[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Tor is definitely another option. For my personal use however, I have my entire network covered by a VPN so all outgoing traffic uses it.

I'm sure I could setup Tor to do the same, but I imagine my family and I would get blocked more heavily on sites, as well as get our bank accounts and such flagged or something.

Like many things, it obviously depends on your threat model.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Unnecessary rant: I actually just had to downgrade my 575(?) driver after spending a few days trying to troubleshoot a freezing laptop. One day I walked away when it happen and that actually gave me the logs I needed to find the Nvidia driver was freezing the machine and then spitting logs out after giving up 10 minutes later (but still keeping things frozen). Was driving me nuts, thinking my hard drive was seeing the light, even though all tests for it were passing with flying colors!

I'm hesitant to try this new version since I didn't see anything in the changelog about freeze fixes lol.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 months ago

I saw the controller and tv and honestly thought the comic was going to end with him being forced to update to play, and then not having time anymore once the update finished. At least that's always my experience with my console, which is probably why I don't play on it anymore lol

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago

I also wouldn't consider this a secret....

I found years ago that if you block ubi.com and ubisoft.com (if you have a self hosted DNS or a way to block domains on a network), and any other sub domains you might spot, the games work fine. They just take like a full minute to load while they try their best to hit the servers. So yeah I've never agreed to the TOS for a few games as a result.

Needles to say, you'll need these domains unblocked to play multiplayer.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

As a Gentoo user, I can confirm I started from sticks and rocks. I'm now in the space age though because of the customizability and performance boosts, so image is a little dated.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

What is that weird >>=== symbol? Looks like a cross breed between C and JavaScript here.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox.

How about you show you respect user privacy by making it an opt-in...?

Feels like no matter where I turn, even the "privacy friendly" options turn away from privacy eventually.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Even if a game doesn't look like it'll work based on protondb, try it anyway. Many times I've had games that were marked as low ratings start up without any changes lol. I remember even when d4 beta came out, I saw people struggling to install and play it on the first weekend... Worked out of the box for me.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

I'd do my part in buying games from them more if they didn't block my home network from their website lol. Yes it's behind a VPN, and no I'm not turning it off to give up my privacy just to buy something I can get from stores that won't block me.

I honestly used to buy games from them a lot, but once their website became inaccessible, I sorta forgot about them. Surely I'm not the only one right...?

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

I wish there were some descriptions per provider with the ratings. Mullvad gets constant tests by third party against their network and has proven many times they have a no log policy that's working, yet they got a 4 out of 5...

With only numbers and generic descriptions that don't quite match the truth, feels like this sheet is a little misleading. Also, I find it ironic that it's on Google sheets.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Only 2 problems I have with Graphene personally is the need to give Google money, which the irony is just too much, and no option for rooting. Otherwise it seems like a pretty good OS overall. In the meantime, while I wait for those options to be more flexible so I can have full control, I just use a rooted lineage os with all the extra Google stuff (ntp, DNS, etc) stripped and replaced with my own self hosted systems.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

I personally prefer NoScript not for just the privacy stuff, but for the security of knowing that an accidental click to a malicious site using some zeroday JavaScript exploit won't kick in like it would, had it not been default blocked.

My NoScript profile is also fairly populated with things I've trusted over the years, so it's really only new websites that require JavaScript that I have to worry about.

Maybe just me being over cautious, but just keeps me at ease, personally.

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