Please, don’t recommend Ubuntu. It actively gets in your way, even as a new user. Something like https://distrochooser.de/ could help OP figure out what distro works best for them.

Unless a proper secure boot + FDE setup is in place.

Since the EFI partition is unencrypted, physical access would do the trick here too, even with every firmware/software security measure.

Most “standard” messaging apps (that includes signal, telegram) use the “OS provided” push service. On Android, they use firebase cloud messaging, a component of google play services.

Degoogled Android means not having any notifications, unless the app supports UnifiedPush, runs in the background 24/7 (which drains battery), or runs in the background occasionally (which delays notifications).

If the app runs in the background occasionaly, you can “burden” the people on the other side by being slow to respond.

It’s used often by novices, because outdated articles keep telling them it’s “the best Linux distro”. Canonical has gotten very corporate over the last several years, forcing things like snap onto users. Ubuntu used to be the number one user friendly distro, now they shove ads in the terminal. It’s not getting hate for being easy to use, it’s getting hate for marketing itself as such, then forcing corporate bs on the user (who are often new to Linux). Many other user-friendly distros have not seen the same amount of hate, because they aren’t objectively bad.

I recommend against using Manjaro, it is poorly maintained and has many downsides compared to something like EndeavourOS (which has a similar goal to manjaro with less downsides).

If you’re comfortable using a specific package manager, go with a distro that uses that package manager. If you’re already familiar with Mint, something else Debian based might suit your needs.

If you’re still looking for the distro that’s right for you, make sure to separate your / and /home into different partitions during your next installation. This allows you to switch distros while keeping all your documents and personal files.

If you’re unsure which distro to try next, https://distrochooser.de/ gives you a set of questions and ranks distros on what would fit best to your needs.

Pick your privacy-invasive poison, or go with a different brand and do some research yourself.

Idk man I don’t see Apple going all in on AI like Microsoft right now. You should give them at least a little credit for their own terrible ideas.

WireMin is a massive scam, please don’t use it. It’s been advertised on several Lemmy communities with unsolicited posts and comments, and it promises things it can’t do, like offer any type of privacy.

WireMin markets itself as a decentralized service. The question was “why use this”, so I mentioned the pros of using decentralized services. I did not ignore the question. WireMin should not be used. Other (truly) decentralized protocols like Matrix, XMPP, or anything running on ActivityPub have benefits over services owned by companies like Signal or Telegram.

However, most people are locked into a platform by their contacts, and their contacts choice of chat application. If most (or all) of your contacts are already on Signal, there’s no good reason to use anything else.

Ah look at what we have here, reposting memes on the twitter account. You are the developer of WireMin, this is a blatant advertisement disguised as a review.

Oct 27, 2023 at 3:51 AM UTC: https://lemmy.deadca.de/post/94628 | https://lemmy.world/post/7388906 | https://archive.ph/f8fY5

Oct 29, 2023 at 4:04 AM UTC: https://nitter.net/WireMin/status/1718478766547324992 | https://twitter.com/WireMin/status/1718478766547324992 | https://archive.ph/u8XxG

As a 3-month user of WireMin, I am quite familiar with the ‘Spaces’ feature; it is definitely their standout feature. Here are a couple of things you can do in the WireMin Space: *proceeds to list off features*

This is not a review of WireMin, this is blatant advertising. Advertising of a service that is a scam.

There is a great benefit to using decentralized services. They cannot be taken down by any entity, and control over data is in the hands of server hosts, rather than one company. Once running and popular enough, a decentralized service will continue to exist. With so much infrastructure owned by so many different people, no single person can “decide” to take it down.

That said, WireMin is still a scam, please read my other comment for more info. Use whichever chat application works best for you.

(I can’t believe I’m replying to a spam account) In case you can’t read my linked comment:

It’s not open source. There’s no way to actually verify any of their claims.

As others pointed out: “Contact Us” with gmail, facebook, twitter, or instagram. Any company (or individual) remotely advocating for privacy would be using (semi-)private services, even when advertising their own alternative.

The terms of service / privacy policy includes:

WireMin establishes a self-organizing network only by a number of active instances of WireMin apps. WireMin, as a protocol, utilizes advanced security and time-tested cryptography to provide a private messaging tool and social network. All of those are achieved in a democratized network without relying on a cloud service or back-end server.

No single bit of user data will be collected. WireMin is not even capable of doing that.

No user information will be provided to us, not a single bit.

however, it also contains

WireMin collects minimum device information

and

Occasionally for WireMin App on mobile devices, an additional device notification token (e.g. iOS devices) may be collected, to enable push notifications. Again, that information is collected without exposing user identity or the device’s IP which eliminates the possibility of user tracking.

It is impossible to not receive user information, and impossible to receive such notification token without knowing the device IP. User/device info gets provided to the app developers when someone downloads their app from the app store or play store. To actually use the push notification token, it requires server infrastructure. A push notification token is useless without having a centralized server to use it. Not having any servers means you can’t use the token, and having the token spread across different servers to remain decentralized would be dangerous, as the token could be used to fake notifications from the app.

Added to that, the blatant spam and advertising that’s happening in posts like these or comments under other posts related to chat applications. Your post is part quoted “update log” and part advertisement written as if it’s a review.

WireMin is a scam, unable to deliver on their promises. I already explained this on one of the previous ads that was posted: https://lemmy.deadca.de/comment/599111

Please use FOSS decentralized software, such as Matrix.

Depends on how it’s implemented. Anyone using a “media proxy” will see their discord bridged media probably fail to load (outside of possible caches) after a day. Anyone who has their bridge configured to reupload discord media to their homeserver should see no change.

This isn’t about “making the game work”, or “adding Linux support”. This is about toggling a checkbox to stop explicitly preventing Linux from working.

The games that already did never faced a massive cheater problem because of it. The games that have stopped development long ago or “don’t care about Linux” (without preventing it with anti cheat) were still made playable by Wine and Proton.

If the developer wants, they can add system info to their ticket system and filter out any Linux tickets. It costs a game developer barely anything to decide to allow Linux users. Linux support costs a lot, but valve, wine, and the community has been putting a lot of effort in so game developers don’t have to change anything about their game.

(Not so) fun fact, a lot of Windows viruses work under Wine on Linux. If you have ransomware bundled with your pirated media, it will likely also encrypt your Linux files.

Use Bottles as a Flatpak, isolate all your applications from each other and from your host system.

I did buy an index and I wouldn’t be able to go back to full “inside-out” camera tracking. Just doesn’t work for some games.

This is a very rushed update. SteamVR on Windows will be lacking some features a lot of people got used to, but it runs. (Main one I ran into so far is screenshot management, but a lot of the big picture mode UI is not accessible due to a controller being required to push buttons)

SteamVR on Linux however, is a complete mess. It was also a mess on SteamVR 1.x, but 2.0 broke so many things. Launching any of the included apps such as room setup, changing settings, taking screenshots. I really hope they add the last 1.x version as an update branch for compatibility reasons, 2.0 is simply not ready on Linux.

Also, good luck everyone on the keyboard. It’s supposed to have support for using multiple controllers, but it has been dropping and duplicating keypresses for me.