Swarfega

joined 1 year ago
[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

I built a new PC last year and installed Windows 11. I honestly have no issues with jt and it runs fine. However the shitty practices of current Microsoft have started appearing and ground my gears. So much so that I got a second drive and installed Mint. It's not been easy adjusting and I often find myself booting into Windows for one reason or another but I spend the majority of my time now in Linux. I got a bit bored of Mint. I'm a sucker for new things so I moved to Arch. After installing a few packages I'm actually pretty happy with it. Proton has been the key for my move. Without it I simply wouldn't be able to use Linux.

Outside of Windows, moving away from Chrome, GMail and Google search it's a breath of fresh air. I don't feel like I'm constantly being tracked now and having products thrown in my face. I miss the old internet where harvesting everyone's data wasn't a thing.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And delivering above and beyond. 1.6 recently came out for Stardew Valley and the game has been out for 8 years.

CA is easily in the top list of all time greats for game development. It blows my mind that someone can have so much talent to write stories, draw pixel art, music and code the whole thing. Super talented!

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I dunno. I doubt it is. But I also doubt there isn't something they are getting back.
Maybe not personal information but I'd imagine there will be data on what keywords it flagged on and whether the user hung up or carried on with the call etc. They wouldn't be able to fix or improve the service without getting information back.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They said the AI stuff is all done on device so nothing is being sent back to Google

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

I purchased the PS5 cause the library of games on the PS4 was amazing. Worst purchase I've made in a long time. There's been a real lack of games. The best game is Astro's Playground and that comes free!

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sticking with duck duck go. Not seeing advertising, news or video recommendations based on a one time search in Google is bliss.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 74 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I started dual booting to Arch Linux and more often than not I boot more now into Linux than Windows 11. I've used Windows since 3.11. Microsoft really have fucked Windows recently.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, a royal pain in the ass. However. I did it recently but the way I did it means any future moves, of all my 300+ websites that I have logins for, is now done in seconds.

I signed up for SimpleLogin and a custom domain. I then went around creating aliases for all these sites. Changing the sites is indeed the worst part. Still, this is the last time I will ever do it. All my aliases were pointing to my Gmail account. Once I'd finished I settled on Proton. I just moved all my aliases to my Proton email address.

No one knows my Proton email address other than SimpleLogin.

I haven't yet, but I can now ditch Gmail. I still keep the account for a number of reasons but none are for emails.

I've also been testing Tutamail. I can get aliases to go to multiple mailboxes. I have the ability to respond to the emails from either Tuta or Proton and the recipient is none the wiser of where my mailbox resides.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

The sending mail server will keep trying for a period of time. Eventually though it will give up and return the email to the sender with an error message.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Proton allows you to export as eml or mbox. Seems fine to me?

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My kids plays Roblox, it doesn't run as well as it does bare metal

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I ran Linux in VirtualBox for years but it's just not the same as running from bare metal. The step to bare metal is the key to actually starting to make the move to Linux for me

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