paradox2011

Has some Lovecraft vibes 🥳

Haha, yeah time travel strays in to deus ex machina territory pretty easily. It can make for an interesting story if done well, but usually ends up feeling cheap and lowering the emotional stakes.

Interesting, I'm working my way through Voyager now, I'll keep this in mind when I run in to those episodes. It makes me think of Stargate Universe too, lots of time travel in that show. They seem to always give you the perspective of the successive version of the group and the "originals" get sloughed off pretty regularly.

I don't know man, those are some strange behaviors. Can't say I've experienced any of them. There does seem to be a common theme of slow and delayed responses, that is almost certainly a hardware issue from my experience, but that doesn't line up with the specs you mention.

Regarding the privilege issues, running a general user without superuser privileges is a standard practice for Linux. You can change your user to a superuser though, there are plenty of walkthroughs available to accomplish that. That will keep you from having to run sudo, doas or enter your password as often. Some things will always require a passcode though, as that's just what the best practices of the tech landscape indicate.

+1 for that Jeff Geerling video. Excellent tutorial.

This was posted three days later:

Samsung's Google messages rival isn't dead after all in fact it's just been upgraded

There may be a few others that handle RCS besides those two, but their ties may be just as unsavory as the first two.

That's pretty awesome that there are at least some laws about telecom provider privacy where you are! Here in the states they can basically do whatever they want with whatever you give them 😓

If you want RCS, you have to go with one of the corporate apps like Google Messages or Samsung Messages. It's sad and I hope the situation changes eventually because RCS is much better than SMS and more ubiquitous than signal.

I feel your pain 😅🫠

Yeah, just to add another confirmation to the other comments, if you have a separate home partition you can reuse it with a new / partition and expect it to work fine. The only stuff that gets saved in your home folder is comfiguration files for your apps, along with whatever actual files you have stored. You can even swap distros (Ubuntu/Arch) and keep your home folder, though sometimes the config files and settings don't translate perfectly.

The best horror is rooted in something that we see to some degree in actual life. This is good!

FOSS is a two sided coin: it's awesome that anyone with an interest can continue a project when the original maintainers disperse, but man you have to watch your software carefully for the most actively maintained forks. Thats happened to me on a bunch of apps: Breezy Weather, Paperless-ngx, Cromite, Ironfox, Simple Calendar and on and on 😂. It takes time, but it's worth it.