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  • Note that it doesn’t prevent sso sharing. I was signed into Amazon and a separate Firefox (actually librewolf) tab I had opened looking up a movie star on… IMDb force created an account for me using my Amazon account. No I did not get a prompt to accept it and no I did not click anywhere near the login buttons. Seen that this has happened to a few people but not everyone so it’s almost like they’re slow rolling it.

    I’ve since isolated Amazon into its own profile altogether and added Amazon to unlock on my main browser profile. And of course requested deletion of my sudden imdb account






  • This!

    I also use it for SwiftBackup and some custom crons for scripts I run on the phone. It’s also very useful with pcapdroid when I want to analyze the traffic that apps are attempting to generate.

    I use root for being able to customize my phone greatly and with extra security benefits (like akunohana shared) while also bring able to degoogle. But if degoogling is the only thing you care about then there are other options, especially if you’re not fully adept to understanding the file system and/or Linux already.




  • Similar thing happen to me. Had a lightning strike fry the ONT port outside, the charge went through to the UPS cat5e surge protector and to my opnsense box and fried it. Luckily it stopped there.

    This is where I tell everyone to never buy UPSs from CyberPower. I sent them the thing to inspect because it was guaranteed paying for the damages from power surges and they claimed there was nothing wrong with it and their inspection came clean. But they sent me a new one and said they won’t pay for my lost firewall.

    Sorry to hear you got 10k in damages, that sucks. I’ve now got a whole house surge protector to try my best to avoid that (and I STILL unplug expensive things like my TV and stereo system).





  • Nintendo did something similar. They added to their privacy policy basically saying you grant permission to them monitoring chats, video, and audio through the switch (does switch even have a camera? I can’t remember). They say if you disagree you can login and delete your account. Catch is that when you log in, you can’t go to delete your account until you agree to the terms. And if you don’t acknowledge by the given deadline, you’re automatically agreeing to them.

    I contacted their privacy email and they basically said I had to agree first before I could delete my account. Literally impossible to deny the terms.

    I can keep ranting but I think I’ve made my point. They all suck.


  • So I’m definitely not familiar with swedish politics, but does this site actually represent the entire party? The party site is just a very vague description of some group of people that sound like they’re anti left and anti right at the same time. The Wikipedia article on the party doesn’t really help make sense to what they expect to accomplish, but again that could just be my ignorance to it.

    Would love to know more about all this, with more reliable sources if possible (vs a website that just says something without really providing sources). Mullvad is about trying to protect privacy with fighting big brother, and I’m really not seeing anything about the party that indicates it wants the opposite.




  • Mikelius@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlX11 vs Wayland
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    I personally haven’t really seen much difference between the two except Wayland eating more CPU and being rather tedious for hybrid (Ryzen/Nvidia) setups (still haven’t resolved it crashing when I change TTY). I’d personally say stick to whatever default your desktop environment runs on…XWayland helps with the whole compatibility concerns at least.

    Just my experience though, yours could be different depending on your machine and general setup



  • Speaking from personal experience: get a spare laptop or external drive and jump right into it.

    Gentoo is where I learned Linux. The handbook is so good and is my highest recommended source of getting into Linux, assuming you take it slow to understand it.

    While a VM might be an option, I think you’ll have less problems on a direct system… But maybe I’m wrong, I’ve never tried installing Gentoo on a VM before.

    Just know, this system will need care… Keep Gentoo updated frequently, else you’ll have issues with dependencies. If this is your first time digging into Linux, you’ll goof. But don’t fret, for there’s always a fix!

    If you find yourself needing something less demanding, my go to has been Mint for that. However these days I’ve actually been re creating my laptop on Gentoo with an external USB C. Turns out even on that it runs games better, so can’t wait to move it to an nvme lol