leonlag

> coreboot instead of a proprietary BIOS and has Google's Titan C security chip

This is what I was hoping when I got the announcement via email. The question is if this will be locked down to chromeos or if it's possible to install your own keys to load a linux distro while still retaining verified boot capabilities.

Are you dual booting perhaps? I had this issue on my desktop where linux would display the proper time, but windows would be an hour off no matter what I did. It turns out linux wrote the time it got over NTP to the hardware clock as UTC(the correct way). Windows would then read the hw clock but interpret it as UTC+1(my timezone). Here the relevant archwiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_time#UTC_in_Wind...

TLS 1.3 with 1-RTT should improve this situation at least somewhat. I suspect HTTP3 will help in high packet loss situations but it's going to be a while until that's deployed. Also wikipedia is still perfectly reachable via http if you disable the HSTS preloading in your browser

> - Printing easily from Linux

This is as easy as it can be without needing cloud print though

> - Printing from Chromebooks

> - Printing from your phone

This is an artificial restriction created by google. There is already a network printing protocol that works without the "cloud". You just have to support it.

This is also the case for the german(qwertz) layout because whoever designed it gave zero fucks about people that use it to program. I have been much faster since switching to qwerty. The only issue is umlaute(ä,ü,ö,ß) but I just use compose key(caps lock in my case) + a,u,o,ss to type those.

Even if you agree with this premise. It's not on you to decide what people poison themselves with.

If someone is interested in blocking this, the firefox addon CanvasBlocker has an option to spoof this. Although it's not enabled by default, it doesn't seem to brake anything.

The noise problem can be mitigated by using a proper directional microphone/headset. It's a worthwhile investment if you are recording videos or are in conference call.

I'm a fedora user and I just gave silverblue a try. The idea itself is great but in it's current state it's basically unusable for me.

A lot of application I use are command line based and are simply not available via flatpak. You have to install these via rpm-ostree but that requires a reboot every time you install anything.

Moreover many GUI applications that are available in the fedora repos are simply not packaged as flatpaks and either require rpm-ostree and a subsequent reboot or adding a third party repository like flathub. I really don't want to give up fedoras mostly excellent repos to rely on some badly packaged, possibly malicious container.

After not being able to find my preffered media player mpv, I settled for VLC from flathub. It installed just fine but video playback was completely broken, VLC installed via rpm-ostree worked.

I also don't understand how you are supposed to install patent encumbered codecs for firefox. Usually this is solved by adding the rpmfusion repos but with firefox being installed via a flatpak from the fedora repos, this obviously does not work.

I'll probably check this out again in ~2 years and see if it's any better.

I'm running podman(docker replacement) on fedora for many things. It can run as a user without root permissions, does not need a daemon and containers get their own SELinux policy by the fedora devs. Far from perfect, definitely better than nothing.

The only thing I can think of is that no smartcard/usb-key that I know of support them. Please if someone knows of any, let me know.