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[TommyTran732]

I like polar bears.

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[youdontneedtoknow22]

I'm still not really convinced of labeling Fedora as a beginner friendly distro, while the community itself describes it as a distro for developers. And people can easily notice that they're not targeting beginners with their bleading edge distro, their vanilla gnome and no non-free software up until Fedora 34/35. It's just not their philosophy.
I really think you should think again about what distro should you recommend as beginner friendly.

[TommyTran732]

I'm still not really convinced of labeling Fedora as a beginner friendly distro, while the community itself describes it as a distro for developers. And people can easily notice that they're not targeting beginners with their bleading edge distro, their vanilla gnome and no non-free software up until Fedora 34/35. It's just not their philosophy.
I really think you should think again about what distro should you recommend as beginner friendly.

What would you recommend then?
Also the good thing about Fedora is that they stay close to upstream, so they can get updates really, really fast. I am not keen on distros with mostly frozen packages, especially on desktop

[jonaharagon]

Obviously this needs to not be a YouTube iFrame.

[dngray]

I don't think there's any privacy issue here. We should not use specific invidious instances as they tend to be unstable. https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/341

Using invidious doesn't "hide your IP from Google" anyway, as there are still requests to googlevideo.com, unless you use &local=true which not all Invidio instances support.

Users do have the options of using something like yt2invidio

[TommyTran732]

I agree with dngray here. I don't see how YouTube iframes are a problem at all.

[jonaharagon]

🤔 You don't see how automatically connecting people to youtube.com is a problem? Privacy Guides does not make any third-party requests.

[jonaharagon]

What we've done in the past is just hyperlink an image of the video thumbnail to invidious.

[Dyrimon]

I do not like the page cluttered with YouTube iframes. Also its a third party script which shouldn't be loaded every time you load the page (many people like me block third party scripts in uBlock Origin. A hyperlink to Invidious or the YouTube video should be enough.

[dngray]

What we've done in the past is just hyperlink an image of the video thumbnail to invidious.

There's no reason we couldn't do that actually.

[dngray]

@ph00lt0 about what you mentioned #491 (comment)

What if we did something like https://stackoverflow.com/a/61630345 instead. The poster says that is GDPR compliant.

The main reason I'm not too happy with static thumbnails, is they kinda suck for mobile, can't resize etc.

[dngray]

if we're not happy with the no-cookie solution, maybe we could self host a player and use the data API: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24637811

If you really want to get around all these methods and include video without any sort of iframe, then your best bet might be creating an HTML5 video player/app that can connect to the Youtube Data API (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/)

@jonaharagon this would mean the only connection would be to googlevideo.com which is what invidious does basically.

[dngray]

Hmm seems using the iframe is the preferred way https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12549252/should-i-use-object-or-iframe-for-loading-a-video

[ph00lt0]

Under GDPR are actually not allowed to do this, without permission of visitor because you place tracking cookies without consent.

[Tungsten842]

I think repology should be cited, considering that it can be used to rank distros by updated packages percentage. In particular when Fedora is claimed to be a very updated distro or in other places.
https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/pnewest
https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

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[dngray]

Going to remove mention of grsecurity, it's not free, you need a subscription. I'm not really sure that it is relevant these days.

[dngray]

On systems where pam_faillock is not available, consider using pam_tally2 instead.

Both of those are subscriber links so I'll try find alternatives.

[dngray]

If you are using openSUSE, your /boot partition should be encrypted by default should you enable drive encryption.

I'm not sure this is the case. https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Encrypted_root_file_system

I have completed encrypted boot on Archlinux with GRUB, and let me tell you that it's not a pleasant experience. Your boot time will go to minutes. It also only supports LUKS1.

A guide for converting a normal /boot partition into an encrypted one on Fedora Workstation (not Silverblue!) can be found here.

The other reason I'm reluctant to mention this is, that seems to be for Fedora 33, and this is going to become dated.

[dngray]

@TommyTran732 @dngray I dont know if this would be worthy addition to Linux Page but many people have misconception that full disk encryption will completely erase all data stored in disk and protect against Forensic recovery of data but it seems certain old data may be recovered and might help attackers determine how much and where on the partition data was written.

We should mention there that users should not use DBAN on SSDs or NVMe disks, and this should only be for magnetic hard drivies. For SSDs/NVMes Secure ATA command should be issued.

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