TBH, I agree with you. However a lot of people’s PCs are no longer supported with no practical way to change that. For those people that are trying Linux out timidly and reluctantly, I’m fine with a little handholding. I wouldn’t recommend someone switch to Linux unless I knew they were a bit savvy. But if they’re worried about going behind on security updates and can’t afford a new PC, I will suggest their one option, even if I know it will be challenging at times.

For me personally, I would remember none of that if taught to me. I’m stubborn and handy enough to figure it out during an emergency. For the kind of noob OP is describing that benefits from a handheld on-ramp, they will probably never be able to do what you’re describing.

I think a good compromise would be mentioning a few things that you can do in case of emergency so a more savvy person would know what to look for in an emergency. You don’t have to teach them so much as tell them there is something they can do. If there’s a fire, idk where the fire extinguisher is but I know there is one and I can go looking.

This was going to be my suggestion. Most noobs will be familiar with phone app stores. You can present a distro’s software manager like an app store. People coming from another OS will probably be happy they don’t have to find, download, and install their programs.

As a Linux noob, this is not as basic as you think it is. It’s probably cool to show them “sudo apt install [program]” as a neat trick to dip their toes into the command line. All the other things you mentioned would scare me away if it was presented as beginner essential knowledge. I legit have no idea what you’re talking about.

Thanks to everyone recommending Syncthing. I just set that up on all my devices and it’s pretty much purpose built for what I’m doing. A little bit fidly to set up but not that bad and it seems to just work now.

Bitwarden is just a paid password manager, right? Do you know if it’s possible to transfer my passwords from a Keepass database into bitwarden?

Keepass works but you need a way to sync the database file between devices. This is the part that doesn’t work.

For a password manager, I’m not sure if this is an issue since I’m only changing the database file while connected to the internet. Am I overlooking something?

Ideally white collar crime wouldn’t even be possible.

I’ll bite.

I believe most crime is fundamentally due to poverty. I don’t believe you can simply enforce your way out of crime. That would be extremely expensive and wouldn’t do anything about the poverty. You’d be better off giving the police funding to the poor communities. Enforcement would be unequally dished out to poorer areas, creating an oppressive atmosphere. So when people say it’s something a dictator does, it’s because it ignores the fundamental problem in order to jump straight to aggressive policing. Aggressive policing is something a dictator does.

Silksong has had me by the balls since it came out. Truly a masterpiece

Pixel Dungeon if you like turn-based dungeon crawler rogue-likes.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon for the same thing but more fleshed out.

Balatro

Lichess

Man I don’t see that being true at all. From my perspective, it makes fascism, oligarchy, and authoritarianism the much more likely outcomes after capitalism decays away. You’re assuming that the workers gaining class consciousness is inevitable. Centralized industry is just fruit ripe for the picking by a proletariat uprising. I really doubt thats how it will go down.

One can only hope. If even the right is fed up with Israel, they truly are on borrowed time.

Capitalism’s decay compels the rise of socialism.

This is the part I would disagree with. I don’t think history has a foreseeable trajectory. I don’t think anything is inevitable. Saying otherwise is giving too much credit to narrative.

Socialism is overtaking capitalism

I wanna live in whatever world you’re talking about. It sure feels to me like fascism is overtaking capitalism.

That’s what confuses me. How do you have enough moral character to quit over the CEO’s support of Israel but you’re totally fine with the core business model of surveillance state services.