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

It is stated on the linked webpage. I don't appear to loose any speed stated from my ISP either.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Since you are coming at this from a privacy standpoint, I'd suggest a router that runs some type of open source firmware such as OpenWRT. GL.iNet makes some good routers with their own fork of OpenWRT which has a very easy to use and intuitive UI as opposed to flashing OpenWRT to a supported router (setup then is very complicated).

Many routers out there will spy on you, make it difficult or impossible to set up privacy features, and have limited software updates for security patches.

The GL.iNet Flint 2 is a modern, fast router and makes it easy to setup a VPN, supports AdGuard home, and setting custom DNS providers. I've had it since launch and its had numerous updates too.

A VPN and private DNS hide your internet traffic from your ISP who will undoubtedly sell your data. However, a VPN is a transfer of trust so you want to use one that is open source, audited, and has a good track record of not logging any data. IVPN, Mullvad, and Proton are good VPNs. Quad9 and NextDNS are great private DNS providers. AdGuard and PiHole will block ads through various means.

Watch videos from Naomi Brockwell to learn more about all this stuff.

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

You could maybe use the service AnonShop as mentioned in the Closed NTWRK podcast

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I used to have a SanDisk Extreme Portable running Ubuntu. If it was unplugged, my computer would boot Windows and when I plugged in the SSD to USB it would auto boot into Ubuntu. ~~I have no idea how I did it though.~~ It was my first time using Linux and I followed a guide online.

Edit: found the video

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

Probably just what people have or found cheaper at the time. Mirrorless is a newer technology. Go with that camera then, you'll have a great time

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe so at this point in history. Don't be surprised when Ford implements it or something similar at a later date. Ads are in most everything now and they have already sold your data to insurance companies.

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

m4/3 sensors won't have as good of noise performance as a larger sensor with larger pixels. Maybe look into a cheaper APS-C camera. B&H will have a good used selection too, you'll be able to get a better camera that way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

lemmy.today works just fine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It came in an email.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I will give that a look. Thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The program itself is an AppImage but I couldn't figure out how to get Ant+ devices (cycle trainer and heartrate strap) working on a distro besides GC's documentation for Ubuntu. It worked for me on Mint, I just want to transition to a Plasma DE. Does this look like something you would know how to get working on Kinoite?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm looking for an article I either read or heard about during a podcast fairly recently. It stated someone's kid on vacation visited home, used their parents car, connected their phone to the infotainment system, and since it had access to their phone's data was able to see who the kid was and increased the parents car insurance policy as their kid was driving their car.

I've tried searching the internet for key words unsuccessfully. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about and can provide a link?

 

Where would I look for a list of what network chips are supported in any given kernel? I'm looking to build my first computer designed from the ground up for Linux and want to be sure that the Ethernet port and WiFi chip will work without needing to do anything special.

 

I tried using Waydroid on Linux Mint (Edge) only to have it not work and realized that it requires Wayland, and Mint uses X11. So I used VirtualBox to install Fedora 40 Gnome which does use Wayland.

I installed Waydroid as per the instructions and am having seemingly the same issue as on Mint. After downloading "Vanilla" Android and clicking "Done" everything exits out. So I launch the Waydroid application but nothing ever happens.

I then try to manually start Waydroid in terminal but always get "ERROR: WayDroid container service is already running". Then I skip to the second step "waydroid session start" but receive "OSError: container failed to start".

Am I doing something wrong? Is it simply because the VM is causing the issues? Or does WayDroid not work well on Fedora? Thanks

 

This might be a stretch but it's still a game. Does anyone know of a bike trainer program (hopefully at least half decent) that runs natively on Linux? I've tried getting Zwift to work through Lutris but have been unsuccessful.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The Lawnchair launcher finally got an update after years of nothing. It was just a nightly update but at least some movement is happening.

 

With the latest Droid-ify update (0.6.2) they added "always run in the background" as an option. What benefit would I gain if I allowed this? I never thought I had a problem without it and now every time I open the app a notification pops up that requires me to hit allow or deny to move on. I can't find a way to disable that.

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