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As a long time Graphene OS user, I can tell you they don't. Almost no banks or credit card companies have a decent website even, let alone one that can replace thier apps. So far I…

It is just for thier wearables.

I find that both fail to find matches on anything long tail, but with Google/Bing/DDG I quickly start getting results that don't follow my search criteria. Probably one of the more…

Also, every company I've ever worked at, including ones producing regulated products like medical or home appliances, uses the beuracracy to take the stance of "Considered Risk". R…

BOMs are used when they're legally required or if the company has a sufficiently mature cyber security stance, but those both tend to focus mostly on shipped client code versus ser…

TPM locking is for ensuring the disk isn't removed from your machine. It's technically possible that someone could tap the hardware while the disk is still in your machine, but oth…

I think it basically died for general consumers because of the Canonical-only licensed software lock in, and consequent limited software support. Snaps are hard coded to only be ab…

It's worth noting that at least EU vs US, most the the better quality EVs are not available. Almost all the long range and more efficient EVs are Chinese-made and are not available…

I try to keep a list somewhere, but I only pick one or two that are likely to be most useful and try to remember them until they're such a normal part of my workflow I don't have t…

I struggle with this all the time. It's easy to start with some shell commands, and nothing beats the direct terminal running nature of a shell script. But at some point you get to…

You can install whatever shell you want on your system, and there are tons of better alternatives out there. Where it's actually sticky is in the lowest-common-denominator cases, w…

One of the peer comments alludes to this and mentions that it's bash only. Doesn't work in zsh by default apparently.

It depends too on whether you use shellcheck as a primary tool or not. I prefer to have no shellcheck errors/warnings by default so when they do appear it's very obvious. But havin…

If you're using `set -e` you almost always want a trap on ERR to print where you suddenly exited from your program. Otherwise there's no way to tell. Also worth mentioning, but not…

For me I find I never have any reason to jump between directories based on frecency. Like ever. If I'm jumping between a few directories they're almost always named very similarly …

`set -e` is almost never what you want in your scripts. It means "silently exit immediately if there are any u handled non-zero exit codes". The thing that trips most people up on …

I did the same, starting with Ergo Mode in Emacs many years ago, and ending up today with a programmable split keyboard with those keys as arrows on a layer. For when I'm on a lapt…

I have to say up front, that I think GrapheneOS in its most locked down mode needs to exist. There are important audiences for which most nation state actors and their related corp…

All the immutable system solutions out there pretty much all make your rootfs immutable, but leave your home folder and system config folders (i.e. /var and /etc) as mutable. It's …

sysexts are indeed a very interesting feature, though it really only complements some other whole-system solution since it can only affect files under a non-root folder location. I…

Ironically the first implementation of ostree required an HTTPS server to serve the ostree commits, allowing a much smaller subset of what's needed to be transferred. However that …

That is pretty obviously how it started, and for the very reasons you describe. But there have been some other benefits that have come out of going down this alternate path as well…

CoreOS is in a weird space. It's been desperately playing catch up with it's sibling products for the last few years, but it also is where a lot of the Fedora/RHEL developers in th…

In fact, if you want to use something like Nix on a UniversalBlue system, you have to spin your own. The "hotfix" and chattr solutions of pre-composefs don't work anymore. Anything…

Basically you need a server, which you host, pay someone else to host for you, or you join am existing server someone else hosts. Then you find a client. There are a ton of clients…