I’ve paid for Spotify for years and it is, without a doubt, getting shittier. They removed the integrated google maps car mode without a real replacement. They push podcasts, which most users do not care about, heavily now, despite having poor support for them UX-wise. They keep moving UI elements around without purpose. I’ve read they also have an exploitative revenue model for musicians on the service, but haven’t confirmed that bit myself.

DDG is abysmal for technical subjects such as programming. When searching for anything mildly specific in that arena, I nearly always need to re-search on a different engine to find anything useful

Brand recs? The ones I have aren’t great

Don’t have the time to get into a grammar debate. Just letting you know why you’re being downvoted since no one else told you why your statement is incorrect

‘All precautions’ is plural, so you have to use ‘are’. Using ‘is’ is in no way correct there; the ‘deterrents’ bit has nothing to do with it

hey, one of the greatest shows ever made

I recently switched from Joplin to Obsidian for different reasons. I’d prefer something FOSS, but so far I’ve been happy with the transition. Since it works with plain markdown files, it would fit your use case

Running fewer commands as root is more significant risk reduction than having an extra user. I won’t be replying further since I’m simply repeating what others have already said. If you sincerely don’t understand, I suggest doing additional research on your own.

You seem to be looking at the issue in black and white. Any reduction in root access is beneficial. Using sudo with password cache lasting an hour is still preferable to signing in as root. As many people have said, it’s about minimizing attack surface

None of us can tell you the right approach for your specific system and use-case. People are simply pointing out that what you stated you’re doing is insecure and not recommended

Are you asking why it’s more secure to surface a few commands without password rather than all of them…?

Interesting idea, but it sounds computationally expensive which could pose problems. Smaller, hardware-restricted servers would be less viable

Without knowing what you were banned for, I have no idea if the same will happen on lemmy.world or not. I will say that lemmy, by design, has space for everyone. If an instance doesn’t align with the kind of content you like to post, leave and find one that does

Mind if I check it out as well? I’m considering switching to NixOS

Being a bit pedantic, but if it leads to the desired UX I wouldn’t call it over-engineering

This reeks of sponsorship. The expansions isn’t even out yet