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  • Bazzite feels so close to feature complete, but there are still corners I stub my toes on.

    I have to care about whatever Wayland is, because RustDesk on Bazzite fights me (it’s my backup for remoting to fix a machine when moonlight or Steam Link is misbehaving), and I miss Steam PCVR hosting, but both of those are edge cases for most folks and I can forego on most systems.

    Meanwhile, the lean, light, singularly focused environment is great and I really do like not having to bother with Windows. I never want Edge to barge in on my day again. I will never subscribe to OneDrive. I don’t want an AI companion modem Bonzai Buddy to “help” me remember anything, and memorize my SSN or Birthday along the way.





  • I’m trying to follow… Whatever that reply was. I shop at Amazon for electronics components that otherwise take several days to get to me and aren’t readily available in local brick’n’mortar retail.

    I also have bought a lot of adapters, specialty wiring harnesses, and int’l travel gear from AliExpress over the years.

    I’m pretty sure that I’m not ‘Trash’ and instead a human person. But you do you, boo, and rationalize away insulting me and everyone else in your community here, because we aren’t doing… Whatever it is you’re doing.










  • My transaction sending a small amount of cash to a personal friend in Australia exited my account just fine, but failed to materialize in theirs today.

    I wonder if it’s affecting specifically Australia, because they were unable to open their own new account today for some kind of rate limiting or velocity timeout.

    Like if Wise have some microservice or compliance API calls failing for Australia markets specifically, that could explain these three failings that you’d expect headlines talking about a countrywide outage affecting that significant of a market.


  • Full-fat VPS and roll-your-own proxy solutions are wonderful! Can you recommend a vps service that gives you the global access and a workspace for you to build your tools for your toolkit?

    Most I’ve priced were either more than $6usd /month or were very, very over-provisioned, but I’m interested in learning!


  • Something strange happened in the last decade, wherever one has 300 emotional support tabs and browsers had to create really elaborate tab groups and memory management for juggling stacks upon stacks of tabs.

    I don’t think anyone actually uses bookmarks anymore, except you, me, about any 3000 misc nerds.


  • cardfire@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy@lemmy.mlThe Privacy Iceberg
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    3 months ago

    Can I ask what has you subscribing toVPN’s year round? I have three use cases for my subscription

    1. Torrenting
    2. Bypassing weird region locks like South Korea’s age verification requirements for Google searches and naughty things.
    3. Throwing all of my internet traffic back to the same country as my employer with a reliable kill switch for any VPN drops and DNS leaking.

    I end up subscribed to Mullvad for maybe 5 months a year. I still end up paying less than a NordVPN subscription, I feel good about supporting Mullvad’s mission (like the ongoing development of their own browser).

    I also love that I can share my subscription with other users if I needed to, just by giving them current account ID number. In this way, it would be practical to give up to five people access while still protecting all of my devices since I throw the VPN on my travel router.

    I will schill for a very short list of companies, all day long, and Mullvad would be on that list twice simply because they don’t trick me into an endless subscription of any sort while all the others get committed income out of me annually.



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    3 months ago

    I didn’t even know that they claim Chrome extensions will work, I simply use the Firefox extensions in Waterfox.

    My browsing style is antiquated, my ADHD will only afford me about eight tabs per browser window and I usually have about four of those going at a time.

    I aggressively kill tabs to save my own mental memory more than the machine’s memory.