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

Old gonewild was pretty great too, before all the onlyfans spam

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I came up with a formula for my passwords - as easy to remember as a single password and makes a unique login for every site feasible without a password manager. Can be updated as often as you like and all you gotta do is remember the latest version of the formula. At the very least, the hashes will be different and it'd take someone having more than two of my passwords to figure out the pattern.

I also use over 100 email aliases with my own domain name so that my most important accounts have a separate login that isn't a common domain that wouldn't be easy for someone to guess.

It would take a lot of concentrated effort for someone to get at any of my important accounts, and even my less important ones would be pretty difficult to get into even if multiple accounts are compromised, due to using a smaller pool of aliases under common domains for less important accounts.

Someone got into half a dozen of my accounts a few years ago and I finally started taking security seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've never gotten why Brave got popular in the first place. I downloaded it once and uninstalled within 3 minutes.

Cromite and Waterfox are all I'll ever need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you're on Android why not just use revanced or Newpipe? Both are excellent and I haven't had issues with revanced since this change.

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

Would love to see the military force MS to contribute to WINE development until all govt apps work on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I agree completely. I also think a lot of people just don't realize that many of the things they think of as part of Windows can be tweaked or removed, so they just sit there assuming they have to live with it when there's a fix that most people could implement if they google a how-to guide (or they could ask their nerdy friend).

I love helping friends set up Windows installs, because they're always so shocked at how little clutter there is and how well everything works. At the same time it makes me mad that all of that is necessary at all, and I'm swearing at Microsoft the whole time I'm helping them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a single registry key or a single group policy edit, and I'm not talking to the average user, I'm talking to Lemmy users.

I'm saying as far as annoyances in windows go, this is incredibly simple to change if you are at all familiar with tweaking advanced windows shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Problem is, there's a lot of really specialized, critical software, that is provided by vendors and throws an absolute fit with any change. You could maybe run Windows in a VM, but it may not work with the specialized hardware and networking gear being used, and now you're spending a bunch of extra time and money setting up a vm if windows inside Linux, which means you also have to train everyone on how to use the VM, adds another management/security issue, and adds another point of failure.

If they ever switch (the entire govt should, it would be so awesome to see the govt resources put into Linux development instead of M$ pockets) it'd have to be a very gradual process, and windows would still be around decades from now for legacy systems. (If the US hasn't imploded in civil war or the planet melted by then 🫠)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeahhh here's to hoping someone AURs it 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean for sure but I play games with my nephews so for me dual booting Windows is worth it, and it's certainly something to consider when deciding how you're gonna set up your system, as much as that sucks.

I hope it'll change on games that do, or they'll set up a workaround for Linux, but for now if you care about a game that uses it, ysk beforehand so that you can decide whether to dump that game or dual boot.

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