Self hosted stuff will collapse without you. Bitwarden has a family plan with survivorship rules. You can also share passwords easily. Also, Google and Microsoft accounts also have survivorship rules you can set up.

Unfortunately your less cautious cohorts can reveal much of this about you as well. Privacy is a deep rabbit hole. Do what you can, try to educate your peers.

Also, link to the original post: https://mstdn.ca/@Linux/114899148717382605

I thought this was mandatory for a New Yorker his age?

Tried to persuade him. He’s an adult son, so I wouldn’t force it on him.

Grandma’s using it just fine though.

As more people learn bazzite just works, it’s going to grow. If I hadn’t rescued my son’s windows license he would have switched.

If robber barons could have become immortal steampunk machines, we’d never have been born and they’d have killed our great great great grandparents long ago

Don’t worry, Ohio has proven to ignore it’s court whenever it wants.

I most states extended house guests have protections. You don’t even need to be paying rent.

We are expendable plebs to them. They want to strip any agency we have. Robots and AI are perfect employees. If the rest of humanity surrenders their critical thinking skills to AI, they will have the brutish, sick, short lived slaves they desire.

Time to sprinkle DRM magic on every Windows application

They purchase a huge amount of guns. You would think that they would have the ability to return the entire batch directly rather than resell them.

Causing problems so they can offer the solution - Central Bank Cypto Currency (CBDC).

Replying to give you an extra boost. If your courses are remote or have online exams, you may need to install spyware onto your computer. I’m re-imaging my wife’s computer this weekend because of it…

Yeah but private enterprise didn’t. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant

Thank the good Lord, I get so bothered when I see a woman’s ankles.

His name is Andy.

Agreed - for someone moving from Windows / Mac, the immutables and flatpak are the way to go now. It’s going to take a bit for the Ubuntu / Mint crowd to change their song. Bazzite in particular is a huge olive branch to the gamers. Even for someone who is “tinkering” learning distrobox and/or flatseal can enable most things you would ever want to tinker with on a desktop. If you are really developing something, chances are that you use containers or a VM anyway.

I have to concur on flatpaks though: they have room for improvement. More validation / trust is needed, and the options are wide open. For non-technical users, the *surety and security *isn’t necessarily on par with the app stores of Microsoft, Apple & Google - though the experience is getting there.

Using computers since before GUI was available… Sometimes I think we ought to go back to it

The D.U.M.B. conspiracy is a jolly good read as you browse the interweb. Evidently we have nuclear powered boring machines that just melt away the earth leaving glassy walls.

If you had installed bazzite those kids would worship you