penguins22 [none/use name]

Can you direct your teacher to take up her concerns with the school’s IT department? Sounds like you have an established workaround by having the teacher email you from her personal account. In my view, the school is at fault here. That said I understand the inconvenience for everyone involved of the added friction of avoiding the modern surveilance state.

In what context did Google ask for ID!?!! I’ve never seen that before (edit: spelling)

Oh damn, I didn’t realize this was possible. Thanks for sharing!

tldr: try the Qubes distro

HUGE disclaimer: The hibernate/sleep function doesn’t quite work on qubes on my framework and can freeze the computer. My framework is from 2020 so I just removed the old battery and basically power on and off the laptop every time I move it. It’s at home on my desk most of the time but can be REALLY ANNOYING for traditional laptop use cases.

I would recommend qubes. I love it and run it on my framework 13 b/c I can run multiple virtual machines of different distros at once, and also partition my personal, work, amd different hobbies into different “qubes” (vms).

The different distros I do run through qubes all use xfce so you dont quite get the full feeling of trying new distros through its vms. I do recommend trying the qubes distro in general though esp if you’re comfortable with linux and you’re interested in a distro that partitions out your hobbies/pc-uses.

This project is probs similar to a private and unfederated mastodon instance. I’m curious how a mature version would compare.

This is SOO Cool!