Bazzite works so well out of the box that I don’t even have to think about drivers.

Newer Dell laptops I’ve worked on have them soldered on to the motherboard.

Feels like this would be a bigger win for them than a lot of other companies. The people interested in privacy focused alternative to the Google/Microsoft/Apple offerings probably have a lot of overlap with Linux users.

My default is to generate a 32 character password and store it in a password manager. Doesn’t matter to me how many characters it has since I’m just going to copy and paste it anyway.

Pretty surprising how many places enforce shorter passwords though… I had a bank that had a maximum character limit of 12. I don’t bank with them anymore. Short password limits is definitely is an indicator of bad underlying security practices.

Relevant XKCD.

Rimworld! Probably my favorite game ever actually.

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Like most things, it’s important to remember what threats you’re trying to protect yourself against.

Are you trying to protect yourself against dropping a USB in a parking lot and someone picking it up? Or are you trying to protect yourself from a nation state?

I guess because of hacks? It’s not like Facebook is selling data on tor. This point doesn’t make much sense.

Yes. If you use Ghostery and are looking for an alternative I highly recommend Privacy Badger. It’s created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is free and open source. Great piece of software.

It’s pretty laborious to do this for casual browsing though. The websites I visit regularly where it’d be worth configuring this aren’t the ones with cookies I’m worried about.

If your tax preparation software is doing things right, SSL should ensure that networks along the way can’t open up your taxes and take a look.

It’s popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it’s a huge public forum for everyone but it’s not.

That sounds like it’s just trading vendor lock-in with Phillips for Apple instead.

I’m starting to get some real Golgafrincham vibes.

Imagine living on Mars in a tiny hut that you can never leave while you slowly starve to death all while Musk is telling everyone on Earth how cool an successful his new colony is. New volunteers continue to arrive in waves while promises go unfulfilled and an endless line of corporate stooges tells you that you are lying about the conditions.