Illiterate Domine

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Plasma isn’t a KDE OS, but Neon is.

Here’s a link to the anchor

I’d be interested in utilization data before and after that change. Anecdotally, I use Signal much less after SMS was removed. With one app, I could opportunistically use Signal, when the other person had it, and send an SMS otherwise. Now I have to decide what kind of message to send before opening an app and learning my options. Most of those quick messages have moved back to SMS for me.

Interesting. I set an adblocking dns via DHCP and, as far as I know, the Roku respects it. Ads are blocked and I can see it failing to delivery telemetry in my dns logs (most persistent thing on the network).

I set a rule to catch outside dns to see if anything, the roku included, has been misbehaving.

I do and it works great! I mostly did this to limit the blast radius of breaches, but aliases also provide an easy way to send those kinds of things to both me and my spouse.

Free and Open-Source Software

konsole is low-key a great terminal. It’s really snappy, supports ligatures, and looks good. It’s one of my favorite KDE applications and the one I miss most when it’s not available.

Yes, wget is available, along with pretty much everything else you’d expect from a linux environment.

No, root isn’t required.

I’ve been using chezmoi for dotfile management and have been really happy with it. You can directly import existing files to get started and template out any differences between systems.

“Know your customer”. Financial institutions, in the US at least, have to verify their customers’ identities before providing services.

It’s worth remembering that this is a bit of a goldrush scenario on creating new communities. I strongly suspect communities will to start to consolidate over time.