I know exactly what you mean! I’ve been on i3 with every build at home for like a decade or something now and it’s easily the most productive environment I can be in. Rarely change things in my config between machines so I end up just slapping the same dotfiles in first thing and I feel like I’m home.

It’s the only real way to push back that other folks will notice if enough of us do it.

Last time I went through DC a few weeks ago they were using these. I saw a sign saying you’re welcome to opt out. Nobody even questioned what they were doing and were just going along. When it was my turn I politely said I’d rather not do the scan. Dude just glanced at my ID and waved me through. The next few folks behind me blinked and said they didn’t want the scan either. If enough people push back it can at least maybe slow down the normalization of constant surveillance.

I feel attacked.

And if it annoys you enough it’s one line in your config to fix forever. I love i3 so much.

I had like 2 issues that took literal minutes to fix over the years I ran Manjaro, I know there were some silly misconfigurations years ago but I never paid much attention then the hate and it ran all my stuff just fine. 🤷‍♂️

Built a new rig a few weeks ago and decided to check out EndeavorOS, but would have stuck with that Manjaro install for a while if I hadn’t.

To be fair to manufacturers for once here, this kind of this is usually due to users not properly securing these systems. The industry is still way behind on proper infosec but they’ve come a long way the last 10 years or so.

Yeah pretty sure I installed the experimental branch from the AUR. I just didn’t want the repo to be poisoned or something. 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the info!

I’m planning to just Google my way out of this, but what’s the cleanest way to block the repo I’ve been using in yay from updates without uninstalling the version I’ve got running already?

I guess it cuts the attack surface profile down a bit?

I keep meaning to set up timemachine but just roll the dice every few weeks. I think it bit me once and it was only for the weirdo wifi driver I needed and installed the lazy way.

The blog is probably smart to check if you see anything weird in pamac but otherwise I’ve either been very lucky or things have been pretty stable.

Yo dawg got this minigun Prius mount handy? For a friend.

They’ve been in development like 3 years now, I wouldn’t call it a cash grab.

Game locks up on me every 10-15mins no matter what I’ve tried with 2.0. Gonna need to wait on this one again.

It’s always going to be a concern, but it’s multithreaded now.

They all work great! Favtorio is the hardest one to wrap your head around but controller support is very good if you want it.

I even play a ton of Dwarf Fortress on it all the time with zero control issues.

I was just excited for a portable, powerful Linux based machine and wanted to see it succeed so we could get more of them as time went on.

I use the thing daily docked and portable for gaming, 3D modeling, coding away from my main PC…it’s been great. If it broke today I’d buy another. Or even better, I’d just pick up the easily available replacement parts and fix it.