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Rambler wrote
Reply to Do any of the reasons that prevented people from using Linux still apply in 2021? by Wahaha
Fulltime Linux user since... 2010, part-time (dual boot) from probably 04-2010.
Hardware wise, I've never had any major issue. Nvidia cards sometimes cause relatively easily fixed issues. Some Linux distros such as Pop_OS! I believe come with Nvidia drivers and related packages installed, as well as Wine (useful for Windows programs/games).
As far as GUI goes: I stick with XFCE, Cinnamon or MATE desktop environments. Pretty familiar UI. Taskbar, menu, etc.
As far as support and fixing errors? Probably easier than Windows. My limited experience with Windows in recent (10 years) has been dealing with customers for a company that sold servers. Some users had Windows servers, but the company didn't have any specific Windows based staff/support available at all hours. Searching the web for the errors shown on their stuff would very frequently yield forum posts / threads with someone else asking the same question, but no one responding. Was incredibly frustrating at times. (And other times you'd find the answer, and it was a quick fix...)
Linux? Just copy/paste the error in your search engine of choice and you'll find a ton of discussion about that error. You'll find the resolution. You'll find someone else saying, "Well, that will work, but you can also do this." and someone else will respond giving you an opinionated history lesson on how the change from X to Y in a recent major update of the program in question was stupid.
Run Linux in a VM or try it on a USB stick first. If you kind of like it, then install it alongside Windows (dual boot).
I ran Pop_OS! for the first half of 2020. I liked it, and it worked great out of the box with my card and desktop build. I'm not a gamer by any means but I'll go through random spurts about once a year where I may spend a month playing Kerbal Space Program or City Skylines or something like that... and it all worked very well via Steam. I don't specifically recall any obstacle in getting it all to work that may be challenging to a newcomer, I think it all just sort of worked.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to comment by TallestSkil in The Tor Project stands in solidarity with the pedophile community by Hitler_Was_Right
You would have to make the browser engine run through the Tor proxy (socks5://127.0.0.1:9050), including DNS requests to resolve onions. But why no one forked Tor? It's probably because Firefox and its Gecko browser engine aren't dead yet, but it might be in the future, so it's probably a good idea to use Pale Moon as a replacement, especially with the Proxy Privacy Ruler, which allows for applying the proxy only for private windows and/or certain domains. But they'll probably not do that and just accept to use Chromium and its Blink browser engine (I mean, Pale Moon is bad... but it's still better than what Chromium is trying to do).
awdrifter wrote (edited )
Reply to What are your favorite anime of each decade? by Wahaha
90s - Evangelion
00s - Chrno Crusade
10s - Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
20s - Not sure yet, maybe To Aru Railgun S3, 86, Vivy, or Evangelion 4.0.
TallestSkil wrote
Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in The Tor Project stands in solidarity with the pedophile community by Hitler_Was_Right
Is there a way to transplant the Tor protocols onto a different browser engine? Say, WebKit? Why hasn’t anyone forked Tor as a result of their behaviors?
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Mrwarmind in What are your favorite anime of each decade? by Wahaha
Hokuto no Ken was pretty cool. It's originally from the 80s, but it got many seasons, even as late as 2016 or something like that.
Anime kind of exploded during the late 1990s and early 2000s, there are so many anime made around that time that it's hard to name all the great ones. Among the generally overlooked ones, I really enjoyed Gallery Fake (2005) and Master Keaton (1998).
Mrwarmind wrote
Bouncy
Mrwarmind wrote (edited )
Reply to What are your favorite anime of each decade? by Wahaha
It's a bit hard question, a lot of old anime shows I watched recently and can't exactly tell whether they're from the 80s or 90s
I just watched violence jack a month ago
However, I watched fist of north star back in the early 90s and it was the best thing I've seen, but I recon its older than that
As for 2000s, there were many great things like code Geass, death note, Fullmetal alchemist, guren lagan
When it comes to the last couple of years, I'd say Dr.stone
Wahaha wrote
Phrasing it like that makes me wonder what a village full of pedophiles would look like.
TallestSkil wrote
Reply to comment by MilkyPastel in Economics 101 by Wahaha
Whore detected.
Wahaha wrote
Isn't it run by the FBI anyway?
