Connect your phone via USB and share the connection, on Android that's the USB Tethering setting. That'll allow you to download balena and the ISO of your choice.
this is not a "which distro is better", this is which is appropriate for a noob. you want something that has a lot of attention devoted to preventing issues and that when you search "distro + problem" you get a solution, or close to it. it's way more likely you'll succeed with ubuntu than with opensuse.
once you're an intermediate user and don't need the kiddie wheels no more, you're free to wander further, replace DEs, rice, switch distros, whatevers. but a noob will have his hands full with the transition and doesn't need the extra baggage.
a user doesn't discern user-facing and system apps, to them it's a notification asking for a "software update" and that shit pops up daily. the mess that's Gnome software, a horrid creation that's OOB configured to prompt for reboots for every tiny little thing, because it updates system shit along with apps, is the number one complaint generator for converts; they're used to a couple of those per annum (macOS) or per month (windows).
flatpak apps settings are in ~/.var/app and as such easy to include into backups.
this is like month+ old info, at least mention that when posting. otherwise people assume it's an update.
I deployed RocketChat on two different client installations (didn't check the licensing you're mentioning, I'll have to look into that) and I run a Prosody instance (XMPP) on my own; tried Matrix for a short while and ran away from that mess as fast as I could. anyhow, although the messengers work without any significant issues or downtime, the amount of flak I get from non-tech normies about the client apps is staggering.
the apps just aren't up to current UX standards. they're used to Twitter and iMessage and Telegram quality UX, and getting used to these PoC-quality apps - both on mobile and desktop - makes them "feel icky". I've had to intervene on a number of occasions when some of them transferred their business-related comms to other platforms because they just can't/won't get used to these apps.
so, no need to resize images before upload on account of "image too large", lemmy will handle that?
good messenger for what?
if you want a solution for you and a bunch of your henchmen to coordinate and discuss totally-not-crimes with ephemeral comms, practically any E2EE solution will work; once the not-crimen is done, burn your accounts and toss the devices for good measure and you're scot free.
if you want a secure messenger that's part of a widely used communication platform where you can also do normal people shit and also convert normal people to actually use it (think getting contact deets from cute boy/girl at a bar or giving yours to a business correspondent without an elaborate powerpoint presentation on how to use it) and you want to enjoy the fruits of 20+ years of continuous IM development, like having top-notch UX, battery efficiency, network resiliency, quality voice/video calls, etc., without being spied on then such a thing doesn't exist.
how come? meredith baxter recently stated that it costs signal $50MM/yr to run their infra. that money has to come from somewhere. if there are no advertising dolts dumping cash on spying on your social graph and convos, the remaining avenues for financing are few and far between.
in closing, there aren't any super awesome messengers you weren't aware of, everything is shit.
because things moved forward in the last decade or so and it's not viable. the same way matrix and element and those ridiculous things aren't viable and never will be. can you use it today? absolutely. can you convert normies to it and make it an actual widely used comms platform? no. fucking. way.
this is coming from a guy running their own prosody instance and utilizing rocketchat on two separate client instances. yeah, I know how to set it up and deploy it; but the amount of absolutely credible complaints I get from normies forced to use it staggering.
from a bot farm "news" site, linking to the shallowest description from a "Dr Web" antivirus of which I've never heard before.
zero details as to how those devices got compromised or how they got to the 1.3 MM number.
searching for anything resembling a reputable source reveals nada.
no idea, but thanks for spelling "breathe" correctly.
jellyfin's android app has the cast functionality built-in, it connects to jellyfin-mpv-shim. you select the video from the app and press play and that's it - it plays on the remote device. you can then pause, ff/rewind, change subs, etc., from the android app.
as to youtube videos, select video in newpipe, share to allcast, allcast connects to macast, which uses yt-dl to play the video via mpv. you can then control the playback (stop, skip, etc) from allcast.
this all works on a full-featured desktop without problems; I'd like to strip everything but the bare necessities needed to run mpv.
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I so want to make Kate happen, but everytime I try to replace vscodium with it I get showstoppers. presently it handles my ansible stuff OK and I still get issues with complex javascript and django stuff, but I'm not giving up, keep up the good work!