Bazzite is nice but its not very CLI centric I think because of the immutability. Its a great OS, but I found Cachy a lot better if you want to work from CLI in normal ways

Masks and protocols around them were largely just theatre though. Only very expensive n95 or better type masks, which were properly fitted and handled would actually provide any sort of protection from covid. Even the eventual proponents of masks initially were against the idea as in many ways many of the responses to covid were directed politically, not practically.

The mask mandates weren't to protect you, they were to protect others from you. If everyone did this, the spread would have been massively reduced, and super-spreader events wouldn't have happened anywhere near as much.

Unfortunately, a great many people simply refused to distance and wear a mask, and then when they became infected, spread it far and wide, sometimes not even aware that they were doing so. Approximately 40% of those infected were asymptomatic, meaning they would feel fine but still make others around them sick (or end up killing them).

Perhaps the messaging was different where you lived, but I don't believe any credible professional was suggesting those outside healthcare wear masks for their own protection. Mask mandates are to reduce the risk of others catching covid from you, a considerably easier task for which even cloth masks are usefully effective. There's a reason surgeons masks are still used.

The proper masks are not expensive and an imperfect fit still helps a lot.

The majority of people were not wearing the proper masks, nor were they mandated or even in great supply. As I said, it was theatre.

Don't put them on untrusted networks. This always seemed obvious to me.

Untrusted network is not sufficient, you need to cut them off internet, in general.

The internet should very much be considered an untrusted network.

Don’t put it on a network, but also don’t allow it to reach an untrusted network.

My initial read of proximity being sufficient to exploit 3 is incorrect, so yeah as long as you control the Wi-Fi network sufficiently then things should be fine.

Asahi remix?

I have an M5 MacBook Pro. I’ll presume I’ll be able to run Asahi on it once I’m ready to switch.

It’s not their fault per se, but it’s discouraging.

It's... okay. No USB-C display support is a dealbreaker for me.

Let's say we don't trust ublock. At the very least it is still blocking ad networks which do reduce internet performance and are vectors of exploitation, so it is still adding value whether you trust it or not.

Under the hypothetical that we don't trust ublock, it would be foolish to grant it full access to all data on all websites. It would not be adding value.

Yeah — they’d be selling enhanced versions of that data to every site they blocked, and then some. I very much doubt they are.

Grass allergies tho?

What is your suggestion then, genius?

> Please consider saner options such as LineageOS or Replicant which support dozens and dozens of different device types.

Any reference to the trivial mitm attacks which signal has suffered?

This is mostly about the usability issues that make such attacks work so well on Signal:

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/09...

This adds some detail about how Signal can do MITM attacks:

https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/28/202106-hey-signal-gr...

Some of the details might of changed since publication. My current understanding is that Signal doesn't even bring up the idea of identity verification if a user has not previously done it. So if anything, things have gotten worse.

Curated by who?

How?