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Clearly, there are worse things the Tor Project did, such as removing a Clownflare discussion (notice how it doesn't exist on GitLab) and moving from Trac to GitLab, which caused disabling anonymous contributions. And let's not forget the Mozilla dependency…
dontvisitmyintentions wrote (edited )
I've followed the kerfuffle from afar, reading the most popular articles and comments on the "LiberaChat" side. And one theme dominates these stories, like a poorly-written comic book (which is how all drama plays out on this side of the Current Year):
Rasengan pisses off the right people. Every bad decision he might have made makes me chuckle. This Korean dude might actually be based.
I can imagine good reasons for doing all the terrible things he does (like dropping a bespoke, byzantine ircd nobody else uses for something normal people can configure, an ircd which was even controversial a decade ago when there were more people hacking on ircds), but I don't need to. He angers the people who got so angry that they died their hairlogo trans colors and moved out of their parents' house so they could stay up late and put their dildos on a shelf. At least, I'm 41% sure that's what happened.
Edit: (two days later) It turns out they anonymize IPs now like Rizon and other mainstream networks do. Based.
vistingghost wrote
I don't want to lie about my UA but I have to change it in order to avoid Cloudflare's CAPTCHA. Cloudflare passes Tor Browser's UA for IP addresses of Tor exit nodes. Btw, Cloudflare distinguishes its users by TLS/SSL fingerprinting as well as by HTTP headers including UA. I must doubt that organizations encouraging TLS/SSL want fingerprinting more beyond security. Hey, Tor Project and EFF, don't be evil...
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Wahaha in How Websites Know You're Lying About Your User-Agent by Rambler
Firefox usage fell by 1.02% from 2020-05 to 2021-05, so over the next three years, it should fall to about 0.3%, and I guess it's pretty much dead at this point, so it will merge with Chromium, I bet. Edit: I knew someone already said it.
AntifascistChimp wrote
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I thought I was the only sane one
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in How Websites Know You're Lying About Your User-Agent by Rambler
Calling it now, Firefox will move to Chrome's browser engine, too.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in How Websites Know You're Lying About Your User-Agent by Rambler
But I usually can enable only some of the scripts. Besides, there are probably better ways of tracking someone, like cough the FLoCing FLoC. cough
But since I don't use Chromium browsers any more, they can't actually do that, and I doubt it's coming to Firefox, unless you count its inevitable death.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in How Websites Know You're Lying About Your User-Agent by Rambler
Some sites only work by enabling scripts.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in How Websites Know You're Lying About Your User-Agent by Rambler
I don't even change my user agent most of the time, so it just equals to what my browser is, but pretending to be Windows 10 while I actually have Windows 7, so it is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
currently (this is what LibreWolf does by default, btw).
So anyway, the only time the user agent differs from the defaults is when I want to enable a desktop version on mobile and when I want to bypass getting user agent blocked because I'm using Wget, so I usually just empty it (or set it to a browser user agent because it also gets blocked).
Also, since I block third party scripts with uMatrix by default, there's not much point to constantly changing the user agent because the trackers won't see it anyway.
DcscZx5idox wrote (edited )
The F-Droid (free software android app repository) team has decided to migrate from Freenode to OFTC.
https://f-droid.org/en/2021/06/10/important-community-update.html
Wahaha wrote
No single user-agent would protect your privacy anyway. What I do is to let my user-agent switch every ten minutes. Also, user-agent not only carries browser information, but also browser version and operating system.
Having scripts blocked per default also helps.
I don't mind websites knowing my user-agent is fake. I mind websites having the ability to track me based on my user-agent. Thus my user-agent changes automatically.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to by sheinabox
Newbie question. What is this?
Wingless wrote
Reply to Firefox Hardening Guide | BlackGNU by benis
I don't understand AdNauseum. If it "clicks" on ads, isn't it allowing third parties to track your browsing all over the internet?
Wingless wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Wahaha in RockYou2021: largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4 billion entries by Rambler
I assume they add passwords to the next list...
The key thing for cracking passwords is, at some point it is way faster to search every password anybody has ever thought of, than to search every password anyone possibly could think of.
Yes, an honest site would just let you look up in the index starting with any string of letters, so you didn't have to give away your password in the process. Therefore, this is not an honest site. Q.E.D.
Faster proof: It's a site, from a company, on a computer. Therefore it is spying on you and selling your information. Q.E.D.
vistingghost wrote
Reply to Do any of the reasons that prevented people from using Linux still apply in 2021? by Wahaha
Too many distributions to use. You know? :D
...For non-English speakers, it can be time-consuming and unstable to set up non-English input methods in Linux. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, ...