I remember trying Retroshare..... no offline message is the biggest obstacle.

If the firewall just means no incoming connections, your computer can still reach out to the other side (if they open their port)

I will give a version of event that I have observed, simplified (a lot of things glossed over), and maybe inaccurate.

1. LinusTechTips (one of their employees) criticized Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Nexus do banchmark videos in a lab tour video (on MurfsGaming channel), HUB fight back on Twitter(X), Linus (the owner of LMG) double down in their WAN show saying some creators are unprofessional, this leads to Gamers Nexus doing a long video point out how unprofessional LTT is (many errors in their videos).

2. In Gamers Nexus's video, they shared a story that a company send their working prototype for LTT to review, but LTT doing the testing wrong (use the prototype with incompatible hardware), then sold the prototype for charity when they have been requested to send it back twice, screwing the startup company on top of giving inaccurate test results.

3. Linus (the owner of LMG) fight back in forum post with no apology (basically spraying gasoline on fire) and made up fake event saying they have already agreed to compensate the startup company.

4. Gamers Nexus says in their next video that they communicated with the startup company and LTT only contacted them two hours after previous Gamers Nexus's published, debunked Linus's claim that they already made a deal to compensate the startup company.

5. An ex-employee publicly talking about the time she works at LMG, bait-and-switch working contract after she moving all the way where LMG is, sexism, sexual harassment, threats, unhealthy work environment.

sudo chattr +i (folder) prevents anything to modify/delete folders and files

Add -R for setting the flag for all subdirectory/files

distributed forum.

Some boards in one server, some boards in another server, glued by miracle someone's hardwork.

Syncthing and KeepassXC for syncing 2FA between devices. (I use Bitwarden for passwords)

HTML Form + any backend of your choice (that can handle HTML form)

Tailscale server can also be self-hosted, look into headscale.

From my own experience, I still can't setup headscale on my Android phone, I think latest tailscale APP fucked up setting custom server function. Don't install from Google Play

I would 100% exploit this (insurance for family).

I once saw an advertisement that is negative towards house building company, links to a news article.

Also recommend https://lowendspirit.com/

AFAIK LET do shenanigans like requiring service providers to pay to create post there now.

People that switched from Reddit.

There is a game that is based on the same thinking (Universal Paperclips), you play the rule of "the AI".

In NetworkManager you can setup network sharing using Ethernet port on the laptop, then connect cable to your server.

Downside of that is you need to setup port forwarding in your laptop if you want to open port.

If your command doesn't change (doesn't require dynamic input), sudoers file can make specific command+argument run without password required.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-running-sudo-command-without-a-password/ (ctrl+f search "A better solution")

(You can also use wildcards in sudoers file but with nftables I imagine it's a big security risk)

When I started playing Horizon zero dawn, for first dozen hours I was in the state that fears the machines and sneaks everywhere.

Aloy's voice still terrifies me, I wish there was an option to turn off her random monologues.

• syncthing - Sync files across internet, works very well
• netdata - Very comprehensive monitoring software for servers
• Firefox
• wine - Without it (including proton) I couldn't make the switch, it's kind of a necessary evil but it's not wine that's the evil.
• KDE Desktop - My personal preference, I used Ubuntu and Pop OS, gnome doesn't suit me.

I had no luck with mesa's implementation as well, BOINC only recognize ROCM's opencl library.

If both Ethernet NIC is over 1gbps, you are fine with using normal cable.

Important things about dual booting:

1. Configure your Windows to use UTC time https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#UTC_in_Microsoft_Windows

2. Disable "Fast startup" in Windows (can possibly cause hardware issues if not disabled and it really doesn't improve things in computers with SSD)

What do you recommend I do about disk partitions?

I recommend separate EFI partitions while dual booting, I haven't seem issues with my separate EFI partition setup yet.

If Mint provides Btrfs filesystem I personally recommend looking into timeshift (snapshot software that can be setup to automatically snapshot your computer).

Is disk encryption straightforward?

According to Linux Mint forum, you need to choose an option in "Advanced features" while going through installer, that seems straight forward

Is cloud storage sync straightforward?

Don't have experience with this but I can tell you: While rclone supports bi-directional sync, you need some setup for make it run periodically.

