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Cake day: December 15th, 2023

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  • For me, the plasma 6 implementation misses nothing. Multiple monitors work with no issues, and every program I could run works with no issues.

    My main problem is that none of the tiling wayland compositors ( hyprland for example ) work well with multiple monitors. My usecase is to keepcmy laptop’s monitor in clamshell mode and just use the external one, but I tend to if I leave for a long time to turn off the monitor since plasma can’t turn it off the output for powersaving by itself for weird reasons and plasma 6 kwin will corectly start up on the monitor if I turn it on.

    Compositors like hyprland for soke reason won’t and will ontly show blank screen and not even allow me to change to another tty, effectively freezing my system.

    But I got used to the way plasma works, made it work similary to a tiling wm for the virtual desktops and placing speficifc windows in specific virtual desktop and stuff like that, so I get the benefits of a good stacking (floating) wayland compositor with robust virtual desktops support.







  • I honestly only know of a windows one called simplewall.

    I used to use it to outright block windows telemetry, microsoft services, apps, …

    It also helped me to save a lot of bandwith in regards to windows and all the stuff that comes preinstalked with it.

    I havent searched for one for linux, mostly because 90% of apps I run are cli tools that don’t require internet connection, but I’m sure there is probably one that exists.


  • To keep your system secure no matter what, you open up only the ports you absolutely need.

    People will always make a mistake while configuring software, a firewall is there to make sure that error is caught. With more advanced firewall’ you can even make sure only certain app’s have access to the internet to make sure only what you absolutely need toconnect to the internet does.

    In general it’s for security, but can also be privacy related depending on how deep you want to get into it.

    EDIT: It isnt about not trusting other devices on your netork,or software you run, or whether you are runni g a server. It’s about general security of your system.