My first laptop i put linux on had a realtek chipset, back in 2016. It never fully worked, and actually made me switch back to windows for a short time. Now I use an Alpha external wifi antenna on my desktop and it just works

Hamas was hiding between his ass and the chair guys, this was just Israel defending itself

/s if its not clear btw

Its funny how you can tell immediately whether any source is biased or not based on the words they use to describe “Israel’s war”… Instead of calling it what we all know it to be - genocide.

Abd the world isnt just apalled at “Israel’s conduct”, we’re appalled at the fact that they are literally doing ethnic cleansing, amongst numerous other war crimes.

Good on Slovenia though, as well as all other countries taking a stand against the genocider’s sports/green/music(?) washing

Yes

Heres my ~/.bin directory:

https://github.com/promitheas17j/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_bin

Hopefully thats what youre asking for.

My favourite ones are:

• bspwm-minimise.sh and bspwm-restore.sh which allow me to have window minimisation functionality in bspwm, which to my knowledge doesn’t exist natively
• check_last_update.sh which I have in my .zshrc and gives me a count of packages available to update with some basic colouring, as well as if I have a kernel mismatch and need to restart

One that Im still working on but will for sure be my favourite once its done is parse_keybinds.sh and keybind_cheatsheet.sh, which go through some of the software I have and parse their config files to extract all the keybinds into a file with a specific format. The latter script then launches a rofi menu where I can fuzzy search keybinds based on software name and what I want to do but cant remember the binding for. So far Ive got sxhkd and lf, but I consider it a work in progress because I want to also parse neovim bindings, but sxhkd and lf are single file configs while neovim has bindings in multiple files spread across multiple subdirectories in its config directory.

This is so necessary and overdue, lets be honest. I hope it succeeds

Yeap, and based on the fact that i spoke with 3 different people, I imagine the first 2 escalated to their supervisors, or people with more ability to actually do something other thab abswer basic questions

Thats what i was thinking, and exactly why i mentioned gmails alias system to them

Yea, I was absolutely expecting the reply to be “yea ok well send it to our team” or “well consider it”, but they actually listened and implemented it which is great.

Check out the NoThanks app! I believe its creator is Palestinian

This seems like a good thing. As they state, instead of just using OSS they’ll contribute back to existing projects and likely release some of their own stuff.

Hopefully they stick to it

I might have used mailcow on a vps I had for a short time for a project I was hosting on it. Not sure though, I can’t remember. I’d much rather go with something simple that I don’t need to micromanage, or that I don’t need to worry that I’ve misconfigured hence won’t be receiving mail, so when the time comes I’ll probably be looking for solutions like the docker mailserver I linked to above, or similar.

Yeap exactly, I just replied to your other comment with basically this :D

I’d rather have something simple that works for now, and eventually when I am able to self-host my own email, I can look into and spend the effort securing everything.

The way I understand it from that video and the short time I’ve had to look this up, is that you need to handle the E2EE yourself.

Checking them out now :)

Hmmm, just watched this video: https://piped.wireway.ch/watch?v=aat1q9VLDjk and if what is mentioned in it is true, its concerning, especially if they store emails on their server in plaintext, and it sometimes takes a long time for emails to arrive.

I considered it, and it looks really good, but the free plan only allows for 1GB storage. I see at the bottom of this page: https://disroot.org/services/email that they do offer paid storage increases, but I don’t see if thats the monthly, annual, or lifetime charge. Do you know?

How would I try to track the issue down given I don’t exactly know when the issue will appear? Is there a way to set something like a listener on the discord process and just wait for it to happen and see what else happens around that time?

I dont believe its a drive failure after checking. Its a pretty new NVMe drive:

$ sudo smartctl -t short /dev/nvme0n1p3
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.17.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Self-test has begun (NSID 0x1)
Use smartctl -X to abort test

$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/nvme0n1p3
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.17.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Also with nvme-cli:

$ sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0n1
Smart Log for NVME device:nvme0n1 namespace-id:ffffffff
critical_warning			: 0 <<<<======================= Seems good!
temperature				: 45 °C (318 K, 113 °F)
available_spare				: 100%
available_spare_threshold		: 10%
percentage_used				: 1%
endurance group critical warning summary: 0
Data Units Read				: 8034527 (4.11 TB)
Data Units Written			: 70423529 (36.06 TB)
host_read_commands			: 58265590
host_write_commands			: 901798802
controller_busy_time			: 10039
power_cycles				: 340
power_on_hours				: 1500
unsafe_shutdowns			: 63
media_errors				: 0
num_err_log_entries			: 0
Warning Temperature Time		: 0
Critical Composite Temperature Time	: 0
Temperature Sensor 1			: 45 °C (318 K, 113 °F)
Temperature Sensor 2			: 48 °C (321 K, 118 °F)
Thermal Management T1 Trans Count	: 0
Thermal Management T2 Trans Count	: 0
Thermal Management T1 Total Time	: 0
Thermal Management T2 Total Time	: 0

As for flatpacks, I’d like to avoid such install methods if possible, at least for now. Whats weird is I don’t think I’ve come across anyone else with this issue, so I doubt its something wrong in general with the packagement process.

$ ls -lh /opt
total 36K
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app1
drwx--x--x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 15 16:43 containerd
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 discord
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app2
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 25  2025 app3
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app4
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 app5
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Mar 20  2025 texlive
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun  4 00:59 app6

$ ls -lh /opt/discord
total 216M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164K Nov 25 00:11 chrome_100_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254K Nov 25 00:11 chrome_200_percent.pak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5M Nov 25 00:11 chrome_crashpad_handler
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root  15K Nov 25 00:11 chrome-sandbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 182M Nov 25 00:11 Discord
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  299 Nov 25 00:11 discord.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.9K Nov 25 00:11 discord.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10M Nov 25 00:11 icudtl.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247K Nov 25 00:11 libEGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.9M Nov 25 00:11 libffmpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2M Nov 25 00:11 libGLESv2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6M Nov 25 00:11 libvk_swiftshader.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600K Nov 25 00:11 libvulkan.so.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 locales
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.8M Nov 25 00:11 resources.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333K Nov 25 00:11 snapshot_blob.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 702K Nov 25 00:11 v8_context_snapshot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  107 Nov 25 00:11 vk_swiftshader_icd.json

As for the drive, my root partition is on an NVME drive which should be fine considering its not even 3 years old.

What info does this give you? As someone more experienced, what jumps out at you when looking at this (trying to improve my knowledge while troubleshooting - 2 for the price of 1 xD)