I feel like OP missed an opportunity to title this post “Fedora Flatpaks Fall Flat”

Great article, BTW

Looks like this happened:

OpenSSH server has had built-in support for WebAuthn keys since 8.2.

According to Framework support, there are no supported models as of yet.

I have a Framework 13 AMD running Linux Mint. It works great and I love it. Modular IO ports are super nifty.

Here are the downsides as I see them:

1. Price
2. No touch screen
3. No wifi 7

I expect 2&3 will come in the future and I can upgrade! The fact that I can upgrade rather than throw it away in the future offsets 1.

What type of key do you have. Yubikey 5 supports multiple protocols including some you can use with SSH:

• Multi-protocol: YubiKey 5 Series is the most versatile security key supporting multiple authentication protocols including FIDO2/WebAuthn (hardware bound passkey), FIDO U2F, Yubico OTP, OATH-TOTP, OATH-HOTP, Smart card (PIV) and OpenPGP.

SSH would need to implement webauthn to support FIDO.

Secure can also mean more resilient. The infosec C-I-A triangle has three legs. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. Immutable distros are more resilient and thus offer better availability in the face of attacks or accidents.

I like S3 because I only pay for what I use and it has auto storage tiering.

Awk is a turing complete programming language.

Does Fedora have a long term support version? Last time I used it a decade ago I had to upgrade every 1-2 years.

You should name it Hawk, so people can call it Hawk-Tui.

So is Visual Studio basically dead at this point? Are any new programmers choosing to use it?

I run Emby and MythTV on a Beelink Mini PC. It is a little pricey compared to some of the options you mentioned but not by too much. It works really well and is very quiet:

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-5560U-500GB-Computer/dp/B0B3WYVB2D

I remember when SFC was first introduced, I excitedly wrote a script to invoke it remotely so I could use it on a user’s pc when they called to fix their problem. To this day I have never run that script. This was in 1998.