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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s an entirely new standard, so no, it won’t just be a firmware patch.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple And Google Are Sending Your Push Notifications to The Government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It does not stop the notifications from being sent. Source
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Hard for me to understand how blocking valid email providers like Proton, Tutanota, and Skiff, would actually mitigate any abuse. All it’s going to do is hurt the websites with this filter and prevent privacy-minded folks from signing up. Unfortunate to see, hopefully they get some common sense and don’t block these for no reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
If you don’t have it on your Sony TV, I’d recommend installing another launcher like FLauncher which effectively does the same thing and gets rid of the garbage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You can easily change launchers on the Shield, unlike the Fire TV for instance, which actively blocks it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You can easily change launchers on the NVIDIA Shield and Chromecasts. Fire TV’s are really the only devices that actively prevent changing launchers and try to force you to deal with their advertising.

Personally my recommendation is generally the Shield, or maybe an Apple TV depending on your use case. Expensive but well worth it imo, you really do get what you pay for.

If you need cheaper, then I’d probably go the Chromecast. Lesser of the two evils between like the Fire TV imo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Last good version of Windows, RIP 🙏
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
They said Chrome specifically, not Chromium as a whole.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

different distros

Isn’t that a benefit of Linux, having all kinds of different distros and different options available? There isn’t a “one size fits all”. Just find the one you like and go from there.

broken repositories

How often does this actually happen? I can’t think of a time I encountered broken repositories within the last few years of using Linux as a daily driver, I feel like you’re exaggerating this. I think the repository system in general is amazing and installing software on Linux is so much better than Windows in about every way really.

software that doesn’t work on Linux

This is a fair point, it depends on your use case. If anything you need is only tied to Windows, then yeah you don’t have many options unfortunately. But I think for average people its probably fine since basically everything is on Linux nowadays, I guess biggest exceptions are like Microsoft Office and Adobe’s suite.

proprietary drivers

I assume you mean NVIDIA? You can just get a distro that includes them already installed and ready to go like Nobara, or just use one that makes them easier to set-up like Pop OS, if you’re uncomfortable installing them on a regular distro. (Though it really isn’t that difficult).

Overall Linux isn’t for everyone, but I do think it’s improving more and more and about at a point now where average users could probably get away with using it instead of Windows in a lot of cases. But it does depend on your use case for sure at the end of the day. Hopefully I’m not out of touch here though lol.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is that $35 Apple Watch real? How misleading TikTok influencer videos could be the next big headache in e-commerce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Enabling Reader Mode on Firefox appears to bypass it, lol.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy friendly clock app ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I like [Clock You}(f-droid.org/en/packages/com.bnyro.clock/).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Enhancement Megathread: Tools and Extensions for All Devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t forget Yattee!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
What shell would you recommend? 🤔
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search engines compared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Cloudflare typically provides DDOS protection to websites, as well as CAPTCHAs and preventing bot access, and speeds up connections through their CDN.

People mostly dislike Cloudflare to my understanding because at the end of the day, they’re a giant US big tech company with a pretty massive amount of centralized control over the internet. I generally avoid them where possible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search engines compared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Kagi is so good, I just wish they’d lower the price…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search engines compared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Interested in more info about Brave Search. How is their claim of having an own index “doubtful”, and how do they have “extreme” censorship?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I would say to just keep your OS and software and such up to date, enable features like Lockdown Mode on iOS if available to you, and just generally have good security practices.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Multi Hop VPN add any extra privacy that is worse the loss of speed for average use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It will make your connection more private and secure, but I don’t think its major or worth using for most people due to the downsides.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How you can be deanonymized through Tor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
selling data>

When has Brave ever sold data? I’ve seen other people claim this here on Lemmy too and I don’t understand where it’s coming from, I know Brave has had controversies but they’ve never sold user data, I’d love to see at least a shred of evidence for this claim, it’s just FUD.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What antivirus software should i use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Gonna quote myself from an earlier comment I made:

On Windows, just use the built-in Windows Defender. On Linux, I recommend ClamAV + ClamTK. On Android, Hypatia.

If you think you have malware, this is a pretty good guide to remove it.

I’d also strongly recommend using and configuring a content blocker like uBlock Origin in your browser, as well as using a DNS level blocker like NextDNS.

If you have a multilayered setup like this, then I think you’re pretty good and it’ll be not impossible, but much harder to get malware or be infected. Just use common sense as always.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the free version of Cloudflare proxy track users/visitors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I generally avoid Cloudflare where possible personally because at the the end of the day, they’re a giant big tech company based in the US, with pretty much unprecedented control over the internet.

With that said, last time I looked into their privacy policy, I thought it was acceptable, but that’s been a while ago, so not entirely sure nowadays. Either way I’m not a huge fan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Open-Source RCS apps yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but to my understanding of how RCS works, the messages would still go through Google and their servers. With that said, this would probably be more privacy friendly than straight up using the Google Messages app, since it’d have less Google telemetry and data collection, but still not ideal or truly private since it’d still be Google’s platform you’re using to message at the end of the day.