My “smart” bulbs are at the less online end of the spectrum, they host local wifi or bluetooth for configuration via their app, but even that can bite you
I added a wifi range extender to address the problem of stuff at one end of the house regularly losing connection and needed to point one of a particular brand at the new wifi
Its app hadn’t been updated and I needed to dig out my old phone stuck on an old version of Android to set the bulb up again
You lost a bit of credibility when you misspelt atoms
If you’re worried about cloud based monitoring you can self host monitoring with things like open energy monitor’s emon pi
It even gets worse - I keep screen sessions open with one screen running root
Security and convenience balance, and if something has compromised my sudoer account they have root anyway
-i asks for an interactive session
I use sudo su because running su with no options also gets you an interactive session without having to type anything but letters and a space
Both of these are for when you want a session as root which is nearly never necessary, but sometimes it’s more convenient that a set of commands preceded by sudo
I use sudo su 'cause I can type it quicker than sudo -i
Fast boot in BIOS is about skipping tests, it’s usually safe to leave alone
There’s only a small set of spreadsheets in my work life that need multiuser access, most of those are admin shit.
There are more in my home life, planning holidays, household tracking.
Buy most things at home and work have no need to be shared during update
Are you sure you can’t make a high entropy memorable password?
My scheme pulls four words at random from a large corpus
KeePass doesn’t rely on any third party, and if you choose to use a third party file storage to hold your password vault, it’s encrypted
My workplace has finally gone to passphrases and 1 year password life, which is nice as it’s a password I often need to type, so I’d rather 20 easy to type and memorise chars than 16 random
Isn’t it reasonable for a maintainer to say “no rust here” when they don’t know rust, don’t want to learn it, and have decades of experience in C, and are maintaining that part of the system
I presume you know that your account is marked as automated, as a bot
I have been using Linux for a long time. I have installed many distributions, many different distributions. I can’t say I have ever had a problem with installers except:
Do you have super odd hardware? Do your computers lie to the installer about present hardware?
If 3 is worse than 1, -1 is better. So I don’t agree with you. WSL is at +∞
Any distribution is better
It seems to have become a vehicle to promote Canonical’s paid products. Also it prefers snaps over packages. Also it’s not as good as Mint for those wanting what Ubuntu used to be
For desktop environments gnome and kde are excellent and force each other to improve
I don’t think Libre Office has a good competitor aside from Microsoft Office which hardly matters in the open source world but Libre Office works in windows too
There are several file explorers, many terminal emulators
Debian is good for that, unless the system is a laptop with no RJ45 port and a wireless card which needs a non-free driver
Why wouldn’t you like systemD? It’s easier to learn than most distributions
I guess its commands are a bit long
I use keepass, it’s a little more work than many closed source ones, but it’s only as online as you want it to be, and runs on anything