[lug] Fedora 27!

[Bear Giles]

How could I not mention that a Raspberry pi is a logical extreme example of
this. Only do your banking via a pi. Otherwise lock it up somewhere.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:

> I have to toss in a word for using virtualbox instead of spare partitions
> for this. It can be a bit of a pain if you require signed kernel modules
> but with the guest additions you can resize the virtual desktop to cover
> your full screen and get a good feel for it. There's probably a modest
> performance hit - but you can have a dozen virtual systems that you quickly
> flip between (or even run concurrently!) instead of a single partition that
> you have to manually reloading it every time.
>
> The other benefit is that you can use a dedicated virtual machine for porn
> to reduce the risk of malware.
>
> BANKING!
>
> BANKING! I meant to type 'BANKING', not 'porn'. Geez, you guys have your
> mind in the gutter.
>
> It's one of the standard bits of advice that even I often don't bother to
> follow - create a virtualbox image with a stripped down browser and only
> use it to access banking sites. The odds that malware will make it onto
> that browser are low.
>
> You can extend this logic to a few other categories of sites. My AWS stuff
> should probably go in a virtualbox sandbox. My social media, such as it is,
> should also go into one.
>
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:06 PM, Michael J. Hammel <
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
>
>> XFce has a nice desktop settings panel that allows easy control of font
>> type and size for most of the UI.  Some apps don't quite follow the
>> settings but most GTK+ apps do. XFce is GTK2 based and I generally only
>> use GTK+ apps, not KDE/Qt.  I use XFce on Fedora 26 and CentOS 7.  I've
>> used it on Ubuntu at a job for a little while till we were lucky enough
>> to switch to Debian instead (and I switched back to Fedora).
>>
>> Between XFce's desktop settings and a gnome-terminal (not the XFce
>> terminal, which isn't quite as easy to configure for my needs) I can
>> control font sizes for most of my work quite easily.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 19:42 -0700, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>> > Mint MATE (that is, Gnome 2). It has the plain ole "appearance" icon
>> > in the plain ole "control panel". In the appearance settings, there's
>> > a plain ole "font" tab where you can select type, style and size of
>> > the font for applications, document, desktop, window title and fixed
>> > width (e.g. terminal)
>> > You can also pick the rendering style with monochrome (useless unless
>> > you have a monochrome display), best shape, best contrast or subpixel
>> > smoothing
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 3:40 PM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > > So although I'm only asking about opinions, let me ask from a new
>> > > point of view not normally asked: What newer distributions
>> > > (implying a recent kernel) have people here tried where you thought
>> > > you could set up fonts and readability without great trouble? Which
>> > > distributions did you find complete, yet still configurable for
>> > > visual customization (especially if your eyes are not so great)?
>> --
>> Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
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