Any Linux distro will work great at its core for programming, so it really boils down to your workflow. if you do all your coding from the command line, you’ll probably want a lighter weight distro. However, if you’re a fan of GUI programming environments you would probably be happier with a distro like Pop!_OS, which has a really well integrated window tiling system as well as a more traditional desktop environment
Smart watches are tricky for me. I like to have my fitness tracked and graphed, but I also love the feeling of a premium watch. Right now I wear a Apple Water Edition, which feels extremely premium, but I have the sensors taped over since I don’t trust its proprietary software, and don’t even use an iPhone regularly.
Contrarily, I’d love to wear a FOSS smart watch to track my fitness, but I’d then lose out on the quality feeling of a nice watch.
Its a tricky balance, and I hope at some point in the future a company builds a premium smart watch running a well polished FOSS OS
Thats the other thing. Right now I use Matrix as my primary chat program, mainly for this reason. Even if Signal released all of their source code for the next year, at the end of that year, they could simply revoke the source code, and force you to either continue using their service, or stop talking to your contacts.
Whenever I question Signal on Reddit, I get downvoted to hell.
In terms of privacy, I still vastly trust Signal over WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc. But they’ve been sketching me out more and more lately. First was them making Signal dependent on Google services. Then there was them threatening to sue projects that attempted to create forks of the project without said Google dependencies. Now it’s them not disclosing the source code for their server side software.
In their defense, the client is still mostly open source, but they need to stop acting like some savior for privacy when they are so hostile to open source.
I agree, but I also think there’s still a place for heavier vehicles. Like, for day to day commuting, there’s no reason you need that much weight to move a single person, but when I’m going anywhere above 50MPH, I’d much rather have some weight to the car for sake of safety. Millions of people who live in cities could probably do just fine with a bike or other smaller vehicle, but there are just as many people who wouldn’t be in the position to safely drive a lighter vehicle.
As a general rule, try not to post side profiles of keys on the internet. It makes it very easy for someone to create dummy keys that can unlock your stuff.