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pbear wrote: ↑2024-04-27 02:13 Is this a trick question? Traitor to what or whom?

Also raising these questions.

traitor ~ noun rare
1. someone who betrays his country by committing treason
2. a person who says one thing and does another

Has OP taken some oath to only run Debian for some reason?

The disk partitioning option "Setup encrypted volume with LUKS" is the most complete option at the moment. Yes, it leaves /boot unencrypted, but IIRC grub is not yet compatible with LUKS2. The next best thing you can do for now is Setup a grub passphrase with grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 Hide the ...

Perhaps I misunderstand the purpose of 'backports', but it seems to me that the natural progression of a package would be to move from backports into the normal 'stable' repo. But, in this case, we have a package that the docs say it's available in 'stable' but it appears to only be available in ba...

Terribly vague question. What are A and B? What application or command are you using for copying? OP is young enough to have only known the Windows file transfer dialogue from 8 onward, which supplies a realtime visual graph of read/write speed as files are copied. We can probably consider it a &qu...

Meanwhile, they are bring watched by programs that the Linux community did love at one time and maybe still do love it.

Aside from Firefox, what is an example of one such program?

@Augie77 For a while I used to manually toggle about:config switches to try to disable all the junk, but that quickly grew tiring. You will probably find that there are just too many things to be able to reliably track and configure. And that is why user.js templates, as recommended by sunrat are a ...

Firefox is kind of unique among copyleft programs in that it behaves like a proprietary program, needing to be tamed and neutered before it can safely be launched. Usually the tracking considerations that need to be dealt with in libre software are simple version checks reaching out to a remote serv...

Watching activity in top to see what processes float to the top whenever the fan can be heard under stress might be revealing. Or is it at high RPM constantly? I'm not sure if it is also true for x86, but the Firefox build packaged by Debian defaults to using software rendering unless you go in and ...

I'll leave a more thought out reply after I've had time to read the whole thread. But for now, this sounds like a great example as to why one should make hardware purchasing decisions around the target software environment they wish to use.

I can't help but to feel that Mumble would be much more appropriate for a Debian community. Never would I use proprietary software to discuss Debian.


It's like having Raytheon host a world peace conference. Yikes.

Linux Mint because of its wide coverage of hardware compatibility (through the inclusion of non-free drivers and firmwares) and inclusion of memtest as well as preinstalled tools, as others have mentioned above. It is reliable to have handy in case files need to quickly be recovered from some failin...

If you boot the compute stick while attached to a display, and then unplug the compute stick from the display, does it remain reachable over the network?

One such solution I'd like to implement is a custom white list for network access, but it's not trivial to implement, I don't know how to do it effectively yet. You would probably like to try OpenSnitch , which does exactly that. It is possible to configure both whitelists and/or blacklists of doma...

I started storing passwords in plain text files on my computer actually. I'm done with the security myths that are so pervasive on the internet, I've outgrown them. ... I've got the account credentials to this forum in plain text, on my desktop. Is that a security violation? Should I put it in an e...

What software is that which requires Debian 10?

Use a different NIC like a USB network adapter just to complete the install, and then investigate the primary NIC later once you have a full environment installed?

The learning experience one might get from upgrading through those versions may be worth consideration. That is, if you have some free time on your hands.

Everything...but in this case I am specifically referring to the operating system itself, whereas the internet is a window to the operating system and potentially to firmware, the underlying operating system It sounds to me like you basically want to harden your device, generally. Reducing your att...

Use virt-manager instead of virtualbox.

What are you attempting to secure your device against? What is your threat model?

Link aggregators often post such video clips using third party file hosts. The link URL will only reveal that the file extension is .mp4. Maybe I can write a script that pre loads the video silently in MPV to gather aspect ratio information and figure a way to block or allow from there. More difficu...