No and no.

What this person is describing is a recent ios device with lockdown on, biometrics off, adp on and an understanding that no us carrier can offer cell service with security or privacy from the us government because of the lawful intercept backdoor.

They need to change their behavior to include turning their phone off frequently and incorporate practice using their phones duress inputs. They need to recognize that the phone is always a tracking device and cannot function in the way they want without being a tracking device. Because of that last part, and because the metadata delivered to phones is now used to direct police action, they need to understand that phones can’t come with them to organizing or protest and they can’t communicate about those things using the phone no matter what app or encryption is employed.

It’s also important to recognize that if the people they’re around don’t take these same precautions then it may be best to simply stop associating with those people in that way. Some friends are a lot of fun at parties but can’t be trusted.

Once all that is handled then a nice cherry on top is mullvad. Easy to understand and handle for even the most tech averse.

People will say that they don’t trust iphones because they’re not open source, but every leak from cop and intelligence tech companies like celebrite indicates that they are incapable of compromising an up to date ios device especially in bfu (not unlocked after being powered on) state. These leaks could be dismissed as limited hang outs, but the fact that we also see action based on metadata from the lawful intercept backdoor instead of direct compromise of devices seems to corroborate it.

Tldr: switch to apple and go prodromal

E: another benefit I forgot to mention is looking normal. The context of the request is one where the users fellow citizens may be snitching on them to law enforcement. Being able to blend in is absolutely worthwhile because every nosy neighbor or coworker is gonna be looking for signs of a user being a weirdo. Having a “hardened” ios phone and changing your behavior lets you blend right in.

Congratulations!

How’s everything working out?

Neon doesn’t force you to actually update the ubuntu it’s built on unless you manually do it iirc. Update your shit and report back.

Once you decide not to try that, top, btop atop or htop can tell you the amount of ram you’re using. They will all also tell you how your disk writes are doing.

It doesn’t sound like you have a ram issue, it sounds like you have a disk issue. First and foremost, once you’ve verified that you have plenty of memory available using a tool described above, expand your windows vm to 8gb. Windows would aggressively page if it had only 4gb and windows in a vm will also aggressively page when it only has 4gb, except it has to go through kvm to access those qcows.

It sounds like you have way too many tabs open. Close some and see if that helps you out. You can highlight a bunch of them by selecting one and ctrl-shift clicking on another one to get every tab in between. Right click and add to bookmarks then close them.

Next, use spinrite with I think a level 3 scan on all your nvme drives. It shaves a write cycle off the top (you have hundreds of thousands at the very least) but in return makes everything fast again. Flash memory becomes less responsive as read cycles on a block pile up until it’s rewritten.

This is assault

Is this hard to find because it’s something that people who don’t know what they’re doing shouldn’t mess with? Am i just looking in the wrong places, or for the wrong thing?

Yes! Third party repositories are a good choice when they add specific software not present in the distros repo like mullvad, icewolf or (and this is approaching an edge case but I’m a big fan of it at the moment) nvidia.

Third party repositories are a really bad choice when they cause conflicts with the distros repositories like adding Ubuntu’s main branch to any Debian in order to get a specific package.

For xed, the editor you’re asking about, the git page describes Debian appropriate build instructions.

You could always just use pluma, the editor xed forked from, which is in the Debian repositories.

E: also stop planning and jump in. You’re not gonna figure anything out from analyzing and planning, just try what you want and solve the problems you come across.

The best tracking is through airtags. There are some circumstances where things even out between them and all the competitors/homebrew options but nothing else is better.

The benefit of airtags over all the alternatives isn’t that they work best and most consistently, but that everyone understands the technology and isn’t going to give you the run around when you show up claiming that your suitcase is in the wrong country.

Even though the alternatives use the same underlying technology, the branded airtag version and its implications are understood from the baggage handlers all the way up to the late night magistrates. Alternatives often need to wait for someone who recognizes that they’re near incontrovertible evidence of a fuckup to come around and whip all the rest of their colleagues into a frenzy over it.

There are some cheap macos and ios doodads out there if it’s just gonna be a tracker.

I manage mine from ios and macos. It’s worth it for being able to track checked guns.

If the consequences of losing the thingy are grave enough then it justifies even keeping a device you don’t want.

Welcome to the year of the linux desktop. Now solving linux problems is big business!

What you’re saying about drops on a lotus leaf hits though. There’s something weird about the prose on those sites that’s significantly different than even ai text I’ve made at home on my own hardware.

Sometimes it feels like the opposite of meditation where I can feel something tugging “up” in the top center of my skull when “reading” one of those pages but don’t remember what the page was about.

Yeah it’s fine.

Your huawei device will stick out like a sore thumb to networks, giving another vector to track you by.

Your huawei device may be subject to cutoff due to factors completely outside your control, impacting your ability to use it.

Consider getting a normal person phone and locking it down as much as you can then not using it when you need privacy. A shadow cast by nothing gives away the most well camouflaged animal.

More users of a system has never meant more driver support. The two don’t correlate on windows, mac or linux. Hell, the kernels been shedding drivers during the last few years! I also don’t think more users means more main applications, no matter what you mean by that, but it’s neither here nor there because neither one of us can pull things in the direction we want.

What are the kde people saying it’s a dupe of? Is there a number?

I’m swiftly moving into the sparsely populated camp which holds that it’s not actually in our interests. Maybe the bell labs people were the good path and were walking parcs bad path now. We’re gonna find out for sure!

Idk how kde missed it, they’re probably taking fixes, why not whip something up?

In my experience a lot of non it people have used computers with text interfaces and don’t have any problem with things like fstab but I understand what you’re saying.

Does adding them to fstab not work?

See if you have qsv decoding support enabled. The Intel CPUs in those little mini pcs usually have a video card that will do the heavy lifting using a system called quick sync video but if you’re isn’t set up to decode in hardware then it’s gonna have to do all the work in software and that’s slow.

For sending a file to print, share your plugged up printer over the network.

For sending a torrent file most of the time people use their torrent clients web interface. A person suggested using qbittorrent and that’s a perfectly fine one, but if you’re a fellow or lady of girth swishing brandy around in a snifter, might I recommend rtorrent+rutorrent?

Well I’m American so idk how far away that is and it’s incredibly racist of you to assume I would.

Even if you stay with external drive backups, consider a kind of total loss copy.

You could easily end up being in a fire or some natural disaster and lose both your server and your backups.

An easy way to add this in your life if you’re already going there is a safe deposit box at the bank. You just gotta remember to take a weekly copy over there for safekeeping.