The having to do something is the cost, because they have a perfectly good messaging app already, “why can’t you just use that?”

And that cost is more on Apple’s platform because Apple has been designing it that way since the beginning. It’s the whole reason android users got a different color bubble, not because they had to, but it was a way to identify the person that wasn’t using an iPhone and make them stand out. Making it almost unimaginable to switch to Android for youth who care so much about not being “out” of the group.

And Google has identified this, and put a lot of cringe-worthy effort into addressing it at their Pixel event this time around.

Well pre-RCS they routed android users differently because they were not compatible. Google did something similar, but in reverse, adding back things like reactions, etc. to make android users not feel like they were getting a 2nd rate experience.

Companies like Apple spent a lot to create a switching cost in almost every product. The “bubble” color is also a HUGE thing in the US, and is often times the sole reason for not wanting to leave iMessage.

Never heard of them, and their site doesn’t leave me filled with confidence. They make a big deal about using a slower algorithm, call it zero trust, but also have a client that mounts your “drive” local seamlessly. In order to do that though your files need to be unencrypted before your OS can read them. So the client needs to be constantly encrypting and decrypting your files since it hypothetically has zero knowledge of your files at rest on their server.

I could see files getting scrambled/corrupted when it’s being uploaded and downloaded in rapid succession.

Edit - You also shouldn’t consider it a backup if you’re accessing the files constantly like Dropbox. You are essentially just paying for a mountable S3 drive, not a backup.

A rolling release is probably better long term. Arch for example currently has Nvidia drivers as far back as for Fermi (GeForce 400/500) cards.

Depends on what you’re doing with it. If it’s just for normal privacy you could just get a vps and install any of the wireguard packages. If you’re using it to evade copyright enforcement (or something similar) I don’t have an answer for that, but a VPN with your name attached is no longer a good idea probably.

Cool idea and will check it out later. I also found a small grammatical error.

While we try strive to make original content and refresh old topics, we can’t cover everything, and we can’t be everywhere.

I assume you would want to strike “try”, but I suppose you could strike “strive” instead.

Edit - I made a word salad on a post about a grammatical error, go me!

We don’t keep Epic in an online repo just because Chromium is a massive codebase and Epic is not a fork but a modified version of Chromium so we don’t have a consistent codebase rather it changes with each new version of Chromium. Chromium which Epic is built on is open source software which anyone can immediately download and audit.

That is from the Epic FAQ page and doesn’t make me feel warm and fuzzy. They basically are hacking stuff onto Chromium and saying “just let us know what you want to see”, and “BTW Chromium is auditable but since we are making who knows what kind of hacks to its codebase it’s kinda a moot point”.

Have you tried any of the suggested working proton flags on protondb?

Hogwarts Legacy

Agreed, it can work for those wanting to be an admin (and know enough to be “dangerous”). I think the bigger issue comes when you want to open services to the internet, because unless you are an admin you probably don’t want to do that without a proxy (and possibly firewall) of some kind in front of your home network. Which is kinda what I was thinking with this anti-Cloudflare post. If you are interacting with the Internet you have to trust a network and hardware outside of your own. And I think it’s naive to fear the 3-letter orgs being inside Cloudflare, and then thinking that putting your data in a datacenter you don’t control is any “safer”.

I think ultimately if the 3 letter groups want your data that bad because you’re on some list, I think the internet as a whole is something you should probably be avoiding anyways. And for randoms, if they are sweeping up data like that you can be sure they would do it at more than just Cloudflare.

So does everyone here that fears Cloudflare as secretly out to get them not believe that the NSA doesn’t have their hooks in all the major datacenters? The same datacenters used by all the major web hosts people are using to “self host” for privacy.

Personally I think you have to have faith at some point that everything from your node to the destination is on the up-and-up unless you have a concrete reason to assume otherwise. Otherwise you should be suspicious of your ISP’s network and every switch/router/firewall/node your data traverses on the internet. And being that paranoid basically means anything you didn’t review the code of and compile yourself should be out of bounds.

This rant is about using Cloudflare as a proxy, nothing to do with who you buy your domain name from.

I think in this case “self host” would be on a VPS, not at home. But you definitely would want to lock it down so it was open to the public.

My LG washer needed a key printed on a label on the door to connect it to the network. However that isn’t to say that once on the network that the network itself wasn’t compromised and the washer found as an easy attack surface.