I’ve been super happy with my 8th gen Intel NUC i5. I put it in an Akasa Turing fanless case, installed an NVMe for host OS, and an 8TB SSD for data. It’s low power and so quiet that I couldn’t imagine ever using fans again.
I also have a USB 3.2 drive dock for external backup HDDs, but I only turn it on when actively doing a monthly backup.

8TB holds more media than I’ll ever need, but I do trim movies and shows regularly. For some, 8TB won’t be anywhere near enough, and SSDs exceeding this are ridiculously expensive.

Haha, oh I know and I’m all for trying things for the fun of it! Just wondered if there was a practical benefit of such a setup.

Interesting endeavor…any practical benefits? I would think that even a slow USB 2.0 drive would provide better performance than a cloud-based file system.

Craigslist is still superior in the PNW, at least in my experience.

I’ve enjoyed seeing some of these blasts from the past, but I admit it’s not as nice when the VM host window is captured as well. Just something to consider… I appreciate it all the same.

Me too! I can’t recall now why I parted with it, but I wish I hadn’t. Would love to see what it could do today.

If that’s one of those old 10" netbooks, I had good experiences running dwm and xmonad on mine back in the day (had an Acer and later an MSI Wind U120(?)). Typically ran all my apps maximized, one per desktop. Firefox did okay, but this was around 2010-2012. Mostly stuck with terminal apps and it was more than snappy enough.

Some screenshots for reference…

KeePass, and more specifically the KeePassXC (desktop) and KeePassDX (Android) ports.

My wife and I have shared a single KeePass database for about 15 years now and I couldn’t imagine switching to anything else.

My reasons have remained the same over the years:

• Free and open source
• Offline (but supports cloud sync)
• Lightweight
• Cross platform
• Supports autofill

I would never entrust the management of my credentials to a 3rd party online service. They’re an easy target (it’s only a matter of when, not if they are breached), and they could go out of business at any time.

We don’t use cloud storage for anything these days, but we keep the KP database (and many other things) synced across more than 7 devices using SyncThing, another amazing FOSS project.

While it would certainly be nice to see this addressed, I don’t recall Signal ever claiming their desktop app provided encryption at rest. I would also think that anyone worried about that level of privacy would be using disappearing messages and/or regularly wiping their history.

That said, this is just one of the many reasons why whole disk encryption should be the default for all mainstream operating systems today, and why per-app permissions and storage are increasingly important too.

Just a suggestion…if you’ve enabled disk encryption during installation, consider enabling autologin for SDDM so you’re not having to enter two credentials at boot. You’ll rarely ever see your greeter again, so it won’t really matter which theme is used.

And if you did not enable disk encryption, consider doing so as the security and privacy benefits are significant for most users.

That sounds like a time saver for sure. I imagine that some of those elements (grammar rules) are widely available everywhere, while others (practice dialogues, activity suggestions focused on the use of language) would require a fairly specific training model.

Thanks for sharing! I’m probably too set in my ways to ever utilize AI for things like this. I never use virtual assistants like Alexa or Google either, as I like to vet and interpret the source of information myself. Having the citations would be handy, but ultimately I’d want to read them myself so the IA/VA just becomes an added step.

If a layman may ask, what are folks even using AI/LLMs for mostly? Aside from playing around with some for 10-15 mins out of simple curiosity, I don’t have a practical use for platforms like ChatGPT. I’m just wondering what the average tech enthusiast uses these for, outside of academia.

Like X11, xwayland is not as secure as a pure Wayland environment but I think it’s important to note that hundreds of thousands of desktop Linux users are likely still running X11.

So, in my opinion, it is not ideal to run xwayland but still completely acceptable for most users who don’t have special security requirements.

Overall a good watch, but his continuous reaching under the table is a bit awkward lol.

Yep, you would just run a couple of commands in a terminal which would reset your layered apps and rebase to a ublue build of your choosing:

https://universal-blue.org/

Oh I’m well aware of X11’s shortcomings, and it’s a band-aid fix until Wayland and/or the DEs sort these capabilities out. If that day doesn’t come within the next year or so, I’ll consider other options then.

I don’t know the answer offhand, but one thing I would do is see whether Mpv is equally effected. By default, the number keys 1-8 will control those settings.

I run the flatpak versions of KeepassXC and Firefox. In order to enable auto-type, I disable Wayland for both apps via Flatseal (enabling fallback to X11). Works fine in KDE and GNOME, though GNOME now prompts to share the display once per session…something to do with how the portals work now.

Quite a lot of apps cease to provide real-time notifications/messages, if they work at all, when Google Play components are not installed under GOS. At the very least, Google Services Framework is required for many mainstream apps.