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Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and...

lemmy_user_838586 ,

This is what finally got me to switch to Linux years ago. Back when Virtual machines were relatively new I was messing around with them and hated having to scrounge for windows licenses to use in the VM's. (Back then you had to enter the CD Key to begin installing the OS, they didn't have trial periods, or 'activate later' options) started using Linux in VM's to try it out, and boom 15 years later, I'm never going back.

lemmy_user_838586 ,

You just reminded me of an awesome short story I read a long time ago

I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Huh, TIL about PackageKit.

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Someone who wants to buy google stock on the cheap?

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Pretty close to Michael Crichton's book "Next". Without the persons consent, they steal the cell line of someone who's cells naturally fight off cancer, create a cancer fighting drug, and then patent it, so the company legally owns that persons cells, and has a legal right to them with or without the person's consent.

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Huh, TIL.

rebuilt pc parts en route after 9 years

I've delayed making the transition to a fully "secure" set up until upgrading my PC and moving to a Linux distro from windows. now that that is happening and my parts are in the mail, what does the Lemmy community recommend for my personal network data to remain as eyes free as possible from potential hostile gov & non gov...

lemmy_user_838586 , (edited )

Oh boy. First off, unless you're a high profile activist, a high profile government agent, or a high profile hacker, your threat model isn't really targeted to you specifically. For a regular person, you usually just want to try to keep some amount of privacy on the internet and not be the lowest hanging fruit for bots and scripts.

Any of the big name Linux distros will all be fine, Ubuntu, Debian, fedora, Linux mint, etc, etc. With exception of arch, its fine, but make sure you're in a position to update regularly, and possibly deal with some breakage and fixing after an update with arch. (don't use it for server)

Anyway, these are the things I do, if you'd like to take inspiration:

I use LUKS for full disk encryption on my laptop. Not because of paranoia about the government, but because its nice to know if you're in a cafe working and someone steals your laptop while you get up to go to the restroom or something, your data is safe from prying eyes.

I use an opnsense firewall for my network, for flexibility and control over my devices and connections.

I use an openWRT WiFi router,again for flexibility and control over my WiFi connections.

I use a Firefox based browser, (firefox, fennec, ice raven, etc) its hardened enough I'm sure there's some crazy hardened version of chrome or whatever, but for the safety of the web, I like supporting a browser that's not chrome, there's really only 3 big players and one of them is Google, they alllmost have a monopoly on the web. All the other browsers are using Chrome's rendering engine except Firefox and I think safari.

Use Ublock Origin firefox or chrome extension for ad blocking

For a phone, I'd probably use a pixel device that supports grapheneOS, but right now i'm just using LineageOS, again in use Firefox for android with ublock origin extension.

For passwords, I use keepassxc, and sync it across my devices with syncthing

Oh, and don't use google for your search engine.

lemmy_user_838586 , (edited )

I haven't, I use my phone as a medical device, so I haven't taken the grapheneOS plunge yet as I'm not sure if the medical app would work. Yes, you'd have to wipe your phone to install GrapheneOS. For authenticator, if the app you used doesn't allow exporting them, you have to disable 2 factor on all services and websites that use the authenticator 2 factor codes, switch to the new phone and new app, and re-enable on all services to get the new authenticate code. Pretty shitty, that some authenticator apps don't give you a way to export (I don't think the google app allows you to, correct?)

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Very true, and Its also kinda too late. (at least in the USA) we have an election coming up in 9 months that has been raging since the last election with misinformation surrounding it. Kinda too late to pull all those Facebook memes and fake articles and go "just kidding! That was all lies!" Everyone who's been spoon fed that crap has already made up their mind on who they're voting for, you're not gonna change it last minute, damage had already been done.

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Riiight around Reagan is when things accelerated going south...

lemmy_user_838586 ,

It won't burn down, carriers won't care. To them its a customer issue, they're providing the service just fine, so their job is done. Whether or not your number is blocked by other clients is your problem. Only class of customer they might care about is business lines, because you're paying them to have better services, uptime, etc, etc.

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Same thought. I don't really care much about the AR aspects of VR googles. I feel like I can see why people might game in them, etc, but for AR stuff I don't really get the appeal. I did recently see a walkthrough of how to use and the features of the Apple Vision Pro and I can't deny, the tech itself is really cool, I was pretty excited seeing the walkthrough. I just don't really care about the applications of that tech yet.

lemmy_user_838586 , (edited )

Sure, but in its current goggle form, I'm probably not gonna do that. I'm more okay wearing goggles by myself to game in, than walk around with goggles to interact with virtual stuff in a real environment. I'm a huge SciFi fan, and I see the potential for the future tech, just not there right now. Still doesn't make the current iteration any less impressive, the tech inside the apple vision pro and the programming making it all work is extremely impressive to me.

lemmy_user_838586 ,

Firefox+ublock origin for android, for iPhone I have no clue

lemmy_user_838586 ,

I know, right? Then we might finally get some gun control in this god damn country... (USA, obviously)

lemmy_user_838586 ,

I'm in the US, Why is swatting even able to be a thing? Like you call a number, say a bunch of lies into the phone and people with guns and tanks show up and shoot everyone in the house an hour later? No one double checks the info given? Like wtf, why is that a normal response time and time again when I'm sure most of the events these teams are called in for, its for swatting. How many crazy dangerous hostage situations or terrorist dens you think these guys are busting regularly vs killing innocent people from random internet strangers lies?

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