save 80gb for root, sone swap (if not on an ssd) rest for /home. that way reinstalling or switching has minimal risk of losing my /home

i use arch. I’ve got it set up and it works really well for me. I’d only switch if I had some feature I needed in atomic that I can’t have in arch. (not just a feature atomic has, but a feature I need that atomic has)

what has red had done that makes you say the law is meaningless to them?

thank you. I’ve been burnt by the lock screen bug and happy to see it fixed

oof. blue sky was created by the guy who made twitter wasn’t it? if he sells to the next bond villain, blue sky will just become twitter 2.0.

open source, decentralized.

thanks. I keep Firefox updated. the fact that changing the user agent gets the delay is pretty damning evidence

how do I find out more about this and what scripts do I need to make the sites faster again on Firefox

Founders were looking for a 1bil payout 😂. they settled for 116mil 🤯…

why would anyone pay for a company that flopped so fantastically? this makes no sense at all…

lol. so I guess fedora is pushing flatpacks now? I know Ubuntu was pushing snap, so I guess fedora followed suite with a different standard. yay.

thankfully arch isn’t getting into this nonsense

I use Lemmy because there’s a good ad free app (jerboa)

for me the other useful thing would be mobile apps. I use jerboa

https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa

it’s also available on the play store

honestly the distro doesn’t matter so much as long as the hardware i supported. run a minimal desktop, disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.

I used fvwm on Debian for many years on old computers. worked great. now I have kde/plasma on arch. my 10 year old laptop handles it fine…

so I found it interesting and checked it out. the protocol is all well and good but the problem is social. I’m simply not going to send people my delta chat Id and ask them to message me there instead if they have delta chat installed. I had the same problem with session messenger.

when I meet someone irl I’m trading phone numbers. not asking if they have app X installed.

this might be useful for open source projects where you can use ur delta chat id instead of ur email. but it’s not something I would use unless it’s a requirement to join some community I wanted to.

the problem signal solves by tieing accounts to your phone number is contact discovery. thanks to user IDs you no longer have to share your phone number with people u want to chat with, and can only share your user id

plus signal guarantees the metadata is encrypted. is the same true for delta chat?

for WhatsApp the founders quit over privacy concerns, and made signal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

there’s also a nice (long) article by propublica from a few years ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users

there’s also session

https://getsession.org/

unfortunately privacy and usability are inversely related. session is private. I loved it. but I had no one to chat with 😃

I had no idea if any of my contacts were on session or not.

you need a phone number to make an account. but you can chat with others without divulging your phone number

out of the frying pan, into the fire

is there a search function in Lemmy to search for posts? is it indexed and does it show up in search engine results?

if yes, that might help a lot with getting traffic

lol. so I told my mom im deleting Whatsapp. if she wants to keep in touch with me she can install signal, or pay for international texts and calls.

she installed signal 😃

does it run Linux? I’m waiting for a good low power CPU laptop that I can install a standard distro on. preferably arch…