Free Palestine 🇵🇸 @ netchami @sh.itjust.works

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You can use fingerprint or U2F to unlock your password manager and copy the password. That way you don't have to type it in.

Be aware, however, Nintendo is aggressive with banning, so mod at your own risk.

Just block Nintendo servers when running modded to make sure you don't get banned. This guide can help you: https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/extras/blocking_nintendo/

Some laptops like the Framework laptop have fingerprint sensors

Physical Security keys like NitroKeys or YubiKeys are another option

I remember using this (cheating a little bit with VPNs and proxies so I could claim the rewards like 20 times every day, because they are separate in every country) to get some Xbox giftcards

I also had ~15 Microsoft accounts and I put them all in a Microsoft family so I could transfer points from one account to another, it was really fun lol

Yeah that's my hope. I don't think many people will switch because of the removal of old.reddit.com, but Reddit will probably become much shittier after going public. Hopefully that will cause more people to switch. It worked with Twitter, some people initially switched when Musk took over, but many other people switched later when the service became worse and worse.

You can check if it's on Deezer and use this guide to download it. The same is possible on Qobuz. Both offer FLACs.

Nothing. It's free for 3 users with a limit of 100 devices. The traffic isn't relayed through Tailscale servers, instead, Tailscale just orchestrates the peer-to-peer connections.

That sounds truly awesome /s

It's literally corporate spyware made by Microsoft, one of the shittiest companies in history. It also uses the Chromium rendering engine under the hood, meaning you also support Google's monopoly. It's the worst browser choice you can make. (besides maybe Opera or shit like that)

Firefox and LibreWolf are the only good browsers that don't support Google's monopoly on browser rendering engines and give you the freedom to block ads

Sounds like you’re left with almost no modern conveniences or technology.

You are right, I forgot one exception. I do use a Google Phone because these have the best support for alternative operating systems. I replaced the Stock Android which is filled with Google spyware with GrapheneOS, an entirely open-source version of Android which makes many privacy and security improvements and gets rid of any Google services. Watch this video to learn more about it: https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=yTeAFoQnQPo

On my laptops/computers, I exclusively use Linux. I refuse to touch any bloated, ad- and spyware-infested Windows computer. Yes, even at work. As a DevSecOps and Senior Linux engineer, I am free to choose whatever operating system I want. Free and open-source software is the way to go.

I use Firefox (LibreWolf, a better version of Firefox to be percise) with DuckDuckGo as my search engine, I watch YouTube videos through Piped, I use Signal as my messenger, I use Proton for Email, I self-host Nextcloud for my files, contacts, calenders, etc.

For entertainment, I simply pirate the content which gives me much more freedom compared to shitty streaming services like Netflix. That way, I also don't have to give these shitty corporations any money. I use the open-source Jellyfin media server to consume content from my media library. I do the same thing using Navidrome for my music.

Regarding Social Media, Lemmy is probably the only thing I use. I don't need Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok.

And the list goes on and on. I could write an entire book about avoiding proprietary software and shitty corporations.

ensure you are truly not using any of these companies or their subsidiaries

I do everything in my control to avoid it. I can't 100% guarantee it, but that's also not my goal. Not giving them my money or my data is enough for me.

Or even if a mom and pop shop down the street is using technologies, software, or appliances from one of these companies to run their local business…

Well, that's out of my control.

I'm suffocating in a wall I guess

I don't think that this will be the reason for another mass migration. Maybe some users will switch but it won't be a significant number

Some Tailscale clients are open-source and you can self-host a Headscale server

All of those shitty Big Tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle and many others, all corporate Social Media platforms (including Reddit of course, fuck Spez), those shitty Hollywood media corporations, CDNs like Cloudflare or Akamai, Tesla and everything related to Elon Musk, Starbucks, basically all fast food chains, every Chinese or Russian company, every Israeli company, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestle and many others. I also try to stay away from PayPal, banks and insurance companies as much as possible, they are criminals.

We shouldn't just focus on shitty companies. Foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are basically tax-exempt billionaire investment funds in disguise. This is a great video about the lies of billionaire philanthropy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto

Kodi in a mini-pc

That's the way to go. You can even use something like a Raspberry Pi running LibreELEC, a very lightweight Linux distro which does nothing more than run Kodi.

Personally, I really like Garuda Linux and CachyOS for Gaming. You can also check out ChimeraOS or uBlue Bazzite if you want something closer to the Steam Deck.

Linux Mint Debian Edition and Fedora are some general recommendations of mine. Nobara is a fork of Fedora optimized for Gaming.

Use Firefox or LibreWolf

Edge is the worst recommendation I've ever seen in my life

Njalla and Kyun

Stay away from this garbage. Use BleachBit.