Qutebrowser is small in market share but not in resource use.

I was scared to move the cloud for this reason. I was used to running to the server room and the KVM if things went south. If that was frozen, usually unplugging the server physically from the switch would get it calm down.

Now Amazon supports a direct console interface like KVM and you can virtually unplug virtual servers from their virtual servers too.

I started to DBAN (wipe) my internal drive once instead of an attached drive. That was the last time I ran DBAN on a machine with any drives of value plugged in.

Yes. I used to use Knoppix. It was cutting edge for the time. Similar in concept to immutable distros today that allow you have some mutable data storage.

I agree the question here is not so much which distro but which browser.

Todays low-end laptops often come with 8 GB of RAM. Even common phones have more than 2 GB of RAM.

My town’s subreddit just started a policy to disallow links to X for similar reasons.

There is a movement to avoid the platform.

Spent hours tracking down a test failure process and introduced a new bug in the process.

ANBERNIC RG40XX H with Knulli is nice too.

Did see that recently LA kept sending out orders to evacuate and didn’t know the cause or how to stop them?

120 MB? That’s more than a ZipDisk!

I knew I attended a well-funded modern college because all the computers had been upgraded with ZipDrives.

You mean the cup holder?

Right, it was an example of a pattern. In that case, -p could be used.

Yeah, not sure how I missed this one!

I like batcat aka bat, but nominate the humble ‘cat’ instead.

Want to copy a disk image to a device? You can use cat for that: cat file.iso>/dev/sdf

What to copy local stdout over ssh? Use cat.

ls -l | ssh myhost 'cat >out.txt'

That’s simple and surprisingly powerful.

For some cases I use “|| true”.

The idiom accepts that the preceding command might fail, and that’s OK.

For example, a script where mkdir creates a directory that might already exist.

Nginx has a number of compile-time optional features and they aren’t all enabled in the pre-built packages. For example, the ability to echo back HTTP requests for debugging.

Yes, Fish excels at being an interactive shell.

First time seeing this? Man, that’s fwupd.

I use QGIS, which needs to stay in sync with a number of Python packages and plugins. I have thought of using Nix for that, but am not sure if everything I need is packaged for Nix.

I’m using Conda now, a Python package member which seems more popular for this niche need.

I agree. Flatpak could be used to further lockdown what Firefox can do, but it has so much features and complexity that I also expect it to be difficult to successfully lockdown.

I would either start with a product that explicitly has just the features a web-kiosk needs or use something based on ChromeOS, which explicitly has a set of enterprise policies that are there to allow admins to lock down a fleet of Chromebooks as they need.

This is based on the security principle that a system is far more secure if you explicitly allow what you need vs trying to explicitly block or disable all the things you don’t want.

Over time, the features you need to allow your web kiosk needs maybe somewhat static and in your control, while all the features you need to disable in Firefox could be constantly evolving and put of your control if you are keeping Firefox up to date.