IIUC it wouldn’t be able to be automatically started then, right? I mean I guess you could drag it to startup but it would need the password to start. From a security minded perspective that’s good, but from a user perspective kind of sucks.

that's true, but since this is a record of everything you've ever done, i feel this is the irreducible minimum for security. a separate password prompt would signal to the less technically-minded users that this is Serious

Always forced to foreground makes it even less convenient and kind of odd.

this is a design pattern i borrowed from Linux (my OS of choice). modern Linux apps require your explicit permission to run in the background, so most of them don't even bother with running in the background at all. that said, i suppose it can run in the background, as long as the status indicator is sufficiently noticeable, but you'd have to go into the settings and flip that switch yourself

I don’t see this functionality as being useful if you have to remember to turn it on.

i imagine that it would become a habit, or you'd set it to run on startup. my use case would be turning it on for specific tasks like research or shopping, where you might only later remember that that one thing you saw was actually really valuable

I figure the cryptfs could be a bitlocker volume with a different key than the base C drives key to get similar protection. In theory it could also be based on the C drives bitlocker for a less secure, but still hardware level secured middle ground.

can a user-installed app do that?

try $ sudo apt install akmod-nvidia. it's gonna pull in some dependencies and a proprietary driver, and probably break Secure Boot if you have it set up, but that's how i got it to work on Fedora (except i used dnf, of course)

i'm not sure either, but either way, a hurt dog will holler ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ranked-choice is the wrong choice here. it's expensive to print new ballots and the process is needlessly convoluted and wasteful. approval voting is not only cheap and effective, it more accurately represents the will of the people

that's true. it's not super in-depth, but it's a pretty good introduction in my opinion

i'll have to look more into that. the obvious answer is "keep it off site", but that only applies if you're doing backups. if it's a NAS with several different purposes like the one i want, i'm not actually sure. i'll keep reading about it

on my laptop, i access the Lemmy web frontend through Tangram. on mobile, i currently just access it through Firefox, but i'd like to switch to an app once i find one i like

Blindsight by Peter Watts. it's a really unique take on first contact, but wow is it dark

i'm sure you all have heard of Outer Wilds (which i highly recommend and is 40% off right now) but a lesser-known game is Rain World. it's an absolutely brutal survival platformer where you play as a little slugcat trying to find their way home in a dying world. it's not for everyone, but if you like exploration, ancient mysteries, action, a bleak atmosphere, and you don't mind dying a hundred times, absolutely give it a go

taking Ayn Rand's work seriously. five seconds of critical thought and her entire philosophy comes crashing down

it was literally just the five of them