What’s the alternatives? Non-self hosting, and you know what, self-hosting because why not

I fucking hate the KDE wallet popups!!!

I’m a long time Linux user, and I fucking hate the daily popups. I somehow got them to go away on one of my computers.

I installed Linux on the family laptop, and wife took the laptop away from the house to use it and she couldn’t get access to the WiFi, I had no idea what was wrong on her end when she called – I thought maybe the WiFi chip in the laptop was too outdated for new routers. Anyways, I spent a lot of time for an evening for her that turned out of bust because of the annoying popup.

Who else is using Peter Thiels crap?

True, but then on the upside it’s not a Google phone. Which could be more secure from nefarious back doors.

Also there is a part of the Pixel phone which you’re locked from reformating – Is it the bios or bootloader?

As an alternative, if you wanted something less secure, and more ethical, consider buying a Fairphone. However GrapheneOS does not support Fairphone at this moment.

https://www.fairphone.com/

In Canada, you can go to your provinces service website to order a new one. They will mail it to you.

If anyone is looking for a Canadian or international order, I just found this U.K. site which multiple threads of Reddit have been talking about. They offer shipping tracking.

https://www.clove.co.uk/products/fairphone-gen-6

https://www.reddit.com/r/fairphone/comments/kkd44p/is_there_a_way_to_get_a_fairphone_in_canada/

That’s kind of a weird question, no? If I’m going to invest in a server, I want to see some kind of integrity and trust first.

This is the first time I’ve seen this link or company name. I’m not saying they’re bad, but I was hoping the person who shared the link had something to vet them.

First time I’ve heard of Unredacted. Do they have somewhere to show their legitimacy.

Debian is fine, but if you have technical troubles you don’t want to deal with, then go straight to Ubuntu. Either Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), Ubuntu, or some other Ubuntu variation.

As a new Linux user, I would recommend Ubuntu over Debian. It is easier to setup, has a lot more online documentation, provides various apps to make life a bit simplier like integrations and AppStore (even though you should try to away from Linux app store because of broken apps)

Arch is really the king diamond in desktop Linux in my opinion, due to their rolling releases (I love new stuff even if it may break things), but especially because for the Arch Wiki (which is good for other OS users to read too) and the Arch AUR. If going Arch, I recommend using arch-install to make installing it much easier. Update the default arch-install after booting pacman -Ss arch-install then just run.

Also as a new or intermediate Linux user, I strongly recommend LTS (Long Term Support) versions. For example, Ubuntus latest version is not LTS, and has been out for multiple months, and there are still a huge amount of apps not ready to easily install – and you either have to spend a lot of time to figure it out yourself, or lose the chance to use some apps.

The Hackernews company gets shit on a lot by Lemmy and Reddit. From my understanding, they have a lot of bad people who run the company.

I would just use Lemmy and Reddit instead.

Edited, thanks @Björn:

Whatever destination computer you’re looking to connect to, install Sunshine.

Then on the source computer, use Moonlight to connect to the destination.

That’s misinformation. Tailscale is Canadian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailscale

Toolbox?

Edit: Oh cool! Thanks for sharing.

https://github.com/containers/toolbox

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Toolbox

https://containertoolbx.org/

The keys aren’t transferring with RustDesk or Moonlight? Moonlight worked for me with the above.

STEP BY STEP SOLUTION

Using my ArchLinux as a Sunshine server, and Ubuntu as a Moonlight client:

1. Sunshine devs advise using your Distros package manager (“apt” if on Ubuntu/Debian. AURs “yay” or “paru” if on ArchLinux, or “dns” if on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL), instead of using your Distros AppStore, or either AppImage or Flatpak – although they may still work.

2. Run the following on the terminal command line of your Sunshine server:

sudo setcap cap_sys_admin+p $(readlink -f $(which sunshine))

3. Restart Sunshine server.

Then either restart Sunshine by opening on your browser https://localhost:47990/troubleshooting or reboot the whole machine if that doesn’t work.

4. Set username and password for Sunshine here if prompted: https://localhost:47990/
5. In Moonlight client, click the gear on the top right (settings), then Enable Capture system keyboard shortcuts
6. Connect to Sunshine using Moonlight client using the 192.168.xxx.xxx IP of your Sunshine server. Running the following on the terminal of your Sunshine server should show your IP: ip addr
7. Input pin shown from Moonlight into https://localhost:47990/pin webpage of the Sunshine server.
8. Use CTL + Shift + Alt + Q to escape.

Extra info / rant, may not be useful

Again, step 5 is what allows special keys to be ran on the remote host and not the local.

I just tried Sunshine (remote host) and Moonlight (client). There was a bit more setting up. They mention on their docs somewhere to use your distro’s package manager instead of app stores if you can.

On ArchLinux, I needed to run this in the command line first, and then restart. sudo setcap cap_sys_admin+p $(readlink -f $(which sunshine))

And then after running Sunshine, and accessing its web console https://localhost:47990/, setting a username and password, to access it via Moonshine on my client by putting my 192.168.xxx.xxx IP, then placing the pin on the Sunshine remote host at https://localhost:47990/pin. And then had 2 “Desktop” icons, 1 to connect with high res and another low res; and then a third icon to connect to “Steam” for Steam Big Picture mode connection.

Also Moonlight and Sunshine starts with very low brightness. I’ve fixed this before, by going into the Moonlight or Sunshine settings – I don’t remember which one.

Although Moonlight and Sunshine does not ask for connection verification after I’ve connected once. Rustdesk would ask me everytime, and I did not figure out how to remove Rustdesk prompting the remote host to ask the connection.

And both Moonlight and Rustdesk run the super key on the client host.###

Let me know how it goes. I don’t gave much experience with them. But if they’re made well for gaming, should for good for a full experience.

I agree, GIMPs UI is pretty nasty. Same as LibreOffice Writer, but I still use them.

I have the sane problem with the Super (Windows) and alt button running locally instead of just the remote machine.

You might find better success with Moonshine & Sunshine together. It works with Android as well. And provides 4K HD streaming which is great for gaming.

On topic for QEMU/KVM, easier to use interfaces would be helpful. Not saying other VM software are any easier, but they have so many settings baked in, and I only get them running maybe after the 50th trial and error setting changed.