didn't know they had this feature all the time😳

Wow... thanks for this detailed info & guide! I'll probably use the HP laptop with Mint Cinnamon, cause I don't like that old retro look of xfce. A friend told me to try Lubuntu too, so let's see.

I didn't know about that Chrome/ Firefox performance "issue" on old laptops, so thank you! Isn't there a way to disable flatpak at all? Thought on my Manjaro I could disable it, so eventually there is an option there too. OnlyOffice and uBlock were my guesses too. I'll probably set up NextDNS and KDE Connect too.

thats why i formated the windows partitions on my laptop last week

for images, i use squoosh.app. it is a webapplication and not a desktop app. it can compress, convert & resize various image types. it is opensource and running offline (locally on your computer). github

I like to tell IT newbies in their first year apprentice that sudo rm -fr / removes the french language from the root, since in Swiss Windows, french comes as second keyboard layout and sometimes you accidentally switch and nobody likes it.

Somethimes their first linux is a VM, lucky them, but not always:)

RIP to people who never shutdown or restart their PCs

there aren't.

& most people don't even know what/ who C418 is...

You can't really prevent a brute force attack. Even if you prevent it from one IP or so, you can still do "distributed" brute force attacks.

Also only allowing one password per 5 seconds or so per IP will not work if you have lots of users and they are at work and have the same IP.

Glad you like it!

no, since it first checks if the password is correct. if it is, display error message. if it is corrent and the second time, accept the password (code not in screenshot) but if the password is wrong, it doesnt check if it is the first attempt.

i will never hear "alpha male" the same from now on.

but you are right!😂

If you want to self-host services, check out Yunohost. There you can install many different services like Vaultwarden as a password manager, Nextcloud for files, Blogging platforms, Mail services, ... You could use a Raspberry Pi as a server like i do. Otherwise, you could also use an old dekstop PC or some free VPS Best you can do with the domain is registering at cloudflare; there you have a lot of options to manage your domain.