Can they still not tell the screen’s size if you never fullsize your window? I 'member that advice from back in the day using Tor.

Oh then I must, because I can run those two at least. Still gonna check when I get home though, thanks!

Good to know, thanks!

Huh, neat! Never seen this, how is it?

Wait, I’ve been on fedora for a few years now and never noticed any ffmpeg problems, am I missing something? Maybe I ran the command at install and forgot, but I don’t remember that being one of the things I did on set-up.

I:

A) Try Wine. No? Ok…

B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok…

C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it’s a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.

Typically option B is enough lol.

Whine with your dollars, the companies that make the decision don’t give a fuck about shit else.

First guy on the list:

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein was the son of a doctor and was of Jewish descent…

In August 1937, while he was living in his apartment at 38 Rubinstein Street, St. Petersburg, Bronstein was arrested after having had his legs broken by his captors as part of the Great Purge.

He was convicted by a list trial in February 1938 and, executed the same day in the basement of the Leningrad NKVD prison. The exact reason for his arrest remains unknown, and contrary to some claims, he was not related to Leon Trotsky.

Yeeeeeaaaaah I can see the “nazi” part but it’s the NKVD not the Jewish theoretical physicist.

and every now and then they find another way to fuck half the internet.

Like literally today lol, it has been giving me shit all morning.

Is it Mothman? Cause he’s not evil, he warns people of coming doom but does not make the doom. He’s nice!

Don’t shoot the Mothmessenger!

Too bad Tuta makes it difficult to maintain an email through them by signing you out when not using the app and not allowing IMAP, removing accts for inactivity, flagging you for review when you try to make a replacement, and then telling you to reach out to tuta support using the address that they also won’t let you send/receive mail from yet telling them “why you want this email address” which beyond being patently ridiculous (oh yeah that’ll stop spammers, ask if they’re spammers, great job), of course you cannot even do it because the account can’t send mail.

Been there done that, now on Disroot, if that becomes a problem I’ll move to posteo or mailbox or mailfence I guess. Good on them for blogging and I agree google sucks balls but they’re not exactly a good replacement.

So, I’m gonna be a bit of a contrarian here, but my main advice is to abandon requirements 1 and 3.

As to 2, you’d be looking for an immutable or atomic distro, those are harder to fuck up.

BUT I urge you not to be afraid of the terminal, it isn’t as scary as it looks! Try watching/following along with a couple “linux terminal for beginners” or “bash for beginners” videos on youtube like they’re a class. They’ll teach you the basics you need to be a LOT more comfortable within like an hour, and you’ll be a lot better off for it. I did the same and now a few years in I prefer the terminal for many things and cringe when I have to use the windows GUI at work for something that would take seconds on linux by typing one command that amounts to a sentence. It’s a very powerful and convenient tool and I reccomend not shutting yourself off from it.

No matter the distro, you’re likely not going to fuck it up so bad it can’t be fixed, but do be careful when using sudo in the terminal as that is when it’s more likely. That said, no matter what (even if you stayed on windows), you should keep offsite backups of your most important files, things you couldn’t just redownload again. That way if you do fuck up, you can always just reinstall and replace your files no problem, it’s free! Sure nobody wants to take like an hour to do that, but still nothing gets lost which is the most important part.

As for not requiring a password, no. You want the password checks. Security is important, and what’s more the password checks themselves can act as a “be careful this could fuck your shit up” warning. As annoying as they are, it can be a good thing!

I’m sure you’ll get plenty “try this distro” responses so I’m not even going to go there, but my advice honestly applies to all distros equally.

Tl;dr: Passwords safe, terminal good actually.

Not just digital, necessarily. Sometimes it’s both.

Yeah same here, they deleted my old addr for inactivity, fine, so I made a new one. “Flagged for review, cannot send/receive emails at this addr yet” 2d go by, “flagged harder, reach out, using the email that can’t send email, to tuta support and explain why you need this acct.” Tried to send the email, perhaps unsurprisingly, to no success.

So I created a Disroot acct instead. They also flagged me for review (but then approved me, and I did it twice so I have two disroot accts which I need for different reasons), and their sign up site is pretty bad (it says “weak password” until you get enough chars in the prompt, coulda just told me that instead of making me insane rolling 30 different passwords in keepass…) but still, much better now, I have IMAP and disroot doesn’t delete for inactivity, so, woohoo!

Brits and Europeans make jokes at the expense of Americans all the time,

That’s where the disconnect comes in, they’re not joking.

I mean, I wouldn’t mind if I could use my flipper for it, but the big issue is “if flipper break get fucked.” I can back up my .kdbx file in 14 luks encrypted locations, I can’t backup a whole ass flipper as easily.

Fuck yeah I did, but only if I pull up to a McMansion with a larger order and get no tip.

Section 8 no tip? I get it.

McMansion large tip? Thanks have a nice night.

McMansion no tip? I’ll remember you and shake your soda next time. Probably stop at the store for snacks and a pack of heaters on the way too.

Idfc how much you order or if you’re 1 or 15 people, or anything else like that, but rich stingy cunts get judged.

(Also if you order and immediately hop in the shower making me stand there knocking for 5min when I show up, I’m mad and think you’re dumb. Just shower after you eat or before you call ffs, I have two other runs in the car getting cold because you thought you were slick.)

Well tarnation. I thought it had to be the one I used because when I go to mount the first part of that drive in nnn it says no, then when I try to mount that partition it says “yes but oh wait permission denied cause root.”

Thanks, I’ll try these out!

unless you configure it as user mountable and not auto mounted in fstab.

Maybe all I have to do is this actually, I need to read that fstab man page. I absolutely did not understand that I could use things like noauto and nofail instead of default until this thread.