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Annoying marketing practices in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know that. Can you tell me who is supposed to enforce this and where is the law from?

When you accept the ToS I always understood that I was signing in for emails, just like (in my experience) 100% of other services/sites like Spotify, Proton, Bandcamp, eBay, Facebook, X, GitHub... well I'm not gonna list every single one but you get me.

Still, thank you for educating me.

Annoying marketing practices in c/[email protected]

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Understanding Linux kernel is medium hard, but not frustrating. Using a DE is NOT frustrating if you understand what's up with their core ideals. D-Bus, HOOKS, env variables... meh I can give you that. But 95% of users live in the web and/or office apps. And for that literally any flavor of Linux will do. My in laws would never in their lifetimes be able to distinguish Arch + KDE + SDDM + themes from Windows. I can bet my right testicle.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Sudoer for about 18 now. Full on Year of the Linux Desktop for about 5 years now.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

steam deck clone

No way Jose. If anything their approach is inspired by Fedora Atomic, which is the cornerstone of Bazzite.

Other than that, yes, a very very solid approach for daily usage for casual gamers.

Do you sit at a desk and keyboard for multiple hours? If yes, please recommend a good chair. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Swapping an Aeron with a Corsair gaming chair is insane to me to think about. At least you feel comfortable I guess.

How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

Honestly, right here, that's the beauty upside of the fediverse, we are slightly bigger than the general internet bubble and that's enough to watch content not bound by it, Iyk what I mean.

Which carbonated soft drink is the best? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Natural: Ginger+orange kombucha & homemade tonic water. Cold brew nitro.

(Nitro is soft... Right?)

Store bought: Canada Dry tonic.

Tonic has to be the best soft drink ever, once used to actually treat sickness now I can just have it with my cold brew or espresso everyday without the sugar high.

What movie(s) did you see in the theater where the crowd applauded at the end? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it's not hard work. However, I only clap when the director or producers are there. And as an indie director myself, I prefer it that way.

What movie(s) did you see in the theater where the crowd applauded at the end? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Heaps of festival films and premieres.

Yep. I have access to press screenings and 9/10 people clap at the end. Even it was an ok movie.

What are some things women will never understand about men? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

With enough care, attention and sympathy we can understand not just men or women, but anyone who decides or is not able to fit any of the universal binary expressions and experiences.

So, if you were looking for answers that fall into the opposite diatribes. This is not the place for that.

Dutch Consumer Group Sues Amazon Over Data Tracking in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

I hope the EU can one day sue the fuck out of Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft & Amazon to the point that they go bankrupt and no other company dares to take the same path.

I also would like to ride a unicorn underwater.

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DNS hijacking (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: So because of my $0 budget and the fact that my uptime is around 50% (PC, no additional servers) I ended up using NextDNS. For the time being it works (according to dnsleaktest), an added benefit was improved ad-blocking (100% in this tool). I now have plans for a proper router in the future with a Pi-hole. Thanks so much for all the info & suggestions, definitely learnt a lot.

So it turns out I got myself into an ISP that was shittier than expected (I already knew it was kinda shitty), they DNS hijack for whatever reason and I can't manually set my own DNS on my router or even my devices.

Cyber security has never been my forte but I'm always trying to keep learning as I go. I've read that common solutions involve using a different port (54) or getting a different modem/router or just adding a router.

Are they all true? Whats the cheapest, easiest way of dealing with all of this?