frogmint

joined 1 year ago
[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Calamity is great, but if you've never played any other games, I'd try others before running straight from Terraria to Calamity. If just for a broader experience

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Grayjay doesn't use the API so it should be fine

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

https://nextcloud.com/encryption/

End-to-end Encryption client-side is available from Nextcloud desktop client 3.0 and newer as a folder-level option to keep extremely sensitive data fully secure even in case of a full server breach. The server facilitates key exchange for syncing between devices and sharing but has Zero Knowledge, that is, never has access to any of the data or keys in unencrypted form.

It's not a big deal if you self-host at home either. You can use SSL for the traffic and LUKS for the storage.

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Sup messenger too, but it's on hold due to EU regulatory challenges

And I agree, Dan is a great asset to fediverse development

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

BTC, ETH, and XMR are the only ones that matter. Some stable coins (USDC, GUSD) are okay, too.

BTC (Bitcoin) is good because it's the most widespread. If a vendor accepts crypto, odds are they accept BTC. However, the blockchain is easily traceable.

ETH (Ethereum) is good because its blockchain is far more versatile, so it can be used for other things than just crypto payments. However, it's less widely used for payments than BTC and is also easily traceable.

XMR (Monero) is excellent. It's extremely difficult to track an individual user. Your transactions are private. There are some possible attack vectors for the future, but they'd require that you be an actual target to be worthwhile. Someone that's going to track you is going to find a different way than XMR to do it. XMR isn't as widely used as the others, though, and it's also not on as many crypto exchanges. Kraken has it.

However, crypto as an investment is not a good idea. Spend your crypto.

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For example, people of color tend to post fewer pictures of themselves on the internet, mostly because remaining anonymous is preferable to experiencing racism.

That is quite the bold statement. Source?

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

It's working fine for me. I like the improved icons and slightly adjusted layout, and the auto-hide panel feature is great.

Issues with my setup: window title applet isn't yet updated to support KDE 6. I know there's a version on the AUR that should work, but I'm waiting to see if it hits the Arch extras repo soon. My Papirus icons don't seem to be applying, so all my folders are Green but Dolphin's icon itself is blue. I also did get a weird temporary black box when moving a window out of the way from an auto hide panel, and the auto hide causes a stutter when it comes back into view.

1050 Ti laptop running X11 (optimus-manager) through HDMI with lid closed

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same with windows, Android, iOS, etc.

Windows is the only OS listed where you almost need to break those rules. You can't easily keep software updated and basically need to install software from outside the store. Only winget and choco are promising in this regard, but these are power user tools. MacOS, and even many Linux distros, ship with a graphical app store that keeps packages updated.

On Android and iOS, most users can get away with never installing an app outside the Play Store or App Store. The app store keeps the apps updated.

Not sure when you last used windows, but there's a built in store for most mainstream software,

Unless all you're doing is web browsing, the Windows Store doesn't contain nearly enough software. Users of Windows need to be used to installing software outside of the store. How many Windows PC's have never run an exe or msi?

and I'm sure most games come from steam.

Perfect example. I need to find, download, and run an exe from a website to install Steam. Having this be a normal procedure that a user is used to doing is horrible for security.

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Depends, some loads are subsonic especially for suppressor use. I'm looking at you, 300BLK

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah probably lol. If it's a Linux virus that you can detect with a scan, then there's probably already a patch ready (or coming very soon) to fix the vulnerability. I could be wrong on this though.

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I haven't used Waterfox but didnt realize they're independent again. Maybe I'll give it a try, but I'm liking LibreWolf.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

Waterfox was sold to an advertising company in 2019. However, the founder took back over in 2023.

[–] frogmint@beehaw.org 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Read that Wikipedia page from yourself. Anti-virus is recommended by the quoted Scott Granneman for Samba servers, NFS servers, and Linux mail servers. For desktop use, Linux has a clear advantage compared to Windows.

The use of software repositories significantly reduces any threat of installation of malware

As long as you keep your packages up to date, don't install random packages found online, and don't run random scripts, desktop Linux is very secure. No one is using a zero-day to target your home office computer behind your router's firewall unless you're a high value target.

On the other hand, Windows users almost have to install software from the wider internet. Windows also doesn't have an easy way to keep everything updated. Your PDF reader could have a known vulnerability for a year before you finally update it. Add to the fact that Windows has more desktop users and is thus a bigger target for desktop-style malware, and the difference isn't even close.

Most users do not need anti-virus on Linux.

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