Pinkish house gecko on white stucco wall.

The house geckos were pretty chill little house guests.

Does anyone have USB-C dock recommends?

I have a Thinkpad P1 gen 4 running Fedora I’m going to be using as my desktop replacement, and I’m looking for a Linux friendly dock.

I don’t need the dock to do much. Ideally, it could drive 2x 4K DisplayPort displays, have a 2.5Gb+ Ethernet port, and a couple USB-A ports, but 2x 2K DisplayPort and 1GbE work too.

Preferred price is <$150.

Any opinions on an IM solution to send notifications to?

Something which can show push notifications on my phone would be ideal.

This is for my personal stuff which isn't critical or public. I would like E2EE if for no other reason then why not.

Top options:

• Matrix
• XMPP

Middle:

• Jami (No API?)
• Zulip (no EE2E)
• Google Chat (no EE2E?, dealing with Google APIs)

No:

• Briar (no iOS client)
• Signal (no API)
• Session (no API)
• Whatsapp (API cost)
• Threema (cost)
• Wire (bot API in beta, cost?)
• Telegram (sus)
• Slack