You do have a point—Linux does not warn users against running superuser commands constantly and naggingly. Also not the beginner-friendly distros like Zorin, Mint and Ubuntu (as far as I know).

To me that’s fine, because I know not to just run any command, but my grandma who gets an email from a trustworthy-sounding person telling them to run “sudo install this keyboard logger and Rustdesk scripted installer” will not know better.

So then that begs the question, given you seem to know something about it: how should this be addressed? (I assume you know something about this—I don’t even know what an UAC prompt is.)

On the other hand: How does Windows stop users from running the .exe file a trustworthy-sounding person emailed them? You could argue that’s easier to ask people to do than to open the terminal and write a command in there.

And rightly so! 😇

Hey, at least they got it to work! Progress has to start somewhere.

This was a nice read and the theme looks really nice. Great job on rewriting so much and improving the documentation.

Mmm, that is true. But honestly, the amount of carbonation I do get is enough, for me. Just enough to make it taste a bit fancier.

My Sodastream has saved me a lot of money—with some cheap syrups I just make very inexpensive nice drinks. Especially considering I got mine second-hand and refill it through a local guy who fills the cylinders for half the price. I suppose I could save even more money if I figure out how to refill the cylinders myself.

I don’t know, but if it supports VIA / QMK then yes! You can ask around on the OpenRGB Discord for help. (And no, in fact, I’m not sure what these things mean 🙈)

(Of course, being able to do this stuff in the first place is a testament to the freedom Linux provides.)

Oof, I feel you on the video call thing. I use a semi-complicated setup of switching between (7.1 surround) speakers and headphones, plugged into two separate sound cards, too… And a Zoom recorder connected with USB for sound, and Droidcam for a webcam. So many possible points of failure. I had it all working during COVID, but when I have to video call now, I just install the needed app and use my phone 🙈

Oh… Well, honestly, that might make for a nicer sound?

@vikingtons@lemmy.world Yes—in fact, that was one of the main requirements I had when looking for one! Just flashed it with Colorhoster to be able to use it with OpenRGB, and now I have this really nice music equalizer working on it. I really enjoy that 😁

@vikingtons@lemmy.world Oh, yeah, forgot to mention that! I edited the post to say—it’s a V5 Max, so made from plastic instead of aluminum. But that can help with the sound, as I’ve heard, and I must say I do like the sound, so far.

Been watching a bunch of Hipyo videos, lately 🙈

I actually use my scroll lock and print screen keys, so I made fn+the arrow keys act like home, end, page up and page down… Kind of miss my old TKL keyboard, but I can learn new things!

Man, this is still going, huh.