Brave is a choice I guess. To each their own. Today I watched a video where a guy was using edge on fedora. That kinda broke my brain.

You can do this with the dd command. To prep:

Set up a live boot USB stick with your distro of choice.

Install another SSD/nvme/HDD at least the same size as your bookworm install into your bookworm machine. If that’s not an option connect a USB drive that’s at least the same size as the drive with your bookworm installation.

Boot into the live USB on the bookworm machine.

Make sure the partition(s) from your bookworm install are unmounted.

Quadruple check the drives/devices for the dd command. Here’s the basics of the command:

dd if=/device/where/bookworm/is/installed of=USB/or/second/drive/in/machine bs=8M status=progress

So, if your bookworm install is on /dev/sda, and the USB or secondary is /dev/sdb, then the Cmand would be:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8M status=progress

Heh. I haven’t started exploring other shells yet.

Perfect. I’m feeling comfortable enough with bash that next on my list is AWK. Gonna download this when I get home!

Used thinkpad is an easy choice. If you want new, I’ve been very happy with the framework 13

If it has to be a de, I’d pick gnome. Otherwise it’s hyprland.

That’s what pisses me off. I’d never give my data willing, but it’s unwillingly given through any relatives that did do this.

Hahaha. Was about to comment nearly the same thing. My NFS share has a different mount. ~/Documents is an empty directory

On desktop skip the ProtonVPN app and just use the official WireGuard app with the ProtonVPN config files which you can easily download from proton’s website. If you’re on Linux with gnome you don’t even need the wireguard app. You can just use the GUI network manager app to connect with the config files.

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100% this. Why would I go back to another centralized corpo line must go up service that will inevitably enshittify when we got lemmy right here?

Careful with that you though. I thought the same thing but someone pointed out in another thread that depending on your system, it may update the firmware over USB when you do system updates.

Agree. Firefox is still the best browser option. I don’t believe they intended to fuck the users. This is more Hanlon’s Razon. “Don’t attribute to malice what is easily explained by incompetence.”

As Rossman said, the gravy train of Google money has made mozilla complacent and in many ways incompetent.

Shit. I didn’t even think of that. I’m using fedora. Tomorrow I’ll be blocking firmware updates for the printer. Thank you for pointing that out.

Glad I’ve got an Brother laser that has no network connectivity.

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With pass, everything in the store is gpg encrypted. Unless they have your master password, getting the password_store itself will give them nothing but encrypted data blobs.

Imo pass is great for CLI password management

This. I fucking hate that it’s opt out. Every goddamn time I open Firefox and run a search I gotta disable the stupid AI bullshit.

100% this. If you self host it you control your own data and can choose to encrypt it as well.

If you want e2ee file storage look at seafile.

If you want e2ee chat go signal if you don’t want to host, matrix if you do want to self host.

I don’t have the financial wherewithal to pick up and move to another country. If I did I’d be out of here.

I am a U.S. citizen (stuck in the U.S.) and I view the U.S. as an enemy country