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  • to each his own, but I can’t stand this clown. he desperately wants to come off as this wise, cranky, tell-it-like-it-is one-of-the-guys, but the often cretinous takes permeating his works are off-putting. the evil elites in charge of opensource not thinking about people with mech drives in 2024, the abject “horror” that’s systemd, his “helpful” notes on bugs in five year old software, for my money the dude can get bent.

    so when he likes something it immediately prompts me to do the inverse; not that it’s needed in the case of MX.










  • it’s a false dychotomy. the issue is not whether you have something to hide, as this “hiding” implies something sinister, the issue is you deciding what you share.

    when I’m not blasting the contents of my morning’s bowel movements across all my social profiles, that don’t mean I’m hiding it, it means I haven’t decided to share it. and I won’t allow my government, service provider, software or hardware to do it for me.






  • I used enpass for years and was a happy user. one day it prompted me for some re-authentication bullshit security theater. although in that instant it was an easy task, took me all of 10 seconds, it demonstrated a scary amount of power they had as I couldn’t bypass it and access my data. from that point on, its days were numbered.

    the second issue is the export functionality that was seriously lacking and I had to resort to 3rd party converter tools to convert it to keepassXC; no way that flew by their QC, it had to be intentional.



  • so this person is someone I come across frequently on mastodon, has occasionally interesting takes and every so often I think about following them.

    but a quick glance at their frequency of posting is astounding, like if I added their output to my feed, this would be like 80% of my daily intake; “overwhelming” would be an understatement.

    along with the above, to me, this post doesn’t signal “hey here’s a healthy and balanced individual”, it’s more like a manifestation of a mental health crisis.


  • you’re fine using lineageOS with microG and utilising it for cloud messaging, i.e. notifications. the actual content of the notfication doesn’t go through google (or apple), a push message just signals the telegram client there’s activity. then the telegram client wakes up, fetches the message from telegram servers, constructs the notification in-app and then displays it.

    google doesn’t have access to the contents of it, but harvests lotsa metadata that microG (as opposed to full-featured play store services) somewhat ameliorates.

    having said that, you should make every effort to ditch telegram as well, for a buncha reasons.


  • you’re running way too old a distro for what you want. debian 12 has its merits as a server, you install it and leave it be and it just works.

    what you want - fluidity with power management, dock/undock, etc - although achievable with tweaking this and that isn’t being worked on, not on X, not on debian 12, so it’s not like those things will eventually get there. so you need a semi-modern distro, like ubuntu or fedora or even trixie.

    wayland isn’t new, it’s default on a lot of distros since 2021 or so, so you can be sure that your use case was previosly met and solved. costs you nothing to boot e.g. F42 off a USB and try it out (has to be 42 as earlier live sessions default to X11). if you have lots of RAM, add the rd.live.ram switch so it copies the image to RAM and everything is super-snappy for testing and it doesn’t touch your SSD.