Again, speaking as a radio operator, for this users needs its tough to recommend a radio solution to the non-technical especially when it’s a mesh based hobbyist one the user will be relying on to communicate securely.
Radio also sticks out like sore thumb and it’s important to be able to look normal.
Cell phones have three states: unlocked, locked afu (after first unlock) and locked bfu (before first unlock). When in bfu the phone is much more difficult to attack because it won’t allow access to the pairing or anything really. It becomes even more restrictive with lockdown on.
Turning the phone off frequently accomplishes two things, it keeps the user from messing with it and makes sure if someone grabs you up in your home while you’re reading your newspaper smoking your pipe then they grab your phone while it’s turned off, in bfu lock when it’s powered up.
The duress inputs can do a lot with a little. You can lock the phone, turn it off, dial 911 etc.
iOS devices already have wipe after a number of failed pin attempts. I’m dubious of much more than that for this user. The threat model here is police picking you up and using a far reaching warrant and off the shelf technology to peer into your devices, not someone dead bugging your devices’ security chip. It’s only got to last as long as the cops are allowed to hold your shit, so the four or five years lead that leaks from various cybersecurity companies indicate that devices in bfu have over their opponents in intelligence seems perfect.
It’s common practice for law enforcement to go ahead and do the ten tries or whatever makes the device wipe itself before they give it back to you anyway, so it’s a double edged sword.
What kind of contributing?
If you mean actually adding code or packaging or testing or anything along those lines, you’re probably looking for gnome. They hate normal linux stuff like middle click paste.
If you mean contributing by using linux, just pick something and start. You’ll have a lot to learn no matter what so there’s no point wasting time trying to figure out what you’re gonna want and working towards that.
If you mean putting other people on linux, don’t do that. It will make them unhappy and cause you lots of stress and work. Find a way to keep them on the systems they’re familiar with, either by using the well documented windows 10 iot ltsc or the accessibility options in macos. People deserve to choose weather or not they switch operating systems and when those decisions are made for them it needs to be done by those who will be working with them every day.
It would be helpful if your example of behaving identical to macos or windows were more clear, since macos and windows behave wildly different from each other. It’s like saying you need a normal european car that works just like your 2500 Silverado or civic si.
No and no.
What this person is describing is a recent ios device with lockdown on, biometrics off, adp on and an understanding that no us carrier can offer cell service with security or privacy from the us government because of the lawful intercept backdoor.
They need to change their behavior to include turning their phone off frequently and incorporate practice using their phones duress inputs. They need to recognize that the phone is always a tracking device and cannot function in the way they want without being a tracking device. Because of that last part, and because the metadata delivered to phones is now used to direct police action, they need to understand that phones can’t come with them to organizing or protest and they can’t communicate about those things using the phone no matter what app or encryption is employed.
It’s also important to recognize that if the people they’re around don’t take these same precautions then it may be best to simply stop associating with those people in that way. Some friends are a lot of fun at parties but can’t be trusted.
Once all that is handled then a nice cherry on top is mullvad. Easy to understand and handle for even the most tech averse.
People will say that they don’t trust iphones because they’re not open source, but every leak from cop and intelligence tech companies like celebrite indicates that they are incapable of compromising an up to date ios device especially in bfu (not unlocked after being powered on) state. These leaks could be dismissed as limited hang outs, but the fact that we also see action based on metadata from the lawful intercept backdoor instead of direct compromise of devices seems to corroborate it.
Tldr: switch to apple and go prodromal
E: another benefit I forgot to mention is looking normal. The context of the request is one where the users fellow citizens may be snitching on them to law enforcement. Being able to blend in is absolutely worthwhile because every nosy neighbor or coworker is gonna be looking for signs of a user being a weirdo. Having a “hardened” ios phone and changing your behavior lets you blend right in.
Congratulations!
How’s everything working out?
Neon doesn’t force you to actually update the ubuntu it’s built on unless you manually do it iirc. Update your shit and report back.
Once you decide not to try that, top, btop atop or htop can tell you the amount of ram you’re using. They will all also tell you how your disk writes are doing.
It doesn’t sound like you have a ram issue, it sounds like you have a disk issue. First and foremost, once you’ve verified that you have plenty of memory available using a tool described above, expand your windows vm to 8gb. Windows would aggressively page if it had only 4gb and windows in a vm will also aggressively page when it only has 4gb, except it has to go through kvm to access those qcows.
It sounds like you have way too many tabs open. Close some and see if that helps you out. You can highlight a bunch of them by selecting one and ctrl-shift clicking on another one to get every tab in between. Right click and add to bookmarks then close them.
Next, use spinrite with I think a level 3 scan on all your nvme drives. It shaves a write cycle off the top (you have hundreds of thousands at the very least) but in return makes everything fast again. Flash memory becomes less responsive as read cycles on a block pile up until it’s rewritten.
Is this hard to find because it’s something that people who don’t know what they’re doing shouldn’t mess with? Am i just looking in the wrong places, or for the wrong thing?
Yes! Third party repositories are a good choice when they add specific software not present in the distros repo like mullvad, icewolf or (and this is approaching an edge case but I’m a big fan of it at the moment) nvidia.
Third party repositories are a really bad choice when they cause conflicts with the distros repositories like adding Ubuntu’s main branch to any Debian in order to get a specific package.
For xed, the editor you’re asking about, the git page describes Debian appropriate build instructions.
You could always just use pluma, the editor xed forked from, which is in the Debian repositories.
E: also stop planning and jump in. You’re not gonna figure anything out from analyzing and planning, just try what you want and solve the problems you come across.
It’s easier if you think of it like a car. Say you get arrested while in or around your car: doesn’t mean you did anything wrong or broke a law, just that you were arrested. Now there’s a million ways for cops to do the backflip jetpack gymnastics to get to search your car.
Once arrested, some stuff happens but importantly, a prosecutor starts building a case against you.
Maybe you took the recycling out and a crumpled up beer can is in the back seat, that’s an open container. Maybe you picked up some starting fluid for the cold mornings, they found it in the glove compartment in a paper bag, better do that blood test on you to rule out inhalant use, that would give them dwi. Got a significant amount of cash in the locked center console, that’s drug money. Maybe you keep the sporterized bring back hunting rifle your uncle gave you in the trunk, now you have an unregistered firearm in your possession, intent to menace? How will that allow upgrading the charges they’re already building against you? Who can say?
And remember, they’re going to use any method they can to deny you your property if you somehow end up beating the laundry list of charges. You’re losing the gun and cash no question. Civil asset forfeiture will see to that. If there’s anything wrong with your car that would keep it from passing inspection even if it had a valid inspection at the time of impound they can choose not to return it to you and instead sell it at auction for their own gain or just crush it.
Now what lines and spirals are drawn in the cloud chamber of your life when that cop particle strikes your phone instead of your car?