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Warning: Gnome file manager (Nautilus) can make remote requests when previewing files by hendrika_gelya in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] hendrika_gelya@toast.ooo 10 points 5 days ago

Yes but an HTML file is very different from a website. At the very least I'd like an option to disable all remote requests, or disable previews for certain file formats.

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Warning: Gnome file manager (Nautilus) can make remote requests when previewing files (toast.ooo)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by hendrika_gelya@toast.ooo to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I just found this out recently. So this isn't actually Nautilus itself but it's the file previewer (Gnome Sushi) that comes with it. If you select a file and press the spacebar, it will automatically preview the file if it supported. If the file is an audio file, it will automatically fetch album art from the web, and if the file is an HTML file, it can make third-party requests. IMHO this is a huge privacy issue. For example if you were browsing the web using Tor Browser and saved a page to view offline, and then later accidentally opened it using the file previewer, any third-party requests will leak out the clearnet.

This is an open issue and I don't expect it to be fixed anytime soon, so the easiest solution is to simply uninstall Gnome Sushi (on Fedora, it is the sushi package). On atomic distros if Gnome Sushi is installed as a flatpak you might be able to revoke internet permissions for it using Flatseal, though I have not tested this.

Edit: I'm aware that KDE also has file previewers, but I'm not sure if they have the same issue. If anybody else knows please leave a comment letting us know

I want to turn my into sort of gaming server by hendrika_gelya in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] hendrika_gelya@toast.ooo 0 points 5 days ago

I did this a few months ago, Bazzite makes it extremely easy. Just install Bazzite, and during the initial setup, there is a toggle to enable "Sunshine", and it will automatically install everything necessary. Afterwards install the Moonlight client on any other device, and connect to your Bazzite PC from within Moonlight. Official docs for Sunshine are here.

To uninstall, you can just re-launch the Bazzite setup wizard, look for "Bazzite Portal" in the desktop menu. If you want, you can also install/uninstall Sunshine from the terminal, run sudo ujust setup-sunshine.

Note that for Sunshine to work you will need to either have a monitor plugged in, or a dummy HDMI dummy adapter.

I remember at some point I had some issue getting Sunshine to auto-start after booting the PC. I think what I did was enable auto-login, so that once the PC booted it automatically logged into the default user, without asking for password or anything. This is pretty insecure so only do this if you can't find another way. You can also manually start the Sunshine service by ssh-ing into the PC and doing systemctl --user start sunshine.