Then you are guilty of the same thing. The above is a retort to the idea that my side has any relation to authoritarian thinking. It’s not based on my assumptions around your reasoning, but literally a point you just tried to make.

There are legitimate reasons to give a creature the opportunity to learn to fend for itself and as such expose it to the risks of doing so. Children who must one day become independent adults. Animals to be re-wilded and released back into nature.

Neither, nor any other that I’m aware of, apply to domestic pets.

I am perfectly willing to consider your mindset. My very first sentence is a question requesting you elaborate on what exactly it is you gain by trading in the safety of your cat. Because you don’t actually mention what that is.

Listing five preventably dead cats I personally knew is over the top?

Why is taking the risk important?

You are not re-wilding an animal that’s gotten used to being in a zoo, in order to restore an endangered species.

You are releasing a domestic pet into an uncontrolled environment.

Why is it important to do that? And why does this importance only apply to cats?

Worth it to gain what?

You are not re-wilding an animal that’s gotten used to being in a zoo.

Your logic is like overfeeding a pet because it likes the food enough to keep eating it.

Your cat is not a toddler that will one day need to be a functioning member of society. You can and should make decisions that ensure its safety in exchange for its freedoms.

It’s the same reasoning behind why you don’t let a child hit the town until they’re old enough. The difference, is that a cat is never “old enough”. It’s a pet.

Parasites. Disease. Pest traps. Poisons. Traffic. Dangerous climbs. Other cats. People.

I know someone who had three cats get run over before they learned to keep them inside. They live on an island in the finnish archipelago that barely even has roads let alone traffic.

Another friend lost two cats to a neighbour who fed them poisoned chicken.

Go on. Tell me there’s zero risk.

Like the other guy said.

How can your conscience be clear, if the one in danger is Miez?

You can ignore this comment, OP. I’m sure you’ve heard all this before and already have practice.

This is for everyone else.

A cat can live a perfectly happy life without danger. Do not let them outside without a leash.

“Outdoor” cats die earlier and are at greater risk of parasites and disease. That is a fact. Most animal shelters include a contractual obligation not to do what OP does in their adoption agreements. Violating this requirement would be considered animal abuse, and grounds for them to take the animal back for re-adoption.

Transitioning an outdoor cat to indoor life can be difficult, but what OP does is not normal and should not be. No-one should let a pet outside unattended. And most people wouldn’t. But for some reson some people make an exception for cats. And only cats. This is a logical error.

Animals are either wild or domestic. Not both.

I’m pretty sure OP wouldn’t let a dog roam free, yet all the same logic for why that is so, applies to cats.

The needs of a cat that are fulfilled by the outdoors, can be fulfilled indoors. Places to hide, surfaces to scratch, toys to play with, etc. If your cat is miserable indoors, that’s on you, not the nature of the animal.

Then my first assumption is that the session token is not being correctly stored in kwallet. It can’t restore the session after kwallet is closed.

You can open kwallet manager, and delete the wallet. This will prompt your system to re-create it next time you go to use something that needs it (wifi, nextcloud).

This will allow you to essentially reset the default wallet.

The typical settings for it are “blowfish” encryption with either a blank password (which encrypts nothing, but allows the wallet to always open reliably) or using the same password as your user (which allows the wallet to decrypt automatically upon login).

Another user also commented with useful links, the arch wiki page on kwallet is also potentially useful.

In that case, something is invalidating the login. Are you sure that it is happening due to leaving your LAN, and not just coinciding with that?

Does restarting the laptop log you out, or temporarily disconnecting from the internet? Could you test by switching to a wifi hotspot on your phone, and switching back, for example?

The client stores your session token in the OS credentials manager (kwallet for linux kde, for example) and the issue can lie there, as well.

That’s definitely not how it should work. Leaving your LAN should not invalidate a session.

Is this in your browser, or are you talking about the desktop client?

Flathub and the AUR are by far the most comprehensive, and flatpaks works on a lot of distros. So I checked those.

They’ve also been getting their kinks worked out over the last few years and work much better than they used to.

That review you found is two years old and was for version 1.1. Current version is 1.4. Try it out today, if it’s been fixed leave another review letting people know. It seems to work just fine for me, but I haven’t used it before.

Material Maker is on Flathub, the AUR, and on Snapcraft (not up to date, but you shouldn’t use snap anyway).

No need for a manual install.

You’ll find a lot of software is available via package managers. Linux people don’t like installing anything without it being managed by a package manager so the installation and subsequent updates are automatic and occur alongside system updates. So when people find software they like, they’ll go out of their way to package and distribute it for others as well

Yes. But you didn’t.

Knowing what something does is important.

If you install a piece of software expecting it to do something it actually doesn’t, that can leave a security gap.

I wasn’t just correcting you. I was making sure you knew that if you install a “firewall” it won’t do the thing you’re looking for.

As for an actual answer, most distros will already ask you to confirm if you try to run a random appimage you downloaded.

But you shouldn’t need to do that in the first place. On linux, there’s not really any need to go running random programs downloaded using your web browser, since you can just download software from trusted reposotories that aren’t going to host malware to begin with.

Unlike on windows… You don’t need to risk it in the first place.

“Is… Is it food-a-clock?”

“Very goood! Only you’re three hours late. Now get to it.”

And I’m telling you a firewall won’t do that.

It won’t have anything to say at all about something you download and run.

It’s a completely different security feature. It handles potentially malicious network activity. Not software on your computer.

It’s not federated tho?

What do they mean when they call it that?

oh with the firewall saving me from myself I meant if I download something thinking it’s safe but isn’t

A firewall would not save you from that.

A firewall stops random incoming connections. But if you download and run something bad, that’d be an outgoing connection, since the malicious program is then already on your system.

Almost everything you do on desktop linux is already “outside the core os”.

This is mostly relevant for server software configuration, where you should run services with as few system privileges as possible. Preferably you isolate them entirely with a separate user with access to only the bare minimum it needs.

This way, if a service is compromised, it can’t be used to access the core system, because it never had such access in the first place. Only what it needed to do its own thing.

By default, nothing you run (web browser, steam, spotify, whatever) should be “running as admin”.

The only time you’ll do that on desktop linux, is when doing stuff that requires it. Such as installing a new app, or updating the system. Stuff that modifies the core os and hence needs access.

Basically, unless you needed to enter you password to run something, then it’s already “outside” the core os.

Preaching to their choir, friend. I started !dungeonmeshi@ani.social.

I stopped thinking of certain series as favorites, but the Dungeon Meshi manga is huge for me.

As such, the Trigger adaptation is pretty close to becoming my best thing ever. Now they just need to land the second half of the adaptation. Which I can’t imagine them not doing.

GOATED series.

Trigger REALLY cooked with that one. So happy they finally became a little more widely known with Edgerunners.

Watch Inferno Cop if you haven’t.

I enjoyed Vivaldi for a bit.

But the second time I opened it to find my tabs, browsing history, and literally all other user data, gone… Months apart, with thousands of saved bookmarks and hundreds of tabs lost each time.

I never went back. Deleting everything is just completely unacceptable.

I never found anyone else who’d had it happen, but twice was a pattern I didn’t care to repeat.