this was a surprisingly good article

I would love to have secure boot for a customized distro. it only really needs to attest the firmware and the bootloader because they can’t be encrypted, which would serve as a form of tamper protection

majority of consumers don’t even know how to decline cookies on websites, let alone how to install windows, or that other thing that’s called limix… or what

freedos ftw

kde’s discover app store supports it too

Unfortunately that’s true for most of them. I believe that monero is the difference though, it is actually used as a currency, not as an investment vehicle

even more so if you think about the newer ones recording their environment, the whole neighborhood etc, with cameras and/or radar/lidar

well, for one firefox is not a stripped down browser but one with conveniences like push notifications, safebrowsing and other things, while ungoogled chromium is a specialized browser built for those who don’t need all that. don’t forget also that chrome can’t be patched up on many fronts, ublock’s dev gorhill has written about them here

that being said, mozilla could make a first time setup page with an option for convenience and another with a menu for selecting which services do you want. but I wouldn’t hold my breath

It’s informative in terms of which parties are basically notified that you started using it. why the fuck does zen load discord, x, bunnyfonts, and whatnot?

I can only hope floorp and zen devs are ashamed of what have they done. all of those third party domains like discord, x and those mundane ones are totally unnecessary

well that I can agree on. still, personally I would choose neither, and I hope the EU won’t take them as examples

never said anything about the US, but fuck that too

defend the surveillance state! live to work, and to praise the Great Leader!

yeah on windows its… limited. you can make virtual playback devices (speakers) with programs like vb-cable to separate them. you can then set up monitoring for them so that you hear it and… you can’t mix it with your mic so that’s no good.

there was also Synchronous Audio Router. but it’s buggy and microsoft made sure it never ever gets an update

I would prefer the setup to be easy on the client side

you mean for the viewers, right? this shouldn’t make any complications for them

Technically you can. you can select the window to be shared, or a whole desktop, and if you are on linux and use the pipewire sound system (a lot of places it’s the default nowadays) you can use qpwgraph or similar tools to connect the outputs of a game to the browser’s audio sink. it can also be automated

“a bit”. this post just proves they are lying all around

it tries to check which instances are offline, to only redirect you to working ones. reddit can be redirected to libreddit/redlib, which makes reddit unable to track you, and these frontends are also much lighter on resources (ram, cpu, network traffic, cognitive load)