Leaning on Google’s expertise in privacy and security

Lol. Google’s expertise on privacy. Yeah, they probably know really well how to circumnavigate all those pesky privacy rules.

Got my head straight to this short (sorry, it’s Youtube): hehe

When I first opened the image I only saw the top part of it. I needed to double check if it wasn’t a photograph. That’s a really nice painting.

Never heard of Quiblr but I really like the look and feel of. Also great that you added a “For you page”. Any chance you can add kbin/mbin instances? Is Quiblr like a frontend which pulls data from other instances or is it an other fediverse piece of software? And are we able to selfhost Quiblr?

Suspend and resume are indeed fantastic. There is no wait time before you can game.

Yeah, that last part about getting my gaming vibe going is something I recognize. I used to get a lot of joy out of gaming and could spend hours on it. Now it is feeling more and more like something I do just to pass time.

That was my move as well. I did do some upgrades on my PC along the way, but the base was still from 2009 (and I must say, it functioned surprisingly well). But a couple of months back I upgraded my PC as well. But the decline in play time on the Steam Deck was started before the upgrade.

I should probably use it more as you do. Plug it in on the TV and do some group gaming or just for myself, and keep it with me when traveling.

That sucks man. Nice to have the Steam Deck then. At least you have some form of entertainment.

It definitely is, and I really enjoyed it when I got it. But I do run into the limitations of the device. Those limitations are by design because I would like a bigger screen, but putting a 17" screen on a handheld doesn’t make it a handheld anymore. So my usecase might not fit with the device anymore. I do use it sometimes to play sports or casual games. But that’s about it.

On macOS you need to do that quite a couple of times. Changing settings, installing stuff to run in the background, install stuff to open open login, etc. So it is there. Furthermore a lot of programs and guides for linux are written to make it easy so they use sudo but you don’t always have to run it as root. But not doing so usually requires more steps. So linux is more restricting but to circumvent that, people use sudo a bit too much.

No it’s not that bad. They indeed are open about it. But it feels like baby steps in the wrong way. I don’t really have an opinion but I was just a bit disappointed about the path they’re going on. Because I don’t see the added value of knowing what users search for. So i was curious about opinions from more educated people.

Librefox? Or something else? Don’t know, but since Firefox is often recommended for privacy, I was wondering if this changes things?

You need to trust your provider. If you choose a bigger one, chances are you are a bit safer. Those kind of providers make big bucks on companies, so if they harm the trust of their customers they are out of business. You could try to choose software which implements E2EE and zero-trust to be safer, but those are not available on all software categories. VPS providers have access to all your stuff. So it’s all up to you which provider you trust. I would prefer a bigger name too some obscure little basement hoster.

If you’re already doing your own domain, why not use something like anonaddy? That can.be selfhosted as well.

Does your girlfriend use your devices or accounts? Seems very strange to me that they would do that. Or they want to fuck you over even more by making it less easy to deny that you didn’t create that account since the password is linked to you/your girlfriend. But then again, LE would need to be made aware of the password before that makes sense.

Man I hope this is the right call. Could be great that they will listen to the users more, but it could also be a quick downfall from here if they get pressure from the investors.

While there are really bad things about goodreads, the article/interviews give me a vibe of “boohoo, we want to decide what people like and now they decide it themselves and we don’t like that.”

What does the NGINX proxy manager do? Is that to access the mediaserver?

Well they don’t ignore that market. They decided to not sell there yet. Because going to a new large market far away from all your warehouses and with a potential large demand cause a lot of headaches. Not to mention all the regulations and rules they need to abide by.