I’ll second a static IP from your ISP is probably what you need. However oven never had one and I don’t think my external IP ever changed. As long as the integration isn’t critical, given my own experience, I’d probably risk it and then decide if I needed to get a static IP.

Now you might also consider getting a n inexpensive VPS and route through that server which would likely have a static out bound block of IPs.

Smarter people than me are here though. I’m still in the “fear of opening ports to the internet” while at home phase.

Started terminal-lly. Stuck now and got lots of VIM all night. Supposed to do something with colon. Directions unclear now just a q.

I think the thing to take away from this is that this is the CLOSEST thing to another browser option we’ve seen in a while.

Yes, I’d prefer foss but we’re finally not talking about a Firefox or chromium fork.

Dang, I’m ashamed of myself for missing it. Mint was my gateway from windows too… I knew it was familiar.

Gnome, kde, and what’s the 3rd logo? I suddenly have fomo.

For personal use, Libre office does everything I need. For work, Excel is an absolute beast. It doesn’t necessarily scale, but for those one off data comparison, manipulation, or validation often I can do it faster and easier than I can in SQL. VLookup was kinda cool. Index match is definitely powerful.

I still generally avoid the vb macros though I’ve found solutions online occasionally where they’re useful. (Reviewing the code to confirm it’s not malicious first of course.).

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AI Summary

Title: Be Suspicious of HDMI

• HDMI technology is criticized for being a “money pool” for companies, despite the existence of better, royalty-free alternatives.

• Companies developing HDMI technology charge significant annual licensing fees and per-unit costs for using the HDMI name and logo.

• Additional features like HDCP require extra payments on top of existing licensing and unit costs.

• HDMI actively sponsors tech news articles to promote itself.

• DisplayPort is presented as a royalty-free alternative that offers similar or superior functionality to HDMI.

• DisplayPort supports more features, higher resolutions, and higher refresh rates compared to HDMI.

• The Steam Machine exemplifies the issues with HDMI, featuring a DisplayPort 1.4 connector capable of 4K 240 Hz.

• The HDMI connector on the Steam Machine is HDMI 2.1 capable but cannot be advertised as such.

• The HDMI organization does not license HDMI 2.1 for Linux devices, forcing Valve to label it as HDMI 2.0.

• There’s a call for the display industry to transition away from HDMI to less expensive and more open standards.

Mint was my gateway distro. Endeavouros was my next jump. I’m now on Arch. I do like that it has forced me to learn a lot about how and why things work. I’m still learning and starting to figure out what I’ve learned incorrectly. At the end of the day I think I got the “I have to change something and distro hop” bug.

I think I would love just about any rolling release. Yay!

I also found I wanted gnome. I’d rather use my keyboard for almost everything.

Cinnamon is a great transition from windows. Linux is great because you can choose from 900 flavors to get exactly what YOU want. *and it’s a curse…

I put the wife on mint first then Debian with gnome on 2 laptops and she seems to be pretty happy with it. (One is dedicated to running a laser cutter and the other her personal laptop) She still had to keep a windows machine, but it’s really only used to run a vinyl cutter.

All that said, I’d suggest trying Endeavour. I’ve got 2 kids using different laptops with intel chips and nvidia graphics. It’s been pretty smooth. They use KDE and barely flinched coming from windows.

Happy travels in your quest and may the learning be fun!

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Well boys, it was worth a shot. Smile and wave, smile and wave.

I fully respect if it’s just not in the budget for you. A company has to make money somehow. I’d rather pay than get ads or worse let them collect and yet worse sell my data. Also, you can use a burner email and vpn if you want to add an extra layer of obfuscation in there for privacy.

Here’s a few links from their faq.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-should-i-pay-for-search

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-does-kagi-search-require-an-email-address

I really hope I don’t come off as a shill for them. It’s one of the few companies I actually really like.

I also run proton family, and really like the product offering. Their leadership gives me anxiety though. Promos and sales are only for new customers and standard pricing is a bit steep, but you do get multiple services.

I know I’m not exactly hitting the mark, have you looked at kagi? You can personalize the weighting of results from certain sites. You can also add lenses which will let you drive results to forums, programming, academia, etc.

To me it was a bit like reliving the early days of google with the don’t be evil mantra still in tact.

Let me also say, it appears to be privacy respecting.

It has been good for me so far. If someone sees a reason I should run away from this, please let me know why and what we all should use instead, I’d appreciate it!

Glad you found one that worked for you.

As far as I’m aware, Logseq also just uses .md files. I back those up regularly and I do use the cloud sync. The cloud sync lets me alternate use between my computer and my tablet for work. I could use just one device, but this was a significant advantage for me.

I also keep a separate log for personal work which I can add to via special shortcuts from my phone.

Logseq for notes and task tracking. It’s an open source alternative to obsidian. Life saver for tracking stuff at work.

https://logseq.com/

My first thought was that it was running a windows vm…

Does this work? I would think scanning a *.package would only assess that content. Wouldn’t something malicious likely be in the code or dependency it could call via some form of get request? That .deb package itself could be completely “safe” until it calls a git clone <URL> to then run something malicious.

I think this would be more likely to work for appimage or flatpak, though the same approach could compromise the validity of the scan. Am I thinking too hard, or did I just miss the point?

Why the pain of Arch? You probably fell in love with the rolling release, wiki, and the AUR.

If their computer can handle running a windows vm on virtualbox, I’d recommend that over dual boot. Windows update will almost certainly cause issues on boot…eventually.

Jump into Linux with both feet. Use the vm as a crutch or a bridge to windows only software.

Follow the advice below… backup everything. If you have a 2nd hd, this makes it easier to keep files and is separated.

If you’re prepared to reinstall, it’s easy to nuke it and try again. It’s part of learning and sometimes easier to troubleshoot.

Bard on my experience, Mint is probably the best gateway distro into Linux from windows. Debian and Ubuntu forums are relevant and useful. My wife and I are both IT professionals, and mint was just “natural”. She couldn’t care less what os, de, or wm is in use as long as it gets it done. She’s got mint on one laptop and Debian with gnome on another.

Once they decide they want something different they can find what meets those needs nice they have their bearings and a “need”.

Ubuntu never really hit home for me for some reason.

I wanted to move off mint, because I wanted the gnome DE. Yes, I did successfully slam gnome on top of mint, more as a can I do it vs should I do it exercise. Then I wanted something further upstream and went to Debian.

Then, I started tinkering with Endeavouros. This has allowed me to learn more about how things really work and WHY they work the way they do. Documentation on arch to me is second to none. Until I had daily driver Linux experience and spent some time tinkering, this was just overwhelming.

I’m on the Proton train, but know now, you’ll never see a discount once you’re a customer. They will promo you up to a more premium plan, but I recommend only comparing proton at full price.

Edit: I’m on a proton family plan. I’ve watched since October for any kind of deal or promo with Black Friday. There’s nothing available once you’re on this type of plan.

You will be offered a discount the first time you up to this plan, but once on it, nothing.

This sentiment is all over the proton communities.

For what it’s worth, I’m not expecting any BIG discounts from proton, but it would feel a lot better if they offered something (5 or 10 percent) on an annual subscription that’s nearly $300. (Yes I know annual is discounted from monthly, as is always the case).

As a subscriber it feels like you’re just part of the revenue stream and forgotten.