Open Nebula is apparently their new platform of choice,

Never heard of it.

What makes you think that new hardware coming from a manufacturer is more secure than second hand hardware?

There’s numerous examples of hardware being compromised before it even got into its original packaging, let alone those intercepted during shipment.

In other words, at some point you need to realise that there are no guarantees in life.

It has. I use it everyday. It’s shit. Apple keeps moving windows to different desktops without user interaction, I can’t snap windows to each other, full screen takes over a whole desktop and ESC inside such a window puts it back to some random state.

Better Touch Tool did a better job a decade or so ago.

What is the use case for hosting this?

I can open any PDF on any computer, either locally, if the file is on the local filesystem, or via the internet, served using a simple web server and any filesharing system in-between.

I moved to Linux over 25 years ago and I miss absolutely nothing.

The joy of not having to update your OS when Microsoft forces it, even whilst you’re working, or the way Apple still cannot do window tiling despite decades of examples on how to achieve this, or installing applications and finding files splattered all over the file system with no way to remove them except manually, or the endless user agreements, licence fees, expiring licensees, or the notion that you cannot run a new OS on an old machine that’s in perfect working order.

So, no, it was the best decision I’ve made.

I wish that I’d made the same good decision when it comes to my accounting software.

One way to implement this: https://chinwag.au/verification/

Well, I’ve turned on that feature as a test (after the question was posted) and I saw your reply just fine. That’s no difference from how it’s been before I turned on the feature.

What has never worked for me (I’m not sure if it’s a bug or by design) is a notification for a reply to your reply. I only ever see notifications of direct replies, not indirect ones.

In other words, if someone replies directly to me, I know about it, but if someone replies to that reply, I don’t.

You have the option to hide read posts.

You could just turn off your phone.

The port number on the outside doesn’t have to be the same as the port number on the inside.

The question is even more fraught than you might have considered.

What if you report them to your rideshare company and they do nothing?

As a passenger of a private vehicle where you observe or experience dangerous behaviour, are you required or obligated to report the behaviour to the police?

What if that driver came to collect your teenage child?

I don’t envy your situation, but their income is not your responsibility, your personal safety is.

The platform is owned by Google. By using YouTube in any way, watching, liking, subscribing, commenting, searching, clicking, all of it, you’re “using Google”.

So, the answer is that you cannot use YouTube and not use Google.

If Google is broken up, that might change, but I’m not sure if that will ever happen, what form that might take or if it would ever happen at all.

Wow.

If you get that wrong, right to left, it gets deleted.

In the new version, how do you edit the name, since long-click no longer works, and do you have any tokens that are for “Amazon Web Services”, which is uneditable and takes up most of the label space.

It goes well beyond bother.

In my opinion, the biggest issue is that software with a GPL licence is not permitted to be distributed without making the source code available, which Red Hat restricted to only paying customers, and in doing so added a licence restriction which is not permitted by the GPL.

They are now profiting off the work of every developer who ever contributed to the software they’re selling and none of those people are getting paid.

Well, mine was updated overnight by my benevolent overlords and it’s still only showing the partial editable text and now you can’t even edit it any more.

Not sure if it’s faster and still no access to the seed code, since not everyone uses a QR code.

Enshitification has well and truly set in.

That’s a big question, but I don’t trust Red Hat after the stunts they’ve pulled over the years. Here’s a taste.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/

Does it still take forever to launch if you have more than a screen full of tokens?

Does it still only show four characters of the editable component of the name?

Does it still refuse to show the secret as text if you load a QR code?

I’m still a “native” pendant and use Docker to bridge the gap.

I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.

I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

Never used OpenSUSE.