You can even get a modern gaming distro based off of it (PikaOS).

If you’re willing to pay for it, Mailbox.org would be my choice. No provider will give that feature away for free (which I’m sure you know). My threat model can tolerate an extra hand via Addy, so I don’t mind them being there.

But no matter who you choose, email just isn’t the best option for true privacy. There will always be some cleartext email somewhere in the process, even if only sometimes. And as somebody once said, “No company is going to break the law for you.”

If you need an extra level of privacy with email specifically, your best option is to self host. That way you control both the server and the database/storage.

I use Tuta combined with Addy.io, and it’s been great. I never hand out the main email at Tuta, and if I ever want to pack up and move, I just tell Addy to change where to forward email.

I don’t think you need to worry about Tuta. Iirc, all of the encryption/decryption happens on your device, so they can’t see the content of your inbox, even if they wanted to. Their free tier is enough for me, and I just make sure to clean out any unwanted emails so I don’t hit the 1GB limit.

Now, there’s the caveat that encrypted email needs to be able to work with unencrypted email, so somewhere along the way, it’s possible somebody could figure out who you are and what you’re talking about by intercepting traffic or the endpoint, but if you need that level of privacy, email shouldn’t be trusted anyway.

The biggest benefit of encrypted email is a judge can’t force the company to hand over your inbox (because it’s encrypted), and you don’t have to worry about the parent company or whoever data mining it. But even if it’s in a country that could order data collection, and you “aim to misbehave,” I think it’s moot, since you should know better than to use email for that purpose.

Also, spinning up VMs and practicing setting up your programs is a great way to get used to things and know what to expect.

If you want to do UI customization, be sure to look up some videos on how to do it for your chosen Desktop Environment (like Gnome, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE, etc.).

Trim down power usage…

Don’t plug it in. Use only the abacus.

72% don’t like it, but about half of all voters think voting for the billionaires is the solution, so some fraction of that 72% is 100% idiots.

A normal Tuesday for a Linux user.

No, the minimize button is, but enjoy Xfce

Oh, that makes more sense. I appreciate the clarity!

• I’m not sure what you mean. Lack of desktop icons is only valuable to people who want that (I don’t, and I remove them on my Plasma systems).
• Gnome has a minimize button, and you need only turn it on in Tweaks > Windows.
• You can change themes in Tweaks > Appearance, and you can install themes by script or by manually dropping the files where they need to go (something you sometimes have to do on Plasma, too).
  • You can further adjust themes with extensions or scripts. Unless you change themes often, quick theme swapping is not a feature everyone needs or wants. How often are people doing this IRL?
• I can right click all my menu and dash/dock icons and get an app-specific context menu, so I’m not sure what you mean with this gripe.
• Systray is one of the things I don’t like about Plasma, and I wish they’d find a different solution. It’s bad enough on Windows.

I run both DEs on different systems, and they’re both good and bad at different things, but they both have comparable feature sets. Their workflows are different, yet you can do virtually all the same things in each.

Functionality like what?

Telegram should not be considered an encrypted solution, due to the opt-in nature of their encryption. The owner regularly collaborates with law enforcement, as well.

Signal. SimpleX is my backup.

Because that’s not authoritarian enough.

Telegram is not private. When are people going to learn?

Tried it, and it works! Loads at startup, and I don’t have to reload the CoolerControl daemon or do any other manual intervention.

Thanks!

Thanks, sounds very similar to what’s going on with those users. I’ll look into that thread a little more

Unfortunately, this didn’t fix it, either before or after. sensors-detect can see the ITE chipset, but it says

Trying family 'ITE'...
Found unknown chip with ID 0x8688

After which it doesn’t find any modules to load for it, despite having a DKMS module installed that includes that chip.

(Also, I realize that I was using the incorrect ID before, but it seemed to work anyway.)

It worked, and I appreciate the explanation. I also realized I was using the wrong ID (which still worked, somehow); it should have been 0x8688.

I guess I can now figure out the best way to get that to run at startup or on login! Thanks again.

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