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  • Not going to add description of the channels or links, and many don’t have new videos because they are old channel but with some good content:

    LearnLinuxTV

    KDE Plasma tips and tricks

    DB Tech - Main Channel

    The New Oil

    Shichimi archival channel

    Linny and Winny

    Krita Tutorials

    Privacy Guides

    Techlore

    (RTP) Privacy & Tech Tips

    Free Software Foundation

    Trafotin

    Veronica Explains

    Surveillance Report

    Mental Outlaw

    The Linux Experiment

    Tip: you can subscribe to all of those using Grayjay in your phone and watch it in a convenient way





  • Let me start saying that for convenience I adopted Signal. Now, this argument that it validates your contacts is actually something that isn’t the best feature of Signal since it implies that it is requesting and having access to phone numbers.

    I don’t let my number available as my contact, I created the ID and I’m using it in case someone wants to connect with me but that probably isn’t something that everyone is practicing and the fact that they retain my number it doesn’t digest well.

    I’m not sure how is SimpleX nowadays but features like stickers and even some emoticons or message reactions were not possible. Family members and friends would be very difficult to persuade to go back to a very simplistic communication app.

    I always keep an eye in alternatives and if usability reaches a good point we may need to consider SimpleX as the messenger for the mainstream recommendation.











  • Start asking yourself what exactly you will miss from the local events news that you collect today from I.G. and what real value that you are really getting from it and go from there.

    Do you need all that information and anxiety?

    Do you have examples of things that we could help you point where there are alternatives?

    Are you looking for social gathering events news happening around? What type?




  • The idea is the opposite, to not rely in MS for Secure Boot. True that they created the secure boot but not because they created that is a bad idea. Many Linux distributions support Secure Boot through their own signing keys or by using tools like Shim (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenSuse, Arch, Gentoo and NixOS), allowing us to maintain control and security without depending on Microsoft. Secure Boot is a security feature that ensures your computer boots only trusted software, reducing the risk of malware. It checks the signatures of boot software and only allows signed, trusted components to load. This helps protect your system from unauthorized access during startup. Not flawless but is better with than without. Also, along with other strategies it may some day be used by the gaming vendors as a potential via to validate anti cheat. Recently the systemd made some progress in the area enhancing the TPM config.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1001730/

    “the TPM PCRs could be used either to lock a disk-encryption key to only be used on kernels signed by a particular OS vendor, or to lock a disk-encryption key to specific local things, such as the firmware version, available hardware, etc. Now, with systemd 257, the user can configure both these kinds of requirements at once.”