Skip Navigation
What are the dangers of an out of date phone?
  • With an out of date phone it will be easier to bypass it's security. Normally, cops and hackers have to use a series of exploits to bypass an Android's security. With a phone not receiving security updates this gets easier.

    Installing LineageOS will not fix the security problem because Lineage requires the bootloader to be unlocked. With a locked bootloader, the phone checks to see if the OS has be altered, this is called "verified boot".

    This video from TheHatedOne explains verified boot around the 10 minute mark https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=WkQ_OCzuLNg

  • What’s an unspoken rule that absolutely everyone should know, but most people clearly don’t?
  • Zipper merge isn't a thing where I live. It's advised in the provincial drivers' handbook to merge early. Some folks from other provinces are trying to change things but it's too ingrained, been this way for as long as I can remember.

  • Personal Severance
  • I worked in a kitchen where all the cooked had to enter a room to get ingredients. Nearly everyone forget what they were looking for (might have had something to do with walking past the hot servers). I always said to them "What was the last thing you were doing" Bingo, memory triggered.

  • Why do Americans want to know the month first and the day second?
  • Every digital clock displays hours:minutes:seconds. Largest to smallest. I see no reason not to follow the same pattern with the date year/month/day.

    This is also how my phone time stamps a photo - year/month/day/hours/minutes/seconds.

    This seems very logical to me.

  • What's the dumbest way you've sustained an injury, and what was the injury?
  • I used to work nights. When I had the next day off, I would usually stay up all day and go to sleep that evening. So, wake up around 2-4pm Friday, go to at 10pm to 6am Saturday and not sleep until Saturday evening.

    This eventually caught up with me. I was riding a bicycle down a hill, just coasting and fell a sleep for a second. Down I went. Need stitches in my head ( I still have a bump), tons of road rash, and banged up my knee.

    I recovered fully except for the bump on my head.

  • ProtonVPN - Any plans of creating a .rpm app?

    The CLI app is barebones. I know this is said a lot about Proton services (at least on Reddit) but it's true on Linux. No split tunnel, app shuts down when I turn off my display, and the connection is very unstable.

    7
    Sync on Android

    Anyone else having sync issues on Android? Sync will happen if I go into settings and hit "Force synchronization".

    0
    I recently moved from Android to Fedora Workstation.

    Hey everyone.

    I'm new to Linux and Fedora Workstation is my first distro. I like it but feel it needs a little tweaking. The screenshot is my desktop as I type this.

    I installed "Extension Manager" and the following extensions - "Dash to Dock" and "System Monitor"

    1. Dash to Dock converts the Dash to a Dock with auto hide capability as well as being able to move the dock and change the icon sizes. Not necessary but it is annoying after a while moving the mouse to the dash, expecting it to popup and it doesn't. 'Oh right, now I have to hit that key'
    2. "System Monitor" shows the real time CPU load, memory, swap, upload, and download. I installed this to see how this used laptop, Levono T470s, handles Linux. So far, it's awesome.

    Extension Manager also allows me to tweak the built-in system extensions.

    1. "AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support" (that's a mouthful). This one shows minimized app in the top bar.
    2. "Window List" is the bottom bar showing the currently open app.

    There are pages full of extensions but I'm happy with what I installed.

    "GNOME Tweaks" is another app I'm using. With this I was able to add Maximize and Minimize buttons to any open window (there are many other options) as well as pick a few apps to start with system boot. Normally, ProtonVPN has to be started with a terminal command at each system boot. GT does it for me.

    Edit: I recently switched from a Samsung S6 Lite Android tablet with a Logitech keyboard and mouse to a used laptop running Linux.

    7
    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)RO
    RodgeGrabTheCat @sh.itjust.works
    Posts 3
    Comments 41