[lug] Fedora 27!

[Davide Del Vento]

Using just a separate user for banking is the poor's man version of this.
Of course not as isolated as a separate machine or even a virtual machine,
but still decently isolated.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:

> 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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