Oh please gods yes. Advertising is violence and even though most of my life is now ad free, I still can't avoid the advertising scourge being shoved into my eyeballs every time I leave my house.
It would be a blessed weight lifted from my already tired brain to never see a single ad again.
And yet I was saying just today there's no way I'd go to the movies to see it anyway... Because Microsoft. Yet another example of how they'd never get money anyway but no doubt there'll be another article claiming they lost billions from the leak or some bs
You joke but a (NZer) family member on an overseas holiday got into an argument with a local over the existence of NZ. Family member, being a tourist, was asked where they were from and said New Zealand. Nothing strange there. Local said that NZ was a state in Australia. Confidently incorrect. When my family member tried to correct them, they argued they were right and the person who was from the actual country was utterly wrong š¤¦āāļø
Came here to say the same thing. Using the term "bricking" in the title had me very confused. It would be catastrophic if this was actually bricking computers.
If you want to get really technical, each Signal account actually has a 'secret' account number that the phone number is linked to. The phone number requirement is actually a means to reduce spam and scam accounts.
Maybe its a shared device that kids also use? We have a laptop that's shared amongst everyone and I constantly come back to finding random desktop wallpapers from Minecraft to Undertale to Pokemon and I think the latest is Transformers related lol.
Yes. I have an NVME as my OS drive but most of my home directory (Documents, Videos, Pictures, Music, etc.) is on an older large data HDD. My .config and anything else is still on the NVME. I use fstab to mount the directories automatically.
My single longest install of Linux was 6 years and only ended because I built a new PC. Windows I generally reinstalled at least every two years. I couldn't stand how slow it got.
Long time Firefox user. Installed Librewolf today and so far so good. I used Firefox sync to get all my settings, bookmarks, open tabs, etc. back.
At some point I will probably find an alternative yo Firefox sync but it'll do for the time being.
I've switched to a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS as part of my continuing deGoogle. Thanks for this, its further ideas to work on. One recommendation I would add however is that people use Obtainium instead of F-droid. This article is a pretty goof summary of why: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
Its definitely more friction to get apps installed but once they are installed, I find Obtainium better for automatic updates than F-droid.
I started out on Cinnamon (via Mint). Although I have used Ubuntu many moons ago but despised Gnome and never touched it since. After Mint In went to Arch where I DE hopped for many years.
I tried XFCE (didn't like the visual inconsistences); Openbox - liked and loved for quite a while as a minimalist setup;
Mate - too old looking so didn't last;
Deepin - lasted a very long time because I loved it so much but eventually stopped because they changed the design too much to be link Windows;
Budgie which lasted a little while and was the next closest to what Deep in provided. Was too immature at the time to be enjoyed long term;
Pantheon - I still love Pantheon. It's consistent, polished and cohesive. To me a perfect blend of nice looking, minimal and functional. Stopped using because I got tired of having to fix it on Arch;
Finally KDE. It's what I've been using for several years now because it just works, it looks nice, it's very customisable (I can make my desktop look similar to Pantheon), I like the integration and ecosystem of apps, it has great support and devs that listen.... I'm yet to have a DE tempt me away from it. Not even Cosmic lol.
Oh please gods yes. Advertising is violence and even though most of my life is now ad free, I still can't avoid the advertising scourge being shoved into my eyeballs every time I leave my house. It would be a blessed weight lifted from my already tired brain to never see a single ad again.