a VPN doesn’t protect your privacy
Does from your ISP unless they do deep packet inspection and related techniques.
utopiah
joined 3 years ago
I'm lazy, bought my phone from Murena, they deGoogled it for me.
Interesting, could be nice to help move away from Firefox Profile by being able to import from it rather than "just" the current installed Firefox instance.
Who in the EU wants a US car
Bunch of people according to most EU capitals where one can see, sadly, plenty of Swatzicars.
move somewhere I can get around with just a bicycle.
So... FWIW that'd be Brussels and I bet most European cities. By bike you can get your food in, get to the nearby Brico to fix pretty much anything in your house, get deliveries with national post service, but you can cycle all the way to the airport (if somehow you don't want to use the train), park there and get... well pretty much anywhere else in the World.
I suggest to explain what " 5-week degoogle challenge" actually mean.
Does it mean people who join have 5 weeks to remove Google from their lives? If so how?
There were and still are into quantum computing.
They are absolute champions of tech-washing and green-washing.
It's literally anything to say, do and spending money on to make people forget that their core business is actually advertising.
With pleasure, if you want more on the topic, not Linux specific though, you might find https://video.benetou.fr/w/p/q8C2p1Aky9uVPrPShMrAxK interesting.
Neat, DM sent.
What I mean is that MacOS is proprietary and runs on specific hardware, it's by design not meant to be interoperable so it's not "just" popularity.
Proton is built on top of Wine in order to make sure games specifically work well.
You can check https://www.protondb.com/ before buying a game (with Steam or otherwise) to insure it works as expected. A lot will work with 0 tinkering but some might next extra command line parameters.
You might get the same result with Wine directly but Proton it doing everything it can to "hide" away those (hopefully small) challenges away from the final user, a gamer (like me) who wants to just sit down and play.
So... the heuristic is basically :
- games? Proton
- not games but Windows applications that somehow do not have a better open-source equivalent running on Linux? Wine
Edit: for the anecdote I wrote this reply on my SteamDeck, the gaming console by Valve coming with Steam, and Proton, and running Linux to... just play BUT I also use it to work while traveling. So yes, works like a charm!
I''d argue changing who can see your data from either a large group to a smaller one or one you do trust vs one you do not trust precisely is protecting your privacy.
Also FWIW you can host your VPN, you do not have to rely on a commercial VPN provider.