Thanks for the extensive explanation. I was almost certain you were joking about using Git for that purpose but it seems you are being serious :)

I will stick to my Restic backups for now. :)

Being a Linux newbie that idea did not even cross my mind. MIND BLOWN. In all seriousness, though, are there ever user secrets in ~/.config? It seems like a crazy & genius idea at the same time.

(I keep them in two Restic backups)

Weird, my pet said the same. Is your password also ************* ?

As for passwords, well, I wont talk about that. It’s not good but still not worst practices at least.

Paper notebook? ;)

My Bitwarden and Proton Pass also require Yubikey to be present when logging in on a new device.

It is not a problem if they are on different disks, though? I hope so :)

By “same platform” do you mean keeping them in the same app or the same system (e.g., my Android smartphone)? I used to use Authy, but after I bought the paid subscription for Bitwarden I moved my TOTP codes there (and later to Proton Pass) because it was so convenient.

Thanks for telling me about Betterbird. I see I can run it at the same time as Thunderbird which naturally fits my workflow described above 😅

I am thinking of self-hosting some stuff right now, but that’s mainy OneDrive/Google Drive replacement and Google Photos replacement. I could maybe self-host Bitwarden, too. Email? Nope. I know there’s A LOT of work with that, with the domains (so my emails don’t get rejected by other parties), with spam filters and so on. I will leave that to the professionals, it’s too important. File storage is for me, but email is for communication with others. So congratulations if you got that working :)

UE5 on handhelds is a red flag, but I will check some reviews and performance tests before buying.

It’s true. Sort of ;) Tried connecting my openSUSE with my Android phone today.

https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/2116

Supposedly fixed and merged but not released yet. I decided to wait.

What did you put on your Chromebook instead of Chrome OS?

Probably a little bit of risk from possibly fragile connectors, but that should be okay if you take care.

I told her I will buy her a new laptop if I screw up :D Even with that risk I’d like to try.

I am aware of the limitations. She is a really BASIC user. Just uses the web browser (Chrome, because it’s a Chrome OS, well — I’ll switch her to Firefox and she won’t notice ;) ), she surfs the net, watches YT and VOD (I know the DRM limitations, again, not an issue with her, she’s perfectly happy with 720p in a window) and chats Facebook Messenger (sadly). I think an atomic distro can do all that out of the box and there’s nothing to install that’s not a web app or a Flatpak.

Is rpm-ostree how you get the other packages? I don’t know much about it apart from what’s on Fedora’s website, my understanding is it modifies the local system image so whatever you install from RPM becomes part of it. But, again, she won’t need it. She’s the compete opposite of a power user.

I’m thinking of replacing Chrome OS on an older Chromebook (Acer CB-314) that’s been slowing down a lot. I don’t know what Google is doing but it feels like planned obsolescence. It’s becoming unresponsive even for regular web browsing and VOD. Based on some online guides I think I need to open the device to flip a hardware switch that makes the firmware write protected, so I need to convince my significant other to let me do it, because it’s her laptop, but she keeps complaining :)

I was thinking of putting Mint on it, I want it to be super simple.

I would also consider some atomic distro so she can’t break it :) Maybe Fedora Silverblue or something like that.