zwekihoyy @ zwekihoyy @lemmy.ml

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not necessarily. you need security for privacy but you don't need privacy to be secure.

your data is more secure on windows from malicious 3rd party actors than Linux, but you have lower privacy due to Microsoft's ridiculously invasive telemetry. The telemetry does not decrease your security though.

who do you think is maintaining a majority of packages of linux? there are plenty of reasons to use Linux over windows, I haven't touched windows in a good year or two, but it is immensely less secure without significant hardening efforts that aren't exactly trivial to understand. Windows isn't great on security either, MacOS is ahead of it and ChromeOS is even farther.

I will concede, assuming you have the in-depth knowledge required, you can build a more secure platform with Linux due to the ability to compile the kernel with only needed features and being able to fully control what is allowed. out of the box, no custom kernels, basic user experience? Linux sits at the bottom.

you're conflating security and privacy which are two entirely different subjects.

nextdns is the most performant option I've used. it often beats our cloudflare even. adguard wasn't bad but it was a bit more cumbersome and very slow.

I don't like recommending self hosting as opening ports on a private network isn't a great idea. you could use something like cloudflare or tailscale to bridge access but you'll run into issues with network speeds.

I think using virtualbox is the bigger offense here.

there is little difference between "open source but you need formal education to be able to dig through and understand the documentation and code" and closed source. open source is still better for ethical reasons but for 9/10 users, it's not reasonable to check the source code and they are losing any potential "security" benefits that was provided.

Windows default are more secure than Linux my guy

rooting cripples your security and there is little benefit to it.

I've been working on one for a minute but the best solution I've come up with is searching every package manager when search is invoked but otherwise requiring the package manager to be declared via pkgman.package for installs/removes etc.

"appimage doesn't suck" is a funnier joke than the original.

don't have mobile data? wym lmao

people are even dumber than I realized holy shit. I knew people weren't willing to go far for security measures but this is actually much worse than I would have guessed.

laziness, ignorance, or privilege? I'm unsure which of the three causes this. I find it hard to believe it's ignorance because online scams and hacks are very well known and I've always hated "laziness" as a concept.

wh... what. lmao yall just say as many buzz words as possible.

you only need one totp app.... people baffle me.

no but you is putting them on a pedestal though. the claim is they shouldn't be treated worse

idk what to tell you. it's not in any way indicating a message of superiority.

congrats. you've got the worst recommendation yet lmao

because I inhaled them dummy

because it's dismissive and unhelpful? it doesn't need to be said.

this is known as a strawman. nice try