Should I just use apt to install software?

In the end you have to give trust to someone, I think it's fair to say if you already choose Mint you probably trust whatever options comes with Mint more than 3rd party options (but is it theoretically possible that backdoored program exists in Mint repository? of course yes).

asyncio provides "cooperative concurrency" for python.

Lets say you need to download 10 webpages in python, someone might do

result1 = requests.get(...)
result2 = requests.get(...)
....
result10 = requests.get(...)

Down side is that each requests.get() blocks until HTTP request is done and if each webpage loads in 5 seconds your programs needs 50 seconds to download all pages.

You can do something like spawn 10 threads, but threading has it's own downside.

What coopertive concurrency does is allowing these coroutine(tasks) that can tell Python to do something else while a function is waiting for something.... I think it's the best to read some Python examples. https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutines

examples that solves requests.get() problem with asyncio but it's probably better to use libraries that builds around asyncio.

On Desktop computer, you can use the code below to remove federated instances list. (Use the code in Developer Console)

document.querySelector(".home-instances .row").remove();

(Tested with instances that uses version 0.18.4)

I am a fan of noto fonts.

Installed from F-Droid and it works without issue, thanks

Phoronix article: Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards

On Dasharo (who worked on support for MSI boards) has pre-flashed motherboard for sale on their website, but looking at the price it's expensive, but it comes with some support.

ASUSTOR has NAS that can have up to 12 NVME SSDs (but speed is very limited by PCIE lanes).

NVME SSDs are still very expensive compares to HDD.

NAS that have many HDD bays are expensive but designed for easy setup and easy management.

Fractal Design Define 7 (XL) can have up to 18 HDDs by design, but then you will need to search for PCIE to SATA cards and PSU that have many SATA connectors (for example RM850x/RM1000x) and Molex to SATA cables.

FSP CMT370 is a much cheaper case with up to 3.5" HDD *9 or 2.5" SSD *10 but it's not on amazon, it probably doesn't sell to western world.

SAS drive enclosures (and SAS cards) are also an option, but the cages might be very loud because they are designed for servers that also are very loud.

Install tailscale from F-Droid not Google Play. I had trouble setting up custom server with Google Play version.

One thing notable of Sierra Forest is that the CPUs don't have SMT (only 1 thread per core), so in theory it doesn't suffer from speculative execution attacks.

Epyc CPUs still provides more PCIE lanes, which is crucial for GPUs.

I never thought about using instant messaging platform... and that makes so much sense I feel stupid.

AFAIK tor websites (onion service) doesn't require exit node, and no one knows your IP unless you are unlucky enough all nodes you connected are controlled by same entity.

When source code is lost or unavailable.

For my last self-made program, I just wrote a config.py, and call import config from other code files and write my config in Python.

Syncthing has built-in file history function, it's not enabled by default but it's easy to configure.

My old computer that was build about 6 years ago started not getting powered since about 2 years ago, when I unplug it and took it to computer shops, that computer gets powered instantly when plugged in, but I needed to wait at least 12 hours before I attempt to plug it in again in order to make it boot (if I am lucky).

I changed the PSU, didn't work, bought a UPS as stop gap fix, I saved money to buy a new PC instead.

Btrfs doesn't have built in encryption, if you want to encrypt Btrfs you still need another layer (e.g. LUKS).

Late to the thread, but SFTPGo is very nice.

It can be exposed as web server, (S)FTP Server and WebDAV, has built in authentication system, have built in brute force protection.

All in a single executable.

do you also have a dedicated graphics card?

Yes, rx 7800 xt

My worry s that playing a 1080P video need 30 watts (assuming amdgpu_top is not wrong), I would like to move that workload to integrated GPU, which I enabled in BIOS.

Thank you for your answer, I can confirm by switching to VA-API it lowers my power usage by a lot (from 45 to 20~21 watts reported).

Do you want to have 2fa keys on all your devices?

Yes

Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?

I use different password between KeepassXC and Bitwarden. (On my phone one of them is unlocked by fingerprint because I am lazy but not both)

And I don't store KeepassXC password in Bitwarden.

Yes, speed would be much slower.

Yes, you can host a normal website through tor.