Do I need to be using wayland to try this? I'm still on x11.

No you do not. It works on x11 and Wayland host systems. I built the Wayland compositor from scratch and it does not have any dependencies on libwayland. So, you don’t have to install Wayland at all.

Proxmox leaps to mind. HyperV, XCP-ng, raw KVM..

I often see these discussions and "drive failure" is often mentioned and I wish the phrase was instead "unrecoverable read error" because that's the more accurate phrase. To me, "drive failure" conjures ideas of completely failed devices. An unrecoverable read error can and does happen on our bigger and bigger drives with regularity and will stop most raid rebuilds in their tracks.

"unrecoverable read error" or "defects" is probably a better framing because it highlights the need to run regular scrubs of your RAID. If you don't search for errors but just wait until the disk no longer powers on you might find out that by then you have more errors than your RAID configuration can recover from

I'm guessing I'll get down-voted for this, but what's to stop any browser/executable from trolling through /proc on Linux and knowing about what every process running as you is doing?

Nothing, notably programs like discord do exactly this under the guise of detecting if you are playing a game or not, but I find it hard to believe that discord can resist the temptation to send back the entire process tree to their servers.

Nothing really. Desktop operating systems are basically grandfathered into the modern world. They have the old timey approach to application security. That being, applications can access everything on your computer, and there's no fine-grained permission systems.

But, for OS that we've developed later, we kind of decided that's a problem, and applications are a vector for malware, and "trust" just isn't enough. So Android and iOS did the whole permissions thing.

Now, we've gone back and added some stuff onto desktop operating systems. Of course Linux has containers these days on desktop. Like, I'm running Firefox right now - but Firefox can only access it's runtime folders and ~/Downloads. So, if there's a zero day sandbox breach, I won't get data stolen. There's also SELinux and Apparmor and stuff and you can really jump into the deep end with this.

But, we largely view it as unnecessary because we're running open-source software from trusted repositories. We probably shouldn't view it that way.

File mode bits prevent processes not running as root from reading much of the info in /proc.

I don’t know… with a stock Linux, the information a user can get from top (via /proc, I assume), is pretty thorough. You can at least get a list of running programs, which by itself could be valuable.

Good point. I withdraw my comment.

It's very easy to be cynical. Home Assistant belongs to a non profit. While that in and of itself isn't bullet proof, it does go a long way.

I have a Guild Wars 2 character named Wanda Trossler. To this day no one has gotten the reference.

It would be nice if i could limit by my preferred operating system.

When I'm showing people the power of vim, I often use the `i` verb, like `ci"` and how it's not a "shortcut" but instead a sentence: change in quotes. If you start thinking about vim as a language instead of a collection of things to memorize, it becomes much easier, IMO.

nvim -o $FILES

I use fastmail to host my domains. You could try <yoursurname>family.tld or the<yoursurname>s.tld.

One tip: Since you can set up "fall through" emails with Fastmail, I'm able to use businessname@mydomain.tld for every business I interact with. Emails sent to those addresses will end up in my mailbox and I get the benefit of knowing who sells my email address. Good luck!