Having a hard time replacing workflow from Windows/Google....Tasks, Calendars

Set up I've been used to:

Gmail, Google Tasks. Have Business Calendar 2 on my Android that lets me pull both events and tasks into the same list in agenda form (the best). In my side monitor for my desktop, I have the screen split into 2. Events and Tasks., Agenda layout. Works great.

But, I'm trying to follow good general privacy rules and disconnect from Google. I just signed up for tutanota and protonmail.

How can I keep sync with tasks and calendars and have a UI that's not bad? Seems the big hold up is finding something to sync Tasks

What's everyone's workflow on this?

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The phrase - 'If you are not paying, you are the product!!' - puts people off free and open source software.

As people become increasingly aware of the privacy implications of 'free' services like Google and Facebook, its common to see people repeat phrases like 'If you are not paying, you are the product!!'.

The problem with this statement is that

- it doesn't differentiate between 'free' as in beer and 'free' as in 'freedom'
- it assumes that paying for something is any kind of guarantee of privacy

Example - I was explaining to a colleague that I use Linux Mint on both my Macbook Pro and Desktop PC - his reaction was 'well you know if its free that means they are selling your data!'

Example 2 - some redditor was claiming that he was happier using some software which he literally knew was serving him adware and had hjacked his browser because he thought that made it more trustworthy as he knew how they were making money, over an open source alternative.

This is why I think the 'you are the product' phrase is damaging to FOSS.

Has anyone experienced this and whats the best response?

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How to find and fix Docker container vulnerabilities
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-find-and-fix-docker-container-vulnerabilities-in-2020/

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I want Linux in my HTPC, can it play HDR videos on my TV?

While I've been searching about it and the lack of found answers leads me to believe that it is not possible, still I needed to ask directly.

Is Linux compatible with HDR screens and can play HDR content in general (netflix, bluerays, youtube, etc)?

I still think it might/should be possible considering that Android is able to do it, but as I said, I can't find anything relevant about it.

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Partition mounted disk

When i installed my system i made 3 partitions, 1 for the system, 1 for swap and another one for my home directory, it's been some time now and i've been studying/using linux since then, lately i've been using a lot of software, compiling, etc.. the things is, i'm putting all this softwares in the /opt directory, which is the system partition and i'm running out of space, is there a way to partition my big home directory while still mounted ? i never had a situation i needed to think about that but anyways, all i know is that i can only use the sectors that haven't been touched, any tips on how to make this partitioning work?

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"Free as in speech, not as in beer" is out of touch with reality

Selling support, is not selling software, you are selling support.

Purchasing support, is not purchasing software, you are purchasing support.

When was the last time you **purchased** FOSS software? Not donated, purchased.

When you do *sudo packagemanager install x*, it never ever asks for money! So how is anybody selling software when everybody installs software through their package manager 99% of the time?! There is no distribution system that offers payments capabilities in the whole FOSS world.

In every way possible "free as in speech, not as in beer" it's a lie. Donating does not count!

Neither does selling CDs in 2020, which is beyond stupid.

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GTK website has been redesigned
https://gtk.org/

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I forgot how to solve problems, because I don't have them for a long time.

I'm not sure if this is a bad or a good thing for myself since I'm losing my practice at some situations but I'm pretty sure this is a great thing for end users. I used to deal with so many problems without searching on the internet, there was no need for that since my memory was still fresh after the last incident.

*Hmm, I cannot pass GRUB. I should try to edit the line with* `nomodeset`.

*I cannot reach to the system. I can try* `startx` *on tty to see what's happening.*

*Darn I lost GRUB after installing Windows over Linux. I should restore GRUB with a live USB. (Yes, I can even do that from memory.)*

*My trackpad's tap to click doesn't work? I should check that synaptics.conf file again.*

And on and on, those kind of things. I don't even want to talk about legacy Broadcom drivers.

Now when I look back and think about it, using Linux today as an end user is pretty much carefree. Young me came here for customizations and I stayed here for freedom and privacy. And it's getting better every day.

From my point of view as an end user to other end users; if you have doubts about Linux now it's the best time to break that chain (meanwhile Windows 7 is also dead).

Freedom is not faraway.

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[accessibility] GTK Roadmap and accessibility
https://blog.gtk.org/2020/02/17/gtk-hackfest-2020-roadmap-and-accessibility/

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why to follow Redhat?

Why all the Linux Distros Out There is Following Redhat linux in everything.

examples include:

1.Gnome Desktop which is pretty slow and heavy and bloated.

