18 points.

I've owned a dictionary and an encyclopedia.

Don't have this issue on archlinux. I think there is a group, which if you are part of, you can change networking settings.

[moonpie@cachyos-x8664 ~]$ groups moonpie
sys network wheel audio kvm lp storage video users rfkill libvirt docker moonpie

I found this: https://github.com/tenclass/mvisor-win-vgpu-driver

But it is for another foss kvm based hypervisor called mvisor.

Is it possible to allow DRM content for just 1 website ( Netflix ) , while other websites on the same browsers are not allowed to do it?

I would use multiple firefox profiles for this. If you go to about:profiles or use the command firefox -P to launch firefox, you can view and create other firefox profiles. Each firefox profile is essentially it's own instance of firefox, complete with different history, extensions, and setting. You could have a "Netflix" profile and a regular browsing profile.

What made it better?

I recently noticed that it's now integrated into Canvas, a FOSS online learning management software which my college (and my high school, and my middle school) have used.

To bad no one bothers with it, forcing everyone to use zoom instead. Which sucks, because the first day of online classes, zoom permissions weren't set up properly, meaning no one could join the meeting. Probably wouldn't have happened with BigBlueButton.

I used to spend a ton of time helping people on reddit with linux and related things, and the "why" matters immensely in that case.

XY problem was extremely common, where someone was trying to achieve a goal through "incorrect" means.

I also saw many, many people's issues where they wanted something, but were referring to it by a different name, ending up confused and lost. All I had to do was say "you actually want Y" and point them on their way, and they would be happy.

And then of course, sometimes people try to do something that's simply not possible (or more usually, not implemented in software.).

But in general, it's very difficult to help people who don't make it easy for you to help them, and part of that is explaining the "why", in addition to their issue.

I'm not too well versed in rustdesk, but it seems that they use end to end encryption (is it good? Idk).

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/2239#discussioncomment-5647075

I have experience with a similar software that uses relays, syncthing. With syncthing, everything is e2ee, so there's no concern about whether or not the relay's are trustworthy, and you can even host your own public relay server.

I find it hard to believe that rustdesk, another relay based software, wouldn't have a similar architecture.

edit: typo

(There is a learning curve to packaging stuff yourself.)

"Learning curve" is an understatement. Nix is one of the most poorly documented projects I've seen, next to openstack. Coming into it with no background in functional programming didn't help.

Maybe I shouldn't have tried to package openstack on nix.

But I've tried to package other stuff, like quarto, and that was a nightmare. Nixpkgs didn't have an updated pandoc and I spent an eternity asking around for help, to try to package it. An updated version just got pushed to unstable a few days ago. The same matrix channels I joined to ask for help have been discussing this since then. Props on them for getting it working, but anyone who says that you can easily package anything, is capping. You need to have an understanding of the nix language, nix packaging (both of which are poorly documented), and a rudimentary packaging ecosystem of what you are trying to package.

Don't even get me started on flakes vs nonflakes.

I still use nix-shell for all my development environments, because it's the best way for reproducible environments I can share I've found.

https://dontasktoask.com/

The search on nautilus is probably better because a lot of gnome distros have the file indexer enabled by default, and that's what nautilus uses, but many kde distros don't come with the kde indexer, so dolphin doesn't index by default.

Definitely the clipboard manager. On kde, it's klipper. This is actually such an underrated piece of software that I can't live without. Windows has one too, but they added their's a little after all the linux desktop environments got one by default.