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  • This. Why would anyone want their private conversations, out there? Don’t put your password in you will. Put a dead man switch on your PC.

    If it is to close down a social media account they can contact the company directly.

    If it is to take out money, they can contact the bank directly.

    If it is to inform contacts, they can live without knowing.

    If it is to cancel subscriptions, you’re going to have to send letters, wait in a phone call for hours, and cancel the credit card either way because of scummy cancellation practices.







  • You usually don’t need proprietary software and drivers on Linux because of the great general purpose open source alternatives. Even on Windows, a ton of the drivers are actually useless and only bloat your system or perform invasive telemetry.

    Personally I don’t even use the RGB features on my gaming PC, but OpenRGB is open source and lightweight. I would probably use it over proprietary RGB profiles even on Windows. You should give it a try.

    GPU fan control is already available by default in most Linux distributions and should require no additional drivers.

    AMD always have Linux drivers. The Linux adrenaline driver is here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/linux-drivers.html

    SSD/NVME firmware updates should also already be supported by default in linux. With for example fwupdmgr.

    High refresh rate displays should also work out the box on the modern distributions. On Linux Mint and Ubuntu they have a GUI for it, but changing resolution and refresh rate with Xrandr also only takes one or two terminal commands. There likely is software to do it, but if anything I could write you a script that does it if your distribution doesn’t already have GUI for it. I had to write a script to adjust some of my monitors’ drawing area because I mirror, but my displays don’t have the same aspect ratio.