thinking with knowing another language and I dont know why. Its not like the docs are written in another language you can’t understand.

The Ubuntu install guide literally walks you through every step of the process. I think even tells you how to figure out the steps you need to change the boot device.

Maybe I’m just being an asshole gatekeeper, I should probably tone it back a bit. I guess we should all want more linux users since that means better driver support (maybe) as adoption increases.

I think the problems I am angry about has more to do with a broadband connection in everyone’s pockets making it easy for idiots’ opinions to spread like wildfire into the real world.

The worst part about people like that is that their inability to comprehend basic computer usage doesn’t stop them from ranting about immigrants on Facebook.

I am firmly in the camp of the internet being too inclusive. Make it a bit difficult to use again and maybe people will stop being idiots on whatever “app” they use.

It really isn’t. Any Ubuntu installer is 90% clicking next.

You can hold a users hand but it will end up biting you or them in the ass when you’re not there to help them. People need to learn how to learn again. There’s infinite number of guides, tutorials, and if you can’t read theres YouTube videos.

If you can pass grade school you can figure out how to install your own operating system.

Honestly I dont care. If they can’t be bothered to RTFM then its their loss.

I’m definitely not against giving people advice or even more sometimes but more often than not when I’m doing that its like they’re not even trying to think critially, or even just google it themselves.

Did you give it microphone privileges?

Its really not. Most people dont do it because they dont care.

When was the last time you heard of a non computer literate person installing windows?

Why does everything have to look like discord?

Linking walls of text filled with links to your own blog isn’t debunking. Its a straight up fascist tactic to denounce others positions since no one is going to read. How about you actually explain yourself in a comment instead of posting a link to your blog.

Not to mention you didn’t actually debunk any of their evidence, its just a rant about doxing and TOS violations. Crying about ‘doxing’ then listing a bunch of users you dont like it the same post? Come on dude.

Blocking isn’t enough. There will eventually be another one of these posts when he pisses off the next person with an unfounded ban.

Anyone that cares about their privacy should steer clear of communities that say they’re about privacy. They always turn into shit shows and echo chambers. Not to mention they’re usually on platforms that dont actually respect your privacy.