Not entirely related but whenever I told my dad to “install Linux” he shrugged it off. Then I specifically started telling him to look into Linux Mint and sent him a link to the site and he was more intrigued.

Should I invest in nokia lads

Aren’t there enough zigbee devices anyway?

I prefer end to end encrypted xmpp

The issue here isn’t DNS. The issue here is a large portion of the internet relying on a single data centre on the US East coast. Ideally, a lot of competing hosting companies would exist so if one goes down, it’s just one service and very few people notice.

Makes sense. DNS is quite a single point of failure

I think Ian later died

On the flip side, I use Ubuntu and I’m very happy with it. I didn’t like Gnome so I realised I could easily switch to KDE Plasma. It’s still miles better than Windows. Although I did have issues once installing Selenium, turns out it didn’t play well with snap packages which I didn’t know were there (I was using apt-get install)

LFS

I can’t find an open with option

Material files doesn’t have anywhere near enough. ES File Explorer could open a bunch of files, a text editor, sftp, ftp, audio, image viewer, etc. ES File Explorer was intolerable on the free version, but if you paid a few quid, you got a perfect product.

I miss ES File Explorer to this day…

Just use Linux From Scratch, trust me bro

Is there anything that’s better that you recommend?

So I make a new user for it, but NOT root?

Iirc, 2.0 is more of a symbolic release rather than any big changes

I was wondering why so many stuff posted on Lemmy were just pictures saying “this is unavailable in your region”

Having broken assets reminds me of using the Web in China, when a lot of sites using Google Fonts had broken fonts. Lol.

I used to think China was authoritarian for banning western social media platforms.

Now I completely understand and sympathise with them

Couldn’t you get around it with ADB?

what