I wonder if a crypto miner like this was a person doing the work, or just an automated thing someone wrote to scan IPs for known vulnerabilities and exploit them automatically.

Same problem I have with Debian.

At least Fedora just uses a version number!

I like to think that Buster, Bullseye, and Bookworm was a ploy to make people more dependent on the version number.

I work with Debian daily and I still couldn't tell you what order those go in. but Debian 12, Debian 13, etc.. is perfectly easy to remember and search for.

Debian is trying hard to switch to numbers. It's the user base that is resisting the change.

Maybe they should stop synlinking the new versions after 14, because AFAIK, they already tried everything else.

Yeah if they just stopped using a release name that'd probably do it, although communities can be surprisingly stubborn on some things.

Zen, Waterfox, Librewolf, Floorp.. For android there's Fennec, Iceraven.

There are more, those are just the ones I can recall.

Zen and Floorp are not obvious improvements from a privacy and control perspective.

Waterfox, Librewolf and Mullvad Browser are worth considering.

Why is that? I remember seeing that Zen strips out the Firefox telemetry.

Librewolf is nice but breaks a lot of stuff, sites that use webrtc or canvas related things, lots of banking sites refuse to load, and some other issues I can't remember.

I think it's a good idea to mitm yourself and look at what exactly your browser is up to. We should be careful about just accepting and repeating hearsay when such claims are pretty easy to verify yourself.

https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry-2025-edition/

As for webapps breaking in Librewolf, IME those can be fixed by selectively unblocking canvas (or whatever) for the site in question.

For Android, Ironfox is currently the best option IMO.

What phone with OLED, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, and user replaceable battery is $100 on Aliexpress?

The Git Sync or PuppyGit apps are a good way to keep markdown files in sync between devices. I use git for my Obsidian notes.

It's better than file sync because you have diff and merge in case you accidentally edit the same file on 2 devices and get a conflict. Plus you have full history of everything.

If you do need file sync I really like the FolderSync app on my phone, it's reliable and connects using a ton of protocols.

Same goes for some of the desktop focused Linux distros, I had Fedora KDE break the login screen from a bad update that got pushed out. It's best to just wait to update anything important.

Yeah Debian is really stable because its so far behind the current releases, lots of testing has been done by the time it updates a package. Great for servers and stuff you just want to set and forget with auto updates.

Ironically, servers should be the most disposable and easily to replace from scratch after a bad upgrade but the world is a silly place.

If hardware is failing fair enough. If you can't restore bare-metal within two hours then you're doing something wrong.

It is equally great as a workstation when combined with a development environment manager with package installation like devenv or flox (or many other options). This combo gives you a stable (not-changing) platform with up-to-date tooling. Best of both worlds.

It's also why I'm a fan of atomic distros, easier to roll back from a major bug like my login screen no longer functioning.

I'd assume a lot of the size is the auto correct data

Things made for game streaming will be more responsive at the tradeoff of massive bandwidth usage in comparison. RDP can work over slow connections reasonably well.

Massive bandwidth usage and video compression artifacts. It's fine for games and media consumption, but may be problematic for office work.

Remote desktop protocols prefer lossless compression to achieve pixel-perfect rendering, at the expense of framerate/latency.

RDP is unique in that it's not just streaming, but integrates with Windows' GUI stack to actually offload compositing to the client. This however works less and less well with web and Electron apps which do not use native OS widgets.

RDP on the same system isn't remote access though.