Nice, need to check out mscp! Thanks for the tip!
If I had a stationary computer running, I would probably keep it running in a terminal window. I could connect a monitor to the server, but I don't think it will be necessary. I will need to verify the backup before I restore it anyway, and it is not time urgent, so that if something goes wrong I can restart.
Real question: Is it not possible to install KDE, even though they do not provide an ISO with it?
I've mostly been very satisfied with my InfinityBook 14 Gen7 that I got about 1.5 years ago. There have been some hardware issues (something wrong with the audio subboard that causes the sound from the speakers to go out once in a while, but they sent a new one that I haven't installed yet...). The mic is also not very good (some background noise), and the speakers when they work (which is most of the time) are also quite weak. I decided to spec it out as much as possible, and it does get hot under high loads, like gaming. The case is sleek, but perhaps a little flimsy?
But mostly it works perfectly fine, and it is such a great upgrade over my old MacBook that I finally get to do stuff on my computer now, and run into very few limitations (running newer games and other GPU-intensive tasks requiring more than 4 GB VRAM are the only things). Not to mention that I've had very good experience with their customer service when I n00b out and can't troubleshoot my way back.
It is all free to use, but you will likely have some expenses with the self-hosting. If you do it yourself at home, you require hardware and power to run it on, and you would be well off having some additional backup solution off-site as well that would add to the cost. If you host on a VPS (like I do), you have the running costs of renting that server space.
What flaws are you referring to? I'm perfectly happy with my FP4. Just wondering what flaws I should be annoyed about.
ufw is disabled, so it shouldn't matter if it is set up or not, right? As far as I can tell I don't have any other firewall software running - I've not installed anything, so it would be the default Linux Mint-stuff that I would have installed and enabled in that case.
I am very happy using FreeTube as an alternative frontend. No ads, all my subscriptions and watch history are local.
Ah, perfect, this worked flawlessly.
Oh, I more or less just finished Blue Mars, but had to take my time getting through it all. But I've enjoyed it! Now I just started reading The Ministry for the Future :)
My FP4 lasts two days on one charge, and charges fully in about 30 minutes. In most cases it shouldn't be an issue finding a 15-30 minute interval within two days where you don't listen to music in order to charge. Not all arguments against the removal are equally good, in my opinion.
However, I agree that dongles are wasteful. I burned through many such 3.5mm to Lightning on my previous iPhone. They had the durability of a snowman in Summer, and also cost about 10 bucks each for the official one. Since Fairphone claims sustainability as the main reason to remove the port, I'd love to see an actual calculation on the impact of broken ports vs broken dongles. I think the dongles will lose.
I made the switch a couple of years back from regular Chrome to Librewolf. I have for the most part been very happy, and was actually surprised at how well it worked despite the privacy measures implemented.
I deleted my desktop environment during an apt upgrade, not once, but twice. Bad habit of not actually reading the messages that pop up properly - it did ask me if I wanted to delete it all, and I just said "yea lol lfg". There was some conflict with a third party PPA that caused this.
Didn't know that had happened to begin with. I was stuck on the session manager login screen and it just wouldn't proceed after entering password. First time I just reinstalled Linux, and the second time I found out how to reinstall it from tty. This is how I learned about tty as well.