Turning off Gnome Keyring Password Prompt in QubesOS

"The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer" I use Evolution to access remote calendars in a QubesOS AppVM, and Evolution stores passwords in the gnome keyring. I had that damned keyring password prompt turned off, and it came back somehow, all by itself. I find it hard to like Gnome and it's spawn. The way I turned it off THIS time is with seahorse: https://askubuntu.com/questions/867/how-can-i-stop-being-prompted-to-unlock-the-default-keyring-on-boot Just fin...
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Wireguard VPN

Wireguard VPN so far penetrates the Great FireWall for me quite reliably. (I am currently using the Digital Ocean data center in Singapore.) Easily provision / reprovision a temporary Wireguard service on a cloud server using Algo: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/ If you are using Digital Ocean, very easily turn your VPN server on (less than one cent per hour, max five dollars per month) and off (costs almost nothing to hold in a standby "off" state) using the "DO Swimmer" app off of Fdro...
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QubesOS Storage Pool Management

There are some areas of QubesOS[1] that are a little bit obscure, and the storage pools (particularly if you have more than one, which is quite normal if you have more than one disk) are one of those areas. List your existing pools with: qvm-pool and find out the name of the actual thin pools that Qubes 4 uses with qvm-pool -i which, if you are curious, can then be correlated (one each) with a particular LVM logical volume listed thusly: sudo lvs At this point in time, the Qubes 4 instal...
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