Can I ask what the job was?? That sounds like such a dream job if you can do other work at that job and pays well

I’ve had mixed experiences myself. Sometimes it works, sometimes it randomly breaks. I just wouldn’t recommend it to someone who wants it to “just work” and be stable and not do maintenance. For me, I’m someone who’s happy to do maintenance, but I don’t want that to extend to my graphics card, which in this day and age ought to just work.

nvidia cards are always giving people grief, especially on Wayland. Technically supported but practically not recommended if you want an easy time

I was also confused at first, but OP is using “plausible deniability” to mean “depending on what decryption key you attempt to use, you get different ‘decrypted’ data”, so you can have an alibi I suppose. Not “plausible deniability” in the sense of “plausibly this isn’t encrypted at all”.

I think those three will be completely fine, but also I think base Arch would be completely fine for you. I have no idea why it’s a meme that Arch is so “hard”. I wouldn’t recommend it for someone coming from Windows or Mac who has no idea what they’re doing and had no poweruser tendencies on Windows/Mac either. But for someone who’s used Linux for a few years, I think doing a base Arch install is no biggie at all. It’s got a very annoying meme reputation but I think it’s completely inaccurate.

That’s an aside, and I’m not saying you should use base Arch, just that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it if that’s something you’re interested in. Although if you’re coming from a “beginner” distro and your intent is to learn, I do think doing a base Arch install (even if you don’t stick with it) is a good idea. You’ll be entirely capable of the install process and probably get a better understanding of how your system works. Then after you install it you can switch to some other distro you prefer.

Oh amazing. Seems like it’s still in early development and only supports Stardew and Cyberpunk but I look forward to it being more mature and supporting more games.

I’ve not really tinkered with any kind of settings and just use Steam’s default which is to have a separate C: drive for every Proton game, so does that mean I’d need a separate install of a mod manager for every game? Ideally I’d like to have just one mod manager that recognises all my games (that are supported by the mod manager at least)

Isn’t this better than trying to make it so that you never click off YouTube, the way it works if you are logged in? I would much rather have no recommendations than have an algorithm give me recommendations with the express purpose of maximising ad revenue extraction from me

Depends on your threat model, the degree of interest in you from states, the resources and competency of the states interested in you, etc… Also, I think privacy for privacy’s sake and without any real threat to which it’s responding to, is entirely fine and understandable. If nobody were interested in my data at all I’d still practise a reasonable level of privacy because I think it’s creepy for other people to know my business.

LeechBlock for just the browser? And yeah AppArmor for stopping programs from launching.

Librewolf on desktop and IronFox on mobile (GrapheneOS) for daily browsing. I also use Tor Browser or Mullvad Browser on desktop for particularly sensitive browsing.

People already do this on “low-tech” levels ie community monitoring and alerts, but yes it’s not been done on particularly high-tech levels in a similar manner to the surveillance state

I don’t have a pressure cooker and cook beans on an electric stove, but I imagine it’s similar

I’m interested to know what power company doesn’t give price for a kWh nor how many kWh you used in a billing period.

Oh I get that too, I just meant that I don’t get a more detailed breakdown, just total kWh usage in a month and price. So I can’t see energy usage by day etc. I’d have to do calculations based on my oven specs and the cost of energy. Which is possible but I’m simply not bothered to do that.

Yeah, that’s a factor that is fairly easy to calculate though. And for myself, I’m happy to spend more time within reason. I cook fairly high-effort meals if I think the effort (and time) will pay off. I was mostly asking about energy costs as that’s something I feel is quite hard to quantify properly. With time you know exactly how long it takes and can ask yourself whether or not it’s worth it for you.

That’s pretty cool. I’ll have to check it out.

Huh, I’ve never heard of MaomaoWM before. I’m happy to see the space of tiling Wayland compositors continue to be populated.

Would you say the main differences with River is the animations?

Solely from the parts of the lemmyverse I frequent, yes definitely. People would think you’re quite silly if you talked like a redditor, even if they were too polite to openly mock you for it.

Don’t bring your phone? Either that or a faraday

I’m sure it is good for a lot of use-cases, but I want to be able to e.g. play video games without issue. Which is far easier on a glibc system.