And DEAUTH attacks. Because they’re all dumb wifi cameras. You can keep them jammed and destroy them while they can’t upload footage.

DEAUTH for a couple days and shoot the lens with a laser. They’ll never figure it out.

Most of them you can disable with DEAUTHs. Wifi cameras are a stupid concept.

Batteries are a consumable. Think of them like tires. After a certain number or cycles or age they should be replaced.

Yup. Manjaro is infamous. Mint is dolled up ubuntu by volunteers

https://stoat.chat/updates/web-0013

That’s the last entry in their website changelog. It’s from October, the previous posts don’t really detail changes to code. I can’t find even a roadmap to getting cryptography implemented.

They got hacked a couple times before that though it may not be widely published. Mint originally existed as an “easier” and prettier unbuntu run by volenteers. They would be extremely unlikely to figure out they had been compromised by an APT. And before you say it, look up the 2016 hack, it wasn’t an APT.

In the past year all they’ve really done is rename. It’s still pre-alpha and seems like they’re all front end devs

There isn’t any discord replacement, pick your favorite few. Simplex does eat battery on mobile if you let it which has kept me on signal

Jitsi is for video conference specificallly. Mumble is voice only, very mature and still maintained

Beta means bug testing a finished product. They’re still solidly pre-alpha

Yup. Combine more than one for now. There is no real alternative here.

TO BUY HARDWARE WITH A 3 YEAR LIFESPAN. THREE YEARS. 3.

Jitsi, simplex, mumble, matrix, lemmy.

I can’t knock debian but i think about it like centos, doesn’t come to mind thinking desktop / end user

The community is the blind leading the blind. You guys are kinda legendary with manjaro users. No joke, mint forums are legend. Like the opposite of the arch wiki.

This is the first sane comment that understands OS is determined by use case. All the skids pushing mint are depressing.

Ask the person questions and find out what they want to do with the machine. This is very much the kind of question teenagers ask and confidently answer like what programming language is best.

Mint is not run by professionals. It has been pwnd more than once. It’s pretty, slightly better run than manjaro and has no reason to exist when ubuntu, fedora and suse exist.

Please stop pointing to mint as a starting place. Every level user is going to get a more secure and reliable experience avoiding mint.

Ubuntu, fedora, suse and spins of those 3. I wouldn’t put a normal user on anything else without extenuating circumstances.

I’ve watched stoat since riot came out publicly. It’s hopeless.

If matrix bothers you at a protocol level then you’re looking for simplex but usually it’s the old mobile clients people hate.

Yes. if that matters to you https://simplex.chat/ or cwtch