The free version of ProtonVPN is sufficient enough for my use.
hottari
joined 3 years ago
I am on my browser a lot. I use VPN most of the time. Am blocking ads system-wide with DNS on all my devices.
I have like only 30-40 sites that I allow to save cookies. Any site that won't work without cookies is opened in a guest/temp profile, if I use such a site frequently it makes to the allowlist. Same allowlist principle is applied to the number of apps I install. If the service works well on the browser am not installing it.
I also use Jshelter and NoScript to allowlist Javascript, WebGL (farbled with Jshelter) and other browser properties. My browsers are mostly on a Javascript allowlist for my PC and on a denylist for my phone because I don't use it as much as my PC and am fine with the hardened levels on Cromite.
I self-host most of the services I constantly use (those that I can) and use community alternatives whenever I can just to avoid giving data/analytics to FAANG. That said I sometimes cheat with Twitter & Instagram (haven't opened this in forever) all on PWAs with a separate browser (Mulch).
It's a bit overkill but am safisfied with the level of control.
The fast-food and medical insurance industrial complexes couldn't be more giddy.
Dramatic shift from "Russia's military is weak." "They are using tanks from WWII!" among other fables the West gathered to tell themselves.
Docker is not optimized for desktop and Flatpaks aren't optimized for running services. You'll spend more time & effort making both of them work and still end up with sub-optimal experiences.
NixOS. Every simple update (nixos rebuild switch) was just eating RAM & CPU. I managed to brick it when updating to 23.11 and couldn't find a way out of the mess I created (even with the saved snapshots) so I said adios.
This is what I use as well.
Yes. I get the LUKS prompt with the plymouth theme as well. But I should probably mention am using dracut and systemd-boot as my bootloader.
The only time the flicker-free boot doesn't work as expected is when I interrupt the boot process to go to the bootloader menu.
It is if that's what you are comfortable with.
No big difference between those two methods of install. You get the real medal when a random upgrade breaks some software and you are able to track down the issue and corresponding solution(s).
Plymouth has been flicker-free for me, for a long while now. I use to force it to default to bgrt theme and even that is selected by default now. This is what I use loglevel=3 rd.udev.log_level=3 rd.systemd.show_status=false splash .
The Intel NUCs should be good enough.