I agree I close them if I see that, but just so you know a combo of bypass paywalls clean, and ublock origin (go into settings and enable all cookie notices, social widgets, and annoyances) will bypass 95% of those without you even knowing
If that fails go to web.archive.org and paste the URL, that works most of the time. There’s a web extension called “web archives” that makes this easy if you’re ok with other extensions
I’ve been on debian stable for quite a while, it hasn’t been an issue yet.
If it’s something that needs to stay updated I use flatpaks which are usually available nowadays.
Yeah, that’s really the most straightforward solution unfortunately.
In case you’re not already familiar look into sunshine/moonlight for quick access to the windows machine
If you need to use abusive windows software while retaining some privacy you really have 2 options:
Have a separate PC with windows and your games installed. Isolate your activities so all your normal work and personal stuff is on linux, and then you switch input on your display, or use sunshine/moonlight to access windows when you want to.
Use linux and do all your gaming etc. in a windows VM. This is what I do but it is not easy to set up, if you’re interested in this idea keep it in mind and come back to it later.
If you’re using VM hostile software though which it sounds like you are, #2 becomes even more complicated so I say bite the bullet and do #1.
Dualboot is pretty ass and breaks all the time. I strongly suspect that was part of your issue
I am baffled to read you had to troubleshoot your linux installation every day, what kind of distro were you using?
Sorry you didn’t have a good time.
If you know what you’re doing yes (not guaranteed to work in all games), but you’re always at constant threat of being potentially banned.
The info is hard to find but I assure you tons of people play anticheat games in VMs all the time. I personally avoid those games so I don’t know the specifics of all the tricks they do to hide the VM.
Being it’s a VM I could see some people just restoring from a template if they get banned and not really caring. No way to be hardware banned afaik.
This VM detection and VM anti detection is a reguarly evolving arms race, and some games invest a LOT more effort into staying on top of it than others.
There is no evidence. safety is about staying multiple steps ahead and risk mitigation when possible.
Centralized servers are a single point of failure that could be compromised in the future.
My contact’s devices they use signal on are insecure and could be easily compromised in the future.
SMS/Cell network in general are insecure as hell and I avoid it as much as possible.
Why would I expose all that sensitive data when there’s literally no need to? Simplex works great for me.
stremio works on ios dude you just have to add the web ui to homescreen and use external player
Yeah, for me personally I’m sticking to simplex. I can get an anonymous sim card, but none of the people I’d be talking to would do that. I don’t want this relationship/network map out there at all if I can avoid it.
Wow I didn’t know about this, very blatant.
LocalSend can also send installed .apks if you’re on android.
Localsend is just awesome in general, use it if you need to send files wirelessly over lan
Since you asked
It’s a proprietary closed source flavor of chrome which supports google’s monopoly and does not respect your privacy or freedom.
Here is some quick info if you’re interested: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/opera
https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml
https://digdeeper.club/articles/liftingtheveil.xhtml
If you don’t like that I’d suggest looking at librewolf (firefox/gecko based) or ungoogled chromium (chromium based)
ya the desktop gui is pretty ram hungry as well. It’s not perfect but weighing the pros and cons of all available options I have come to like and appreciate simplex quite a bit. The client has also gotten a lot better recently.
The main downside on android for me is the battery drain but I think that is a consequence of me not using google push notifications
Simplex is an option, you can host your own servers and it has crossplatform GUI + CLI
I think it’s pretty cool, and it’s pretty easy to set up (there are a lot of options you may wanna look at though)
I have a w11 KVM with a 4080 passed through it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be
I highly recommend you try, it’s sweet
been living with a black woman for many years
Ok thanks for putting me on game. I made a throwaway and it’s working great
Are there other similar projects or forks with different features? for example it would be cool if I could take out the ads and bloat in the UI
If not I might try my hand at learning
Thanks, interesting
Do you create a real spotify account for it or use it logged out?
How trustworthy is this considered? I have it sandboxed but I laughed when the app sent me to a mediafire link
In debian and graphene we trust
What issue are you having in ungoogled chromium?