Whatsapps local backup are a bit of a pain because the way the round robin databases work. I tried it with nextcloud but because the file names stay the same it keeps conflicting. But for a one time trannsfer the local backups are fine. I just zip the whole com.whatsapp folder copy it over and extract it on the new device.
I can understand someone wanting to give Qubes OS a go. Even when they are new, As qubes is super unique and actually really cool. But it being so unique can defiantly come with many challenges.
To get too know the true spec you need special measuring devices. No software can tell you the true spec without knowing the actual inside of the cable. You can do a few test to get a rough estimate though. But that means testing all the capabilities and see what it does. Could be using the cables way out of spec that way however.
Maybe you are 🫣 Jk, I do think hyprland is a nice WM. But man… The drama around it.
A good thing to setup are VLANS. I would at minimum creatie a VLAN for untrested devices like iot stuff.
You can setup a firewall so you can access the insecure devices but they cant access your trusted network them self.
This gives a good base to expand on.
Often you can just send them a email about the behavior, Using their generic contact info.
You could also do this with a single device and a VM. Add a network bridge on the host connect both the host and a openwrt VM to it. And pass on the actual interface to the VM.
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If you have good backups of the phone to say something like nextcloud or a other cloud service. Wipe the phone clean before travel. Then just give them the pin. Nothing to see at all. Then pull down a backup once passed the border control.
Funny you say that.I install both from time to time. And find windows mutch more a hassel to install.
When you want a local account install with windows you first have to prep the whole ISO inject a unattended.XML file before install. Sometimes that’s not enough and windows will force choose the edition requiring even more work on the ISO preparation. Linux you boot and click true to non invasive menu and it just installs.
Yes their are ways to open cmd and get a local account that way, but not all work anymore and Microsoft is slowly shutting that door.
Kodi with the jellycon add-on, does require a jellyfin setup though.
If you dont mind live TV that is. While possible on kodi it is a bit more work.
I got a Minis forum S100 PC stick. It does work well with kodi. But! It can be a load of work to get going. This device is using a UFS storage chip. So not all distros will install on it by default and require some tweaks to load kernel modules at boot. I use the device with alpine Linux and kodi GBM on top (libreelec doesnt see the storage device).
Also keep a eye out for what the CPU supports on these lower end chips. Not all of them have great hardware decoding support.
The colored logo I think? Google hat the letters also colored for a long time.
Not really… “Education” and real world are vastly different. Getting accustomed to a mailing list other maintainers etc is not something you learn with your education.
And leaving bugs for hardware no one has touched in ages is not too big of a deal. And a nice gateway for new comers who actually want to learn it instead of trow a LLM at it.
Honestly 15+ year old bugs are also left in the linux kernel for people to pick up, Learn from and get deeper in kernel development. They know they can easily find them with a LLM but choose not to. Policy’s are changing due to the mass influx of these “bug” fixes.
Interesting. I am planning to get one my self though. But I will be installing grapheneos on it straight away.
If you really want to get in to media sharing. I think it is a good idea to learn at least some of the basics about Linux and docker (with compose). It will make your life a load easier. Forget about the client for just a bit. Most of the time that’s just a app you install and login to. But without the server side done. It is fairly useless.
If you truly wish to not look in to that. While I am not a fan of doing it that way… You can setup a read only smb share with the media files and let people access it over a VPN.
The 3 basic things I would get started with is Linux. Docker with compose and a VPN. VPN can be tied in using docker. Look at wg-easy for that.
I wouldn’t mess with any of the other things you mentioned yet. Also if you need help with any of those things I mentioned. Feel free to ask for help with it. Their is a great community willing to help.
Look in the Arr stack and combine it with jellyfin. It is fairly easy to setup with docker.
Well I think you have to look in to what tor is and how it works a bit more in that case.
You can access the clearnet from tor. But a service running on tor is a hidden service. Usually only accessible over tor. Unless you mirror the service on the clear web. Which defeats the purpose of using tor anyway in your case.
I think their are many great options. But I do think a few shut be excluded at least in the beginning. Anything arch based I would not recommend you start on, Yes that includes CachyOS. They are great distros dont get me wrong. Also their is NixOS. And again a amazing distro but not something too start on. It is fundamentally so different then other distros it can be harder to fix issues if you are new.
Instead of giving you a “pick this” distro I will recommend you some flavors 😋. Most Ubuntu based distros are a good start as well as Fedora. Loads and loads of info online.
Maybe a odd choice but if I hat to recommend 1 distro. It is Opensuse Tumbleweed. She isn’t the faster but she is a solid rolling release (so very updated) Distribution.