It’s so sad to see that voice of reason is trampled over like this. To see how bad is running Linux on phones, just ask the grapheneos folks. Linux phones have looong way to go compared to AOSP.

True, but asking user about permission to home folder vs. granting permission by default is huge difference. Also doesn’t flatpak also grant other permissions the app wants as well? Like the Mic permission.

While lots of this is problem of desktops in general, but:

• Linux applications can access your entire home folder, which likely contains most of your data. It can also access e.g. state of other applications, which can be bad.
• While flatpak somewhat mitigates the issues, it is half-baked: permissions are granted directly when you install the app, and user has to manually revoke the permission - Needing e.g. FlatSeal for this is insane as well. With Android/iOS, the user only grants permission when needed, which reduces lots of attack surfaces.
  • Doesn’t too many apps want your home folder access by default? If you think about it, it is a huge security issue - you basically have to trust the app to keep your secrets intact.
  • Mic access can be very problematic, esp when it would be enabled by default if app requests it. Although I don’t know to which extent this would be abused.

Pardon my ignorance, but why people keep trying Linux phones when you can develop on top of open source android version, like GrapheneOS? Linux desktop apps are not exactly secure.

Yeah, the problem is with the one banking app I frequent.

Oh my, that sounds difficult. What does “permanently locked bootloader” mean? I was just going to buy at local phone shop…

The script is compiled to a program which is then executed by the OS.

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The app is appified to an app which is then apped by the app.

Damnit.

Oh, do I get autism superpowers regarding this? Doing work perfectly while being watched by not reading social cues

O hello, the one and only other ItB player! How was the mech chess today

Except that they are research students in PhD course, it would exacerbate code messiness in research paper codebases.

It pains me so much when I see my colleagues pay OpenAI to do programming assignments… they see it is faster to ask gpt, than learn it properly. Sadly, I can say nothing to them, or I would risk worsening relations with them.

Congrats! It is brutal, isn’t it?

While this would not answer your question, but according to podman maintainers, rootful podman with userns=auto enjoys nearly as much security benefits as rootless. (As always, there are nuances to this)

Check out https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/13728

Maybe you could consider running rootful podman, especially if the OS is immutable.

Honestly, I believe technical progress has grinded to a halt. Moore’s law was broken with regards to hardware. I cannot think of novel tech after smartphones. Now, it feels like everything new is a wealth hoarding scheme by corporate greed.

Sometimes I wish I were like OP, being creatively greedy to snitch lots of money. Then I realize, that requires money and influence to work out… Life.

I see, guess I was overly paranoid. Bitwarden sounds good, then!

I wish I had one good meme to share, and you’ve got multi-hundreds. It’s unfair

To be fair, it is slow on VPS with single core CPU and 2GB RAM. But that’s not normal…

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Thanks, I am trying both paperless and calkbre and see which works better for which tasks.