Since I’ve accumulated some wins over this week it’s time I get them here:
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I bought a flash drive and install ventoy with multiple linux distros and some recovery software (like HBCD), memtest and Windows, some were in my previous flash drive. It is a 64 gig one and didn’t regret buying that specific capacity as it now has headroom and no longer does something like arch fails.
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Speaking of Ventoy, I also found out it seems Gacha Gamers and Linux nerds are coming together and I used a specific GRUB Theme because of this (so it’s not Ventoy oriented but Ventoy supports GRUB Themes and that’s amazing.), This is what it looks like [in a VM]
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Speaking of previous flash drive, that one was a puny 16 gig, not enough to store all my ISOs. That was replaced with Tails. Mostly because I loved the idea of having a working Linux on an USB Flash drive and didn’t know Early on about Tails. Previously I would just try to manually install but tails was just a matter of flashing the image and I have a bootable distro and I’m impressed.
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Finally my friend has accepted the idea of trying Linux for 30 days with one of my old laptops and we’ll do this where every 2 weeks we shift between Linux Mint and Fedora Atomic and he’ll decide from there after the fact to daily drive which is nice. I’ll soon be documenting this in my blog, with ground rules to be set (such as only 3 lifelines from me, NO MORE after the fact. Except for helping him out with a game since you know it’s one of those situations, Hoyo, strict IP therefore must not be properly well known Unless you use the codenames but anyways) and challenges to be set within that period which are the: Play games, communicate and daily task. Similar to LTT. Stay tuned! With that said he did told me this would not change how frequently he’ll use his PC but I’ll figure it out from there.
I just setup the flash drive and we got into a little roadblock which will be fixed in around the next 2 weeks
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Speaking of Linux, I just setup Linux on my Android tablet, it now acts as like a light productivity machine. Really cool!
I wish to share images but I’m not risking any further opsec problem.
But basically this project is pretty sick if you wanna turn your own one: GitHub - sabamdarif/termux-desktop: Install a full Linux desktop environment on your Android device with Termux X11 ( VNC optional) and also enable hardware acceleration
which in turn I’ll be trying Zen Browser on it, not the ideal way tbh but yeah.
Now security wise this method isn’t so ideal let’s be honest but It’s an option and can mitigate things by not giving termux files access after installation for example. -
Got my mom to use Proton Drive for backups (and yes we already use signal for communication if not otherwise often but still) where possible and helping her with it. She also has Whatsapp for my Sister and some other contacts for the most part, Using the opportunity, I enabled encrypted backups on WhatsApp because as expected, she did not have encrypted backups, now they’re which is great! A harm reduction to say the least. I still don’t trust someone like my sister would have encrypted backups but would surprise me if so and even then don’t trust a person with a potentially company monitored phone. Unfortunately Viber forces unencrypted Google drive backups which is a nightmare and why I will never chat in this one, and that’s why I said where possible but other than that, all great!
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Minor but I switched full time between Brave, DDG HTML and Startpage from Ecosia, mostly because Ecosia now requires an account for their whole new seeds system and I don’t personally like that.
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Switched my Uncle from using To do to manage tasks (due to inconsistencies) to using Tuta Calendar. It’s not the same way, it’s more like a similar way but I do like that Tuta keeps it consistent with both UI, UX and Notifications, In a way they’re now encrypted which is nice (Proton doesn’t keep UI consistent but at that). I explained to them how they can navigate the UI to set tasks and even remove complete ones and how they can see those tasks in a way, which is great and the fact that it has Greek language helps alot.
