jeez. so strip the live wire. splice in UPS. then switch over. sounds hard (and dangerous)

lol. never created a slashdot account…

I’ve used both element and elementX. element supports rendering math formulae, which elementX doesnt

i switched right after win95 🙂

ur def right about this. there are a few other things (e. g. cached mail etc) that would be good to encrypt, which I don’t do right now.

if my computer gets stolen I figure no one will bother with my data unless they stand to immediately gain financially. e.g. ransom. my data (I have backups) or access my bank info (I keep this encrypted) and steal my identity. so I protect against this as best as I can without sacrificing usability too much

this sounds cool. if my desktop is plugged into the wall, how would they unplug it to plug it into their device without my computer losing power momentarily?

I did think about this… but decided against it in the end. maybe on my next computer

lol no. i currently reboot once every two weeks and find it a chore. (it’s my one complaint about arch as the kernel updates are so frequent). I’m def not going to waste time reopening all my windows and tabs every time I open my computer just to keep my zshrc encrypted. i realized long ago that security and usability are inversely related, and I picked the middle ground that suits me

usually I sleep my laptop and take it with me. with full disk encryption, if my bag gets stolen my files are all decrypted if the attacker gets past the lock screen.

getting past a lock screen is much easier than breaking encryption ofc

more importantly my desktop is online 24/7 with a static IP. if I get hacked they get all my data (bank passwords etc). but with the one folder encryption, if I get hacked they get my zshrc and init.lua 🙂

so the issue with whole drive encryption is that all the data is decrypted 100% of the time I’m using the device. even when I sleep the device …

with one folder, I ensure it’s unmounted and encrypted before my computer sleeps.

I found it better to just encrypt one folder with all my sensitive info (I use gocryptfs). i saw no reason to have my zshrc and init.lua encrypted 🙂 and I just encrypt data I don’t want in the hands of others…

they will never be able to stop pacman -S linux.

I use arch, btw

just deleted my account and all reddit apps. quit cold turkey. there’s less on Lemmy. but I’m happier, and more productive 🙂

I heard two talks around 2001 or so. one by Wolfram, after which I swore never to use mathematica again. and one by stallman after which I switched completely to Linux and never went back to windows.

still on Linux 25y later. went from days when getting sound working was a challenge , to today when even obscure tablets work out of the box.

started with red hat. used Gentoo for about 5y. then debian for 10, and now arch.

went from the old “crux” and metacity, to openbox to fvwm to gnome to kde plasma

i remember the old days I was envious of Mac users for transparency and the present windows features, and I ran this utility called Skippy that would screenshot windows and present them… all these features are now built in to the wm now, so no tweaking needed

honestly on single user machines I uninstall a display manager. autologin on console, and put a few lines in my zshrc to start my wm automatically

i don’t follow? the idiots I knew thought they were so important that declaring their non support for Biden/Harris would magically stop the genocide.

I never got a straight answer to the question “what if trump wins? will that be better for Gaza”

there is no way Biden or Harris would have approved the 20 point genocidal plan in the article. this is what they voted for. where are they now?

i hope they vote in midterms…

honestly idk why people say the arch install is hard. it takes 30mins max. instructions are fantastic.

where are all the folks who said “I’m not voting Harris cause of Gaza”?

install Linux… I use arch btw

in my defense, Gentoo was harder to install than arch…