2.[systemd](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=systemd) instead of [Openrc](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=openrc) or even [runit](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=runit)

edit:when I said all i meant major distros.

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Have a good holiday

Good for the Linux team ♥️♥️♥️🐧

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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - February 21, 2020

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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open source book on TUIs/character graphics, "Hacking the Planet! with Notcurses"

what's up hax0rs? i'm the author of the [notcurses](https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses) library, which i've posted about here a few times in recent months. notcurses is proceeding swimmingly, with the 1.2.0 release on time 2020-02-17, but it was pointed out to me that documentation was...scattered.

​

i present the free (as in beer) and free (as in Apache2-licensed LaTeX source) book, "Hacking the Planet! with Notcurses: A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics". It's not done yet by any means, but there's already a lot of information in there. I'd like to hear any early feedback about the material and presentation, whether the outlined topics seem good coverage, whether the code examples I'm including are useful, etc. I'm putting several hours a day into this, so if it's garbage, please let me know.

[https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Hacking\_The\_Planet!\_with\_Notcurses](https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Hacking_The_Planet!_with_Notcurses)

direct link: [https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf](https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf)

​

Thanks! I'll be uploading new content on at least a daily basis.

​

as always, if this is considered grotesque self-promotion, please annihilate my post with my apologies

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Tech Tip: Setting up remote X11 over TCP to Xephyr

**Warning!** The instructions given here may decrease your systems' security and may make it more vulnerable. Use at your own risk.

I recently wanted to set up a remote [X.org / X11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server) connection to a Xephyr server, which is an X server that runs inside a window. I only found partial information in web searches, so I wanted to provide a top-to-bottom guide for accomplishing this task.

The [Xephyr man page](https://linux.die.net/man/1/xephyr) omits the info in [Xnest's man page](https://linux.die.net/man/1/xnest) and that in [the "Xserver" man page](https://linux.die.net/man/1/xserver). Xephyr supports most of the flags in all of them.

To facilitate customisation, we will declare and use the following shell constants:

xephyr_port="1"
remote_xephyr_ip_host="192.168.1.100"

You may need to stop the firewalls on both client and server using something like:

sudo systemctl stop firewalld.service

Or the [stop-iptables noscript](https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/blob/e9de56aa212706f5c1fc3906c2f0b92065851965/shlomif-settings/home-bin-executables/bin/stop-iptables).

Now start Xephyr on the local desktop:

Xephyr -listen tcp -listen unix -listen local -screen 1024x768 :"$xephyr_port"

Then connect to it and use `xhost`:

# On the X server
export DISPLAY=":$xephyr_port"
xterm &
xhost +

Now you should be able to connect to the Xephyr X server from the remote box:

# On the remote machine
export DISPLAY="$remote_xephyr_ip_host":"$xephyr_port"
xterm &
# Or a different window manager.
starticewm

## Licence

Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2020.

You can reuse this entry under [the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) licence, or at your option any later version of it. See the [instructions](http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/copyrights/#cc_by_intr) on how to comply with it.

Whatever code given here is provided under the [MIT / Expat licence](https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license).

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This week in KDE: Plasma bug-fixing and Samba bug-squashing
https://pointieststick.com/2020/02/15/this-week-in-kde-plasma-bug-fixing-and-samba-bug-squashing/

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Discord is not an acceptable choice for Free Software projects
https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/

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Waterfox has joined System1
https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/

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A review of the /e/ phone and related services
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200217#ephone

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Should I switch to Ubuntu?

I've been a fedora user for quite awhile and I liked the distro but I've seen the amount of community support that Ubuntu has and wanted to ask.

Should I switch?

I mean I've been perfectly fine with fedora but the amount I had to go on my own to fix issues/configure stuff had made me quite a bit annoyed because the fact there wasn't an article/tutorial for those while Ubuntu had plenty of 'em
Just wanted to ask because I don't wanna deal with distro hopping.

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CoreOS Container Linux Will No Longer Be Supported After May 26, 2020 - 9to5Linux
https://9to5linux.com/coreos-container-linux-end-of-life-may-26-2020

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Group high_five

I don't care what software you run.


I don't care the version of the software you run.


I don't care what DE you use. Heck, I don't even care what hardware you run!


All I care is that you, yes, you run Linux!



Let's all have fun with/tweak/work/develop Linux, and stop fighting about what's better, KDE or GNOME, GTK+ or Qt, etc etc :)



Group high five!

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