I finally got parts in to repair my #ipodclassic for tomorrow's stream. New battery and cases. Hopefully we can get both of the #ipod repaired or at the least get one fully functioning. Also the HDD cable in case that was the issue on the other one, double-sided tape for device repair from my cell phone repair days and you can catch me on #Twitch around 7PM EST tomorrow. We'll do some more #qubesos and #Linux tinkering and #gaming #gamingonlinux#streamer#infosec#cybersecurity#righttorepair
Thank you all for joining me on #Twitch as we played #Halo and worked on #QubesOS and gave y'all some basics of the OS. I will do more on Thursday and try to get the VPN stuff from @mullvadnet setup tomorrow so it's ready for next stream without revealing my account. We'll do some more #GamingonLinux while talking #Linux and #tech soon.
Thank you all for joining my #twitch stream! We got #QubesOS#Linux installed on the laptop next week we will be configuring it. Most of the time was trying to repair my iPods. Had to order parts to complete it as I think the HDD cable went bad in one and the other needs a new back as the threads stripped on the headphone Jack and hold button. But one iPod is at least “working” just needs a new back is all otherwise the hold button falls through. #righttorepair#streamer
Well that’s fun learned my #Twitch to #Discord bot wasn’t working for a bit thanks to @karadanvers well good news is I didn’t make that bot but my Twitch to #Mastodon bot is still working wonderfully! There is also a stream later today too we’ll be reinstalling #QubesOS and repairing and modifying my two #Apple#iPod classics #infosec#cybersecurity#raspberrypi
Debating whether I should install #fedora, #endeavouros, or #qubesos distro on my second laptop. My primary laptop has #ubuntu , but I'm considering switching due to the unilateral push for #snap by Ubuntu.
I started with redhat Linux many moons ago, then switched to Fedora after rhel became premium. Switched to opensuse for a few months, then was just using headless raspis via ssh. WSL reminded me of the fun desktop Linux meant, and windows telemetry pushed me back to elementary os, which was awesome.
After switching back to Ubuntu/Gnome, I'm getting a bit fed up with the forced push to snap. While Ubuntu has a lot of software support (esp proprietary... While I love open source and support it when I can, I use whatever tool works best for the job... That's what makes me a bit hesitant to switch.
Distrobox is a slight comfort in the rare case I find something that doesn't work, but I'm hoping this will be a non-issue.
xdg-desktop-portal should be documented separately from flatpak.
I profoundly dislike flatpak among other reasons because of its sense of #FalseSecurity (sandboxes still run on the same kernel, I might withdraw this objection when they start using #gVisor for everything) and also because of the vendoring (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies) it encourages, but I can also recognize that for other reasons that #dBus interface is a good idea.
@nnungest Thing is, things won't just work because of incompatibilities that atomize the environment on one hand (xdg-desktop-portal is meant to alleviate this) and vendoring contributing to security issues on the other which means RCE is more-or-less guaranteed in the long-term and that's one privilege escalation or kernel bug away from re-encrypting your whole system for ransomware.
There are options like #QubesOS or #gVisor that address the security part, to a point.
I had ordered my #Librem 14 a few weeks before Christmas and it has been hard to be #patient. I finally got it; the build quality is excellent!
I ordered it to be preinstalled with #QubesOS, though I haven't used Qubes before. At first glance, the learning curve appears somewhat steep, but I'm hoping it is worthwhile for the added security.
I think it is funny that, despite the advances in computing hardware/software, we've come full circle back to waiting 10-15 seconds for an app to boot 😆