Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things

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  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgOPtoParenting@beehaw.org•So your tween wants a smartphone? Read this first
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    2 months ago

    My nieces and nephew had iPads at 4

    My nephew plays COD. He is 8. He sleeps with his iPad.

    The nieces are are 6 and 11. They are obsessed with tiktok.

    My son is 7 and goes to school with kids that have iPhones.

    And my son only watches screens when we are supervising. He watches a lot of TV and plays Switch games though. Never phones and we don’t have a tablet or any of the streaming stuff.

    It is very hard not to give in.

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•SSH login without user name?
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    2 months ago

    If I’m correct, that would mean that technically, I could authenticate to an SSH server without supplying my name if I use a private key?

    Yes.

    The public key contains a user name/email address string, I’m aware, is the same information also encoded into the private key as well? If yes, I don’t see the need to hand that info to an SSH call. If no, how does the SSH server know which public key it’s supposed to use to challenge my private key ownership?

    Most of this can be found reading through different Git docs, whether from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea, etc. When using Git you can use different keys for different repos/forges and each has a defined pair, similar to accessing different SSH servers that require specific key pairs. I do understand your questions, but I lack the finesse to explain it since I really only use SSH and Git for my blog and not for anything too complicated.

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•When do you consider a system to be bloated?
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    2 months ago

    I don’t feel like my system is bloated.

    It probably isn’t bloated.

    I guess it’s subjective, but when do you consider a system to be bloated?

    If someone is testing out several different DEs or WMs and installing meta-packages, then I suppose I might say that things are bloated because they could end up having multiple apps to control the same preferences along with different libraries, etc., and then when they decide to update it takes ages. That would be bloated for me. I have tried the minimal stuff before. Like you said, hundreds of packages, not thousands. But, I didn’t install any manpages. So when I decided I wanted those manpages the number of packages ballooned. Nothing was really bloated, just a number on neofetch going up.