Their critic seem fair? Sure the benchmarks are a bit unfortunate for Linux because all except Cyberpunk 2077 are games not very popular and not optimized well in Proton, but they don’t seem to have selected them specifically to make Linux look bad.

And the boot error… well yes those things sometimes happen, especially when you dual boot and are a Linux noob 🤷

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/11/11/inexpensive-ampcom-8-port-2-5gbe-managed-switch-with-10gbe-spf-cage/

I have one of these but haven’t gotten around to test it properly. One thing to keep in mind is that the 10gbe SPF+ transivers often produce a lot of heat, which can be problematic in a passive cooled router like that.

They also have a lot of example pictures from real bikes under the “Assembly” menu option.

Oh, why close lemmini?

Yes, but at AirBnB you have cleaning charge scams and hidden cameras in the bedroom. Pick your posion I guess 🤷

Might be a Flatpak issue if you installed Steam that way.

Apparently Android 16 improved desktop experience a lot by back porting some of the Samsug Dex features.

The FP5 SoC is a industrial IoT chip, so there is actually longer term support from Qualcomm which is IMHO better for Linux use.

Impossible to say unless you want to do it yourself 😅

The basic Linux kernel patches will be in the next release, and then it depends on when the mobile Linux distros upgrade the kernel.

But I think entusiasm for the FP6 is relatively low in the mobile Linux space, as they removed usb3 and display out from the hardware. I suspect the FP5 will remain the best supported one.

I think ypu are mixing things up. Ubuntu Touch is indeed halium based and thus uses Android kernel versions and device drivers, which makes it realatively easy to port but comes with the similar update issues as Android.

On top of that OS there is the Waydroid app that boots a LinageOS in a container and allows you to run Android apps.

The devices overview doesn’t go into so much detail: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp4/

Probably best to ask on the UT forums directly.

Sounds like one of these “up to” scams by cable ISPs. With cable internet you are sharing a connection and it is often oversubscribed.

On a 500/500 you should in theory get 500 both ways the same time, but cheap routers or *BSD based ones with singlethread networking often struggle to reach these values in a speed test as the single speed test connection overloads the single cpu core.

Yeah, people complain about some Windows games not working, but it easily blows any console out of the water.

Maybe just a hint to get you thinking out of the box, but cat doors really don’t need to be at ground level. They will happily climb somewhere to get in and out.

The shellac and beeswax sounds indeed interesting for various puposes. I knew a similar technique for water-proofing fabic with dissolved silicone, but it is hard to use that to fix leaks in place after installation and is also obviously not very environmentally friendly.

Raddle.me and lobste.rs are non-federated alternatives.

Lol, confidently saying stuff you obviously have no idea about and just believing Signal’s “trust me bro” nonsense. Have fun using that honeypot.

(Those “security researchers” you are referring to have no access to the Signal infrastructure and usually only look at the cryptographic algorithms used by Signal, which are indeed good and used by other systems as well these days).

A timing attack is extremely realistic when you control one of the end devices which is a common scenario if a person gets arrested or their device compromised. This way you can then identify who the contacts are and with the phone number you can easily get the real name and movement patterns.

This is like the ideal setup for law inforcement, and it is well documented that honeypot “encrypted” messengers have been set up for similar purposes before. Signal was probably not explicitly set up for that, but the FBI for sure has an internal informant that could run those timing attacts.

There are some mitigations in place, yes, but Sealed Sender on a centralized platform is snake-oil as someone with server access can easily do a timing attack and discover who communicated with whom.

If you are even remotely involved in any activist type of things, you certainly don’t want this US government honeypot have your phone-number and device id.