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From what I understand the communication transport is encrypted so it's designed to be secure.

The problem with this however is the sharing of the key. To be truly secure you'd need to share the key securely (i.e. in person), and explicitly trust everyone in that group not to leak the key, so it depends on which group you join and their opsec.

This is all based on my rudimentary understanding though. I am very interested in Meshtastic but UK law is quite restrictive about encrypted radio communication.

Yeah, unfortunately I don't have much choice at the moment. I refuse support platforms that in my opinion have anti-consumer pricing models, and I want artists to get the most money out of my streams, so it's a bit of a catch-22.

I stream with Tidal and for my favourite bands I'll buy their music on 7digital or Bandcamp.

I'd go with Qubuz but they have this whole Qubuz Coin thing that I really don't like. If they removed that I'd switch immediately.

I used Lutris for anything Windows related that needs installers, etc. You can run that on pretty much anything.

As far as distros go it depends on how hands off you want it to be. If you want a set it and forget it distro I'd go with Fedora or Ubuntu.

If you want something more bleeding edge and customisable I'd go with EndeavourOS, which is basically Arch on rails.

I like the concept, but personally I see the decentralised nature of the Fediverse as a benefit rather than a hindrance, and moving all identity functionality to a centralised system would create more problems than it solves.

Suddenly you'll have a single point of failure for the entire Fediverse. A very appetising target for hackers and DDOS attacks.

An alternative that's in the spirit of your idea would be to allow for auth delegation, i.e. if you sign in with an Activitypub ID rather than a plain username, redirect to that instance to sign in then redirect back to the instance you started from, auth token in hand.

The nice thing about this approach is it's basically just OAuth 2. It's familiar, simple to implement and built in to a lot of web frameworks already. The only extra step would be advertising the server's auth URL via the nodeinfo endpoint, which is fairly trivial to do.

Oh man I love the partially popped ones. I love finding a cluster of them in the bottom of the bag.

Since desktop mode is basically just KDE but without the ability to install software packages you could try Fedora.

They do a version just like desktop mode that has you install everything through the store, or you can get the regular variety to get a bit more flexibility.

Personally I'd steer clear of anything special as your first Linux install. Go with standard Fedora, then you can experiment and branch out if you're interested, but you don't have to if you like what you've got.

We've been so fucked over man... All I want is a place of my own where I can live in peace with my cat and play video games. But no, I have to face fucking nuclear armageddon now.

That's amazing. I love the idea of creating a self sustaining ecosystem like that.

I really wish there were tests available for men too. Last time I asked they said there were none available and it wasn't really a thing for men to be tested.

Personally I'd want to know regardless if I have it.

This may also be a sign I'm playing too much factorio

Random thought. If WW3 happens and a handful of people bail on earth and escape to the moon, would it actually be possible to manufacture a base and survive up there without any further support?