May I have a copy of your birth certificate, driver’s license, SSN, along with credit card info, bank and trading accounts, and a video of you naked to post online in multiple public forums?

No? Guess you like privacy more than you thought…

People having varying levels of desired privacy. I don’t like to give out things just because someone wants to know, and by law I should be protected so as not to be compelled to.

Privacy isn’t about hiding things, it’s about not giving them away because someone else wants them.

It is a unicorn. I dread the day Gaben dies and Valve ends up going public. It feels like the last bastion of decent online services.

Until they lock it up where you can’t. Or they’ll decide on selling data and injecting ads into your convos or streams.

In other words this hasn’t been enshittified to the max yet at all. There are new and horrible depths to explore.

Prescription meth does wonders for focus. Lol

I’m riding the same struggle bus and there are a lot of us. More like a struggle cruisliner, or struggle ark. Keep up the fight. I know it’s exhausting, but don’t let the bastards drag you down.

…fuck off.

100% agree. It’s easy to do it wrong.

They were a whole new subculture for me when I got on here. Wasn’t sure how to take them at first. Now it’s mostly an eyeroll and keep moving.

That shit isn’t normal. I think parents doing minor poking around from time to time isn’t abnormal, especially if there is real concern about the child.

TMI but I have the experience of my parents finding out I was suicidal because they looked around. I wasn’t about to say anything to them about it. Or anyone else. I was a sad and angry teen. They looked out for me as best they could.

However, I never knew for certain that they had until I was much older. I suspected a couple times but they didn’t drop hints or outright say anything. Just adjusted how they were raising me.

Lol glancing at your profile I imagine your actions may have been warranted. Lots of twats on .ml.

I’ve met some decent ones from there that can have a conversation. But they are few and far between.

Lol piss off a lemming somewhere?

Ugh. Forgot that. Dammit, now I’m disappointed all over again.

Shit like that is why I’ve been quitting certain streaming apps.

Because all these bitches are supposed to have therapy to help you get over petty anxieties like talking on the phone. 😋

Right, like they all have a point to a degree but really just need a little more info and put bias aside to focus on what each system does well and just connect the dots to the most appropriate to their use case.

But then that requires social interaction, and having enough emotional maturity for putting aside personal biases. Two things on a relatively short list of things Linux doesn’t usually do well at.

The fanboying to the point of blinders is maddening to deal with among Linux users.

I don’t have issue with Ubuntu personally. I still prefer Zorin over it though. It’s a really nice “transition from windows” type distro and not as bloaty as Ubuntu.

Older stuff, nearly 100%. New stuff, still really high to nearly 100%. The only place you’ll run into trouble is with devices made with only windows drivers etc. So things like a USB label printer or glucose monitor or something like that.

Computer hardware though, very unlikely to see an issue. Servers use both the CPU and GPU. And most servers run some flavor of Linux.

What’s Realtek done? I haven’t kept up on them.

I’ve hated and avoided 11 since I first experienced it. After Xmas I had to help setup my parents new PC. It of course is win 11. I spent so much fucking time getting that shit just to a usable state. I’m more convinced than ever to fuck off from MS for good.

My favorite feature is honestly so simple. Denying network permissions during install.

I’m stoked to give it a try. I left my last PDF application because they injected AI into it. So I’ve been shopping around a little. I’ve been using Okular, but it’s really limited, even as a viewer. This looks awesome. Nicely done! I hope you keep at it!