Linux only, SSH works fine. Not e2ee. Nextcloud works fine but extra work unless you use a service provider. It can be e2ee but not normally so. Syncthing worth a look too. It is not cloud storage, but direct device transfer. Bitwarden send is useful too if you want to juat send file someone, and thunderbird is working on thunderbird send which might be interesting.

Maybe Synology if you want your own lan NAS?

All email services have vendor lock-in unless your using your own domain.

For what it is worth, I just moved my mail from my ISP to my own domain at a hosting service after 30 years. Took about 5 months to get everything changed but if I can do it anyone can.

Downside, using your own domain is probably less private but kind of depends.

In project management lore there is the tripple constraint: time, money, freatures. But there is another insidious dimension not talked about. That is risk.

The natural progession in a business if there is no push back is that management wants every feature under the sun, now, and for no money. So the project team does the only thing it can do, increase risk.

The memory leak thing is an example of risk. It is also an example of some combination of poor project management including insufficient push back against management insanity and bad business mangement in general which might be an even bigger problem.

My point, this is a common natural path of things but it does not have to always be tolerated.

I get your point but I do not think you should justify releasing crap code because you think it has minimal impack on the customer. A memory leak is a bug and just should not be there.

Yes and Trump is certainly in the pocket of big oil. Do not forget trade routes too and open navigation.

And of course I would disagree regarding nuclear weapons if it can be prevented by whatever means. What route that needs to take I have no idea. People act like war with Iran is like a new thing. Iran has been waging war with the west both directly and indirectly for 50 years. It is not surprising that Israel and the west in general might respond to this in some way at their own time and place.

Their drone, missile, and nuclear programs are of specific concern. The cost of missile defense and drone defense in particular is more costly then the missiles and drones. Plus it is never 100% which means nukes are an even bigger issue. So there is a concerning trajectory combined with long history of experience with Iran and their stated intent.

Ironically it is Iran after all that decided to turn up the temperature at this point in time by supporting the Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi’s, and a half a dozen groups across the middle east, then stupidly launching their own direct attacks on Israel. Moreover they have been directly supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine which has huge implications. Not surprising this might come back to bite them.

So I am not excited about US involvement, but people should not be surprised either. It will be interesting what the US does. Trump is a weak and largely incompetent president, and the US is quite strongly isolationist at the moment. Frankly the general incompetence of the current administration probably makes a hot war more likely. History has shown too that Republicans in power tends to make that more likely too.

Iran is working on a bomb. You do not enrich uranium to 60% for anything else. Commercial uses are like 3%. So, the question is what to do. Nothing, they get nuclear weapons which is clearly their intent. Negotiation is just a delaying tactic and got us to here. So what remains to be done?

Simple. It has not been a priority. If it was, you would see the US invoke the defense priduction act and similarly allocate nearly unlimited funds.

That was my reaction. Since I use Cinnamon and Gnome I use gnome-terminal.

The features I like are cut/paste and the open in terminal feature in the file manger. Nice that it looks good in your DE too. What else does one need?

If you want 2D drafting like solution, look at Librecad. It seems quite good. It is 2D only.

Freecad is 3D solid modeling but there is a 2D component.

I went to one of the gatherings in Apr. Local news way under reported turnout.

FreeCAD is the most common solid FOSS modeler. I do not think any solid modeling system is that simple. They tend to need training and continuous use. That was my experience with SolidWorks and NX anyway.

Every system has its own processes. If you want Apple software and services use Apple. If you want Linux use Linux. Do not expect either to be like the other especilly at such a micro level.

As far as Linux and beginner friendly, buy a device with Linux preinstalled just like you do with Apple. As far as user setting and apps. Get a notebook and write them down, and avoid deep customizations. As far as backup get 3 USB drives and backup your home directory with rsync or one of the other solutions. As far as restore, have install media and just reinstall from scratch then layer in your configs and apps and then restore your home directory files. For file sync and app sync functions, Nextcloud is helpful and you can pay for a commercial host, set it up yourself, or use a product like Synology. You frankly could use Dropbox, Proton Drive, or one of the others also. But think carefully what is actually needed. Cloud stuff is heavily promoted by the big providers presumably for lockin reasons and to mine your data but it is not really needed for most things. Get to know your distros builtin emergency startup tools and have a live distro like the live install media available and know how to use them.

Linux is about options but for simple beginner like processes it is best to stick to the basics.

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Generally go with someone or better yet a group.

Whatever https://www.privacyguides.org/ recommends. I am not a big VPN user. I care more about using good apps and prefering the web browser over apps and configuring that.

All voting should be by paper ballet that that is scanned so the ballets can be hand counted when needed.

Same config, I have been using my 8a with graphene since Jan. Works great.

I actually put Google Play and the few apps that use that in the Private Space and just use clean apps in my owner profile. There are a lot of different ways to divide up apps between Owner Profile, Private Space, the 31 separate user profiles, and work profiles.

As for app sources I use mostly Graphene, FDroid, Aurora, and Obtainium stores and tools. I only use Play Store directly in my Private Space. There are pros and cons of course.

There always are. The issue, no major candidates chose to run on the Democrtic side. Alternatively one could vote for Dean Phillips who did run or probably write someone in OR one could vote on the republican side. I voted on the Republican side this time.

This was demonstrated very clearly by Harris during the debate. People did not care. She also said Putin would eat him alive and he has. People do not seem to care.

Democratic side was similar with Biden. How possibly did people vote for him in the primaries but they did.