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The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.
The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.
I’m not saying it was always the case. Back when ads were just images hosted on the same machine as the rest of the page they were only annoying.
But nowadays even so-called acceptable ads are delivered by third-party servers. So suddenly you have to trust not only the operator of the page you’re visiting but also any advertising partners they use. And since all modern advertising uses a gazillion of metrics that necessitates JavaScript you end up executing code that neither you nor the page operator have any actual need for nor influence on, hoping that the ad network has some sort of vetting process so they don’t end up unwittingly delivering malware.
That’s a tall order in my opinion.
All ads are a cybersecurity risk, not just the targeted ones. The targeted ones just offer new and exciting vectors.
But you’re running Debian, so it’ll be 2 years at least before you get it.
The markdown you’re looking for is _underscores_
or *asterisks*
for emphasis.
What’s wrong with taxi services?
From a client perspective Uber and Lyft don’t solve any issue that taxi services don’t. They may be more convenient/accessible by providing an app, but that’s not an unsolvable issue.
But from a privacy perspective taxis clearly have a leg up since you’re an anonymous customer.
Maybe it’s time we give up on computers. We’re simply not good with them. Or maybe it’s just time to oxidise all the software.
pavucontrol
probably the best option given your distro. Go with that.
That’s an efficiency factor of 4 right there. The design is likely limited by the surface area. If they manage to squeeze a heatsink in that will increase the capacity for heat removal.
Been keeping an eye on that tech for a while. Looks very interesting for laptops and graphics cards.
Ain’t that the truth. But I love the workflow they offer. You don’t have to go looking for new windows. You can easily pin applications to virtual desktops and I prefer the multihead model they use over the one used by gnome or KDE.
So we have to piece information together from the manual and random blogs? Like cavemen? Or worse, like Windows users??
Not to mention that they’re still considered experimental.
I don’t know what gave you the idea that a particular distro would be an especially good/bad choice for privacy, etc. They’re all GNU/Linux with only minor differences in compile-time options in the kernel and different defaults in user-space. But they’re just that, defaults. You can reconfigure them to your preference.
With that out of the way, the issue NixOS attempts to address is reproducibility. You get a central configuration infrastructure that defines everything, from partition layout, through user creation and package installation to software configuration. The central idea being that migrating to a new machine or setting up a new development environment should only take a few commands.
What you do with that is up to you. You can barricade the whole system if you like. The defaults are sane, but not overly focused on privacy, etc.
Also it’s quite a learning curve as the documentation/wiki is incomplete and/or outdated.
Maybe. Every time I’ve looked into this so far I found it confusing enough to just go with a cable.
Meh. Found BL3 and TTW rather disappointing.
At least I can play games and get directional audio. Beyond that I care little how they achieve it.
Good to know. Thanks for the heads up. I’m still on the tether.
Yea, people mostly equate email to an electronic letter, but it’s more like an electronic postcard. Anyone handling it can simply read it.
So you’ll want encryption, too. So either you get everyone to use PGP/GPG or get them to use a privacy-by-default provider.
Good luck with the first option and I’m not sure how interoperable the various providers are, so in the worst case you’d have to rally everyone to the same provider.