I was worried about this when I originally switched from Chrome to Firefox earlier this year but I can honestly say I haven’t found a single site that I personally use that I had to go back to Chrome for. Any issues I had with any site were related to ad blocking using uBlock or DNS based blocking I also do.
“ok, now add a metric shit ton of swearing and further belittle parsers who can’t deal with tabs.”
How does Okta not have systems like support systems like what was breached with the credentials behind a VPN as well? A system like that really ought to be on a secured network. We have so many systems at work that are VPN required and it’s mostly those where sensitive data lives.
I would start by checking for any sort of errors in your system logs, such as /var/log/syslog or using dmesg -w. In my experience, Linux is almost universally faster than Windows.
Maybe I don’t understand the problem but the only time that pinentry pops up for me is when I am signing something. What sort of situations does it just randomly pop up or what sort of specific apps/configuration would that happen at random?
The fields where you can’t paste a password or any other types of data like credit card info absolutely kill me. It’s doing the exact opposite of adding any level of security and it’s just infuriating.
My favorite recently is my company has TOTP 2FA but you can’t paste the 6 digits. You have to type in one digit at a time, each being its own box. Paste fails in every browser I’ve tried. It’s just a shitty user interface.
If a service you use does not offer TOTP but implements their own 2FA through another method, you have no choice to use it though.
I also used to run into this when flying for work I would have paid for wifi on a plane flight but my mobile device isn’t able to get their text or push notification because I only paid for my laptop to have wifi. Used to drive me crazy and then I just stopped working while on flights because of dumb policies.
Containers are such a game changer for how I manage my apps and their dependencies. Love how I can try things out in a container, nuke it and start over, knowing I have a clean environment. I hate installing anything on my native host OS install these days if I can help it.
Minor nit here - “docker containers” or just “containers” because “dockers” are pants.
I’m not aware of a way to lock an entire system to a major.minor version with Debian, only holding individual packages. What exact version is your base-files? The full string matters.
You could check to see if anything is held with apt-mark showhold.
It is possible that the mirror you have in your sources.list file stopped syncing so to your system is looks like it has no updates. What mirror is your system pointed at?
So 12.1 is out but have you upgraded any of your packages yet? The /etc/debian_version file comes from the base-files package. On my up to date system, it’s showing 12.1 in the file and the package version is 12.4+deb12u1 as I can see from dpkg -l base-files.
Make sure to do an apt update and then do an apt upgrade -s to do a dry-run to see what packages would be upgraded. I’m guessing the base-files package hasn’t been updated.
To me, zfs is like the Gentoo of file systems. If you actually use the zfs features and do a lot of digging and experimentation before you go all in on it, it’s not bad; it really can be quite good. If someone wants a filesystem that they format and forget, ext4 and xfs are still solid options. I used to use ext4 for most of my filesystem needs and xfs for my long term storage on top of mdadm. I just really wanted zfs snapshots.
Sounds like the perfect recipe to become like the next Google+ though
Well I didn’t have that on my bingo card.
This is a similar reason as to why I use Debian as my base operating system and for just about every service I run on my host, the processes are containerized using Docker. It gives me the flexibility to choose the best “operating system” that supports the software I want to run at the release cadence that suits how I want to consume it for a given piece of software, and the base host OS is just that and nothing more. Upgrades to new Debian releases are non-events and I get no surprises with my apps in containers.
I can upgrade the underlying container base operating systems as I need which I choose Alpine, Debian, and Ubuntu based on which fits my needs. Alpine gets updates quickly, Debian is good for core services that I would normally run natively on my host, and Ubuntu hits well for wide support of almost every other service I need. So I get a stable base with the option to go as quickly as I need if I have a need for a newer package. It’s not always about having the newest software, it’s about stability where it counts.
Today it’s 200MB of dependencies and next thing you know it’s 200PB! When will the madness stop!