Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 25

@jz That being said, I finally have the vast majority of my contacts including many non-technical people using a secure messenger for the first time in history. Change will be slow and many of the alternatives are not currently viable for non-technical users, partly due to usability and partly due to the network effect of "I'm not installing yet another app that runs yet another service just to talk to one person."

@jz Other issues with #Signal:

* code quality is marginal - endless parade of small bugs, especially with the desktop client
* moxie is a jerk on github a little too frequently
* moxie is hostile to people running LineageOS

@aadilayub Betcha part of the reason Snowden endorses Signal is usability. @jz

@jk Same, tried to do a rotating pyramid in BASIC

do i really deal with impostor syndrome or am i just faking it

@sheogorath You have some good points, though it's also worth noting I jumped from Mint to Manjaro (quite a leap) because the latter doesn't crash my machine every couple minutes. Generally tho I agree, some level of very basic "you should maybe consider a different distro if..." seems warranted and fair. I would absolutely not consider Manjaro noob-friendly

@sheogorath Huh, I chose Manjaro because it was a better trade-off between customizability and working out of the box than Arch. Didn't realize accessibility and UX were only done for the benefit of noobs. :p

wtf #lastpass!

(25 items caught by ublock origin and 8 by privacy badger on a lastpass.com new install page)

How else are they monetizing your data? They're a password vault app, ffs. #surveillancecapitalism

(don't @ me about keepass et al, I've been too preoccupied to switch yet.)

@orangesec_0 I'm likely to stick with xfce on it just because it seems like a good stability tradeoff, and I have fond hopes that video might play without screen tearing.

I'm suspicious that the noveau video driver was the source of the crashes on Mint; I seem to recall this being a problem (on my bog-standard cheap nvidia card) as far back as Mint 17. Not sure why Manjaro could get through an install to the point where I could load nvidia drivers and Mint couldn't, if this is the problem, but I don't have the time, energy, or desire to diagnose and report it. This is where things Just Working handily takes precedence.

Welp, I installed #Manjaro last night and the box that was so unstable under #LinuxMint 18/19 is fine. Granted, I'm now doing things like "changing the theme so the window resize handles aren't 1 pixel wide" and "wondering wtf people use instead of 'ifconfig'" - it's been almost 20 years since I used a non-Debian based distro on the desktop... but that's fine. I'm at the point where I want total customization *and* for things to Just Work. There are tradeoffs.

@SarcasmKid 😬😬

@ink_slinger That was indeed mentioned in the article. I know I had huge over-the-ear studio monitors on 90% of the time while working in bullpens and the like.