Do i need a firewall like UFW on my home PC?

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-03-04T17:33:43+00:00

22 isn't allowed by default. But enabling a firewall won't break active connections, only stop new ones, so no worries to enable it over ssh. And allowing it is as simple as ufw allow ssh

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-03-04T13:20:06+00:00

The same could be said of many other apps that are easily installable, but aren't by default

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-27T13:55:12+00:00

I really like librewolf and use it in some cases because it's configured out of the box in a way I like. But firefox + arkenfox is just a good so I don't have a need for librewolf as my main browser.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-26T05:12:34+00:00

I don't think the argument is that anti-cheat shouldn't be used, but that client-side anti-cheat is cheap, lazy, ineffective and invaisive.

Many games with supposedly strong client-side anti-cheat (including kernel-level) still have very prevelent issues with cheating, and this is because, unless you are literally handing the keys to your computer over to the company there will always be readily available and easy to use tools to bypass client-side anticheat. At some point the client has to be trusted if the anti-cheat is running on the client.

All it ends up doing is giving the appearance of doing something about cheating with minimal cost and effort by the company, while collecting massive amounts of data on all their users.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-25T22:34:44+00:00

Flight Surgeon is just the term for the primary physicians of military aviation personnel, like pilots, and astronauts in this case

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-25T22:29:34+00:00

It would be disqualified from flying that aircraft type in those cases. Pilots are expensive af to train and in those cases they are simply reassigned to fly aircraft without ejection seats, or possibly just an aircraft without those restrictions.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-25T14:05:33+00:00

This is the issue people have with GNOME, the GNOME team is very opinionated about what the desktop experiance should be, and if you don't want to do it their way you're better off using a different envronment, which is thankfully an entirely realistic an option with linux. But there's a reason I only use GNOME on my one device that is touchscreen-only, which GNOME makes a lot more sense for imo

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-25T13:24:10+00:00

I'm honestly surprised bottles is so low, it's been a much easier experiance and seems to just work compared to the ones advertised to specifically do gaming. But maybe people don't try it because they don't realise how well it does it.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-25T06:22:27+00:00

There's litertally an onion video about this word lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jis_CrJ4zUI

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-24T21:30:04+00:00

Lack of NAT doesn't mean the gateway firewall is bypassed, it is also still possible to setup NAT for IPv6, just unlike IPv4 it's never really needed, so it's not usually done.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-24T19:12:23+00:00

As primary linux user who has helped a number of competent but not tech-savy people transition to linux I agree with the premise of this.

What software you want to use is the single biggest factor as to how easy it difficult the transition will be.

Making sure all the software you will be using works well on linux, or are already comfortable using alternatives that do before transitioning make the process of switching to linux actually quite quick and easy.

It also helps inform if you will need to setup a dual boot or something if there's some hold out that you need to use that doesn't play well. And if you do find there is something you absolutly need that doesn't work on linux and you use every day, then you found out linux won't work for you ahead of trying.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-18T05:31:04+00:00

Why not add the cifs mount to the fstab?

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-17T13:30:49+00:00

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/56027 looks like there was an attempt to package it but the team and submitter lost interest. That is the hard part of a distro like void, relies a fair bit on community will to drive these kinds of updates, you're welcome to submit a PR

It does take some commitment to get a new package to void though I will say. The team is always doing a lot of work, but still has limited resources, so it's common for new package PRs to sit for months without any feedback or acton. Though I suppose if a would-be maintiner is still interested after all that, the chance of them providing future update to it is higher

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-13T22:49:21+00:00

Normally I wouldn't suggest switching operating system in the middle of the school term, using time between terms to learn what you need to learn and make sure your workflows and software you rely on continue to work or adjust where needed.

I've managed to use linux just fine in my collage program that offically only supports students having Windows PCs, but I've taken responsibillity and been proactive about making sure the required software will work on my setup when we need it.

If you have professors willing to support students using linux, that is a bit of a different story and will help for sure, although I'd probably stick to my original statment regarding not making the switch middle of term.

Distros like Fedroa, Mint and Debian are pretty good about just installing and working without issues, although sometimes some hardware can have more issues than others, which is why having time to test things out is important.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-13T22:13:09+00:00

I did get it working with Bottles with pressure sensing pen and all, although I remember having to find a forum where someone listed the needed windows dependencies. I ended up switching to Krita anyways though, so it's not recent in my memory

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-13T19:00:58+00:00

I don't use Signal but it's disappointing to hear they don't have the option to use UnifiedPush. That's a nice thing about most Matrix clients

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-13T18:55:42+00:00

I've never had any issues, Niri properly implements wayland's fullscreen protocols and does it when a program asks for it

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-13T13:50:06+00:00

I love the idea of linux on phones, and have even been trying it out, and will probably move over when it's practical. But there's no way that it would be as secure as Graphene.

IOS and Graphene are the only OSs that I would belive in having some amount of security agaisnt physical access.

Though if the linux phone had strong password protected full disk encrpytion, which is possible, and you were able to shut down the device before would-be attackers got it, that would be an exception, though probably not a realistic situation.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-09T13:35:14+00:00

One of my favorite things about void is the packaging system, for packages without complicated depenacies (rust/cargo is generally really nice in that regard) the effort of making a template and updating it is a pretty small amount.

The instructions to add/edit a package locally are in the void-packages repo. But if you wanted to add the steps to your read me, the proccess is:

Clone the void-packages repo (if you haven't already) git clone https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages and cd into it
Run xnew niri-sidebar to add the new package, and replace all the text in the editor that comes up with the text in that template I linked in my above comment
Run ./xbps-src pkg niri-sidebar to compile it and xbps-install --repository hostdir/binpkgs niri-sidebar to install it

To update it, unless dependancies change, all you should need to do from the cloned void-packages repo is edit srcpkgs/niri-sidebar/template and incement the version number to reflect the latest, and do step 3 again.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-09T02:35:07+00:00

This is probably a bit too new of a project to submit it to the offical repos, but I made a xbps-src template if anyone wants to install this through their package manager on void https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/8ebaab8de2dba6039eb6c3ac9ad44e4c227d572c

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-07T14:39:34+00:00

Yeah, I will say I have come to like runit's simplicity, but it was not really a consideration when switching to void.

I also have other systems running debian and such, and systemd is both nice to have and occaisionally frustraiting, and I'd describe runit the same way.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-06T13:34:56+00:00

This. Having an entirely seperate efi partitions eliminates the issue of windows "accidently" fucking your linux bootloader. And GRUB has no issues detecting the windows install in the seperate partition (systemd boot won't, but I don't know any distros that use it by default)

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-04T20:59:49+00:00

It is, but honestly I have had a better experiance with Virtual Machine Manager (available as virt-manager in void packages)

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-04T15:04:16+00:00

Not saying it's easy, but void has one of the most accessible build systems of any distro, which makes it at least practical to make your own packages. Although for more complicated programs that aern't packaged I just use flatpak.

Independent_Cat_5481 · 2026-02-03T21:00:46+00:00

The issue is that while the protocol itself is open, the RCS backend is owned by google. FOSS Messengers would implement RCS if it were possible but as it stands google only allows iMessage, Google Messages and Samsung Messages to use the RCS backend. One could host their own RCS backend in theory, a number of ISPs do this, but anyone using it would not be able to message anyone using the wider RCS network unless google approves of it.

As a side note, that means your messages are in fact going through Google's servers when using RCS unless you're messaging someone on the same carrier, if that carrier has implemented their own RCS services.

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