TheProtagonist
@TheProtagonist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 20 hours ago:
Which Distro would you recommend for a relative newcomer? My PC was once “high-end” but is already a bit older (2016/17?). Still quite powerful, I guess.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 23 hours ago:
OK, thanks for the information, that sounds really interesting. I was playing Doom Eternal and Metro Exodus some time ago, but I made a bread and didn‘t pick it up anymore due to a lack of time. Many years ago I was also trying a bit of Linux on a Netbook (small notebook). By then it was really a different world than Windows.
However, I am not sure how easy that is to manage with getting the right Linux distribution, then Wine, then Proton and then getting all tricks and tweaks right… - I am not a tech expert, so leaving a system that works out of the box is a bit of a hurdle for me.
What would be the best Linux „Distro“ (I guess that‘s how it is called) to start with? I would prefer if I would not have to deal with command line stuff… ;-)
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 1 day ago:
What is “Proton” in this context?
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 1 day ago:
I have a custom built PC running on Windows 10, which has no TPM and therefore cannot update to Win11. I might consider Linux as an alternative on some regular laptop, but I’m afraid that my games might no longer be running if I switch the OS from Windows to Linux.
- Comment on gotta be sure... 3 days ago:
Which OS are you referring to?
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 3 weeks ago:
All what they do is just so disgusting…
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
Never been happier to see some cookies (I can delete or block).
- Comment on A classic that we have all lived through 1 month ago:
How was it called? “Holy Smut” tariff act?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 1 month ago:
Okay, Orangeman! Now it’s getting personal…
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 month ago:
This has nothing to do with privacy! Criminals have their techniques and methods to protect themselves and their “businesses” from discovery, both in the real world and in the online world. Even in a complete absence of privacy they would find a way to hide their stuff from the police - at least for a while.
In the real world, criminals (e.g. drug dealers) also use cars, so you could argue, that druck trafficking is a side effect of people having cars…
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 month ago:
I think you are mixing here two different aspects of this and of similar past cases. I the past there was often a problem with takedowns of such sites, because german prosecutors did not regard themselves as being in charge of takedowns, if the servers were somewhere overseas. Their main focus was to get the admins and users of those sites and to get them into jail.
In this specific case they were observing this platform (together with prosecutors from other countries in an orchestrated operation) to gather as much data as possible about the structure, the payment flows, the admins and the users of this before moving into action and getting them arrested. The site was taken down meanwhile.
If you blow up and delete)such a darknet service immediately immediately upon discovery, you may get rid of it (temporarily) but you might not catch many of the people behind it.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 2 months ago:
Heylogin looks pretty cool, thanks for the hint. I will definitely take a deeper look into that!
- Comment on Jokes on them, I have an adblocker installed 2 months ago:
Great picture! Absolutely legendary show…
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 2 months ago:
Fun fact: I almost lost a GF once, due to a lack of cheese (in my refrigerator).
- Comment on What is best Lemmy App to use on iPhone? 2 months ago:
+1 for Arctic
- Comment on Poor guy 2 months ago:
Laws for thee, nor for me!
- Comment on fingerme 2 months ago:
I think “anal@company.com” is pretty unique and easy to remember.
- Best Regards, Tiriakos Tsoprano
- Comment on Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy. 3 months ago:
Surprised Pikachu face.